Learning Through Story, Place And Participation
Yuniya CIC is a community learning and educational organisation rooted in cultural and environmental landscapes.
We create storytelling-led learning pathways that support young people and communities in understanding place, environment, culture and future possibilities through lived participation.
Our work sits at the intersection of education, environmental learning, cultural production and community-led practice.
Mission
Transformation Through Participation, Lived Experience And Sustained Relationships Over Time
We design long term learning pathways that connect storytelling, environment and systems thinking into lived experience.
We believe education should be co-created with communities.
Many young people are disconnected from the language, networks and pathways that lead to creative and environmental futures.
Yuniya creates earlier access points through storytelling, place-based learning, participation and enterprise.
Our work is designed as a long term pathway that moves participants from imagination and participation into confidence, reflection, cultural production and future-facing opportunities.
Our Approach
Participatory Learning
Pathways
We build long-term engagements that offer progression, deep learning, and sustained participation. These pathways support young people in moving through story, place, reflection, systems understanding, making, and future pathway exposure.
Systems Thinking Through Storytelling
We ground our work in storytelling as a tool to understand social, cultural, and environmental systems. Storytelling allows young people to explore climate, ecology, identity, memory, community, and place through accessible, culturally responsive entry points.
Place-Based Learning
Our work is rooted in Southwark and Lambeth, using local environments as active learning spaces. The local environment becomes a site for observation, care, questioning, participation and creative response.
Youth Exposure And Pathways
We connect young people to creative and environmental sectors. We do this by helping participants recognise their skills, document their contributions, and explore real-world possibilities across creative, green, cultural, and community-based futures.
Core Values
Our Why
Our Team
The People Behind Yuniya
Yuniya is shaped by a small, committed team of practitioners, educators, storytellers and creatives working across culture, environment and community.
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We Co-Create Learning With Communities
Yuniya works across schools, communities and cultural environments through storytelling-led learning, participatory practice and environmental engagement.
We work with young people, educators, community partners and organisations interested in creative, environmental and future-facing learning.