The Aims of the Organisation are:

1. To work in partnership with individuals and organisations for a fair and just society which gives African people in Britain an equal chance to work, learn and live free from negative discrimination and covert and overt prejudice based on gender, race, culture and/or class. As such, we seek to;

• Increase employment opportunities for the African British community
  
• Increase access to higher education for African British community
  
• Increase access to quality health care for African British community
  
• Reduce civil rights violations by police and other associated central and local government institution on the African British community.
  

2. To reduce the misrepresentation of African people in the British media by;

• Monitoring, investigating and publicly challenging all media institutions that publish, broadcast, perform, or distribute content harmful and offensive to the African British community.
  
• Encouraging media institutions to include sufficient quantity of quality monocultural African British programming into their schedules.
  
• Establishing independent monocultural African British national TV and radio channels.
  
• Establishing media resources of diverse educational, historical, social, artistic and current African British interests presented and produced by African Britons.

3. To reduce social exclusion and achieve institutional acknowledgment of African people as stakeholders in Britain by;

• Seeking central and local government usage of ‘African British’ as an official geo-ethnic identity for a British national with African ancestry.
  
• Seeking central and local government renaming of Black History Month to African History Month.

4. To raise the academic achievements of African British pupils by;

• Seeking inclusion of culturally appropiate mentoring programmes within all schools.
  
• Seeking enrichment of the national curriculum by the inclusion of African and African diasporic history and languages.
  
• Reducing pupil exclusions and establishing the procedure to only be used as LAST resort
  
• Establishing a national African British student’s forum.
  
• Establishing a national African British teacher’s forum.
  
• Advocating the training and education of all teachers in cultural diversity.
  
• Supporting other organisations that promote high academic and creative achievement of young African Britons.

5. To reduce and tackle the root causes of youth violence and crime within the African British community by;

• Discourage the use of redundant initiatives and instead implement workable and practical solutions to crime
  
• Seeking a sufficient quantity of community youth provisions with a sustainable development plan. Examples include supplementary schools/services, after school programs and youth clubs offering a safe environment for culturally rich programmes.
  
• Supporting other organisations that deal effectively with crime within the African British community.

6. To act as an independent and representative body, campaigning, protesting and debating issues relevant to the African British community’s social, economic and political concern’s by;

• Supporting other organisations that deal effectively with crime within the African British community.
  
• Establishing a legitimate political forum from which to air African British concerns.

7. To promote better relations with different ethnic groups within the UK and the African British community.

8. To support initiatives that allow the African British voice to be heard undiluted in multiple formats. We aim to do this by;

• Encouraging and supporting African Britons of all ages to use art (spoken word / film / music / photography) as a means of political, cultural and spiritual expression.
  
• Creating and maintaining our own media.

9. To encourage productive Pan African relations by forging strategic relationships with Africans in the Diaspora and in Africa by assisting organisations such as those involved in the African Reparation movement and supplying aid directly to Africa.

10. To increase social awareness and promote enhanced facilities and/ or treatment for, but not exclusively, the following health issues; mental health, quality of care for the elderly, disabilities, Sickle cell, and other health concerns specific to the African British community.

11. To reduce African British disengagement with the political processes and reduce voting apathy by;

• Monitoring and holding central & local government accountable for the delivery of solutions addressing African British concerns made in Manifesto pledges and public statements.
  
• Monitoring and holding African British politicians accountable for the delivery of all public statements made regarding delivery of local services for the African British community.
  
• Monitoring and reporting on the frequency African British politicians & high profile community representatives highlight, address and implement solutions to community concerns in the political arena.

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