People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Baobab are excited to announce a new £3 million fund to grow, sustain, and strengthen Black and Global Majority communities that are resisting racial injustice in the UK.

Baobab Foundation is a new pro-black foundation resourcing racial justice through Black African/Caribbean and Global Majority communities.

Applications are now open for an early-stage business programme. Up Collective is a free programme that provides business support to people from a refugee background, run in partnership with TERN and Ben & Jerry's. In 2022 it will be run with cohorts across London, Manchester and the Netherlands.

Applications are now being encouraged for the Manchester programme.

The programme offers:

Join Europia if you are looking for any advice or support every Monday from 2pm-5pm, at the Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD (Lower Ground floor).
Europia offers:

AFRUCA is a national charity promoting the well-being and protection of children and families in Black and ethnic communities in the UK. The County Lines Child Trafficking Family Support service has been established in response to the growing problem of child criminal exploitation across Manchester.

Are you keen to support people from diverse backgrounds to take up Board positions? Do you want to bring lived experience expertise around the table? Do you want to make your Board more accessible and inclusive to young people or racialised minorities?

Afghan artists across the UK and Europe present a festival of Afghan kite-flying, storytelling, music, poetry and dance. Spread across 16 locations in the UK and Europe, Fly With Me invites you to make and fly Afghan kites on 20 August 2022, marking one year since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

The Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund (RTOF) pilot programme is now operating in Greater Manchester.

Swim England are currently undertaking one of their most important pieces of work which looks to provide more opportunities for diverse ethnic groups to access swimming and also for communities to change their perception that swimming is not for them.

To help them inform their future strategy, they have released a short survey.

Core20PLUS5 is a national initiative aimed at addressing health inequalities. The Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN) is running a Core20PLUS5 project in Greater Manchester working with the Caribbean and African community to gather lived experiences that would feed into codesigning and coproducing pathways across core health conditions.