Inspired by YABA Founder Sharon Jandu OBE’s experience as a magistrate and the work that YABA does with disadvantaged people, the Yorkshire Asian Business Community Action group was created to serve the community. Working closely with mental health and other industry experts, YABCA creates, runs and evaluates programmes that help local communities with a range of issues from employability in single mothers to confidence in children. YABCA also works with YABA corporate members for charity projects, which you can read more about below. We are also the proud sponsors of the Carlton Bolling Academy boys rugby team which you can see above.
UKYouth Projects
We have worked with UKYouth on various projects and programmes over the past few years. Most recently we have run the EmpowHER and FutureProof programmes in Carlton Bolling Academy in Bradford.
The EmpowHER project was designed by UKYouth to empower young women and girls to speak up and create a change in their community, and the girls we have worked with have gone from strength to strength. They designed, created and ran two social action projects to raise money for a local homeless charity that they picked themselves. They also reached out to local businesses for support with these projects.
The FutureProof project was designed to cover a range of topics, such as confidence, identity, voice and leadership, to help these young people realise the impact they can have, not only within their schools, but on the wider community as well. The students who have taken part in these projects have shown an increase in not only confidence but also conflict resolvement both in and out of school.
Carlton Bolling Academy
Alongside UKYouth projects we have partnered with Carlton Bolling on a host of different activities and projects to help the School and the wider community. We have been able to run the Power of Women – Inspirational Journey project that was funded by the European Social Fund, in which we helped mothers of students at the school gain confidence and employment skills, in order for them to be able to feel more empowered to seek and apply for employment. We also attended the school’s Culture Day where it was great to see the school come together to celebrate each other’s differences with stalls about many different places and cultures, from Hungary to South Korea, Afghanistan to Canada, whilst focusing on what unites us and celebrating Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.
Northern Partnership
We have been able to work with Corporate Partner Northern on several projects, alongside 50 Things to do Bradford, we were able to take refugee families to the seaside for a free trip and to help them gain confidence in the rail service as a way of getting around. It was a great day and some of the families have even been on day trips together since. We also hosted a Jubilee party for local primary students on a train in Leeds Station, where they were able to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and learn more about rail safety. Our work with Northern and 50 things to do also led to us being shortlisted for the Community Rail awards 2022.
