You Make It |
Big Give 2025
When the world outside feels unsafe,
we hold each other up.
We Rise Above.
We Move
YMI BIG GIVE 2025
About us
You Make It is an expert, award winning race and class inclusion charity based in inner city London.
We deliver holistic, human-centred programmes to empower young, unemployed and underemployed women from racialised communities to access the social, cultural and economic life of their city.
Alongside this, we support companies and established professionals to engage with and learn from young, underrepresented talent – facilitating meaningful connections and enabling young people to progress and thrive within the world of work.
Our Vision
We want to live in a world where Black and Brown women can claim and embrace fulfilling lives for themselves.
A world where employers are progressive, anti-racist and committed to engaging with and learning from underrepresented talent.
Where individuals, charities, and businesses work together to build a community of solidarity, ensuring that every individual can participate in the social, cultural and economic life of the city.
Our Mission
After centuries of systemic intersectional oppression, we’re calling time on racial inequality, class exclusion, gentrification and displacement. We don’t want hand-outs – we want reparation.
We exist to empower young Black and Brown women, marginalised by society, to access and enjoy the city they call home. Driving change from within, we call upon businesses to become active anti-racist allies, championing racially minoritised talent.
From our roots in Bethnal Green to across East London, women have a right to their city. This isn’t charity– it’s justice. And the time is now.
How you can help?
At a time when hate is growing louder, You Make It continues to be a safe, empowering space for Black and Brown women to belong to, heal within and lead from
Fund the core operational costs of the current programme and secure the continuation of YMI’s offering for Black and Brown women.
Every woman deserves safety, belonging and a chance to thrive. Right now, too many Black and Brown women are denied that.
These are turbulent times for race and class inclusion work, with the rise in far-right activity making our mission all the more urgent. You Make It changes everything. Our programmes are acts of defiance, resistance, and hope. Now more than ever, these women need support, strong networks and solidarity.
With your help, we can keep moving to provide the safe spaces, community and mentoring needed for young working-class women of colour to rebuild their confidence, claim their power and step into their potential.
This Big Give, your donation helps keep our doors open; so our community can stay safe, supported and unstoppable.
Every £1 you GIVE between 2–9 December will be doubled.
Be a part of our movement this December
