Our work
Project Timbuktu
Education programme
Building abolitionist communities across the UK
Project Timbuktu is Black Lives Matter UK's flagship political education course, designed to equip activists with tools, theory, and networks to advance Black Liberation. Through community circles, we explore radical Black traditions in Britain, what abolition looks like in action and the global Black Struggle. And it's free!
Applications are now open for the next round of Project Timbuktu!
Apply to join the cohort or be a facilitator.
Deadline for facilitator applications: 11:59pm Sunday, 25th January 2026
Deadline for student applications: 11:59pm Sunday, 15th February 2026
What is included in the programme?
8-week course
Project Timbuktu is an 8-week course that blends discussion, strategy-building, and collective visioning. Enabling participants to combine theory and practice through weekly learning circles, carefully curated to cultivate curiosity, care, connection and collective action.
5 UK locations
We hold community-led circles across the UK, such as Bristol, Birmingham, London, Leeds, Manchester and online.
Highly knowledgeable and experienced facilitators
The course will be led by 3–4 trained facilitators per learning circle who deliver the Timbuktu syllabus and guide the rich conversations that emerge in each 2 hour session.
Testimonials
Project timbuktu
Join Our Next Cohort!
We've had two incredible cohorts of Timbuktu so far, with almost 200 people participating in our learning circles.
Applications are now open for the next round of Project Timbuktu!
Apply to be a facilitator or to join our learning circles.
Deadline for facilitator applications: 11:59pm Sunday, 25th January 2026
Deadline for student applications: 11:59pm Sunday, 15th February 2026
