Using the arts, we promote education, dialogue and cohesion, as well as providing spaces to explore cultural and social issues impacting our communities.
We work to protect and safeguard young people from all kinds of extremism be it far-right or religious.
Our education work with young people is based on our arts and media productions.
Our approach is always inclusive and open to people from all backgrounds, engaging people of all faiths and communities.
Since 2015, Samosa Media has directly engaged over 4,300 young people in our study programmes, arts workshops, talks and film screenings, held in community and youth centres, schools and universities, as well as in our online workshops and tutorials. Our diverse arts and media curriculum work is now embedded in several schools and universities, and has been highlighted as the subject of a Radio 4 documentary, and praised for its social mobility impact.
As well as delivering education programmes, we have worked with leading national and international arts companies to deliver theatre, film, media and music events. Examples include Dara, the first South Asian history play performed on a main stage at the National Theatre, and a film on Lahore Museum that’s had more than three million views online and is now used as a curriculum resource, as well as a resource for cultural diplomacy and peacebuilding by interfaith groups.
To deliver this vital education, heritage and cohesion work, we rely on funding and support from Trusts, Foundations and individuals.
Our education work has been supported by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, The Portal Trust, Foundation for Future London, Sir Harvey McGrath and Arts Council England.
£15,000 pays for a full ten-week programme of our after-school arts and heritage mentoring workshops for young people, targeting young people that often do not have access to the arts.
£25,000 pays for a full two-month intensive arts and creative industries mentoring summer camp such as our Manchester summer youth camps.
Please see this article for a detailed impact report. Manchester Youth Arts Mentoring Summer Camp
Films and review of many of our workshops can also be viewed here Samosa Youth Mentoring workshop films
If you would like to support our education work with young people, please send your donation to,
The Samosa Media Limited
HSBC – Branch 59-61 Broadway, London E15 1XF
Sort code 400630
Account number 92801299
Thank you.
