NORTH WEST

Across Ummah works to enhance and improve the living conditions of people in their community. This is done through the provision of frequent workshops, lectures, coaching sessions, conferences and role modelling.

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NORTH WEST

African Rainbow Family advocates for and is led by LGBTIQ+ people of African heritage and the wider Global Majority community. The organisation supports refugees and those seeking asylum, with a network of over 700 service users and centres in Manchester, London, Leeds, Birmingham and Cardiff.

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EAST MIDLANDS

African Women’s Empowerment Forum UK (AWEF) empowers African women and drives forward equality and diversity programmes to break strategically placed barriers that are stumbling blocks to success. AWEF champions equality in the home, communities, society, education, employment and all critical areas that are deemed necessary for a fair and equal society.

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SOUTH EAST

Anita’s work focuses on creating opportunities for increased visibility regarding the lived experience of Black people outside stereotypical mainstream themes and environments. This is achieved through challenging widely held assumptions about the lives of Black people through photography and creating educational and collaborative opportunities for Black and Global Majority individuals and groups.

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LONDON

Autism Voice aims to end the stigma and discrimination attached to autism in the Black and Global Majority communities in the UK. Their work ensures that autistic people are included in every sphere of communal and social development. They exist to support autistic people and their families with services that enable them to experience happy and fulfilling lives.

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EAST MIDLANDS

Bambuuu supports Black and Global Majority women and young girls who have suffered or experiencing domestic abuse. Bambuuu is an organisation founded by Global Majority women, specialising in supporting Global Majority women.

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LONDON

Becoming Unchained, designed by Lady Unchained, is dedicated to empowering individuals from Black and Global Majority Communities with lived experiences in the criminal justice system through artistic expression.

NORTH WEST

Black Beetle Health promotes health, wellbeing and equality for LGBTQ+ Black and Global Majority people. They empower their communities by addressing misinformation through education, signposting and evidence-based resource development. Their work involves digital engagement alongside local, region and national partnerships.

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NORTH WEST

Black Girls Hike (BGH), provides a safe space for Black women to explore the outdoors and reconnect with nature. BGH works with the wider outdoor community to develop services and projects to tackle the lack of inclusion and representation in the sector.

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WEST MIDLANDS

Black Voices UK are a Black-led, all female, organisation working in the creative industries. Starting in 1988 as an a cappella ensemble, they have since established a thriving community hub in the north of Birmingham offering support to African diaspora artists who wish to develop their craft and skills through access to exhibitions, masterclasses, bespoke training, event spaces, recording and production studios.

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YORKSHIRE & HUMBER

Conscious Youth is an award-winning youth-led social enterprise based in Kirklees. Established in 2016 due to youth service cuts, they have worked closely with over 5,000 young people aged 12-24 across Kirklees, West Yorkshire. Their work challenges inequalities by creating opportunities for young people to influence change and make a positive difference in their communities.

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LONDON

Equality 4 Black Nurses (E4BN) is a nurse-led social enterprise that provides support services to unrepresented Black and Global Majority nurses. Their work strives to make transformative differences in our nursing communities across the 12 regions of the UK.

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LONDON

French African Welfare Association (FAWA) is a charity founded by people mostly from French-speaking regions of Africa. Their work involves the provision of a range of services for their communities, including: supplementary classes for children, volunteer skills training, emotional support for people living with long-term health conditions, mental health awareness and welfare advice.

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LONDON

Haki Collective (Haki) is a community of disability justice activists and consultants working at the intersection of ableism and racism. Individually and collectively the directors of Haki have over 20 years campaigning and working in the disability social justice space. Their work includes researching the intersection between race and disability, delivering anti-disability and intersectional hate crime advocacy, as well as training and capacity building for Deaf and disabled people's organisations.

EAST MIDLANDS

The Big e is a Black-led neurodivergent organisation, which uses its academic and lived experience to work with Black and Brown families around race and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND). Their work involves advocating for and providing educational assessments for children and young people up until the age of 25.

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SCOTLAND

Intercultural Youth Scotland is a charity for young Black and Global Majority young people in Scotland. They serve their communities by empowering radical youth-led movements and anti-racist change.

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NORTH WEST

Manchester Congolese Organisation (MaCO) works to relieve poverty, alleviate sickness and reduce isolation for Congolese people and other Global Majority asylum seekers and refugees families resettled in Manchester. They achieve this by providing free confidential advice, advocacy, training and volunteering opportunities to support the rebuilding of their communities’ lives.

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SOUTH EAST

Manjot’s work has focused on engaging with South Asian women in the British diaspora and South Asian women’s poetry. This has involved working with grassroots and community based writing groups and libraries to hold poetry workshops that explore and shed light upon South Asian women’s poetry, family histories and identity.

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WEST MIDLANDS

Maternity Engagement Action (MEA) is based in Birmingham UK, with a global reach supporting Black perinatal families for better maternal outcomes. MEA's aims are: to provide a platform that empowers the Black perinatal voice, to ensure that the Black birth experience is joyful, safe and free from harm, to influence the system to make changes from real-time data and to create our own community pathways for perinatal healing, wellness, and justice.

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LONDON

not/nowhere is a Black-led, East-London based artist-workers cooperative. Their mission is to serve Black, Asian and Global Majority artists across all stages of their professional development. They achieve this by filling gaps in resourcing, training and platforming and provide access to the only analogue film equipment collection of its kind in the UK. Their creative activities support mental health by creating communal support systems for the artists they serve.

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SOUTH WEST

Onyx Magazine is a multi-award-winning independent magazine run by a fully black and trans team. Founded in 2018, Onyx champions talented UK black artists, poets, writers aged 18-24+. Onyx publishes black artwork, fiction, short stories, poems and think-pieces. Their work strives to provide black UK creatives with a platform for autonomous communal-world building outside of an oppressive publishing industry.

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LONDON

Our Living Archives (OLA), serves as an affirmation of the existence of those hidden from view. This is provided via history-making, multimedia anthology snapshots, videos and audio from real life conversations with Disabled Black Women & Gender Expansive People from around the globe. OLA supports disabled, Black women, and Black gender expansive people, including low-income prospective students and researchers.

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LONDON

Out and Proud LGBTI (OPAL) provides tailored support for African LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees for whom very little support is otherwise available. Many organisations support refugees, however, their support often cause discomfort in forcing people to reveal their sexualities in ways inappropriate for LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers. OPAL provides holistic support for its members' legal, physical, social, emotional and sometimes even financial needs.

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SCOTLAND

Passion4Fusion (P4F) empowers and advances the equal and active participation of diverse Global Majority communities in Edinburgh and the Lothians. Passion4Fusion prioritises the needs of young people, with wrap-around support for vulnerable families.

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NORTH WEST

Pennine Oaks works to create equality for Global Majority communities of all ages via a range of services including outdoor activities and eco-therapy for improving mental health and physical wellbeing. Their work provides recreation and leisure time, training and employment opportunities.

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SOUTH EAST

‘Salama’ is Swahili for safe. The organisation offers safe spaces for Global Majority people experiencing abuse in relationships. It provides emotional and practical support, including signposting to help people who face challenging situations compounded by abuse. It also raises awareness within its communities and wider society, challenging cultural beliefs and practices that normalise or minimise the impact of abuse.

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NORTH WEST

Rekindle is a unique supplementary school primarily led by young people who helped to design a school they knew their peers need. It is for students from working class communities, students who no one really expects to thrive educationally and students who the regular system fails, rather than feeds. Their work dismantles rigid education system and blatant bias by embracing disenfranchised young people and rekindling their love of education.

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LONDON

The S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Project is a happiness-research-led project addressing the mental health needs of Black boys and challenging their negative portrayal in the media. This work is achieved through creative arts workshops including photography, poetry, film and discussions in a co-creative collaborative process within London schools. The resulting portraits counter stereotypical images and are exhibited within community public spaces to humanise Black boys and spark broader conversations about belonging and freedom.

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NORTH WEST

Working at the intersection of arts and activism, Sheba Arts is a refugee and female-led arts organisation set up in 2018. Their work is a response which challenges misrepresentation, or lack of representation, for Global Majority people within the arts and culture.

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NORTH EAST

Teakisi sits at the intersection of race and gender inequality, while striving for social justice in all areas. They work to empower African women and the wider community through the provision of outreach programmes and regular get-togethers for social inclusion.

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LONDON

The 4Front Project is a member-led youth organisation creating an equitable world in which young people can experience the justice, love and peace necessary to create the freedom required to fulfil their dreams. 4Front exists to serve young people who have experienced trauma, violence and racial injustice, by fighting for their rights, supporting them to heal and empowering them to build communities where they are nurtured, protected and respected.

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YORKSHIRE & HUMBER

Tribe Arts is a philosophically inspired, radical-political, actor-led theatre and media production company based in Leeds and Bradford. They amplify the stories and voices of the current Black and Asian generation and believe theatre needs to be rejuvenated into the 21st century by working across art forms, platforms and disciplines. They exist to eradicate racism with the power and potential of art.

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WALES

Urban Circle work with predominantly Black, Asian and Global Majority young people aged 10-25, who have often failed at school and have low self-esteem or lack confidence. Their mission is to empower their creativity and self-expression through dance, drama, music, digital arts or creative event production. They support young people’s voices, skills and progression routes ensuring they can have a brighter future.

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