Ubele: creating future community-based leaders from the African-Caribbean community
By Yvonne Field, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Ubele: creating future community-based leaders from the African-Caribbean community
Developing the leadership skills of Black communities through enterprise
2012
London
I am the founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative. I am an entrepreneur designing and facilitating organisational learning and development programmes, change management interventions as service reviews, as well as working with youth services, social care and health systems. I established and worked with a consultancy and training company for 15 years, and have advised regional and national government on enterprise development for women and Black and Minoritised communities.
I have postgraduate degrees and professional qualifications in community and youth work, teaching and social work. I have also been on the boards of charitable trusts, I am a Fellow of the Institute for Learning and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
As a Churchill Fellow, I travelled to Atlanta in Georgia and to New Zealand to explore social leadership development in African-American communities, and community enterprise and the transfer of indigenous knowledge inter-generationally within the Maori community.
The Fellowship acted as a catalyst for the development of The Ubele Initiative, which has been at the forefront of supporting Black and Minoritised communities nationally during Covid-19.
CEO and Founder of The Ubele Initiative, Yvonne Field OBE (CF 2012), is one of nine non-architects that have been awarded with a RIBA Honorary Fellow Award in 2024.
By Yvonne Field, 2024
Founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative, Yvonne Field (CF 2012) was awarded an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours for services to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector and to Social Justice. She has also published two thought leadership articles: one in The Evening Standard on London's legacy of the slave trade. The other article appeared in the Alliance on a Racial Justice Approach to Philanthropy.
By Yvonne Field, 2023
By Yvonne Field, 2022
Social enterprise founder Yvonne Field (CF 2012) was named a Pandemic Pioneer by Charity Times on 18 October. The award was in recognition of Yvonne’s work to ensure the voices of minoritised racial groups are heard during the pandemic through her social enterprise Ubele.
By Yvonne Field, 2021
By Yvonne Field, 2021
Social enterprise founder Yvonne Field (CF 2012) has secured a £50m investment from The National Lottery Community Fund to support black and minoritised community organisations across the UK. She achieved this in collaboration with Shane Ryan (CF 2018) and Derek Bardowell (CF 2014), as a partnership with her social enterprise The Ubele Initiative.
By Yvonne Field, 2021
By Yvonne Field, 2020
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
CEO and Founder of The Ubele Initiative, Yvonne Field OBE (CF 2012), is one of nine non-architects that have been awarded with a RIBA Honorary Fellow Award in 2024.
By Yvonne Field, 2024
Founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative, Yvonne Field (CF 2012) was awarded an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours for services to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector and to Social Justice. She has also published two thought leadership articles: one in The Evening Standard on London's legacy of the slave trade. The other article appeared in the Alliance on a Racial Justice Approach to Philanthropy.
By Yvonne Field, 2023
By Yvonne Field, 2022
Social enterprise founder Yvonne Field (CF 2012) was named a Pandemic Pioneer by Charity Times on 18 October. The award was in recognition of Yvonne’s work to ensure the voices of minoritised racial groups are heard during the pandemic through her social enterprise Ubele.
By Yvonne Field, 2021
By Yvonne Field, 2021
Social enterprise founder Yvonne Field (CF 2012) has secured a £50m investment from The National Lottery Community Fund to support black and minoritised community organisations across the UK. She achieved this in collaboration with Shane Ryan (CF 2018) and Derek Bardowell (CF 2014), as a partnership with her social enterprise The Ubele Initiative.
By Yvonne Field, 2021
By Yvonne Field, 2020
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.