Photo 51 CIC delivers creative programmes that combine media skills, mentoring, confidence building and community storytelling. Our work can be shaped for schools, youth centres, community organisations, local authorities, funders and partnership projects.
We support people and organisations to tell stories through film, documentary, promotional video and social content. Participants can learn practical production skills while creating work that reflects their own voice and community.
We use sound, music and voice to help people express themselves, build confidence and develop practical creative skills. Our audio programmes can support young people, community groups, campaigns and storytelling projects.
We help participants understand, create and navigate digital media with confidence. Sessions can cover practical creative tools, online safety, content creation, critical thinking and the role media plays in shaping identity and opportunity.
Our enrichment work supports confidence, communication, self-expression and personal development. Sessions are designed to be engaging, accessible and grounded in the realities young people face.
We work with communities to create projects that document experience, preserve local memory, celebrate culture and give people a platform to be heard.
Tested formats, ready to book
Designed and refined across years of delivery with young people in East London. Each one can run as a standalone session or sit inside a longer programme.
Young people play judge, jury, prosecution, defence and witnesses in a full courtroom simulation built around a case they can relate to. Builds critical thinking, public speaking and a real understanding of the justice system.
Teams develop a business idea and pitch it to two investors with opposite priorities: scale and profit versus ethics and community. Builds enterprise thinking, budgeting and the confidence to defend an idea.
A simulation of living independently on part-time wages, anchored to real local rents and bills, so the numbers mean something.
A structured programme for younger cohorts that builds confidence in stages, from low-stakes games to voice projection, conversation and debate.
Tell us who you work with and what you want to change. We will come back with a clear proposal, including outcomes, staffing, safeguarding arrangements and cost.