"Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame, but for greatness,
because greatness is determined by service." Martin Luther King
developing potential + raising aspirations + promoting social inclusion

Latest news & events

BTWSC Delivering BHM 2011 Across London

BTWSC Delivering BHM 2011 Across London:

BTWSC will be delivering a range of commissioned programmes across London during Black History Month 2011
 
BTWSC Co-ordinator Sworn In As Notary Public In Ghana

BTWSC Co-ordinator Sworn In As Notary Public In Ghana:

BTWSC co-ordinator Ms Serwah adds notary public to her legal resume
 
Marking August 23

Marking August 23:

Marking August 23; What Are We Commemorating & What Should We Be Commemorating? The significance of August within global African history
 
BTWSC VORP (Voice Of Responsible Parents) Victims And Witnesses Of Crime Conference

BTWSC VORP (Voice Of Responsible Parents) Victims And Witnesses Of Crime Conference:

A cross-sector conference & workshop highlighting the support available and/or needed by victims and witnesses of crime
 
 

Latest videos

Ms Serwah Presents Youth Crime Summit Petition At No. 10

Ms Serwah Presents Youth Crime Summit Petition At No. 10:

Following the BTWSC Because... Youth Crime consultations and workshops, it was decided that the next step was to have a summi...
 
NARM Role Model DVD Trailer

NARM Role Model DVD Trailer:

This is a 10 minute excerpt from the NARM double-DVD, which highlights 32 African British male role models. For more inform...
 
VORP Conference TV Coverage

VORP Conference TV Coverage:

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The Songs Of Life Trailer

The Songs Of Life Trailer:

A sub-10 minute trailer of BTWSC/Roots To Branches' Arts Council England/National Lottery funded edu-tainment concert, which ...
 
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NARM

NARM (Naming And Role Model) Project: A Heritage Lottery Funded project highlighting notable, aspirational African British male role models spanning 1907-2007

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Welcome To The BTWSC Website

BTWSC is a Brent-based, pan-London not-for-profit voluntary organisation.

Check out the NARM resources at NARM Project.

NARM Role Model DVD Trailer from BTWSC BBM on Vimeo.





STOP PRESS: The NARM resources will be launched on Friday Nov. 26, 6.30-9.00pm at The Space, Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF. Come and see the DVD and meet some of the role models. It's a free event, but pre-booking is essential:
NARM Launch Flyer

The organisation uses the creative arts to develop the potential of youths and adults. It is also engaged in raising aspirations and promoting social inclusion. BTWSC's core projects are centred around music industry, event planning, and music technology courses; writing workshops and writing competitions; ceremonies recognising unsung people; edu-tainment concerts; family and community cohesion projects; and African/black history programming.

In addition to funding its own projects and working with funders, BTWSC is open to partnership or collaborative work with individuals, community and voluntary organisations, statutory bodies and school, in order to deliver projects.

BTWSC projects are aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at people from socially disadvantaged or excluded backgrounds or areas. Please click About Us for more information about  our organisation, its activities and its key workers, and Projects, to find out more about our past, current and upcoming projects and their associated events.

STOP PRESS: BTWSC has won its second Heritage Lottery Fund for the NARM Role Model Project. For more information about how you can nominate or give us leads to follow, click NARM Project.

The NARM DVD and booklet resources will be launched o Friday Nov. 26 2010, 6.30-9.00pm at The Space, Willesden Green, London NW10 2SF. Com and see the DVD, and meet some of the role models. Although it's free, pre-boking is essential: info@btwsc.com.

Also, please note that the Harrow NARM Photographic Exhibition has been extended by Brent Libraries into the first quarter of 2010: 30 Nov extended to 19 Dec 2009 Gayton Library, 1 Feb to 6 Feb 2010 Gayton Library, 22 Feb to 27 Feb 2010 Gayton Library, 6 Mar to 12 Mar 2010 Stanmore Library. First dates have open days 6.30-8.30pm. For more information, click NARM Project.

PLEASE SUPPORT BTWSC: by simply downloading the Benefitbar to your web browser. Then each time you use it for your web search and click on any of the sponsored links, a few pennies accumulate for BTWSC! It only takes a few minutes to set it up. Please click to download Benefitbar apps.

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PLEASE NOTE: BTWSC events and project may be photographed and/or videoed. If you do not want to be included arrive in good time and inform the organisers, so that you can be seated, where possible, in an exclusion area.