Ubele supports the growth of individuals, community-based groups and organisations. It enables communities to build community assets and flourishing social enterprises, and to maintain these through intergenerational leadership and economic sustainability. Based on research in these areas, Ubele develops and delivers ‘bottom-up’ programmes that work with individuals to achieve these goals. The organisation works in collaboration with others to strengthen grassroot groups, and over time helps larger groups grow.

Its well-known collaborative initiative, The Phoenix Way emerged from Ubele’s influential and much-referenced Booska research, which exposed structural racism in the third sector. It is now a multi-year fund of more than £63m. Ubele's most recent national strategic intervention, Agbero 2100, focuses on community assets and community wealth building.