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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...

1. Creative RoEL ModELs : Youth Workers Leading Change

The Creative RoEL© ModELs - Rules of Engagement & Learning - address the lack of knowledge of, and access to, quality creative experiences and progression pathways for marginalised young people.

Most Young People’s cultural/creative engagement is through institutions like school and even though this has increased, it has not brought about a transformative level of personal development and social benefit, nor diversity and representation in the cultural/creative sector. We champion a non-institutional inclusion framework using youth workers as a pathway that can bring about that transformation.

Youth Workers are key gatekeepers to marginalised communities. Creatives can provide quality creative experiences with progression. We advocate that creatives and youth workers should collaborate. Together they are well-placed to provide and support sustainable access to, engagement with, and progression pathways into the cultural/creative sector – through projects and careers opportunities.

Creative RoEL© ModELs better connect youth workers and creatives to deliver more meaningful cultural engagement in marginalised communities and highlight the value of youth work in the process.

Project RoELs

Informal learning sessions aiming to better connect youth workers and creatives to co- deliver more impactful creative experiences for young people aged 7-19.

Paid co-design sessions with youth workers and creatives to build knowledge and networks, and enable youth workers to prepare the young people for the project, support them and the creatives during the project and continue support post-project - treating them more like teachers. The youth workers and creatives will explore a funded youth project using 7 themes, to collaboratively agree start date, content, delivery and evaluation:

knowledge of sectors and project
access to youth and industry
engagement of young people for the project
participation of young people in the project
learning for the young people, youth workers and creatives – aims, monitoring, evaluation, learning & Impact
progression pathways for the young people, youth workers and creatives
legacy for the community, youth sector and creative/cultural sector

Screen RoELs

The evidence and learnings from the pilot show this model is scalable, economically viable and can be delivered not only in other London Boroughs, but also regionally and in other home nations. This is done through developing partnerships with Youth Workers, Councils, Industry Support Organisations, and Production Companies, to deliver 'Screen Rules of Engagement Learning (RoELs)' sessions to young people 16+ to give them an awareness of what non-institutional career pathways are possible for them into the TV industry, and working with young people 18+ to give them access to and support in real industry opportunities

Working to upskill youth workers with knowledge of and access to Careers in Screen Industries, to support engagement of talented young people from marginalised neighbourhoods, and to give young people accessible, quality, relevant opportunities with progression pathways:

Entry level (foot in the door)
- work and freelance
- training / work experience
Min/no qualifications required
Work Ready Skills & Experience (WRYSE) competencies preferred
Paid

1.1. Planning for 2026/27

Screen RoELs Pilot 2026 : 60Forty Films & Film London Funded Pilot

Starting in ENFIELD but with aim of developing London wide youth services relationships

Developing a RoEL ModEL project with Oitij-Jo as a partner in Whitechapel Gallery’s new 2026 East London Backyard Biennale

Project RoELs working with funded projects, Oitij-Jo artists and local youth workers
Developing a new Visual Arts Career RoELs approach based on our Screen RoELs model

2. Social Soil

Social Soil© starts in youth club kitchens. Our approach is to develop an accessible, scalable and sustainable model for climate action working with and upskilling youth workers and young people.

A key strand is exploring ways of reducing, reusing and recycling food waste to support improved health & well-being, address climate change and encourage enterprise.

We will develop our climate action starter kits (CASKs) for each youth club we work with made up of: a Learning Programme to upskill local youth workers to run healthy cooking & eating and enterprise/careers projects; equipment to recycle foodwaste into soil; local growing partners map and introductions; an accessible data collection mechanism to track individual youth club climate action outputs as well as combined youth club network impact; and a community engagement platform for communications and support.

2.1. Planning for 2026/27

We are having discussions with potential partners and funders and will update plans as soon as possible

WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING

Creative RoEL ModELs : Youth Workers Leading Change

January 2024 - December 2025

Over 2 years, supported through a Foundation for Future London grant we developed as an organisation as well as updating, developing and testing/piloting our RoEL ModELs approach - delivering more impactful cultural/creative engagement in marginalised communities

Collaborative Think & Do Tank for 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.
Development of the work that we have been doing within this observation and research arena, that is truly community-led, innovative and dedicated to delivering real-life social change
Development of our MELI toolkit that assesses Knowledge, Access, Engagement, Participation, Learning, Progression, Legacy, and Health & Well-being

During this time ACE had some challenges around applications’ process, and their funding stategy for supporting the youth sector. This meant we had to put our funding application to ACE on hold, but we were invited to participate in the ACE/LY research project roundtables. There is a lot of synergy with our RoEL ModELs approach
In December 2025 the new National Youth Strategy was published. There is a lot of synergy with our RoEL ModELs approach

Screen RoELs Development

Following successful pilot initiatives in 2023/24 with Youth Workers in East London, ScreenSkills, Film London, 60Forty Films, Taking Shape Association, and Fully Focused Training Organisation, and in 2024 with Barking & Dagenham Film Team (Locations SET READY training) and 60Forty Films and Film London, we can evidence a new model for career pathways into the HETV/Film industry.

The evidence and learnings from the pilots fed into our RoEL ModEL updating and development to show this model is scalable, economically viable and can be delivered not only in other London Boroughs, but also regionally and in other home nations. This is done through developing partnerships with Youth Workers, Councils, Industry Support Organisations, and Production Companies, to deliver 'Screen Rules of Engagement Learning (RoELs)' sessions to young people 16+ to give them an awareness of what non-institutional career pathways are possible for them into the TV/Film industry, and working with young people 18+ to give them access to and support in real industry opportunities.

Project RoELs Development

We started developing a partnership with Condé Nast in September 2024 to pilot a youth engagement project in London – as part of a collaboration between Taking Shape Association, Be Heard As One, SEEit Working Trust, The Peter Marlow Foundation.

In 2025 we used the Project RoEL approach in developing the CondéFuture London Pilot, and in the preparation day with Condé Nast London Office Mentors, before we started working with the young people.

Informal Discussion with the CondeFuture London Team

Introductions
The young people we’ll be working with
Expectations from the team: Creative, Mentors, Youth Workers
Think about progression pathways for the young people
And the legacy – being in Forest Gate Youth Zone will help you understand that this project will have an impact on the community not just the individual. And, that we will be able to continue working in this way to develop and roll out a wider CondeFuture London from 2026
Delivery of 10 days of workshops, field trips, creative sessions, mentoring, homework assignments, and presentations

CondéFuture London Pilot August 2025

CondéFuture Summer Camp in London was a huge success

August 2025, CondéFuture Summer Camp launched in Newham. This 2 week project was a media and publishing careers pilot in partnership with, Peter Marlow Foundation, Conde Nast, Be Heard As One and Taking Shape Association, using RoEL ModELs to engage youth workers and CondeNast creatives, to ensure sustainable youth access and support.

Young people accessed regular media/publishing industry insights and practical sessions to create a pitch for a special edition magazine for Vogue and Bon Appétit at Forest Gate Youth Hub and Conde Nast London office, working with volunteers and contributors from Media Licensing, GQ, Glamour, Vogue, Commercial Marketing and PhotoVogue

We are now learning from the pilot and planning for another Boot Camp in May/June 2026.

PETER MARLOW FOUNDATION BLOG

Social Soil Testing : Rich Mix December 2024

SEEit Working Trust’s Social Soil programme aims to deliver more meaningful environmental engagement in marginalised communities. A key strand is exploring ways of reducing, reusing and recycling food waste to support improved health & well-being, address climate change and encourage enterprise.

The first phase of this ambitious and innovative collaboration with Rich Mix and Otij-Jo Kitchen, focuses on recycling food waste. From January 2025 we are trialling a food waste to soil process that produces high quality compost that can then be used in local growing projects - testing a composting starter kit we developed working with Mycelium Network and Agriton.

The process involves a three-stage composting system to transform food waste into high-quality PAS 100 certified compost. This approximately 22 week process results in a nutrient-rich compost that can be used to enhance soil health and improve growing productivity.

In the first stage, the food waste is stored under controlled conditions to optimise microbial activity and start the process of break down organic matter. This phase is essential for reducing the volume and mass of the waste, as well as controlling odours and helping eliminate pathogens.
In the second stage, the partially composted material is hot composted by adding woodchips and aerating the mixture by turning it regularly
The final stage is to put the hot composted material into a Maturation Bin to promote further decomposition and ensure the final product meets the stringent requirements of the PAS 100 standard.

City Soil Lab Pre-Pilot April-June 2024

Research & Development Project

Neighbourhood Food Scraps to Soil - Collections Pilot

Tower Hamlets Council

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

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.

PETER MARLOW FOUNDATION BLOG

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