18 young people completed work experience at BANG
48 young people with SEND engaged in Drumming and Dela Move
96 young people engaged in Stacks
10 young people engaged in Wellth Club
60 people attended the BANG Stakeholder Event
40 young people engaged in Who Am I: Heritage Project
19 young people engaged in Wellth Club
15 young people engaged in BANG Evolution
520 sessions of Create Change delivered with 55 young people across Brent
Parent HUB engaged 15 parents across Brent
55 young people engaged in Create Change
36 young people engaged in BANGIN’ Youth Club
66 young people engaged in Stacks
38 young people with SEND engaged in Drumming and Dela Move
38 young people engaged in Heritage
25 young people engaged in GROW
8 young people completed work experience
RiseUP Stonebridge: 250 young people engaged across Brent
Stacks is delivered to 26 young people across Brent
Create Change engaged over 25 young people in Brent
BANGIN’ Youth Club was created and delivered by three young people to 36 younger people
Fuse Fest was created and delivered by 20 youth volunteers
7 young people engaged in BANGIN’ Radio
BANG Incubator was launched – supporting 5 black-led organisations
86 young people engaged in Dela Move
10 young people engaged in GROW
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.
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.
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.
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.
BANG partners with Brunel University, University of Hertfordshire, and Westminster University to provide 14 students with internships.
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.
The HUB project is created as a component of No Limitz.
BANG HAS HELPED OVER 5000 BENEFICIARIES SINCE 1999.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life FM (later to be called BANG Radio and now The Beat London) starts as a community, media and training platform for local people.
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.