Action Learning Programme - 2025

Over the past year, CARISMA Services has undergone a period of transformative growth, made possible by a funding injection from The Phoenix Way. This enabled the successful launch of our innovative Community Action Learning Leadership Programme, aimed at equipping leaders with the tools, confidence, and networks to drive change in their communities. 

Our programme trained a diverse cohort of leaders, many of whom have gone on to lead their own community projects and or engage with the institutions we introduced them to.

These one-day Action Learning sessions enabled us to express our black and brown lived experiences in a non-threatening but empowering way to us.  Enabling participants to understand what is working for us and against us.  Sessions enabled participants to understand and feel their own positive presence in a room/institution where not everyone looks like them.

​​We are expanding the Community Leadership Program to include young adults aged 18–25+, integrating social enterprise training, and introducing a peer-to-peer digital storytelling component to document change. We also aim to embed a trauma-informed wellbeing framework across all our work to deepen impact and resilience.