I partner with organisations, CICs, and community projects to design programmes and systems rooted in lived experience, relationship building, and real-world change.
My consultancy brings together community organising, storytelling, and long-term engagement, supporting organisations to build trust and create lasting pathways.
What I Have Done
My approach is shaped by formal training in broad-based community organising and by over twenty years of practice working alongside communities, institutions, and decision-makers.
At the heart of my work is a simple principle:
The people closest to the issue carry the clearest insight into the solution.
What this looks like in practice
Listening to communities through story and one-to-one conversations.
Understanding how people experience systems in their daily lives.
Identifying where access, power or voice is missing.
Designing programmes that respond to real needs.
Building relational trust between communities, organisations, and decision makers.
Creating structures that support long-term engagement.
My approach spans community engagement, housing advocacy, environmental justice, storytelling-based research, and programme design.
Areas Of Work
I support organisations with:
Listening to communities through story and one to one conversations
Understanding how people experience systems in their daily lives
Identifying where access, power or voice is missing
Designing programmes that respond to real needs rather than assumptions
Building relational trust between communities, organisations and decision makers
Creating structures that support long-term engagement
My approach spans community engagement, housing advocacy, environmental justice, storytelling based research and programme design.
A storytelling and art exhibition celebrating five famous UK native trees.
Windrush Day: Brixton Project
intergenerational heritage-led workshops celebrating the Windrush legacy, supporting intergenerational connection and community memory.
We Out Here Festival & Wellness Centre Workshops
Creative storytelling sessions and material-based workshops to support wellbeing and cultural exploration.
Yuniya CIC - Founder
Cultivating Spaces for Collective Imagination and Transformation
Through the ancient art of storytelling, we curate alternative learning experiences that intersect environment, culture, and well-being.
Through Karatasi Studio, I bring together cultural research, handmade paper, and print to explore how stories are created, shared, and preserved through the physical forms that carry them.
Handmade paper anchors this practice, reframing the book as both material and cultural archive while opening new possibilities for sustainable publishing.
Working across geographies, I collaborate with cultural institutions, educators, artists, and community groups, connecting craft knowledge, material research, and contemporary practice.
Alongside my creative practice, I have led initiatives that bridge community engagement, equity, and cultural work.
This includes:
Malachi Place & Community Housing Initiatives
A twenty-million-pound development of self-contained flats for people experiencing homelessness.
Co-chaired Community Land Trust initiatives delivering 250 sustainable homes in East London.
If you want to develop programmes, engage communities more deeply or rethink how your organisation listens and responds, I would be glad to explore what that could look like together.
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