This training programme enables individuals and organisations share and grow their skills in both the UK and Africa.
Our youth advocacy network, KYAN supports the advancement of disadvantaged BAME individuals aged 14 to 30.
Volunteer
to change
lives
Providing Nurturing
Pathways
KORI exists to provide pathways that nurture personal and professional growth. For young BAME people, it can be difficult overcoming disadvantaged and/or low-income backgrounds. They often lack access to the opportunities that many others take for granted. We believe that everyone is entitled to a level playing field. We give our BAME people the chance to achieve their full personal and professional potential.
Committed to young
people
Working with young BAME people has always been our focus and our passion. We are dedicated to providing the support and inspiration that they deserve. Our work reaches out to young people at the key ages of 14-30. Our commitment at this crucial life stage gives them access to key role models and otherwise unavailable opportunities, strengthening and extending their personal and professional development.
Our work in the UK
Based in and working across London, we draw on the experiences and skills we have gained from two decades of excellence in youth work delivery. Inspiring and supporting urban BAME youth development, we believe in broadening the experience and understanding of London’s young people by connecting them to their contemporaries in other cities and the British countryside.
Our work in Africa
We have been delivering our Vessel UK training programmes in Tanzania, Kenya and The Gambia for 16 years. In partnership with The Daughters of Africa Foundation, we work closely with individuals, organisations and corporates to anchor our aims and produce concrete, sustainable results.
Partnerships
We partner with individuals and organisations who share our commitment to creating real change for young people and their communities. With these long-term collaborations having proved very successful, we are always open to new opportunities for mutually rewarding ventures.
Our latest activities
Recent projects. Progress reports. Individual successes. New opportunities. Whatever we’ve been up to, you’ll find our latest news here.
KORI Autumn Appeal
KORI was founded 18 years ago to create a haven for young people to flourish. We used youth work, the arts and travel as our main tools to create community and give support. Our doors were open to everyone but our focus was on supporting young people from African and Caribbean cultures...
Next! KORI AGM
All year you slog away and hardly take time to appreciate the team or to look at the full map of work achieved and have a quality discussion concerning the journey forward as a collective mind. The Annual General meeting in February provided that time and space...
Space for Change
This year we have just referred 3 of our KYAN members to Embercombe’s ‘Catalyst’ programme and they have been accepted! We have been referring young people to the ground breaking, therapeutic, personal development programme for over 10 years…
Making Steps
Mentor and Coach Demi Nurse works closely with 27 year old Max, who is keen to move on and find work that really develops him and creates a real career in customer services. Since finishing school and college Max has worked in a family business and is no…
Talent 'Reflex' in The Gambia
Kervarnie Tashay White is a 16 year old student from Friern Barnet School in London, who smashed it this January by delivering a Vessel UK leadership project in The Gambia. By his own admission he was really fearful of going anywhere in Africa, but his Mum…
Informed Choice
Six form London student Noah, was unsure about the choice of architecture, seven years of study seemed a really long time. Being a member of KYAN he was hooked up with an architecture student at the University of West England, Bristol...
