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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Dear followers, We're saddened to share this message with you all. After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to close Partisan. We have not come to this decision lightly. Read the full announcement on our website: www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/important-update

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Brought to you by Lewisham Music and Partisan, through the #MyEnds, MyLewisham programme, Nozie Night is an expert-led opportunity for aspiring musicians, music producers and singer-song writers, open to 16-25 year olds from #Lewisham.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

She has spent months building a project that offers a calm, creative space for the #Lewisham community, blending #crocheting with #wellbeing support. This is one of 7 community projects we’re running across #Lewisham this Autumn–Winter, through our @mayoroflondon.bsky.social funded #MyEnds work

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

❤️ Crocheting • Care • Community ❤️ At the end of November, our #MyEnds team supported one of our amazing young people at her event: KJ Krotchet by Kyra 💫 Kyra wears her creativity on her heart, sleeve, and chest and is pictured wearing one of her very own designs!

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We're thrilled to be hosting a #creative careers event tmrw @ the Adidas HQ! Powered by creative agency, OUR PPLS, this is an event led by a young person on our #MyEnds project as vital to opening up career pathways for young people from #Lewisham. LAST FEW SPACES REMAINING. See image!

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

"For generations, Black men have been told, implicitly and explicitly, by themselves, by others in the community, and by dominant patriarchal narratives, to “man up,” to stay strong and to shoulder pain in silence.’" Read our latest blog, inspired by #Movember: www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/b...

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

An invaluable and interactive afternoon, inviting new collaborators into the partnership to help shape and steer Harambee’s work. We want to ensure it stays true to its purpose: building fairer, more caring systems of help and healing, led by and for Black communities across Lambeth and Southwark.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Did you know that Harambee means “to pull together”? Last week, #Harambee project partners (Lougborough Community Centre (LCC) @ Max Roach, Milk Honey Bees, Parentskills2GO CIC, Word on the Curb & us!) came together, joined by seven community members from #Lambeth and #Southwark.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Partisan were thrilled to attend the #Lambeth Peer Action Collective Research Launch, hosted by @high-trees.bsky.social on Tuesday. Their latest reported, Trusted Adults & Safe Spaces, explores how youth organisations and trusted adults can protect young people from violence. #safeguarding

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The path to freedom is still being laid, and apartheid and state-violence are real threats to that vision. Palestinian people have the right to self-determination, and the right to decide what their realities, and their futures, look like. Conflict is never the solution.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"We will raise our voice for Gaza, we will raise our voice for Palestine" This weekend saw over tens of thousands of people come together for lasting peace in Gaza. Our CEO, Jay Perkins attended what proved a vital reminder that resistance to oppression is real and thriving.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

4. Regeneration Our current systems take more than they give, sustaining white supremacy & other forces of oppression. We must return to what our bodies, cultures and communities once knew - small acts of resistance honouring what came before to create something different

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

3. Repair In our lives, rupture is inevitable. Repair is thus vital Many of us have been harmed by years of systemic violence (capitalism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, colonialism ) and subsequent injustice. Repair means tending to that inherited pain - not with quick fixes, but with steady care

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

2. Relationships Relationships are what make the world go round, and sites of radical transformation. What if our systems gave time and space for relationships to thrive, between others and to ourselves?

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

1. Redistribution Right now, power, knowledge and resources are held by too few. How can we be more active in featuring redistribution in our work/lives?

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

[THREAD] This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we're drawing attention not to individual actions, but to mechanism that, if centred by the architects, policymakers and decision-makers in our world (in the broadest sense of those terms), could create the conditions for mental health & wellbeing for all.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Tomorrow is #WorldMentalHealthDay. Whilst we realise the importance of raising awareness of mental health & positive messaging about seeking support + self-care, we believe that current systems and institutions need to be reimagined, to fundamentally create well-being & health for all.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

💫 C O M M U N I T Y Our #MyEnds work shows us that being in #community matters. From showing up to fortnightly sessions, to offering ideas & suggestions linked to creating #safety in Lewisham, young people are invested in their neighbourhood. 📷 PC: Luke Agbaimoni

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Community-led research isn't the easy route...but it leads to solutions that go deeper, and impact that runs longer" says Theo Field-Pellew, Researcher. Read more about how we worked with peer-researchers to shape our strategy: www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/peer-led-research-strategy

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Partisan’s strategy is shaped by young peer researchers with lived experience — bridging community insight + academic rigour. Read how we developed it (the things that went well + the challenges) in our latest guest blog: lnkd.in/gu-d5UM4 #PeerLed #CommunityResearch #YouthVoice

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🖤Collaborating with and celebrating Black-led organisations who hold the knowledge, skills and relationships across our communities #BlackHistory365 #StandingFirm #PowerAndPride #BHM2025

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🖤All Black therapeutic and clinical team, with a range of expertise drawn from different, intersecting traditions 🖤Programme, like our #Harambee Partnership, that are designed, led by, and for, Black people in London #BlackHistory365 #StandingFirm #PowerAndPride #BHM2025

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🖤African Centred training (led by expert facilitators) for all our staff, embedding indigenous and diasporic knowledge and practice 🖤 Realising Sankofa - the Adinkra concept of "retrieving" or "going back and fetching what you forgot", which guides how we learn and move forwards #BHM2025

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#BlackHistory is our history at Partisan. Not just through October, but through all our work - from the moment we were founded, to today. Below are the ways we are committed to centring Black stories, voices and histories in all that we do 👇 #BlackHistory365 #StandingFirm #PowerAndPride #BHM2025

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

💬 "There is no one size fits all model" to interventions, says Founder of community-led #research org, TRUE Research, Theo Field-Pellew. 🖊️ In our new blog, we interviewed Theo on why he moved from youth work, to systems-change work in #SouthLondon. buff.ly/5aOKBDG #ethicalresearch #communityled

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Working in the Emergence is messy. It's scary. It's unclear. But, we embrace this uncertainty on the path to new possibilities. In our latest blog, our CEO reflects on our approach to designing a world that prioritises #healing: www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/working-in-the-emergence

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

What should we prioritise to centre collective healing in decision-making? If you're a #policymaker or leader, then consider the questions below. From our new blog "Working in Emergence: a beginning, not a blueprint" 👇 www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/w... #reform #justice #healing

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🖤 “Healing for Black girls starts with being seen, heard and valued. This partnership is about restoring power, choice and ownership to our communities.” Ebenehita Iyere, founder of #MilkHoneyBees Through #Harambee, we're reinvesting in Black Mental Health: www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/harambee

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Jay Perkins, our CEO said: “This partnership is not just about designing services and interventions, it’s about redistributing power and resources to communities who’ve long been excluded from shaping the systems that impact their lives." #MentalHealthMatters #Communityled #Blackled

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 New partnership alert! We’ve joined forces with Black-led orgs Milk Honey Bees, Loughborough Community Centre & ParentSkills2Go to launch Harambee: Our Say, Our Way — investing £150k in Black community-led mental health in #Lambeth & #Southwark. Find out more: www.partisanuk.org/blogs-news/h...

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

JOB #OPPORTUNITIES @ PARTISAN This summer, we're looking for not one, but two new individuals to join Partisan 👉Operations Lead 👉Clinical Lead If you're passionate about #healing, #justice and #mentalhealth, check out our #vacancies: partisanuk.org/join-our-team Apply by June 30th

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

[4] This is where we’ve decided to step in. If you make, stock or produce products for Afro or textured hair, or melanin-rich skin and want to contribute, then get in touch with: enquiries.roots@gmail.com We support the invaluable work Roots is doing. #BlackHairMatters #TogetherWithRefugees

The back of a volunteer entering a tent, in a high vis jacket. Face hidden, but they are bending over into what looks like a door

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

[3] There is a community hub, essential resources, and around 100 hot showers a day, but one of the many things Jay noticed was the need for culturally appropriate hygiene and bathing products. Specifically hair and skin care products for Black people. #BlackHairMatters #TogetherWithRefugees

Young Black men in a tent, looking in mirrors, in a line, getting ready. A table next to them has some hygiene/bathing products

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

[2] The conditions at the camp are shaped by policy, not accident. Organisations like Roots are doing what they can to serve refugees living there with care, dignity and compassion, but there are gaps. #TogetherWithRefugees

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🧵THREAD [1] Last week our CEO Jay Perkins spent time w/ French org Roots supporting at an unofficial refugee camp in Grande Synthe near #Dunkirk The majority of refugees are Black + racially minoritised & have experienced the continuing harm caused by #colonialism & #capitalism.

A photo of a male figure (Jay Perkins, CEO of Partisan) in a green visibility jacket, picking up litter in a ditch, using a litter picker. Rubbish is strewn on the floor, along a grassy verge. Other volunteers small in the background.

A closeup of the rubbish collection efforts, with a female volunteer wearing protective clothing, shovelling plastic bottles into a red bin.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We held a very special event last weekend, part of our @london-vru.bsky.social work with #MyEnds #MyLewisham. 23 young people came together to think about what #safety means to them in their area & ideas to enact change. We can't wait to share more. For now, here's a sneak peek at our goodybags!

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The march to #mentalhealth equity is sure, steady & shared. Today we thank Dr Breaux torres - clinical + forensic psychologist, abolitionist & #racialjustice advocate🖤 Dr Ariel has a pro-Black approach to liberation & has played a key role in the #BlackMentalHealth Manifesto #ThisIsMyCommunity

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Today, we shout out Gemma Carr - Project Manager and Social Designer. Gemma keeps the cogs rolling at Partisan. Her experience with participatory practice & co-design with communities is key to making our programmes equitable to everyone we work with. #ThisIsMyCommunity

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Kicking it off, we're thrilled to introduce our newest team member Ama Hagan, Clinical and Community Psychologist. Ama is passionate about the effects of intersectional identity, culture, and family on well-being, and using social, cultural, and political lenses to drive change. #BlackMentalHealth

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today marks the start of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek & #BlackInclusionWeek. This week, we're spotlighting members of our #community who champion #BlackMentalHealth, and a kinder world for all our communities. Thank you for being part of our world, and shaping it for the better.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We're at #HastingsCommons today (and what a glorious day it is!) looking at innovative model of community-driven revitalisation. Jay Perkins, our CEO will be sharing learnings from our work later, alongside the #PGCollective on trying to move into the reimagining and healing space.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Key takeaways from the event 👉 education is liberation 👉 real insights come from whats meaningful not always measurable 👉 change can happen from all angles, places and ways, and we need allies in every space #inclusiveeducation #Equity #justice

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Our CEO Jay Perkins spoke about shifting power to young people, to help them be decision makers and create policies and processes that benefit them. Great to hear from Lilian Bayliss Technology School, who did something similar with young people creating their school values.

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Yday, we attended & spoke at Class 13's report launch "An Argument for Possibility" + celebrated their 5th birthday celebrations. Fantastic org doing great work to transform #schools from places of harm, to hope and possibility. Check them out: www.class13.org #educationequity #educators

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

⏳ 1 WEEK LEFT! Want to be part of a podcast that challenges systems & uplifts real stories? 🎙 We’ve paired up with All Things Mental Health podcast, who'll be training young people (18-30) in podcasting, interviewing & storytelling. Don’t miss out! 👉 tinyurl.com/ATMHpodcast

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Do you know or work w/ young people, who have a lot to say about #mentalhealth? We want to hear from 18-30 year olds in #Lewisham, #Lambeth and #Southwark, as part of our upcoming collab with the hit #AllThingsMentalHealth #podcast. No experience needed! www.partisanuk.org/podcast-opportunity

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Partisan @partisanuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We're at the #BlackHealthSummit today, thrilled to be surrounded by others united in a shared vision of health for #BlackCommunities. Great to have heard from @paulettehamiltonmp.bsky.social, @impurbanhealth.bsky.social, @england.nhs.uk 10-year plan and @profkevinfenton.bsky.social this morning

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