Break Cycles → Build Futures
Coaching, mentoring and storytelling for Black and interracial boys and men, their families and communities: one individual, one family, one community at a time.
This November
Movember: the month that inspired MoveMEN
Every November, Movember brings men’s health into the open. It also inspired MoveMEN: our programme for Black and interracial men aged 18 and over to move outside their own box, grow across health, education, justice and wealth, and create change for the next man. This Movember, we’re starting that conversation in Barnet and beyond.
Who we are
Who and what is AQ Coaching
AQ carries a dual meaning. It is our founder’s name, Abdul Qadir, meaning servant of the All-Powerful: Allah’s servant. It is also an Authentic Quest: the journey each of us takes to find who we truly are. Since 2020 we have offered coaching, mentoring and storytelling rooted in lived experience.
We work with Black and interracial boys and men, their families and communities, across four pillars: Health, Education, Justice and Wealth.
Two organisations share one mission. AQ Community Coaching CIC runs free community programmes: Boys2Men, MoveMEN and Community Workshops. AQ Life Coaching Ltd offers coaching, mentoring and consultancy for individuals and organisations.
Every journey moves through Embrace, Embark, Emerge and Elevate, guided by our ABCD approach and four intelligences: intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergenerational and intercultural.
Our Community Hub brings it together, with stories, free tools, and clubs and circles, so change continues one individual, one family, one community and one organisation at a time.
The circle of life
Living from the inside out
There’s a piece of you that knows you are excellent to the core. We call it your circle of life: the moon, the wheel that keeps turning, the centre that is you.
Our intention is to create a community hub that elevates Black and interracial boys and men to create the very life they envision for themselves, their families, their communities and the world at large, so they can be the catalyst for change: for tomorrow, today.
Where we work
Health · Education · Justice · Wealth
These are the four systems that shape the lives of Black and interracial boys and men. Each one shows real inequality, and each is where we work to break the cycle. Belonging runs through all four: a safe, culturally relevant space to be seen, heard and supported.
Health
Breaking barriers and the silence around mental health.
3.5× Black people are more than three and a half times as likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act as White people.NHS England, 2023/24
Culturally aware coaching and mentoring, alongside families, before crisis point.
Education
Reversing the pipeline from school exclusion to prison.
2.2× Mixed White and Black Caribbean pupils are permanently excluded at about 2.2 times the overall rate.Department for Education, 2022/23
Mentoring in schools, with a support plan agreed with home and school.
Justice
Fair access to support, in and out of the system.
12% of people in prison are Black, compared with 4% of the population of England and Wales.Ministry of Justice, 2025; Census 2021
Mentoring during and after custody, family reconnection, and a route into MoveMEN.
Wealth
Financial confidence for the next generation.
£34,000 median wealth of Black African households, against £314,000 for White British households.Office for National Statistics
Money management, skills, work and enterprise, so families can build security.
Work with us
Refer someone to a programme, volunteer, partner with us, or share your story on Authentic Conversations, our monthly storytelling panel on YouTube (the AQ Community Channel).