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Community EDUCATION SPORTS ABC Group Dennis Gyamfi Khadijah Peace Watkis-Lewis Kyl Asgill Michael Jones Natasha Mills Noel Phillips Trishna Burke Zoe Oputah Ashanti Asare Ayesha Morrison Davina Kenyon-Blair Lorraine Ajayi Maliaka Adabra Rico Coombs Talisa Williamson Cindy Nwosu Linton Campbell Nathan Fox Rhianna Ottley events ‘Black Heritage Today’ magazine was officially launched four years ago, after making its debut in 2000. The stories and features in the magazine look at things that have happened and are happening around the world, from Europe to America, the Continent, South Africa and the Caribbean, and profiles people who are making a difference in the community today alongside ‘those who paved the way’. Black Heritage is much more than just a platform to list events happening throughout the months. Visit the website www.blackheritagetodayuk.co.uk Pearson is the  world’s leading education company, owning amongst others Penguin and Puffin publishing. They publish an unrivalled range of fiction and non-fiction, bestsellers and classics, children’s books and illustrated reference treasure chests in over 100 countries. Edexcel falls under the Pearson banner and is the UK’s largest awarding body, providing academic and vocational qualifications and testing to schools, colleges, employers and other places of learning in the UK and internationally. Pearson also own The Financial Times Group, one of the world’s leading business information companies, providing a broad range of business information and multimedia services to the international business community. Visit the website www.pearson.com Vjem Events is a small talented team of project and event managers led by Veronica Jones. We specialise in planning and delivering outdoor and special events like festivals, carnivals, parties, exhibitions and fundays. Our clients range from Business Link, BDO Stoy Hayward LLP and the London Youth Support Trust to most of the London boroughs. Past projects include the One Love Hackney festivals, Lambeth’s international day and Southend-on-Sea’s cultural Olympiad handover celebrations. Vjem also provides a venue finding service which is absolutely free to use and very popular with our clients. 2007 saw the launch of our event training programme which runs throughout the year, covering topics such as event health and safety, event and stage management. Visit the website www.vjem.co.uk Black Limelight Design & Illustration is proud to support the Black Youth Achievement Awards. Based in London and Nottingham, Black Limelight provides design and branding services to a wide range of arts organisations, community groups and local authorities. www.blacklimelight.com