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Calvin Wilson

The founder, Calvin E J Wilson LLM (LSE), is a Barrister who has a longstanding interest in educating students, young adults, and their parents on the workings of the criminal justice system.

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Qualifications and Studies

  • Barrister at Law, Inns of Court, School of Law, United Kingdom 
  • Attorney at Law Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago 
  • Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, United Kingdom
  • Banker, Bank of Commerce, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Master of Laws (Commercial) London School of Economics 
  • Bachelor of Laws University of London

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Experience

  • Post graduate education and training in the law, with valuable experience on the frontline of the Criminal Justice System including almost eight years prosecution experience at the Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Courts, and operational experience with advising Teams at New Scotland Yard. 
  • Devised and successfully delivered this series of workshops and has conducted mentoring, motivational speaking and awareness raising sessions at Youth Clubs and Community Centres around London.
  • Direct contacts with officers of the Met Police at ranks of Constable, Sergeant, and Inspector. 
  • Guidance and mentoring experience with black young adults.

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Skills

  • Strong professional, administrative, managerial, and creative skills.
  • Resolute adherence to good governance, accounting and auditing best practices.
  • Devising and implementing new and improved working arrangements and innovative projects.
  • Unique skill set that is critical to the effective leadership and delivery of the objectives of Code Red Empowerment. 
  • Established Consulting firm Calvin Wilson and Associates, which offers strategic and public affairs advice to governments and the private sector globally, on anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism issues, and on preventing trans-national criminal gangs from preying on young people.
  • Founded The Empowerment Project

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Books

Author of the book “Voices from Violence. A Woman’s Journey to Self-Healing” which is presented to audiences in the Readers Theatre format by CODE RED Ensemble, as an advocacy vehicle to empower young girls and women and to sensitise boys and men in order to reduce or eliminate the level of violence globally.

Desilu Banton

desilu banton

I was born in Dulwich Hospital, East Dulwich Grove,SE22 3PT, on 11th December 1961. I began my life in a house at 102 Railton Road, Herne Hill,SE24 OET, on the ‘Front Line’ of ‘Brixton’, London. What I remember most of my childhood is drawing, drawing all the time, every opportunity. My father loved music and loved to dance. We would dance together. My mother designed clothes and was a dressmaker and cake baker.


My parents had arrived in England in 1954 from Jamaica and lived in the Brixton area. They lived on Concannon Road from around 1955 and moved to Railton Road in 1959 after they had wed at the church at Santley Street, around the corner of Concannon Road. Today I live by my painting and continue in my mothers’ and fathers’ legacy as a creator. I am open to producing works of art by commission.

painting

Painting is expression, a way of me talking with everybody else about how I feel, like a bluesman would play his blues. The whole thing is about feeling. Painting is blues. I paint those feelings that are from inside my head, from inside my soul. The spiritual part of all this is the heritage, the thing that comes from my ancestors, the ingredients that everybody talks about when they talk about the past, where we all come from, which is DNA, the genes.


What I am doing is recording the memory that comes to me from nature, along with the music that came from West Africa and the Atlantic experience, all of it, and what I do then is give it form, give it some skin, textures and colours, the whole thing is like an umbilical cord that has not lost its life force, it is the whole nine yards.

Jackie Burton

Jackie Burton

   Born and raised in West Yorkshire, I took a trip to London in 1983 and have remained here since then. I am a black woman, a Christian and a mother.  A retired Social Worker, I have a passion for children, young people and their families. Over the last 40 years I have had roles in church including youth leader and Pathfinder club leader as well as teaching in children’s Sabbath school & children’s church. It was my joy, to find the most creative and interesting ways to engage children and young people with so many varied learning styles.   Over the last 12 years of my career I was a Team Leader for a local authority Fostering Service; having responsibility for facilitating training, assessing foster carers and placing children from diverse and challenging backgrounds with those carers.  Life-long learning is part of who I am and I started becoming more interested in paper crafts when my now, 25 year old son was around 3 years old. We started to make cards for every occasion and stopped buying them from the shops. Paper crafts opened the door to so many other crafting pursuits and my love for crafting has only grown since then, from wedding decoration, decoupage & canvas art to knitting & simple sewing, I have done many and various and still do.   Nothing pleases me more than sharing my love for something with others, and creative crafts is certainly one of those very many things. I have done this via children’s craft workshops; transforming spaces for Vacation Bible School (VBS); school holiday clubs; card making workshops for children and adults. If it includes crafting, I will consider it.  Currently I am involved in a weekly Craft Café project where we are using hobby crafts to support people in our community who may be lonely, socially isolated or feeling low. 

Sr Josephine Udie MP, MSc, GC HDip, NP

Reverend Sister, Steer Right Project Coordinator, Power Coach Expert, Health Care Professional

Reverend Sister, Steer Right Project Coordinator, Power Coach Expert, Health Care Professional

Sister Josephine is passionate about the dignity of the human person. As a trained Power Coach and Health Care professional, Sister enjoys using her skills to coach, support and empower children and families to become who they are meant to be. Steer Right is a charity for which Sister Josephine is Project Coordinator, uses the strap line Little help Big Difference to highlight the effectiveness of what a small amount of intervention can do.

Amari Smith-Foster

Amari Smith-Foster

  I am a mental health advocate and a student counsellor. I am extremely passionate about mental health and well-being. After battling with my own mental health, being sectioned at just 13 and becoming part of the system, I am using those same life experiences to help others overcome. 


 My story, my pain and this rollercoaster of a journey has given me great insight to help others and make a change. Me speaking up and using my voice, allows so many others, old, young, male, and female to feel heard, to feel seen. 

  Now I am in a position, I have promised myself , it is pivotal that I make a change for the mental health system. 


My social profiles:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/onetap/?next=%2F

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amari-smith-foster-26a68417b/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPMHXb5U40E0Zw1B3h4vcJg


Please feel free to contact me should there be any issues.

Norman Mine

Norman Mine

Norman Mine is an Italian-born London based multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses visual art, acting and social work. 

Using autobiographical scenarios as a starting point, Mine's practice expands into fantasy and delusion and in his alter-ego, Dino Desica, an aspiring Italian actor who exists only through a video format, as "performance to camera", becoming an ephemeral simulation of the self. 

Mine's practice explores the infinite possibilities of the self, the authenticity and the structures of inclusion and exclusion in which it is constructed.


For the past three years Mine has run creative workshops co-working with people of different generations, backgrounds, and abilities; developing a specific approach that unsettles the scenario in which participants perform to stimulate creativity and imagination as an opportunity to navigate within.

Mine has obtained a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Goldsmith College in 2018. His work has been shown at Performance Istanbul (2021), disORDER Live Collective (2020), Deptford X (2019), The Koppel Project (2019), Platform1 Gallery (2018), Art Night London (2017). He was a recipient of the DYCP grant, Art Council England (2021). In 2022 Mine has founded Norwood JunkAction, an eco-community art project based in Croydon, London.

Diana Wilson

Diana Wilson

Diana Wilson is an Executive and Life Coach professional as well as a Psychodynamic Counsellor, who in parallel, has enjoyed a substantial career in Education and Training and Development across Schools and local Government.  


Diana is fluidly proficient in a myriad of modalities with a keen focus on Cognitive Behavioural Coaching. She offers leading-edge, inspirational coaching that stimulates thinking, accelerates transformation, and empowers clients to accomplish their aspirational goals.  


My social handles:

Website: www.dwcoach.co.uk

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/diana-wilson-564a6941

Richmond Trew

Richmond Trew

A Professional Trainer/Workshop Facilitator with 25 years’ experience of working in communities and custodial settings nationally and internationally. 


He is also a recording & performing artist fronting the collective Abstract Word and currently has Publishing & Production contracts with (Peer Music LTD-MAP Music).


Richmond also leads a group of free-lance Arts Practioners under the name of Journeyman Arts (Using the Arts to share & pass on Knowledge).  


He also Runs 492 Korna Klub next generation Ltd that runs live improvised drama weekly on Galaxy Radio.

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Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) children are over-represented in the United Kingdom’s youth justice system. 

Opportunities to divert children away from the youth justice system must be sought.

BAME children at considerably higher risk of being a victim of crime.

Strong correlation between victimisation and offending. 


Black children are twice as likely.

Mixed heritage children 50 per cent more likely.

In 2017/18, 89 per cent of boys in young offender institutions (YOIs) had been excluded from school. 

2.8 times as many black children come to the attention of the youth justice system.

Almost one in four BAME children are in care.


Black, Asian and minority ethnic children are less likely to be cautioned by the police. 

Receive harsher levels of punishment and longer custodial sentence in the Crown Court.

Numbers in custody rose from 25 percent to 51 per cent.


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Black people were subject to stop and search at almost 10-times the rate for the white population.


91 per cent decline in the number of white children

80 per cent decline for BAME children

Increased diversion has benefited whites more than BAME. 


Mixed heritage children in the youth justice population have doubled from the 2010 when it was consistent with the white community.

Asian children consistently under-represented among those receiving a substantive youth justice disposal. 


Disproportionality within the youth justice system is widespread, longstanding, and deep rooted.

The causes are complex and intertwined.

Developing effective strategies to reduce it is challenging.

Committed to influence the youth justice system to treat children fairly and reduce over-representation. 

Promotion of reform where explanation is lacking.

Adopting a child first practice.

Focussing on the long-term well-being of all children in conflict with the law.

Avoid exacerbating racial inequalities.


  • Make substantial investment in community-based provision for young people in disadvantaged communities
  • Reverse years of under-resourcing, as a prerequisite of reducing inequity for BAME children
  • Practitioners at every level of the youth justice system must be supported to examine their professional practice at an individual and organisational level, with the aim of reducing the impact of racial bias and tackling existing inequalities
  • Discriminatory actions, behaviours, policies, and procedures must be identified and challenged, and plans to address them must be subject to rigorous accountability
  • Relationships of trust might be improved by ensuring that staffing in the justice system is representative of the communities it serves, through the introduction of targets


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