E-NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2022 |
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Stockport Race Equality Partnership CIC (S-REP) is an organisation whose purpose is to educate the local community about race equality and to develop
the economical wealth of our community. Our main focus is integration and development and to support Stockport’s Ethnic Diverse Community (EDC)
and build resilience.
For more information visit our website. |
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Advice for People from ethnically diverse backgrounds. So please don't suffer in silence as we are here to help you with your problems.
Every Tuesday 12:30 till 3:00 pm |
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Please help us to fight racial inequalities in Stockport
so we can support the most overlooked and vulnerable
within our ethnically diverse communities. |
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THIS MONTH WE CELEBRATE... |
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LGBT History Month,
Hate Crime Awareness Week & Race Equality Week Thank you to Pastor Jide (https://www.houseofrainbow.org/) who gave an in-depth presentation about the discrimination LGBTQ+ people
from ethnically diverse backgrounds face
from not only their own communities but from religion.
All voices in our ethnically diverse community matter. |
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IN THE SPOTLIGHTFikaWelie |
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FikaWelie will be a specialist adult mental health unit for people of Caribbean and African descent age 18 and over, experiencing enduring mental health problems. This service will provide culturally relevant care and recognise the traumatic impact of racism on mental health. However, the care will always be individualised.
Throughout the years, Paula King (founder of FikaWelie) became disheartened as a nurse by the number of black men and women
in the mental health wards lacking the resources they needed
to properly look after themselves. Desperate to see a change,
she is now leads a team of black professionals who are fundraising
to build a culturally appropriate mental health unit for
Caribbean and African men and women. The group want the FikaWelie Caribbean and African Mental Health
Unit and Research Centre to address the inequalities in mental health support and treatment of black people in the health and social care system. Their ambitious plan is for a centre that will provide a range of responsive and reformative care and services staffed by people who understand the needs of the Caribbean and African communities whilst complementing existing services. |
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Ten Community Vaccination Pop-Ups(Monday 14 – Friday 18 February) |
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A fantastic 10 pop-up vaccination clinics will take place across the borough during this week offering first, second and booster vaccines from 10 am to 2.30 pm (Pfizer vaccine).
All locations will offer vaccinations to anyone aged 12+.
These are walk-in only, with no booking required.
Please encourage people to come along and get jabbed.
Monday 14th February: Adswood Community Centre, 213 Garners Lane, SK3 8QJ South Manchester Mosque, Weybrook Road, M19 2QD
Tuesday 15th February: First House, 367 Brinnington Road, SK5 8EN Salvation Army Citadel, 121 Stockport Road, SK3 0JE
Wednesday 16th February: St John the Baptist Church Hall, St John's Road, SK4 3BR Woodley Civic Hall, Hyde Road, SK6 1QG
Thursday 17th February: Life Leisure, Houldsworth Village, Broadstone Road, SK5 7AT Kimberley Street Community Centre, SK3 8EB
Friday 18th February: Bridgehall Community Centre, Siddington Avenue, SK3 8NR Offerton Community Centre, Mallowdale Road, SK2 5NX
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WE ALWAYS NEED NEW VOLUNTEERS |
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Please help us to help our local ethnically diverse in Stockport to grow.
Join us today by emailing Tara our volunteer coordinator: tarahughes.srep@gmail.com. https://www.srep.co.uk/join |
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Your Best Friend Fund Your Best Friend is a project that aims to increase understanding about healthy, unhealthy, and toxic relationships and give young women, girls, and non-binary people the knowledge and confidence to keep their friends safe. Area: England and Wales. Grant size: £10,000 - £25,000. Deadline: 18th February 2022. |
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Vinci UK Foundation (social inclusion) Vinci UK Foundation invite grant applications for projects that improve access to employment, training, housing, mobility, or leisure for disadvantaged and socially excluded people.
Suitable for: Small to medium registered
community interest and not-for-profits.
Grant size: £20,000.
Deadline: 31st of March. |
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The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Could you help deliver the Holiday Activities and Food programme for children in Stockport for the Easter holidays. The programme offers free childcare places with fun activities and a nutritious meal, for all Stockport families with children in receipt of income-based free school meals. Could you help to make the programme happen? If you can offer an activity such as music, sport, dance or arts and crafts, you could make a real difference to children in the borough. Funding is available for providers, and it’s a fantastic way to teach children invaluable skills. To get involved, or for more information, just email HAF@stockport.gov.uk. |
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IOM UK UASC Information Session
(North West) |
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Please see training opportunity below in relation to unaccompanied asylum seekers. This is virtual training, but places are by registration (link below) and on a first come first served basis. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is currently supporting an unaccompanied young person, or who is interested in increasing their knowledge of this area of practice – the training is open to all multi-agency colleagues who have a role in supporting UASC. RSMP is proud to announce another round of UASC Information Sessions run by our partners at The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for our social care practitioners in the North West. The sessions are aimed at practitioners involved with or having responsibility for UASC such as Social workers, PAs, UASC Designated School Nurses, IROs, College Tutors and foster carers and they have proved very popular amongst practitioners and received very high reviews by previous attendees. IOM UK UASC Information Session (North West) 24 Feb 2022 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (London time) meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lf-GrqjovHtHm7htt1EAvEO2V9_XCxQDi All sessions are run virtually via zoom. There are limited spaces and these will be taken on a first come first served basis. Additionally, whilst the course is free to attend, there will be a £50 charge for nonattendance after registration. |
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READ S-REP's 2021 E-NEWSLETTERS |
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