15 March 2024. Welcoming the first signs of spring with a special edition of Food with Friends. In partnership with Personal Choice this week, we hosted a socially-engaging lunch with a talk on health and wellbeing facilitated by the Health Inequalities Lead for NHS Portsmouth University, Shipa Ahmed Khan. Personal Choice is a project of …
23 February 2023. We are delighted to announce that we have been granted a second Community Inclusion Grant by Portsmouth City Council to fund a new project targeting digital inequality. It was a pleasure to attend the award ceremony presented at The Guildhall alongside 32 awarded community leaders and organisations. Back in November 2022, Work …
6 February 2024. Driven by the commitment to build a sustainable economy from the ground up, WBI will pilot a new project to research the impact of community gardening on the sense of health and wellbeing and level of climate agency experienced by minority groups. This WBI initiative is supported by Natural England’s Seed Corn …
2 February 2024. WBI is in the Raising Voices in Research Project with Action Hampshire to introduce harder-to-access communities to health and care research. We started this work in November-December last year to outline and demystify community research over two workshops. Our goal is to increase minority and migrant participation in community research and use …
WBI Conducts Workshops to Include Minority Voices in Health and Care Research Read More »
26 January 2024. For our first Food with Friends instalment of 2024, we welcomed our migrant guests in a brand-new location, Landport’s Community Centre. Dr Mark Edwards from Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust joined us for an insightful talk on Bone Health and Osteoporosis before our signature cooked lunch. Food with Friends is a hybrid event-series funded …
First Food With Friends for 2024 features Talk on Bone Health Read More »
12 January 2024. In October last year, our Director of Community Engagement Anita David attended the Institute of Government & Public Policy’s biannual Conference on Safeguarding Refugees and Asylum Seekers. The Conference, delivered in partnership with In Professional Development and University of East London, explored partnership, collaboration and fostering integration and social inclusion amongst refugees and asylum …
5 January 2024. Our social mission is to benefit the community by supporting a vision of responsible economic growth that includes both social and environmental factors. In 2024, we are working with ethnic minority communities to increase their access to nature and to promote their contributions in natural recovery projects, thanks to grants from Natural …
WBI Welcomes a New Year with New Activities on Nature and Sustainability Read More »
20 December 2023. There were broken hearts this year for many working in the community, in social justice, human rights and humanitarian relief. We saw the sadness played out in the lives of families and felt that along with our own. Yet, light and hope at this time come in the spaces between people, in …
To Hope and Full Hearts: Thank You from WBI for 2023 Read More »
8 December 2023. December’s Food with Friends delivered something different and special at Portsmouth’s leading contemporary art gallery. Our last Food with Friends edition of 2023 was a thank you to all our wonderful volunteers and interpreters and a reminder for all of us to look after our own wellbeing. Our December’s theme for Food …
Special Collaboration with Aspex Portsmouth for an Art Edition of Food with Friends Read More »
24 November 2023. To help migrant jobseekers make their next career steps, we hosted our first Employment Support Conference attended by 7 community and employment organisations. We combined the Employment Conference with our signature monthly Food With Friends event supported by the National Lottery Community Fund. The conference featured speakers and stalls from City of …
WBI hosts our first Employment Support Conference for Migrant Jobseekers Read More »
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