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Bright Young Minds is a registered charity supporting at-risk children, ​young people and families, especially those from the Black and BAME ​communities, around issues associated with crime, truancy, addiction, ​homelessness, social disadvantage and child poverty.


Our projects include holiday clubs, after-school enrichment activities, a ​food bank, digital literacy, “grow your own” - organic gardening, choirs, ​music lessons, vocational education courses, mentoring, health and ​wellness, various sporting activities and anti-social behaviour ​intervention programmes. Each year, Bright Young Minds hosts a park ​event in the city, providing a fun filled "low cost, no cost" day out for the ​whole family.


Bright Young Minds encourages beneficiaries to help shape the ​activities and outcomes of the charity. Beneficiaries are supported by a ​qualified team with local roots and lived experience.


Smile kids clubs

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Let’s Get Moving: Sports, Dance and Outdoor Activities

Trying new sports, dance and outdoor pursuits develops skills and confidence making

everyone a winner.

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Making Slow Food Fashionable:

Healthy Eating

Eating healthy can be fun and tasty; we encourage healthy eating, good for the mind and body. (Free where possible)

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Skills for a brighter future… STEM

inspired by kids

A fun way to rediscover the natural science all around us. Through engineering, physics, chemistry, robotics and more.


Smile Kids Clubs provides a safe, fun and healthy environment,

encouraging children to discover new things,

challenge their limitations and build confidence.


We utilise parks and open spaces to create natural environments

for play and adventures.

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Blueprint

Bringing together a powerful combination of resources, this grassroots intervention provides personalised pathways for young people experiencing the most difficult, desperate and disadvantaged circumstances.


Working alongside schools, local authority agencies and the police our team offer:

  • Qualified Senco/Sociometric Assessor Support and reporting
  • Strategies for identifying Risky Situations (PSHE and C H23) including: Grooming behaviour, drugs, sexual exploitation, gangs, gambling, social media, inappropriate images, fraudulent schemes and more.
  • Criminality Intervention workshops and activities.
  • Mentoring, Financial Literacy, Career Planning, Business Startup, Personal Development and Mental Health, Well-being and Sports.


This project offers long-term intervention and support enabling young people address trauma, behaviour patterns, build confidence and hit key success mile-stones while working towards a brighter future.

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professional services

Criminal arrest

Gangs workshops/

awareness School assemblies

Highlights the shocking tactics used to lure and entrap youth into a life of organised crime

and what to do next…


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alternative provision and EDUCATION support

Students receive personalised instruction tailored to their learning style to address gaps in knowledge or accommodate individual needs.

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SenCO assessment

And SUPPORT FOR PARENTS & SCHOOLS

Providing assessments, reports, Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and child centred tailored support for parents and schools.


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ACTIVITIES

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Sports

Developing new skills through different sports helps our young people to build confidence and friendships.


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Movement and dance

Promotes core strength, flexibility, coordination, and cardiovascular endurance and it’s also great fun.

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Music and singing

Provides a platform for young individuals to express their, feelings, and experiences, develop creativity, cognitive and motor skills and coordination.

One fest

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A celebration of arts, heritage and culture drawing from all parts of the black diaspora.

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This annual 3 day festival is held in the unspoilt countryside of Sandwell Valley Country Park and provides a platform for artists and creatives to showcase their talent and artwork.


The festival is designed and produced by local creatives, young people and volunteers supported by creative organisations from across the West Midlands.


ONE Fest is a unique platform sharing the African, Caribbean and South American perspective of all art forms and various cultures; raising awareness of black businesses, health and wellbeing, numerous sports, science and community green responsibilities.

Food Bank Supplies -Feed the Nation

We provide culturaly sensitive food and healthy opportunitie, alongside sanitary products and a community allotment project promoting organic produce and a vegetarian lifestyle.

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Flower Power

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Activities and Vocational Training

Creativity can stimulate inspiration. Arts and Crafts and vocational training can be a great way to relax and open the mind to unseen life solutions.

(Forms, Debt and Application Support is available on request)

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We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

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Green Guardians

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Horticultural Training

Green

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Community

Gardening

We are a non-profit organization that

aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers,

end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

We are a non-profit organization that

aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers,

end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

We are a non-profit organization that

aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers,

end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

We are a non-profit organization that

aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers,

end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

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community

Choir

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We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

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Leadership training

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Online and On-site Radio Training

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

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Support for the whole family

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

Windrush Heritage Choir

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We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

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DigitAl LiTERACY

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

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Smile festival

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

We are a non-profit organization that aims to end all forms of abuse against women. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes.

thanks to our funders

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Working partners

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and the support of our friends and volunteers

Supporting our community since 2014

We’re celebrating our

We’re celebrating our

10th anniversary

10th anniversary

Contact us

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07396 199 317

info@brightyoungminds.org.uk

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Copyright 2020 © bright young minds. A registered charity in England and Wales (1164102).

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