PLUS Live Music by SWAY CONFERENCE, AWARDS

BME YOUTH
CONFERENCE
BME young people at crossroads:
challenges and opportunities
CONFERENCE, AWARDS
& FUNDRAISING DINNER
PLUS Live Music
by SWAY
SPEAKERS: CHloe Smith mp Clive Lewis MP
Patrick Vernon OBE Franstine Jones
Cllr Vaughan Thomas AND MANY MORE....
ARTISTS: CARLEMAN Coll Matsika
THE FELIX GIRLS AFROLUSO
BME YOUTH
CONFERENCE
co-chairs
BME young people at crossroads:
challenges and opportunities
Akosua Gyemfa
Conference co-Chair and
Director of African Youth Club
This informative conference
brings together key speakers
to provide a comprehensive
examination of the many issues
affecting young people from
minority ethnic communities.
BME Youth is a national infrastructure
development and capacity building
organisation for BME youth clubs and
associations and for young people from Black
& Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in the
UK. BME Youth was founded on 1 April 2015
and registered as a Company Limited by
Guarantee in England and Wales, Company
no. 09734835. To find out more about BME
Youth aims, objectives and its work and to
join membership, please visit the website at
www.bmeyouth.org.uk
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Elvis Beya
Conference Co-Chair,
Youth Worker and Director of
Norfolk Congolese Association
To book a place,
register now at:
www.bmeyouth.org.uk
Email: info@bmeyouth.org.uk
Call us on: 01603 748403
One day conference
Friday 30 October 2015
9.30am
The Assembly House,
Theatre St, Norwich,
NR2 1RQ
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AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
THE CONFERENCE WILL DO SO BY
The BME Youth Conference aims
to achieve three aims:
•• Introducing BME Youth and sharing
•• Awareness of the challenges
•• Providing a platform for exchange
•• Knowledge of the potential opportunities options
•• Drawing conclusions and chat the way forward
that BME young people face
for BME young people and the choices available so
that they can fulfil
their ambitions
•• Identify key stakeholders in the minority ethnic
youth nexus and actively engage them in further
developing the BME youth linkages
its work with BME young people
of experiences of BME young people
for effective engagement with BME youth
•• Providing a space to promote
Welcome
by the Director
of BME Youth
and enable new partnerships
THE EXPECTED RESULTS
FROM THE CONFERENCE ARE
•• Learning and knowledge exchange
among Conference participants
•• Creation of partnerships in different realms
of cooperation on BME youth development
•• Develop a series of documented materials
for sharing BME youth best practices
•• Support evaluations and moving forward
with existing and new partnerships
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The conference will be of particular interest to
•• BME young people
•• Youth workers and advisers
•• Voluntary and community organisations
•• Those working in schools, colleges and university
•• Representatives from local and central government
•• All those interested in BME youth issues
WHY ATTEND?
•• Delegates will leave the conference with cross
cultural competency and social intelligence skills
•• Delegates learning key equality drivers that are
shaping the new landscape and how to respond
•• Hear views of BME young people about their
needs and how workplace should mirror this
•• Fantastic networking opportunities
•• Visit the exhibition area to gain insight and
knowledge about a range of opportunities
for your organisation
•• Chances to put your questions
Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to extend to you all a very warm welcome on behalf of the
BME Youth and our partners for accepting our invitation to attend our conference
here at The Assembly House in Norwich, a Fine City. This is our first conference
since inception in April 2015.
It is gratifying to note that the agenda of the conference covers a wide range of
very interesting items relating to BME young people and the issues they face daily.
We are aware of the tremendous effort being made in young people to tackle youth
inequality. However, there are issues that continue to bedevil BME young people
such as discrimination and racism. We are only too anxious to hear what our
distinguished speakers have today in the field of young development, as pertaining
to BME young people.
It has become commonplace to say, and repeat saying, that exclusion of BME
young people in economic development in this country is the most severe constraint
to the impetus of youth equity development. Yet this fact pervades omnipotently in
our minds. The increasingly serious situation relating to the nation-wide inequality
of BME youth has been amply focused by our research document, “Our Youth
Our Heritage: The state of BME youths in the UK, August 2015.” I hope today’s
conference could provide the guidelines for a collective approach for efficient
BME youth engagement.
In a spirit of true cooperation, we at BME Youth, proud of nurturing all youths,
must join in an action-oriented effort with you to tackle and solve the problems
that beset our young people.
If on the national level we can, and must, pursue inclusive youth development
as a multi-dimensional concept, encompassing cohesive economic, social and
institutional elements of development, in a wider sense, it would be relatively easy
to effect the necessary change for a truly effective cooperation on BME youth
engagement. This is fully consonant with our official position taken by our Board
of Directors during August’s extraordinary meeting.
I wish to take this opportunity to welcome all delegates from across the UK;
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for joining this first conference
for the first time.
In concluding, I wish you every success in your deliberations
and a very pleasant stay in Norwich.
Graciano Upenyu Masauso MBA, MSc, BSc, MCITP, ACIE, FCMI
to our expert speakers
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PROGRAMME
09:00AM – 09:45M
9:30AM
Entertainment by Afroluso African Traditional Group & The Felix Girls Dancing Group
09:50AM – 10:00AM
Welcome by the Co-Chairs and Introduction to BME Youth, Elvis Beya & Akosua Gyemfa
10:00AM – 10:10AM
Welcome to Norwich by Cllr Vaughan Thomas (Mile Cross) and Cabinet Member
10:10AM – 10:40AM
Keynote Guest Speaker: Chloe Smith MP (Norwich North) & Chair of All party
Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs. Speech followed by Q&A
10:40AM – 11:10AM
Tracy Williams, Executive Board Member, Norwich NHS CCG,
Commissioning young people service and BME youth engagement. Speech followed by Q&A
11:10 – 11:25AM
Stephen Bett, Police & Crime Commissioner for Norfolk followed by Q&A
11:25 – 11:30AM
Entertainment by Norwich Irish Dance Group
11:30AM – 12:00AM
Keynote Guest Speaker: Clive Lewis MP (Norwich South) My first six months as BME
MP and looking at why there are many BME people working in menial employment at
Westminster and too few represent us in Parliament. Speech followed by Q&A
12:00AM – 12:30AM
Abraham Eshetu, Corporate Equality & Diversity Manager, Norfolk Constabulary
STOP & Search and BME Young People. Speech followed by Q&A
12:30PM – 1:30PM
LUNCH
1:20 – 1:30PM
Entertainment by ALL Acts Together: Afroluso, Fenlon Academy of Irish Dance,
The Felix Girls, CarleMan and Coll
1:30 – 1:40PM
Launch of Connecting Links Heritage project supported by Heritage Lottery Fund
1:40PM – 2:10PM
Franstine Jones, President of National Black Police Association (NBPA)
Criminal Justice & BME young people. Speech followed by Q&A
2:10PM – 2:40PM
Julia Nix, District Manager, East Anglia, Department for Work & Pensions
Benefits and Work Experience for young people, BME young people. Speech followed by Q&A
2:40PM – 3:10PM
Patrick Vernon OBE, Founder of Every Generation Media
Mental Health & BME young people. Speech followed by Q&A
3:10PM – 3:15PM
Entertainment by Bollywood Dance Group
3:15PM – 3:45PM
Chloe Donovan, Board Member, Step Up to Serve
#IWill Social Action and opportunities for BME young people. Speech followed by Q&A
3:45PM – 4:00PM
Michael Rosen, Director of Children’s Services, Norfolk County Council.
Speech followed by Q&A
4:00PM
4:15PM – 6:00PM
7:30PM – 10:00PM
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Arrival, Registration, tea & coffee & biscuits
FINISH
Fundraising Dinner: Guest Speaker: Jenny McKibben, Deputy Police & Crime
Commissioner, Norfolk Police, BME Youth Awards, entertainment, raffle,
prize draws, and many more
Live Music Gig by SWAY, CarleMan, Coll, DJ and local BME youths
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SPEAKERS
Patrick Vernon OBE
Chloe Smith MP
Chloe is an MP for Norwich North. She grew up
in Norfolk and lives in Norwich. She went to two
comprehensive schools in West Norfolk, followed by
York University where she studied English.
She was elected as an MP for Norwich North in 2009.
She was one of the youngest MPs in the country, with
lots of energy. During her time as MP she has been a
Minister in the Cabinet Office with responsibilities for
electoral registration including getting more young
people to vote.
Patrick Vernon OBE is a Clore Fellow, Associate Fellow
for the Department of History of Medicine at Warwick
University. He is Non-Executive Director of Camden
and Islington Mental Health Foundation Trust. He was
also member under both Labour and the Coalition
government’s Ministerial Advisory for Mental Health.
Patrick is the Founder of Every Generation Media and
100 Great Black Britons, which develops education
programmes, publications and films on cultural heritage
and family history.
She leads the All Party Parliamentary Group for
Youth. In Norwich North, Chloe is now delivering
more for Norwich in her “Six Point Plan for Norwich”.
Tracy Williams - Norwich NHS CCG
Tracy Williams works for Norfolk Community
Health and Care NHS Trust’s (NCH&C) City Reach
Health Service. She has received The Queen
Elizabeth the Queen Mother Award for Outstanding
Service award.
She also works as a Nurse Practitioner at Wensum
Valley Medical Practice in Norwich and been
elected onto the governing body of NHS Norwich
Clinical Commissioning Group.
Clive Lewis MP
Clive is an MP for Norwich South. He
was born in London and grew up on a
council estate in Northampton. He studied
economics at the University of Bradford and
was elected student union president; and
eventually Vice President of the National
Union of Students (NUS).
He is passionate about Norwich’s
developing scientific centres of excellence
such as Norwich Research Park. For more
than a decade he was a BBC TV news
reporter in eastern region. He also has been
an army reservist infantry officer, serving a
tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009.
Clive is an associate governor of Thorpe
St Andrew School and was one of the last
National Black Role Models – working with
young people across the UK. He is a proud
supporter of Norwich City Football Club
with a season ticket.
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Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen was appointed in July 2015 as Director
of Children’s Services, Norfolk County Council.
The Director of Children’s Services is a key statutory
role that leads Children’s Services. The role brings
together children’s social care, educational school
support and commissioning places for 0 – 19.
A key principle is engaging young people.
Since October 2013 Michael has been the Assistant
Director for Early Help. He has developed at pace
Norfolk’s Early Help Strategy for children and families
with a particular focus on inter-agency working as well
as improvements in Early Years settings and Children
Centre delivery.
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SPEAKERS
Cllr Vaughan Thomas
Cllr Vaughan Thomas was elected as Labour
councillor for Mile Cross, Norwich in May 2015
Cllr Vaughan Thomas is a Cabinet member for
fairness and equality. His corporate plan priority is
making Norwich a Fair City. He has responsibilities for
Financial and social inclusion, ensuring Living wage,
promoting Equality and diversity, Digital inclusion,
overseeing Housing Benefits and Council Tax
Reduction Scheme, Affordable warmth and Energy
efficiency and Sport and Halls.
Stephen Bett - Police And Crime Commisioner For Norfolk
Before standing for election, Stephen had been involved in
local government for over 35 years. Stephen’s first taste of
local politics was in 1977 as a Parish Councillor on his local
village council at Thornham in West Norfolk, on which he
remained a member for 30 years.
In 1987, he was elected as a Conservative member of
Norfolk County Council and was selected to represent the
council on the Norfolk Police Authority in 1996. He was
Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Police Authority, during
which time he was actively involved in the overhaul of
the county’s custody facilities and a major programme of
collaboration realising significant cost-savings for
Norfolk Police.
Chloe Donovan
Chloe Donovan is a 20 year old Trustee for Step Up
To Serve who lead the national #iwill campaign. Our
Vision is that every young person in the UK is taking
part in ‘quality’ social action and we’ll achieve this
by inspiring leaders from across society to create
fresh opportunities for 10-20 year-olds to take part.
If we are successful more than 1 million young
people will get the chance to engage in social
action for the first time before 2020.
Franstine Jones
Franstine Jones is the current President of the National
Black Police Association (NBPA). Fran was born in Ipswich
is married and still lives in the area, she has worked in the
diversity unit at Suffolk police for the past 8 years and has
been a member of the NBPA for the last 6 years.
Franstine Jones has been working on the issues of underrepresentation of black officers and staff in the police
service also the numbers in senior ranks and in particular
the positions held by black women in the police service
and understands the importance of sustainable initiatives
on recruitment, retention, development and progression
of black officers and staff in the police service that have
tangible results.
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Julia Nix
Julia has been District Manager for Jobcentre Plus
(Department for Work and Pensions) in East Anglia
(Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire) since November
2011, having previously been Senior Customer Service
Operations Manager for Norfolk.
Julia’s roles within the department have included
Director of the East of England Skill and Competitiveness
Partnership, working for skills, jobs and business growth
across five government departments, she has worked for
East of England as Senior External Relations Manager, then
from London as the National Risk Manager for Jobcentre
Plus, working for Operational Delivery Support across the
Chief Operating Officer Directorate.
Abraham Eshetu
Abraham Eshetu is Head of Diversity for Norfolk
Constabulary with portfolio responsibility on
Community engagement, Hate Crime and Stop
and Search.
Abraham has worked for over 20 years in
Policy and Strategy development, Audit and
Performance assessment, Discrimination Law
and Equality and Diversity Policy.
Abraham has extensive experience in teaching
and has written on Equality Law, Hate Crime,
Tension assessment, and Community Cohesion.
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AWARDS CEREMONY
Exhibition opportunities
The awards are for young people, youth workers,
individuals and organisations that have delivered positive
impact projects to make a difference or raise awareness of
BME youth issue in their local communities. The ceremony
will take place during Fundraising Dinner. Please see below
for more information on each award.
There are many opportunities for exhibition
and sponsorship available to engage with
over 300 young people from Black & minority
ethnic communities.
COMMUNITY CHALLENGE AWARDS
Email: exhibition@bmeyouth.org.uk
•• Inspire Award – Most inspirational Project
•• Community Impact Awards – Most sustainable project
•• Outstanding Achievement Award – Wonderful achievement
•• Diversity & Inclusion Awards – Most balanced project
•• Engagement Award – Most engaging with BME young people
EXPRESS YOURSELF AWARDS
•• Inspirational Lyrics Award – Most inspiring lyrics
•• Outstanding Achievement Award – Best achievement through art, music
•• Musical Entrepreneur Award – Inspiring others through music
•• Breakthrough Awards – Up and coming new artist of the year
•• Peer in Music Award – Helping others to express themselves
For more information, please visit:
www.bmeyouth.org.uk
Call us on: 01603 748403
Fundraising Dinner
The fundraising dinner is expected to host 100 guests and
will include tapas, drinks reception, raffle, entertainment
and speeches. All money raised will go to Africa Health
Organisation (AHO), a registered charity in England and Wales
(Charity no. 1136174) to support children and young people in
Africa and the UK. See details on www.aho.org.uk
You must buy a ticket to be admitted into the fundraising
dinner. Book now to avoid disappointment.
No ticket, no entry.
You can book as an
individual or book a table as
part of a group for a table of
ten diners. For more details
and how to book, please go to
www.bmeyouth.org.uk
Visit www.bmeyouth.org.uk
to vote for your candidate
Connecting Links
Connecting Links is an oral history project
providing opportunities for young Africans
aged 11 - 25 living in Norwich to learn about
their own heritage and develop skills. Young
Africans will talk to the adults, record and
learn about their culture and heritage including
history, languages and dialects, memories and
experiences and migration to UK.
The project is delivered by five partners and
funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. For more
information visit www.connectinglink.org.uk
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LIVE MUSIC
FEATURING SWAY
Derek Andrews Safo born September 5, 1982 known
professionally as Sway (Dasafo) was born and raised
in Hornsey, North London by Ghanaian parents
Beatrice & Adam.
Currently known as pioneer and Hip-hop trailblazer,
Sway took the UK music scene by storm in 2005 with
his independently promoted mix tapes “This Is My
Promo” Vol. 1 & 2. Their release helped to transform
the way the urban UK music-scene operated.
Now one of the most respected names in UK rap,
mercury-nominated Sway has been a stalwart of the
urban scene since the age of 18. Back in 2005 Sway
was one of the first UK rap acts to win a MOBO award
prior to any official album release. His debut album,
entitled “This Is My Demo” was released in 2006 to
critical acclaim. The Independent called it “The best
rap album in years”.
Check SWAY music on www.sway.uk.com
COLL
CarleMan
The Felix Girls Dancing Group
Advance booking only.
Hurry, limited tickets available.
No buying or selling of tickets at the door.
The gig is part of the youth conference.
If you are not planning to attend the
conference during the day, please don’t buy
a ticket for the gig as you will be denied entry
to the live music in the evening. Tickets will
be distributed during the conference.
Keep your ticket safe. No ticket no entry.
Afroluso
Go online for information
and ticket prices at
www.bmeyouth.org.uk
Email tickets@bmeyouth.org.uk
for information
Or call us on 01603 748403
or 07557479950
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www.bmeyouth.org.uk
info@bmeyouth.org.uk
01603 748403
SPICE LAND