Creating Joy and Lasting Memories: The Stories of Perry Chaperone Volunteers
Perry, the enthusiastic bull mascot of the 2022 Commonwealth Games continues to bring joy across the West Midlands and needs chaperones at events in order to interact with the public. Read more about how Perry Chaperones spread joy across the Midlands!
United By 2022 celebrates success of Gen22 programme and announces new funding
United By 2022, the legacy charity of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, is celebrating the achievements of young people across the West Midlands as they successfully complete its Gen22 programme. An initiative from United By 2022, Gen22 is a free-to-access programme which creates opportunities for young people aged 16-24 to gain employability-boosting skills and make […]
The Volunteers Collective supports Birmingham Light Festival
With just under 775 hours contributed, United By 2022’s dedicated Volunteer Collective provided passionate support across all 11 artworks at the inaugural Birmingham Light Festival
Accelerating Change: A Conversation with Malikah Khan for International Women’s Day
In honour of International Women’s Day, we are excited to bring you an inspiring conversation with Malikah, a young and passionate social change activist who joined United By 2022’s Ideas Made Real programme, to provide young women from her community access to snow sports. Through her own experiences, Malikah recognised there weren’t many girls that […]
Critical Mass: Artist Case Study ‘Ladybug Lodge’
BackgroundLadybug Lodge is a newly formed children’s charity organisation in Coventry, supporting children and young people aged 0 – 25, by providing accessible activities, events and recreational opportunities. We aim to bridge the gap by supporting mainstream organisations and companies in becoming more accessible, adaptable, and inclusive, particularly for a broader range of Special Educational […]
Critical Mass: Shropshire Inclusive Dance
Background SiD is a company committed to inclusive dance practice. Since 2012 we have delivered distinct, exemplary and creative driven dance projects, weekly classes and workshops, which facilitate individuals’ creativity, inclusion and community cohesion. Social impacts, include wellbeing and health. Participation in dance can reduce stress, depression and need for medication, and contribute to increased […]
Critical Mass: Participant Case Study ‘That! Dance’
Background: That! Dance is an inclusive community dance group, based in Staffordshire. We formed following the end of Critical Mass 2022 and the desire from our participants to keep dancing, performing and creating. We run weekly sessions in Lichfield and Burton and take part in live performances, films, collaborations and exhibitions. Participant S joined the […]
Case Study: Stronger Together Festival
The Stronger Together Festival took place in the grounds of Queensbridge School on Thursday 4th July. The festival involved pupils, teachers and families from Queensbridge School as well as pupils and families from King Edwards VI Camphill School for Boys, Kings Norton Girls School and Wheeler’s Lane Technology College. Over 270 young people and teachers performed […]
Common Ground Case Study – Hipkiss & Graney at Dame Ellen Pinsent School
Common Ground Arts project received £60,000 from the Bring the Power Youth Programme to deliver high-quality artist residencies to 7 Birmingham Special Schools, engaging over 1100 students. Teachers and artists share their professional knowledge and practices in their respective disciplines to create meaningful and accessible artist residencies with meaningful student art outcomes. These artist residencies […]
Bring the Power Festival Day at Priory Community Centre, Dudley
On 19th May, 2024, Priory Community Centre delivered one of these Festival Day’s in Dudley. The organisation was awarded £7,000 from United By 2022 to plan and deliver the event, and they worked closely with a youth panel consisting of NEET individuals between 10 and 15 years of age who were already engaged members at […]
