The young at heart group were treated to a day of pampering courtesy of John Ruskin College Hair & Beauty students! Students on our Hair & Media Make-Up Level 3 and Body & Spa Therapy Level 3 courses were excited to practice the skills they had learnt, whilst giving back to the Croydon community.

Real change to end systemic injustice requires action by the system itself – but in partnership with the people who have everyday experiences of the injustice.
Their insights – and the genuine commitment of leaders who have the power to drive change – can deliver progress on the ground and improve people’s lives and experiences.…

Did you know that 50% of sight loss is preventable but not necessarily treatable? With the mission of catching certain eye conditions while they’re still treatable, Croydon Vision recently ran a pop-up stall at The Whitgift Centre, offering free eye health checks and advice. And the uptake from our local community was huge.
The last week of…

The National Lottery Community Fund and The Ubele Initiative, on behalf of The Phoenix Way Partners, have today jointly announced a new £50 million partnership aimed to boost funding and support to Black and Minoritised Community charities and grassroots groups over the next five years.

Croydon residents have shared their experiences of the mental health impact of Covid-19,
due to the work of young volunteers from Croydon College, which is published by Healthwatch Croydon today.
This report is the result of a project between Healthwatch Croydon and three T-level (Technical-level) students from Croydon College.

The tournament was a celebration of My Ends; a partnership between Croydon Voluntary Action, Croydon BME Forum, Palace for Life Foundation, the Metropolitan Police and other key Croydon organisations, charities and influencers to together tackle knife crime and serious violence in the young people of Croydon. The My Ends project is generously funded by the…
We believe that all women deserve to live in safety, without fear. Black, Brown & Migrant women who suffer violence, are often overlooked or not taken seriously. We want to make these cases visible and want these voices to be heard. Croydon’s community organisations, activists, Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence support services, practitioners, and survivors, have come…

London South Bank University (LSBU) Croydon BME Forum and Off The Record have today (19.04.2021) launched a project to train barbers to measure and give advice about blood pressure to their customers. The UK-first project has trained eight barbershops who have customers from Croydon to provide on-the-spot blood pressure checks and provide health information to…

The Duchess of Cornwall visited the Community Vaccination Centre at St Paul’s Church in Croydon (3rd March 2021).
The royal family has been vocal in its backing of the Covid-19 vaccination, with the Queen encouraging those hesitant about it to “think about other people rather than themselves”.
Her Royal Highness was greeted by Dr Agnelo Fernandes,…

Croydon BME Forum is joining forces with local organisations in a bid to inform the black community about the Covid-19 vaccines following the recent low uptake.
A recent study by the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that 21 per cent of black people over the age of…

As many as 50 per cent of the black, asian and minority ethnic community have refused to take the vaccine and health professionals have been answering questions at a series of seminars to dispel real fear, anxiety and mistrust.
A lot of the scaremongering has been generated on social media and doctors, nurses, faith and…

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