This training programme enables individuals and organisations share and grow their skills in both the UK and Africa.
Youth advocacy programme supporting mainly black and minority ethnic people aged 14 to 30 facing disadvantages impeding their futures.
Providing Nurturing
Pathways
KORI's mission is to support young people to enjoy, thrive and contribute to the world as valued members of society. At the heart of what we do is providing young people with a unique, creative and warm environment and the tools to reach their aspirations, enabled by our strategic partnerships. Through youth work and creative facilitation, we provide needed interventions, training, project engagement, bespoke mentoring, counselling, respite and enriching networks.
Committed to young
people
KORI was founded in 2002 and has supported and developed the confidence and skills of hundreds of young people through to adulthood. Many of these young people now lead or support the charity. Working with predominantly black and ethnic minority young people aged 14 -30 years. We work to support those in vulnerable positions, like struggling with education or employment; leaving care, young carers,’ young parents, refugees, and those who are in social situations that put their futures at risk.
Our work in the UK
Based in Haringey 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 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
Our Vessel UK Programme is now 18 years old, training UK individuals and organisations to deliver relevant, ethical and sustainable projects in Tanzania, Kenya and The Gambia. In partnership with The Daughters of Africa NGO, we are able to anchor our aims and produce concrete results on the ground.
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.
Latest KORI Newsletter
It has been most important to keep our work moving, serving the young people we work with in a myriad of ways. Our newsletters share some of the work and projects we have delivered, gems that shone out amidst the challenge of this year...
KORI Autumn Appeal
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...
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...
