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WBI Hosts March 2025 Food with Friends on Smoking and Cancer Screening

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22 March 2025. WBI hosted another fantastic Food with Friends event on “Cancer and Smoking” led by Shipa Ahmed Khan, health inequalities lead from Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and our executive director, Bonny Ling. The community gathered to learn about early detection, screening, and ways to reduce the risk of cancer. We were fortunate …

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WBI Advocates for Health Equity through Community Participatory Action Research at the UN

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26 March 2025. WBI Director of Community Engagement, Anita David, reflects on her participation in a national Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) project, along with our community researcher Fatma Tuylu. Their research training started in Oxford in October 2024. In this blog, Anita and Fatma write about the impact of raising the importance of community …

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February 2025 Food with Friends: Healthcare Research & Healthy Connections

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10 March 2025. Our Food with Friends last month was another fantastic outreach session in collaboration with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Portsmouth City Council. The incredible Sharon Court, Patient and Public Involvement Facilitator from Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, led an insightful discussion on community involvement in public health research. She explained the various roles research participants …

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WBI Visits the UN in Geneva and Joins Civil Society Advocacy for UK’s Human Rights Review

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3 March 2025. In February, we had the honour of attending the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ review of the UK’s implementation of a key human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in Geneva.  This was a crucial opportunity to bring forward the voices of migrants …

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WBI Celebrates First Food With Friends of 2025 with Focus on Women’s Health for Migrant Participants

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27 January 2025. We started off 2025 with another brilliant session of Food with Friends with a special focus on women’s health. Studies have shown that female migrants experience more negative health effects of migration than male migrants.*  Our guest speaker, Sam King, clinical manager and women’s health specialist from Trafalgar Medical Group Practice, shed …

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WBI and SEEAC Submit Report to the UN on the UK’s Implementation of Key Human Rights Treaty

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17 January 2025. WBI is honoured to have received a grant from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, one of the UK’s national human rights institutions. This grant supports the participation of refugees and migrants in the review of the UK’s implementation of a core human rights treaty at the UN in Geneva in February. …

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December Food with Friends Focuses on Child Wellbeing for Migrant Families with Home-Start

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We are delighted to share the tremendous success of our December 2024 Food With Friends event in collaboration with Home-Start Portsmouth focusing on children’s well being. Denise Brown, Family Hub Champion from Home-Start delivered a brilliant session. She shared valuable information about the effects of early years support for both parents and children. This is …

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WBI November’s Food with Friends Focuses on Confidence Building for Wellbeing with Bahar Mouland

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4 December 2024. Our Food with Friends in November was a collaboration with the brilliant local speaker and educator Bahar Mouland. We spent an incredible day coming together as a community to focus on how we can build our confidence by incorporating wellbeing and good mental health into our daily lives. At this event, we …

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CPR and Emergency Services Training with South Central Ambulance Service in the October Food with Friends

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7 November 2024. For the October Food With Friends we were thrilled to host South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) to teach our newly arrived migrant community about the ambulance service and what to do in an emergency. Huge thanks to Nikhyta Patel, Patient and Public Engagement Facilitator, and Roger Batterbury, Patient Experience for the important …

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WBI Researchers Engage in Community Research Training to Address Health Inequalities

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WBI Community Researchers Ms. Fatma Tuylu and Ms. Anita David attended the Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) training in Oxford on 23rd October, hosted by the Scottish Community Development Centre, the University of Reading and NHS England South East, Workforce Training and Education. Following the successful CPAR 1 (2022-2023) and CPAR 2 (2023-2024) programs, which …

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