Babbasa Annual Impact Event 2025

Thank you to all those who attended the Babbasa Impact Event on Wednesday 26th March, kindly hosted by PwC. It was great to have 60 diverse guests, including businesses, professionals, funders, and community partners, attend and engage with the impact we’ve achieved over the past year.

At the event we presented Babbasa’s impact in 2024 and the amazing outcomes achieved by the young people we worked with. We also shared how the current economic situation continues to create ongoing barriers to many young people in Bristol, as well as challenges for charities and community interest companies like Babbasa, and introduced our plans to launch a fundraising appeal in April to grow and strengthen our work with young people.

We’d like to give a huge thank you to all of our speakers and contributors:

• Jamelia & Oluoma (Babbasa Trailblazers), for opening the event with an amazing rendition of Stand Up by Cynthia Erivo
• Ben Pykett and Rachel Stephenson (PwC) for kindly hosting us
• Hersi (Babbasa Trailblazer) for sharing his story
• Paul Jacobs (Interim Babbasa Chair) for his opening words about Babbasa and the challenges we faced in 2024
• Sangeetha Wynter (Head of Services, Babbasa) for her showcase of the impact we achieved
• Laugher (Babbasa Trailblazer) for his excellent hosting of the panel discussion
• Itunu (Babbasa Trailblazer), Judith Langdon (Bristol City Office), Richard King (Babbasa Fundraising Lead) and Tyreke (Babbasa Trailblazer) for participating in the panel discussion on the challenges facing social mobility
• Tyashia Patterson (Babbasa Placement & Recruitment Lead) for her forward outlook
• June (Babbasa Trailblazer) for closing the event with her poetry
• Inaz Hussain (Babbasa Trailblazer) for his photography support
• Square Food Foundation for providing the delicious catering 
• And all of our amazing Equal Opportunity Ambassadors, who support Babbasa and the young people we work with in a number of ways

For those who were unable to attend on the night, the impact we presented at the event can be viewed in more detail in the Babbasa Impact Report 2024.

We look forward to an equally impactful 2025, and will launch our fundraising campaign to support our mission of empowering young people at the end of April. Stay tuned for more details on how you can get involved and help us make a difference. More to come soon!