What We Do

COVID-19 Support distributes and delivers parcels of food, mental health support, job support service and support those who have a problem with drugs and alcohol during the coronavirus period to BAME young people across Norfolk and Waveney and London. COVID-19's impact can be felt by us all and we are only just beginning to understand some of the implications it can have on the social, financial, physical and mental wellbeing. At BME Youth we know that talking to others is essential to address concerns felt by people.

Led by young people, for their community. This year people across the UK will come together in their communities to organise, attend and participate in events of all shapes and sizes, from the Platinum Jubilee, Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Women’s Euros and Coventry City of Culture to community festivals and the fifth annual Great Get Together. Inspire 2022 is using this year’s packed events calendar as a springboard for young people to design activities for their own communities. The inspiration behind Inspire 2022 is the tenth anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games where a promise was made to ‘Inspire a Generation’. It is designed to be a flexible programme of youth-led social action and community events across the UK, putting young people in the driving seat, but with laser-sharp focus on the needs of the whole community.

EmpowHER Project was launched to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage, EmpowHER encourages young women and girls (YW&G) to use their voices for positive change. Led by UK Youth, in partnership with the British Red Cross and Young Women’s Trust, EmpowHER was a three-and-a-half-year programme addressing the worryingly low levels of wellbeing amongst YW&G in the UK, supporting them to give back to their local communities with inclusive, meaningful social action. Participants progressed through a powerful journey of social engagement, social learning, social action, and youth leadership, breaking down personal barriers and used their voice to lead change in communities.

The Together Fund is a Sport England initiative which supports voluntary community organisations to recover and emerge from the long-term impacts of COVID-19. It was previously known as the ‘Tackling Inequalities Fund’. Whilst it was previously focused on providing an immediate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fund has now evolved. It now exists to help reduce the negative impacts of COVID-19 and help community groups to grow. It concentrates mainly on supporting these groups to reach and engage their audiences in movement and physical activity.

Stranger's Dress and Dance: Norwich Congolese Cultural Tradition Heritage Project is a pilot heritage project about cultural traditions of Congolese refugees in Norwich. The project concentrates on the dress and dance of Congolese refugees in Norwich in the East of England. The project is needed to preserve and protect the cultural dress and dance of the Congolese to be passed on from the elders to young people. The cultural tradition of dress and dance are at risk of disappearing when the elders pass away as young people are adopting modern western dress and hip-hop dance forgetting Congolese dress and dance. The project will enable Congolese living in Norwich to learn about their cultural traditional costumes and dance, their significance, where they are worn especially traditional events, what kind of costumes are worn by traditional leaders and their differences from those worn by the subjects such as chiefs and subjects in an area, why certain traditional costumes are forbidden from being worn by people who are not part of the cult like the Nyau or Gure culture, bridal dresses, traditional healers dresses and so on. Congolese will perform research to get facts and information about their traditional costumes and dance. The research will involve talking to traditional elders and contacting traditional people back home in Africa.
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