Deep Black London CIC

The company’s activities have provided benefit to young people, their families and communities and the people who support them. We have done this through the arts, creative ventures, or other activities co-produced and designed with young people themselves and delivered by people trained in trauma awareness and supported by qualified therapists and professional artists in different creative media. We have supported people to express, share, listen, reflect, connect and learn. The work has nurtured hope, positive self-esteem, build confidence and created opportunities to begin new life narratives based on strengths. Alongside, we have supported professionals working in the front line, primarily in education and mental health to offer quality training and support. Further, we have offered creative opportunities to support families and communities to come together and celebrate young people. This has led to young people, their families and communities and the people who support them to understand the value of their education, helped them to support their own emotional and mental health and helped them to realise what they need to do to support themselves and others. Celebrating the achievements of the young people has given these young people, their families and communities the knowledge that they can achieve a great deal, a sense of pride in themselves and the confidence to achieve more.