Today, Project Phakama UK is an independent charitable organisation. Its board is chaired by Dr Barbara Heinzen, its patrons are William Forsythe and Benjamin Zephaniah, and it has partners in Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, India, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the USA.

As a collaborative arts organisation, we produce outstanding work based on the combined personal experiences of young people from all over the world. In any location, using any available material and any artistic form, they explore and test issues that are relevant to them. High standards of learning and performance create life-changing experiences for artists and audiences that are raw, emotionally powerful and utterly indelible.