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A group photo of the young people in attendance at Bang Charity headquarters and our volunteers, Tania, Martin and Pat

Workshop in the Black Country

Cool workshop with young people from the Black Country in Wolverhampton delivered by us and Genesis Sun for a piece of ground-breaking research by Young Lives Young Futures looking at young people in transition from school to work 😊

A group photo of the young people in attendance at Bang Charity headquarters and our volunteers, Tania, Martin and Pat
Young people at our workshop in Wolverhampton

🧡 We had icebreaker games to get us going and group …

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Introducing our new intern, Abbi Wood

We are delighted to introduce our new intern, Abbi Wood! She will be working with us on our Social Justice Plaque Project and conducting research into current blue plaques, schools and museums in the Birmingham area. Welcome to the team, Abbi.

We are at the beginning of our collaboration with the Universities of Birmingham and Leicester to expand our Archives of Activism stories to house those …

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Workshop at the University of Sunderland, London Campus

We delivered a workshop on the intersectionality and the politics of race and class across the world and in the UK and on economic injustice at the University of Sunderland, London Campus.

Facilitators Tania Aubeelack, an oral historian and youth worker and Martin Spafford, former secondary history teacher and specialist on history of migration asked attendees to think about:

  • What would an economically just society look like in the world?
  • Is an economically just society / world …
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