No More Red Gamechangers

In collaboration with Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson, Social Anthropologist at the University of Cambridge and Rory Cleary of Hornsey Lane Estate Community Association, our 2023 No More Red programme engaged eight young people from the Hornsey Lane and New Orleans Estates.

Over six months, the participants created a commentary on what ‘home’ means to them using photography, film, and audio narrative. The first session, held at the Adidas Box in the Emirates Stadium, introduced participants to Anthropology by Communities methods, including surrogate voicing and photo voice. Participants took photos of parts of the stadium that meant something to them, and explored their experiences of Arsenal as a part of their home.

The following two workshops were held on their home estates, where they used photo and video voice to document their actual homes, capturing things in their buildings, flats, and estates that they would like others to see, to make their spaces more visible and their local communities safer. Participants have learned different ways to witness other people’s experiences and tell their own stories with openness and respect, mapping the joys and challenges they have experienced both through Arsenal Football Club and in their own home spaces.  

In October, participants travelled to Cambridge University to present their work and to lead artists, academics, policy-makers, and voluntary sector leaders in workshops at the first-ever Cambridge CRASSH Institute inReach Youth Summit. The objective of the day was to get potential decision-makers to think together with the young people about the ways that each of us might be able to support cultivating safer youth spaces, a key priority identified by the young people themselves. The event's outcome was that more than 40 people each committed to writing to at least one practical action toward making positive change happen.

To thank the young people who participated, these gamechangers were celebrated at the Arsenal v Wolves Premier League game by being presented their own, all-white, No More Red Arsenal jerseys pitchside.

Thanks to Kelly, Rory, Adele at Arsenal and all of the young people who took part!