Youmanity
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Youmanity is a UK-based organisation founded in 2008, registered as a charity in May 2018, and based in London.[1]Template:Efn
Charity work
Youmanity sponsors an annual photography award,[2] mental health[3] and education projects.
Youmanity Award for photography
Since 2010, the organisation has held an annual photography competition, focused on cultural diversity, with a £1,000 prize.[4] Each competition has a theme. In 2012, for example, the theme was "Migration, Stories of a Journey".[5] In 2019 the theme was "Friend-Ship";[6] Debdatta Chakraborty was the winner for his shot of the Sheroes Hangout café in India.[7][8] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the theme was "Friend-Ship During Challenging Times".[3] The winner was ‘A kiss from across the miles’ by Nicola Parker, a mobile screenshot taken during lockdown portraying an 80-year-old grandmother blowing a kiss from a nursing home.[9][10]
Youmanity education project
In 2019, Youmanity led a two-year student-centred learning project to support vulnerable children at risk of abandoning education. The 2SMILE project was funded by the European Commission's Erasmus Programme.[11]
'Chill-out' train carriages
In October 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic and ahead of World Mental Health Day,[12] it devised a 'mindfulness' campaign[13] featuring the world's first 'chill-out' train carriages, plus 'meditation corners' in stations, to reduce commuter anxiety.[14][15][16] Project collaborators included wellbeing movement Thrive LDN and the Braincharge meditation app, with users able to listen to rustling trees and birdsong, plus soothing music, while waiting for trains.[17] As well as gaining attention in London media, the initiative was reported in US publication The New Yorker.[18]
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