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Question. Unlearn. Relearn.

We work with children, young people and their wider communities, to cultivate optimism and action for a more just and sustainable world.

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Young Minds Fly Free

We work with children, young people and their wider communities, to cultivate optimism and action for a more just and sustainable world.

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Local Action for a Fairer World

We work with children, young people and their wider communities, to cultivate optimism and action for a more just and sustainable world.

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Our Projects

Our projects are child-centered and nurture creative mindsets to bring about change. We bring young people together and with members of their communities towards more inclusive, cohesive relationships. We create encounters to amplify their voices within decision-making circles. Our projects are designed around curiosity and serious play and we always seek to find and embark from common grounds.

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You, Me, Story! 

This wonderful project, that promotes critical thinking around gender stereotypes through storytelling.  We believe in the power of storytelling and music in shaping the understanding towards a deeply sensory approach.…

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Tracks Through Poplar - Tower Hamlets, the Terrier Trust and the Kent & East Sussex Railway

In Spring 2022, a steam locomotive called ‘Poplar’, built in the 1870s, will return to steam and will be brought to Tower Hamlets to celebrate its 150th anniversary in the…

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STORYsilience

With young people at the helm, we are working to uncover stories authored by lesser-heard people in our communities, reinterpreting them into arts performances, and touring the work in cultural…

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LONDON SCHOOLS LINKING PROJECT 2022-23: Building a sense of togetherness and confidence in contact with others

With an ever-increasing number of children from diverse backgrounds and with special needs arriving to the London, this project links 14 schools across North and East with the message that…

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Training & Consultancy

We aim to strike a delicate balance in our training and consultancy offers for schools, community groups and businesses. Backed by theoretical rigour and deep research, the content of our learning and support packages is accessible, interactive, and focused on the participant. Our facilitators bring their whole selves to the workshops, and make space for participants to do the same.

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The Story of Tiddalik gave us a lovely opportunity as a family with 3 children of 12, 10 and 7 years to sit together and have focused conversation on the true meaning of community, belonging, justice and the responsibility of power and greed. It was quite a morning! Thank you for the beautiful story telling and for the insightful questions. we are looking forward to the next session!

- Teacher (PSHE), about our Sankofa Storytelling project

I struggle with the time, but this hour was such a useful one that I'm happy to move things around, just to join you for my own benefit and wellbeing and I hope to use some of today's tools at school with my students. Cannot thank you enough.

- Teacher (London Borough of Barnet), about our 'Be Well' sessions

Resources

Our resources are conceived and written by authors, educators and practitioners who bring with them a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and voices. Some of these resources are targeted at children and others are targeted at teachers. All of them are created with a user-friendly approach.

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Head of @gllspace, Faaria Ahmad will share insights that interrogate the role schools play in challenging and re-balancing inequality of opportunity and outcomes and how to act upon it through #antiracist practice. Find out more and sign up here -

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To mark #HolocaustMemorialDay, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives in partnership w/ @UKJewishFilm is screening 'Where is Anne Frank' - .This animated film by director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story.1/2

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@UKJewishFilm In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War. Image from Where is Anne Frank 2/2

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