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Black Butterfly is a cultural heritage and wellbeing organisation supporting people of African heritage and other ethnic and underserved communities. Our work aims to:
- decolonise embedded concepts and ideas;
- establish cultural, heritage and education networks;
- provide access to greater opportunities and safe, healing spaces;
- nurture talent, collective organising and
self-reliance;
- promote sustainable community-led economic development;
- develop resilient and connected communities.
OurMission
To enhance the lives of Afrodescendant and displaced communities by:
- Providing nurturing and healing environments to live and grow, enabling communities to dream, aspire and fly.
- Breaking the cycle of economic and psychological barriers.
- Developing systems change by working in solidarity, co-operatively - moving from an economy of oppression and exclusion, to an economy of care and inclusion.
Our Values
The Covid-19 global pandemic has highlighted the glaring inequalities faced by many in society, but especially Black and Ethnic communities. In Industrialised nations, these were the hardest hit communities, due to systems of inequality, inequity and exclusion.
Through our engagement, place-making and participation initiatives, we are empowering communities to have more control of their local environments, to play a central role in social planning and policy-making.
Our initiatives are helping to provide the spaces and environments to create meaningful and sustainable change, for all the community because WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER, ALL LIVES MATTER!
Our Goals
We're developing initiatives and strategies to create greater equality, understanding and unity through a people-led approach. We're helping our people to use lived experiences, collective understanding, knowledge and networks, to determine our futures and reclaim our rich history.
Food & Land Justice
Urban regeneration & food sovereignty: building resilient local food systems by repurporposing empty buildings/land to create community gardens and organic farms.
Cultural Education
Education is an important tool to help us create positive, meaningful and lasting change, but education is more than books.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
Enterprise
We are developing creative enterprise opporunities and building a culturally specific business network, run for us, by us.
