Programmes
Thinking...
DIY Social Change
Through research and development we seek to better connect mainstream organisations and marginalised communities to collaboratively and more equitably address social, economic and environmental issues that affect us all.
And Doing...
Creative RoEL ModELs : Youth Workers Leading Change
To increase understanding of and investment in youth work
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Increasing recognition and value of youth workers in supporting young people to reach their full potential
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Increasing recognition and value of the impact of quality youth work on wider social issues eg education, parenting, employability, crime, health & well-being, climate change, democracy
To deliver more meaningful cultural engagement in marginalised communities
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Testing and piloting a non-institutional pathway that supports WRYSE competencies
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Testing and piloting delivery frameworks that support collaborative working
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Supporting more young people to reach their full potential by widening access to quality, relevant creative experiences with progression pathways
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Supporting more equitable access to economic systems by improving inclusivity and diversity in the cultural/creative sector
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Sustaining relationships through a community engagement platform
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Increasing the use of community data to inform, influence and support policy agenda, service design and investment choice
Social Soil
SEEit Working Trust is testing and piloting our Social Soil framework to deliver programmes that aim to deliver more meaningful environmental engagement in marginalised communities in order to support improved health & well-being, address climate change and encourage enterprise.
A key strand and starting point is exploring ways of reducing, reusing and recycling food waste. Food waste is a big issue in the UK. New legislation means local authorities have to implement separate food waste collections from 31 March 2025, and Government has set ambitious targets to halve food waste by 2030 to reduce landfill and incineration waste.
Projects
City Soil Lab Pre-Pilot April-June 2024
Research & Development Project
Neighbourhood Food Scraps to Soil - Collections Pilot
LCC 2024 - Part 1: Day in the Life of a Youth Worker
Student End of Year2 Exhibition Material
Research & Development Project
Making Youth Work Visible
ScreenSkills Pioneers 2023/24
Research & development project building on our 2022 RoEL ModELs© Theory of Change framework. We collaborated with 60Forty Films on a non-institutional Creative Inclusion Framework for the Screen Industry, and a RoEL© Screen Industry pilot with 60Forty Films, Screen Skills and Taking Shape
ScreenSkills
Manor Park Media Project
CP&P Collaborative Commission 2023
Research & Development Project
Using "Rules of Engagement Learning©" to co-create a media and creative career project with a group of young people living on an underserved estate in Newham.
Rules of Engagement: Youth Workers and Creatives
CP&P Collaborative Commission 2022
Research & Development Project
Rules of Engagement Learning© (RoEL©) : Connecting Youth Workers & Creatives for a more inclusive cultural/creative sector
Ruff Sqwad Arts Foundation
After Culturepreneur Collective project, we continued to work with Prince, and helped him and Ebs develop Ruff Sqwad Arts Foundation from registering as a charity, developing their Theory of Change and developing social change activity
Culturepreneur Collective©
Research & Development 2014-2015
To research and develop a new way of working to support more meaningful cultural engagement in marginalised communities we worked with community based Youth Workers as the key gatekeepers. We worked with and connected local youth workers (many of them young people themselves) and mainstream arts organisations.
Youth Club Creative 2012- 2014
Bilal Awan youth leader
Bilal set up and ran an independent youth club on a large estate in Hackney, supported by members of the community. He worked with young people to collaborate with arts organisations on a number of creative projects
Be Heard: a track by MC Roach ft Prince Rapid
Part of our Be Heard Be Counted work is to increase access to and participation in the democratic process. A discussion about voting and the importance of local youth workers inspired this track from MC Roach in 2014 ...
Big Idea 4 Small Giving©
Observation & Research
We explored an on-line platform to:
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raise the profile of, and give funds directly to local projects
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provide a marketplace for start-up entrepreneurs
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create CSR strategies for SMEs, community groups, start up entrepreneurs...
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provide additionality to CSR strategies of larger organisations
