Vision and Mission

Vision

Our vision at BBR is to combat creative cuts by the system and governments allowing the next generation to follow their dreams and aspirations without the stress of financial barriers. By providing positive role models with lived experience who are also professional established artists we change lives with our free mentoring programme. The mobile recording studio we have created allows us to take creativity through hip-hop culture and elements into disadvantaged communities that don’t usually have access to the arts and music industry allowing young people to have an experience they never usually have due to poverty, austerity or disability. We want to change the statistics of the school to prison pipeline with our alternative provision that is due to be launched. 

“The Hip-Hop School of Excellence” . This provision will be for young people that are excluded from mainstream education or struggle to fit into the schooling system and to make the grades that are expected. The young people will gain a qualification with 4 outcomes.

  1. Have the confidence and skills to return to mainstream education
  2. Have the confidence and skills to be a self sufficient artist with support from BBR record label.
  3. Become an apprentice at BBR in a paid position,
  4. Use the transferable skills to gain work in other related areas

Mission

The mission of BBR is to plan, carry out and deliver activities which benefit communities and in particular (without limitation) to help children and young people (primarily but not exclusively ‘at risk’ children and children within the Yorkshire and the Humber Region) Nationally or Internationally keep safe from criminal activity, exploitation and abuse, and to identify opportunities within the music and arts  industries, including (without limitation) by:

  1. Providing information about, and access to, opportunities within the music and arts industries;
  2. Providing music, mentorship and education programmes to build skills, confidence and self-esteem;
  3. Working to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all the people we work with.
  4. Working with partners and organisations to help to prevent the involvement of children and young people in criminal activity.
  5. To create alternative, positive opportunities for children and young people within (or at risk of being within) the Youth Justice system.
  6. Campaigning for young people’s safety with educational music videos and providing families with information to notice criminal activities