Engagements
Talks, workshops, events and community activations in education, sport, public services and community settings.
Explore EngagementsThe Work
Belief is only the beginning.
Why Not I puts inspiration, aspiration and mental health conversations into practice through engagements, activity-led experiences and community activations. Each takes a different form. All begin by meeting people where they are.
Explore the workThree strands
Different ways to turn belief into action.
The strands are connected by one idea, but they are not interchangeable. Some begin with a conversation. Some begin with movement. Others begin with a practical need.
Why Not I Workouts
Activity-led experiences that connect people’s interests with reflection, mental health conversations and aspiration.
Explore Why Not I WorkoutsWings of Hope
Practical giving-back activations developed with organisations around a particular need.
Explore Wings of HopeEngagements
Meet people in the room—and in the moment.
Engagements include talks, workshops, events and community activations. The form changes with the setting and the people taking part.
Some are speaking engagements delivered by Kofi. Others bring conversation into sport, education, public services or a neighbourhood space.
Summerfield Park basketball court
A community activation in a familiar Birmingham public space.
UCFB x Manchester United
A live engagement in an education and sport setting.
Wigan Council
A keynote during World Social Work Fortnight of Practice, focused on mental resilience and stress management.
More documented engagements
Huddersfield Town Conference
Basketball Wales
Lytham St Annes School
Westholme School
Doncaster Rovers FC
Wigan Youth Zone
Houses of Parliament
Why Not I Workouts
Movement creates another way into the conversation.
A Workout is not simply a training session. It uses an activity participants already care about—particularly sport—to make space for mental health conversations, self-awareness, reflection, learning and possibility.
Why Not I Workout
2024
A documented basketball-focused mental-resilience day for junior England and Great Britain talent.
Why Not I Workout
2025
A separate documented edition bringing physical challenge, breathing, reflection and conversation into the same day.
Wings of Hope
Give back around a real need.
Wings of Hope brings people and organisations together around practical acts of care.
Each activation is shaped by its setting. The intention is to contribute something useful and human—not to suggest that one event solves an ongoing challenge.
Coffee 4 Craig
Donated food, clothing and haircuts were provided alongside mental health support.
Manchester Royal Children’s Hospital
A Christmas activation involving food, toys, clothes, hair and makeup, and uplifting conversations for children.
How the work connects
A next step can take many forms.
Inspiration can make a possibility visible. Aspiration gives it personal direction. Implementation is the practical step—joining a conversation, taking part, asking for support or helping build an opportunity. Transformation describes what people may work towards, not an outcome any single event can promise.
InspirationAspirationImplementationTransformation
An invitation
What could we build together?
If you have an idea, a community, a space or a need that Why Not I could contribute to, start a conversation.