January 1
2024
We Wear Heritage is delivered to 7 young people who live in Brent.
Stacks is delivered to 16 young people in Roundwood Community School.
BANG History
January 1
2023
RiseUP is delivered to over 200 young people across Brent.
Stacks is delivered to 26 young people across Brent.
Create Change is delivered to over 25 young people in Brent.
BANG develops a partnership with Roundwood School and Community Centre.
BANGIN’ Youth Club created and organised by 3 young people.
January 1
2022
48 young people complete the BANG Evolution programme.
28 young people received life coaching with BANG.
20 young people received mentoring with BANG.
41 young people engaged in BANG workshop and steering group sessions.
742 mentoring and coaching sessions delivered to young people.
RiseUP is established a leadership and entrepreneurship programme.
Stacks is established as a financial literacy and money management programme.
BANG Incubator is created to support the development of black-led civil society organisations.
Cornerstone is established to tackle youth homelessness.
Vital is established to bring members of the Rastafari community together for mutual support and nurture social cohesion.
January 1
2021
Create Change is established as a community-centred therapy service.
BANG interviewed 50 families to support them during Covid-19.
51 young people accessed Create Change and 33 young people received therapy.
BANG Evolution is established as a mentoring and coaching programme.
Grow is established as an organic urban farming project.
January 1
2020
BANGIN’ Art delivered to 15 young people.
250 beneficiaries of No Limitz.
62 young people engaged in No Limitz.
62 young people engaged in Health Is Wealth.
Step UP, an employability skills programme, is delivered to young people from Brent.
Participants of Step UP developed Drip Punch – a tropical drink sold at Notting Hill Carnival and Caribbean shops in Brent.
January 1
2019
85 young people engaged in Health Is Wealth programme.
17 young people engaged in No Limitz programme.
Parent HUB delivered to families in the local community of Brent.
BANG partners with Brunel University to provide psychology, anthropology, and criminology students with internships at the organisation.
January 1
2018
BANG partners with Brunel University, University of Hertfordshire, and Westminster University to provide 14 students with internships.
January 1
2017
53 children benefit from the HUB project and 47 of the children came from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Healthy Starts engaged 34 young people and 80% of participants reported feeling more confident.
42 young people engaged in the No Limitz programme.
January 1
2016
The HUB project is created as a component of No Limitz.
January 1
5000+ BENEFICIARIES
BANG HAS HELPED OVER 5000 BENEFICIARIES SINCE 1999.
January 1
2015
Big Lottery Funding is granted to fund Strength 2 Strength.
76 beneficiaries, mainly male and of Afro-Caribbean heritage, took part in the Strength 2 Strength programme.
52% improved their peer relationships throughout the programme.
Strength 2 Strength is renamed No Limitz.
94% of parents reported there had been an improvement in the emotional wellbeing of their child.
56% of young people experienced reduced anxiety after taking part in the programme.
January 1
2013 – 2014
Making Men Programme, funded by the Mayor’s Office, is officially launched.
BANG trained 77 mentors and matched 52 young men with a mentor.
30 young people take part in BANG’s radio production programme.
Strength 2 Strength is set up as an early intervention programme that supports 8 – 13-year-olds at risk of exclusion, antisocial behaviour and youth offending.
January 1
2011 – 2012
25 – 30 young people engaged in event management training.
59 NEET young people remained in education after being considered at-risk or re-entered education.
My NW10 was launched, and 15 young people engaged in radio production
15 young people created a video documentary on the importance of employment and training.
January 1
2010 – 2011
62 NEET young people progressed into education.
28 NEET young people were retained in education.
15 young people engaged on the Tutor Training Project
216 young people engaged in drop-in session training activities.
January 1
2009 – 2010
Drop-In sessions are introduced and 145 young people are engaged.
11 NEET young people were retained in education.
8 young people engaged in BANG Radio internships and 4 progressed on further employment.
January 1
2007 – 2008
132 young people achieved accreditation in a range of radio programmes.
Life FM is awarded a community radio licence by Ofcom.
Full-time broadcasting begins at the Stonebridge Precinct.
January 1
2006 – 2007
91 young people achieved accreditation in radio production at BANG.
BANG delivered the “New Life” Award funded by Paddington Development Trust – 33 young people participated.
January 1
2005 – 2006
SW1 Radio is established in Victoria in partnership with Life FM and then handed to the community after they received training in media production and management.
60 female prisoners from Bullwood Hall HMP are trained by BANG and 11 received accreditation.
January 1
2004 – 2005
BANG trained 50 young people from Alperton School.
BANG is the media partner for Not Another Drop campaign against gun crime.
98 young people and adults engaged in radio broadcasting.
May 2
2002 – 2004
3 short-term 28-day broadcasts are run on Life FM by volunteers and local DJ’s.
BANG is run in the Stowe Club in Paddington.
May 10
2001 – 2002
Life FM (later to be called BANG Radio and now The Beat London) starts as a community, media and training platform for local people.
January 1
1999 – 2001
Jennifer Ogole created BANG following the death of her sister, Eunice, with a group of local young people in Brent.
BANG’s launches first project VINYLOGY DJ at Lisson Green estate and the Stonebridge Annex Youth Club.