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Element was a youth arts charity, hosting creative projects that explored purpose, motivation, and creativity. They worked alongside young people from marginalised and minoritised communities across London in youth work settings and schools from 2016 to 2024.
Both Element and Blue Cabin were part funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to work with care-experienced young people. For many years the two organisations had learned and been inspired by each other’s work. When we received the sad news that Element was closing we wanted to help preserve their amazing legacy and capture their learning for the future.
This page hosts some key resources that were lovingly developed by the Element team to both capture their way of working and their impact.
The Element zines provide a record of the culture, impact and vibe of this brilliant organisation:
You can also view this zine here.
A key part of Element was having fun! This games book could be useful to practitioners working in a wide range of community settings:
Across 2023, the Element team set out to capture and develop three core areas of their work and methodology. This included youth engagement, programme design and the mechanics of on the ground project delivery. As part of this, they created a series of frameworks that outline the ‘what, how, and why’ of each of these areas.
Here we share an executive summary of Element’s:
And finally we wanted to help capture Element’s Theory of Change:
