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WBI Conducts Workshops to Include Minority Voices in Health and Care Research

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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 …

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First Food With Friends for 2024 features Talk on Bone Health

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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 …

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WBI Attended Institute of Government and Public Policy’s Conference on Safeguarding Refugees & Asylum-Seekers

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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 …

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WBI Welcomes a New Year with New Activities on Nature and Sustainability

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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 …

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Special Collaboration with Aspex Portsmouth for an Art Edition of Food with Friends

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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 …

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WBI hosts our first Employment Support Conference for Migrant Jobseekers 

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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 …

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WBI Releases Video to Celebrate the Conclusion of our 6th Cohort of Employment Support for Migrants 

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17 November 2023. WBI congratulates the 6th cohort of our Employment Support for Migrants for successfully completing the course. To celebrate this achievement, and to highlight the overall success of the programme tailored in partnership with Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and City of Portsmouth College, we are releasing a video featuring two of our former …

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Cancer Prevention and Hospital Care Health Talk at October’s Food with Friends

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28 October 2023.  For the October edition of Food with Friends, WBI hosted an NHS-led talk on cancer prevention followed by a delicious lunch at the historical venue in old Portsmouth. Our Food with Friends participants were grateful for the interactive discussion and essential information on different kinds of cancer, symptoms and care in the …

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Food with Friends and WBI’s 2nd Anniversary!

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30 September 2023. The last day of September marked a double celebration at WBI: our monthly Food with Friends event coincided with our second anniversary as a CIC.  WBI launched Food with Friends in the winter of 2022 with support from Portsmouth City Council’s Community Inclusion Grant. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund,  since …

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