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Friends of Max Roach Partner With Baytree Centre for First Daytime Volunteering Programme

The Friends of Max Roach Park hosted the Baytree Centre’s first daytime volunteering session, where women from Baytree's Employability Programme helped care for the park while building new skills.

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Bedrock Magazine: We Are All in the Same Boat

In this article, Federica explores the ripple effect of people coming together for a good cause, and how their collective efforts can create an impact far beyond what anyone imagined.

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Charity Leader of the Month

Baytree’s Interim CEO, Caroline Guarnaccia, was named Cause4’s Charity Leader of the Month in recognition of her leadership and commitment to empowering women and girls.

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Empowering Young Women in Science

During the summer, a group of 15 young participants from the Baytree Centre attended an Insight Day at the King’s St Thomas’ Campus, where they engaged in a series of immersive learning activities.

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Volunteering with LSE Students at The Baytree Centre

This blog highlights the meaningful partnership between Baytree and the LSE Volunteer Centre, showcasing how student volunteers support women and girls to build confidence and skills, and celebrating Baytree’s recognition as LSE's Voluntary Organisation of the Year 2025.

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Legal Women

Read about our Mentoring Programme with a highlight on one of our mentors Phoebe Bragg who is a criminal barrister.

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The Brixton Bugle

Violence against women is an issue that transcends borders, cultures and generations/ In communities accross the globe, including Brixton, the ripple effects nof such violence can be felt deeply, impacting not just immediate victims but also theyr children and grandchildren.

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The Guinness Partnership help fund The Baytree Centre

19.07.2024 Guinness is providing funding to the charity towards their costs in running after school youth activities where girls and young adults aged between 6-20 years old can take part in a range of activities including: creative writing, gymnastics, cookery, arts and crafts, drama, football, sewing, movement and dance and horse riding.

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The Charles Plater Trust (Fatima Programme)

Three times the success - The Baytree Centre's Fatima Programme smashes project targets and transforms the lives of 622 migrant girls and women.

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The Curiosity Programme (BBC Children in Need)

The survey data showed statistically significant increases in 6 areas: emotionally well; strong self- belief; essential skills; Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) type outcomes, such as problem solving skills and critical thinking; and positive relationships.

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Brixton Bugle: The Baytree Centre takeover

In a society with many inequalities, gender, economic and educational privilege, more often than not, result in some of the most important voices and perspectives going unheard. What these young women have to say feels, to me, much more powerful than most of what is given a platform in mainstream media.

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Red:GLOW report

Over 100 female youth workers and over 3000 young women have been involved in the Red:GLOW project activities across Europe and their learning is reflected in this report. Quotes used in the text are from interviews and names have been changed to protect identities. This report builds on research undertaken by young women. To make this possible, they received support in building their skills in desk-based research and analysis, and interviewing, as well as insights into policy-making. The added value of the report are the insights, best practice, reflections and case studies.

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The Brixton Bugle

Refugee Week: Resilient is as resilient goes

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The Brixton Bugle

What makes Brixton so special: the power and conviction of its people

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Refugee Week: Celebrating Resilience, Diversity and Unity

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Thiiird

Meet the girls of Baytree's Youth Service as they share how mentorship, friendship and a supportive community have helped them build confidence, challenge stereotypes and speak up for themselves.

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The Brixton Bugle

Women tell shocking stories of the harsh reality of surviving as a woman in the city. Hear the experiences of gender columnist Emmie Harrison-West, Ukranian Refuge Elena Sophya Hryshchenko, the woman of Baytree and many others as they discuss everything from rogue landlords and council gatekeeping to being so fearful the only remaining option was to escape

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The Why Factor

Why scarcity can damage decision making. Listen to former Development Director Carmen Gonzalez explain how our Social Mobility Coaching Programme supports women from 9:39 minutes.

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Ingenta Connect

This article grew out of a workshop at the 2018 NATECLA conference, Feeling Confident to Learn: Creating Education Spaces Where Women Feel Welcome, and interviews with ESOL teachers and support workers at the Baytree Centre in Brixton conducted over six months.

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BBC London

BBC London covered a story about the Into School programme at the Baytree for Women and Girls in relation to the inordinate waiting times experienced by migrant children to access mainstream education.

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