The 100 Black Men of London takes an active lead in devising and pushing through solutions to overcome the evident limitations and obstacles facing the black community in London.

Whilst governments and institutions play a vital part in this ongoing battle, we believe it is only when those most affected take ownership of their own situation and drive through their own solutions that a real change happens.

The 100 Black Men of London has taken a lead in fighting for various worthwhile causes from challenging the extensive use of the DNA database resulting in a serious overr-epresentation of black males on the database to pressuring media outlets to feature more black history content in its output.

Our members and volunteers are actively encouraged to become more proactive in their own individual lives, which has helped many of them further their careers or even start up successful new businesses through their skills, knowledge and Leadership principles learnt through their association with the 100 Black Men of London.

Our programmes also specifically examine the principles and practicalities of leadership, particularly amongst young people.

Our Community Mentoring Programme contains modules on peer relationships where we help young people examine the impact and influence of the behaviour of themselves on their peers and vice versa.

We also run a Youth Leadership Academy (YLA), which is a programme dedicated entirely to helping young people understand all aspects of Leadership.

For those of our mentees that graduate beyond the YLA, we have a Peer Mentoring Programme, which is the final element of our Mentoring process, through which we train those graduates to themselves become mentors to others in their own peer group.

Through this process we consider that we shall create a positive and reinforcing cycle of good leadership, which will stand those young people in good stead for their lives and have a directly beneficial impact on the wider community.

We have also recently introduced a Youth Conference Programme, through which young people take the lead in organising a conference to be attended by young people between the ages of 16 - 25 on a topic of their choice.

Our most recent Youth Conference held in association with former President Ken Barnes CANI Academy was entitled "Obama, so what?" and featured a hot debate with a panel including Dawn Butler MP and a passionate audience of young people, who were evenly split on the issue of whether the election of Barack Obama would have a positive impact on the lives of young people in the United Kingdom.

Our hope is that through Leadership by us and our youth, we can make a real change and not just a small differernce.