Delivered by You Press & The Centre for Developmental Disabilities
In 2025, Foundation for Future London awarded a grant to You Press: Your Press & Safer Spaces, through our COLLABORATE: SAFER SPACES commission. The project is supported by the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund, jointly funded by Westfield Stratford City and Foundation for Future London.
You Press and The Centre of Development for Disabilities CIC are co-creating safer spaces for Somali youth and disabled community members through creativity, leadership and shared learning — building pathways to long-term inclusion and empowerment.
The Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund is an award-winning, five-year programme investing £10 million into communities across Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest. By placing funding, resources and decision-making power directly into local hands, the programme has supported and catalysed the lives and creative journeys of more than 19,000 people across East London.
The commission builds directly on Foundation for Future London’s Empowering Safer Spaces campaign, which centred the voices of young people and under-resourced, marginalised communities to shape a shared understanding of what Safer Spaces mean across East London.
You Press and The Centre of Development for Disabilities CIC are co-creating safer spaces for Somali youth and disabled community members through creativity, leadership and shared learning — building pathways to long-term inclusion and empowerment.
Transforming lives and careers of people in East London
Westfield Stratford City is London’s most popular shopping destination by footfall, located in London’s fastest growing area