APSC Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy Part of the APSC Community Development Strategy is to work in partnership with Government and Non-Government organisations in making UK a safer place to live. And in order to help deliver this APSC aims to have a Afro-Portuguese Parent Officer that will be identifying the Afro-Portuguese community in the UK boroughs. APSC aims with this to work in partnership with LEA (Local Education Authorities), Local Authorities and non-government and government organisations to implement the APSC Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy by means of IBM training program. APPO is the APSC community outreach strategy that will be working in collaboration with Afro-Portuguese Parents, government and non-government organisations in order to identify within the community the AP social needs and the lack in parenting skills so the IBM training program can be introduced and implemented. In partnership with LA, LEA and TFL the APPO will be also collecting APSC data information on where the AP are base and what are their specific needs, in order to know beforehand if there is any signs of anti-social behaviour or crime about to happen within the community so the Afro-Portuguese Parent Officers can act accordingly before it happens.

APSC ltd. by guarantee, is a company that is a non-profit organisation that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and the environmental well-being of the people from the Afro Portuguese speaking community. There are more than 53.000 approx. Afro-Portuguese from Africa and unknowing millions among the Portuguese and Brazilians in the UK. The APSC supports those of these communities who have language as a barrier and/or those who are lacking in an understanding of the UK social system here described as an arrangement of social interaction based on shared norms and values.

The COMMUNITY have been engaging with APSC and APSC have successfully handle BREXIT for many within the community. We the APSC Team and the community have already spent years building a life and home here in the UK. So, APSC is making sure our community can continue living life as they always have, without the threat of Brexit hanging over their heads. Given that, APSC ltd has been ensuring that our community are well informed and that their current EU rights remain after Brexit, that is; the right to reside in the UK, apply for work in UK, have equal access to healthcare, pensions and other Governmental benefits. With this initiative we have already fill SETTLEMENT STATUS Application forms for SETTLEMENT for more than 200 Afro-Portuguese, Brazilians and Portuguese members of the community and intend to be engaging with the over 53.000 APSC and the many Afro-Portuguese descendants from Brazil and Portugal, and also Brazilians and Portuguese communities in the UK.

APSCC is also providing services to the community and in order to show we value people, we know for experience that our beneficiaries do not realise how much the service is worth if it has always been free, and has attached more value to it when there’s a cost. They are less likely to miss an appointment or activities if they paid for them. We have been charging our services in order to help with administration costs and we notice that this has been helping us to build relationships with new and different customers. For example we started to providing services for some Afro-Portuguese Businesses and Organisations by providing chargeable Leadership Workshops, as well as providing housing and welfare support at a low cost price. Whish did help to grow our organisation reputation. Having a charging model has been helping our organisation think about new markets (Local Communities) – we have expand our APEX CARD (Afro-Portuguese Experience Card) as a LAHEX CARD (Latin-American and Hispanic Experience Card) expanding the discount and perks card to a wider community, and having these in place we can help to subsidise the cost to our target beneficiaries. We were aware that costs would be an issue for some beneficiaries and we know that we have been working with many within our community that have little or no income, so we have decided to look at who we will be charging for the services. This has been part of our normal meetings and also part of some focus groups, event and website feedback where we have spoke to the beneficiaries about what they value about our services, and what they would do if it wasn’t there. Would they have an alternative and would they be prepared to pay for it?

Since APSC ltd have included in their agenda outreach projects they were able to visit Afro-Portuguese (AP) community members who have been forgotten in care homes or who have been suffering from depression at home, isolated from their friends and families. Mamadu Djaló is from Guinea Bissau and has been in and out of hospitals and care homes since 2015. Over the years this is the only visit that Kadidja Djaló’s older sister has had. Kadidja doesn't speak English and became a regular member of APSC ltd and through APSC met Mamadu Djalo. Since then the APSC ltd Team became a regular visitor, and many things changed for him. APSC ltd managed create a meeting with the Hospital managers, Social Workers, Nursery managers, Care Home Managers and APSC representatives together. The focus of the meeting was to look at why Mamadu Djalo, since he arrived at the Hospital had a deteriorating health condition. Today, Mamadu Djalo is in a must better physical form, and also for the first time in years he will be able to come out of his room, as he didn’t for unknown reasons step out of his room previously.. Mamadu is not able to walk and does not have enough strength in his arms to eat for himself or to move around in a wheelchair. It was discussed and agreed at the collaborative meeting with APSC ltd present that Mamadu will be getting a new automatic wheelchair so he can go into the garden at the care home.

In the past year we have established links with existing resources, local authorities and voluntary sector providers. The specialist Community Developers are already supporting the Afro-Portuguese community in developing activities and services to build confidence and sustainability.     Since February 2019 the Afro-Portuguese Community Centre is expanding our scope. We have been able to identify the common needs and issues of the African Speaking Portuguese community and has been developing strategies to address these issues. APSC proposes to utilise the space for its offices and a Creative Hub but mainly to create and transform the Afro-Portuguese Speaking Community Centre into the Support Service and Creative Space, which will fall very much in line with the original APSCC vision, the actual APSCC facility manages has for: A community support and help services in homeless, youth projects, housing, education, employment, Health & Welfare services for the vulnerable Afro-Portuguese members of the community. A membership-based creative Hub geared towards connecting and helping, influencers, brands, artists and businesses. A co-working space for creatives to help support all young entrepreneurs, from influencers, small brands, photographers, videographers, choreographers, artists, musicians plus more.

Our goal is to provide London with a collaborative support and help with housing, employment and welfare, whilst providing a creative experience, to better support emerging APSC talents. Our mission with our team will be to uplift GASCOIGNE CENTRE in Barking into a cool, membership-based creative space, geared towards connecting the community, families, businesses, artists, performers, influencers, brands, and such like, offering co-working spaces to creatives. The mission will be to help support all young entrepreneurs, from influencers, small brands, dancers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, artists, musicians, singers fashion designers, writers, filmmakers, while helping and supporting the community with social services. We value young people as we value ourselves. They are the future generation after all, and we want to make young people realise they have the potential to be something special in life. This is the reason why we created the youth project. APSC, often struggles to include their practice in their daily routine due to lack of space. Space can be very expensive and whilst most of our activities are not funded we will create a co-working space that welcomes all young artists and creative entrepreneurs to sit, relax, shoot, edit, study, paint, dance and ultimately share. There very little or no space to support community especially for the local everyday APSC parents, youths, talents and artists. The redesigned space at the GASCOIGNE CENTRE in Barking will also help to unite, promote and support the African speaking Portuguese, the Portuguese and Brazilian Communities by way of a cultural centre. APSC intend to run many events and workshops every year to its community. ​ The African Portuguese Speaking Community is a non-profit Limited by Guarantee Company aspiring to co-create artist collaborations and projects while providing services through a Community Centre geared towards increasing community participation to empower and build the capacity of vulnerable groups within the community. ​ The PSCC serves the collective population of 53,000+ including the diasporas of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea the Portuguese and the Brazilians. The PS Centre is an innovative approach to supporting the African Portuguese-Speaking community in the UK and we strongly believe that Together We Are Better.

APSC AFRICA IS MORE EVENT 2019 did contribute to successful public recognition in the following manner: Visibility - The APSC AFRICA IS MORE EVENT 2019 helped gather a significant amount of visibility of the ASPC during the Amigo Month and Black History Month Events and in the British society, and attracted new members, investors and donors by giving the APSC organisation an edge over its competitors. Validate - The APSC AFRICA IS MORE EVENT 2019 speak volumes about APSC services and substantiate their credibility. Even an award nomination was helpful because it validated APSC leadership in the city of London and surroundings and proves it is ahead of the curve. Testimony - Winning an award or even being nominated serves as testament to the APSC work ethic, dedication and unique specialty. New members have said that APSC organisation worked over another because he/she or it (business, talented, artists and Kizomba Dancing Schools) has won an award. Furthermore, current members started to look at the award event as a good thing, and many as reinforce their loyalty and have demonstrated through online social networks a willingness to share information about APSC service. Reputation - The APSC AFRICA IS MORE EVENT 2019 improved the perceived reputation of the APSC to the general public, new members of the community, donors, investors and the like. Recognition transformed APSC reputation from “pretty good”, to excellent. Differentiate - The APSC AFRICA IS MORE EVENT 2019 has set the APSC organisation apart from competitors and differentiates the quality of its achievements and services from others. The APSC AWARDS EVENT 2019 it also helped the APSC organisation stands out for excellence over and above many other organisation’s from the community.