CARMEL BRITTO

Carmel Britto is a passionate educator who is committed to the empowerment of women and children. She works to ensure that through her education, coaching and training programmes, those she works with are given the right tools needed to utilise education and enterprise as a means to break social immobility for themselves, their families and the community as a whole.

Carmel is skilled at creating and delivering a wide range of educational enrichment projects, programmes, provisions and events which enable children and their families to connect with industry professions and engage in learning experiences which they may not originally be able to gain within mainstream education or due to socio-economic barriers. Being acutely aware of the suggles which many families from African and Caribbean families face within mainstream education, Carmel uses her experience of working in education, sitting on exclusion panels and being a parent governor to aid other parents through coaching to support their children to navigate the UK mainstream education system.

She has been commissioned by Royal Borough Greenwich, Peabody and the Black Culture Collective to deliver bodies of work for local familes and has been funded by BSA and UKRI for the last 7 years to host a variety of STEM clubs and events designed to widened the participation of children from underserved backgrounds with sciences engagement, education and career progression.

Carmel is the Education Director of LPF Kiddies Club a non profit out of school club based in the Royal Borough of Greenwich which she founded in 2013 to provide a safe place where 5 to 14 years old children of African and Caribbean descent can, learn, play and grow. Operating during the school holidays, LPF Kiddies Club provides culturally appropriate educational enrichment programmes which aid in improving life chances, raising achievement and attainment levels and equipping participants with life skills. Working with over 289 local children annually carmel is able to support those children to make better social and economical choices, improve their performance and grades within mainstream education whilst gaining a deep sense of their cultural identity.

She is also the founder of a womens network called 'Jeans and Heels Divas club', originally started to to support mums of LPF Kiddies club children to create financial independence for themselves through enterprise it has now grown to a thriving social enterprise that supports numerous women annual to thrive as mothers and business owners. She as supported numerous women to scale up their business, make viable connections to support the improvement of their businesses and find clarity and purpose. She also host numerous networking events to help facilitate connections between women as well as to create space that help to break the social isolation most women in business face as soloprenuers. Her events have grown to be multiaward winning events boosting a Royal Borough Greenwich civic award among others.