Handy guide to Cultural Community Organizations in East of England, Surrey, Kent and Sussex

January 2023

Names Of Organizations in East of England Bedfordshire • Ameina Centre -Young Change Makers • The Kings Arm Project • Ebonista Project

Cambridgeshire • Action for Black & Minority Ethnic Communities

• Asian Community • Cambridge African Network Group • Cambridgeshire Ethnic Minority Forum

Essex • AFiUK

• Refugee Action • STEP- Skill training engagement program

• Catch me Strong Youth Emotional Coaching • Family 4 Sure Chelmsford • Bridgeway Mission Colchester

Hertfordshire • Community Development Action Herts (CDA) • Women of Grace Bishops Stortford • North Herts Minority Ethnic Forum

Kent • Ashford BME Association • Diversity House • Ethnic Minorities in Canterbury (EMIC)

Name Of Organizations in East of England Cont. Norfolk • B.M.E Youth Norwich • New Routes Norwich

Suffolk • Community Action • BME Suffolk Support Group CIC Ipswich • Karibu African Womens Support Group

Surrey • North Surrey Domestic Abuse Service • Southall Black Sisters • Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum

Sussex • Writing our Legacy CIC • BMECP Centre Sussex • Hastings Older Peoples Ethnic Group (Hope- G)

Nationwide Groups • Seetec

BEDFORDSHIRE ORGANIZATION 1 Ameina Centre -Young Change Makers

CONTACT

03333

204401

Physical Address: 19A Ambleside, Luton LU3 3SF Centre Director Cell: 07949 290916 Email:[email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Support and upskill 16-25 year-olds with a passion for or experience of mental health and racial injustice. They'll get a proper seat at the table, with the opportunity to reimagine mental health support and affect real change.

ORGANIZATION 2 The Kings Arm Project CONTACT Website:www.kingsarmsproject.org 01234 350900 GOALS/IMPACT Supports vulnerable individuals to secure stable accommodation and employment opportunities. By working with socially excluded and marginalised groups their aim is to reduce reoffending, break the poverty-cycle and reliance on the benefits system and move clients forward to become contributing members of their communities.

ORGANIZATION 3 The Ebonista Project

CONTACT Email: [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Based in Luton and offers emotional and practical support to women and children who have been subjected to domestic abuse. They welcome women of any background to their service and have a strong focus on reaching women from the Black African and Caribbean community, who may have experienced barriers accessing support due to systemic racism and a lack of cultural understanding in our society.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

ORGANIZATION 6 Cambridge African Network Group

ORGANIZATION 4 Action for Black Communities

&

Minority

Ethnic

07747537376 [email protected]

CONTACT Compass House, Vision Park, Chivers Way, Histon, Cambridge, CB14 9AD Sylvia Lingwood, Diep Hoang 01223 257700 [email protected] [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Provide support and advice to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Communities, migrant workers and asylum seekers to improve life chances for integration into British Society.

Asian Community

Organizes events for the benefit of our members as well as the general public in Cambridgeshire. These include capacity building and recreational events to promote personal development and social inclusion.

ORGANIZATION 7

CONTACT

CONTACT 4 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1BY Monowara Ahmed, 01223 457870 07801525279 [email protected]

16-18 Arbury Court Cambridge CB4 2JQ Eddie Stadnik [email protected] GOALS/IMPACT Food bank

GOALS/IMPACT needs setting

GOALS/IMPACT

Cambridgeshire Ethnic Minority Forum

ORGANIZATION 5

Serves the Community,

CONTACT

of the Asian up capacity

building group activities and promoting community cohesion. It also helps to access other services across the city.

Employment guidance Skills training Diversity and inclusion projects Refugee services.

ESSEX ORGANIZATION 8 AFiUK

ORGANIZATION 10 STEP- Skill training engagement program

CONTACT Damaris Japheth Senior Community Ambassador [email protected] Joyce Mcintyre Community Ambassaodor [email protected] Email: [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Community Ambassadors Youth services Advocacy Coaching Mother and baby groups.

ORGANIZATION 9 Refugee Action CONTACT Shelly Braddock-Overbury Shelly.Braddock.Overbury@refugeeacti oncolchester.org.uk

07980005360 01206638454 GOALS/IMPACT Working with Refugees.

CONTACT Busiswa Madikazi

07748757121 [email protected] www.stepcic.co.uk

GOALS/IMPACT It is a skills development initiative that target ethnic minority communities. It is aimed at raising awareness and recognizing the lack of engagement by ethnic minority communities on apprentice schemes and provides activities and resources to unlock their career opportunities through apprenticeship, skills, and training workbased programmes. The program hopes to empower, engage and help ethnic minorities with relevant skills to enter the working world.

Organization 11 Catch me Strong Youth Emotional Coaching Contact Ndidi Patricia Ohakwe

07906600456 GOALS/IMPACT Coaching for students in exclusion. Support with emotional regulation.

ESSEX ORGANIZATION 12 Family 4 Sure Chelmsford

CONTACT Chido

07930530798 GOALS/IMPACT Promotes social inclusion for people from BAME and their families in Essex and other boroughs in United Kingdom. This is done via networking , counselling, befriending (face to face or virtually), different talking therapies.

ORGANIZATION 13 Bridgeway Mission Colchester

CONTACT Souzan Yousif

07787925227 GOALS/IMPACT To give practical and spiritual support to refugees and those needing help from Eastern and Middle Eastern regions

HERTFORDSHIRE ORGANIZATION 14 Community Community Community Development Action Herts (CDA)

CONTACT Unit 2 Mead Lane Industrial Estate Merchant Drive Hertford SG13 7BH T: 01992 289060 E: [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Covid Recovery Ethnic Diverse Project Jobs Pathway - Supporting people facing barriers to employment to find permanent jobs.

ORGANIZATION 15 Women of Grace Bishop's Stortford

CONTACT Valerie Lolomari www.womenofgrace.org.uk 07980099300

GOALS/IMPACT Support for those recovering from FGM. Education about impact of FGM

ORGANIZATION 16 North Herts Minority Ethnic Forum Unity House

CONTACT Whinbush Road

Hitchin Hertfordshire SG51PH 01462 440224 [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Services to improve the quality of life of the BAME people. Information, advice and guidance on housing, benefits, employment, education, training and health matters. Skills development courses and activities to increase theemployability of BAME people. Projects for children and young people to support them in education. The Forum is also used by various organisations as an access and meeting point to reach the BAME communities.

KENT ORGANIZATION 17 Ashford BME Association

ORGANIZATION 19 Ethnic Minorities in Canterbury (EMIC)

CONTACT

CONTACT 8 Elwich Road TN23 lPF

01233879484 07737558824 [email protected] GOALS/IMPACT Minority/ethnic communities services such as; counsellors/therapists Legal services Business training Role modelling.

ORGANIZATION 18 Diversity House

CONTACT Pheonix House Central Avenue Sittingbourne Kent

MElO 4BX

07484536652 0175420455 www.diversityhouse.org.uk [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Promotion of Equality Valuing Diversity & Inclusion in the community

07123654784 Email [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT An umbrella organization that works as a conduit for the different ethnic and minority groups to give them a collective voice. groups their aim is to reduce reoffending, break the poverty-cycle and reliance on the benefits system and move clients forward to become contributing members of their communities.

NORFOLK ORGANIZATION 20 B.M.E Youth Norwich

CONTACT Mr Masauso Suite 15 Henderson Business Centre 51 Ivy Road Norwich NR5 8BF 01603748403 [email protected]

SUFFOLK ORGANIZATION 22 Community Action

CONTACT 160 Hadleigh Road Ipswich IP2 OHH Belinda Couldridge 01473345400 info@communifyactionss uffolk.org.uk

GOALS/IMPACT Domestic violence

Partnership with Voluntary community &

FGM

Social Enterprise Community.

Fostering & adoption Drug & Alcohol abuse Youth employment services Mental well-being services. ORGANIZATION 21 New Routes Norwich

CONTACT [email protected]

01603662648 GOALS/IMPACT Work with refugees and local minorities giving all round support.

GOALS/IMPACT

ORGANIZATION 23 BME Suffolk Support Group CIC Ipswich

CONTACT

[email protected] www.bmesuffolk.org

GOALS/IMPACT African Food Pantry BSSG drop in - support and advice on welfare issues.

ORGANIZATION 24 Karibu African Womens' Support Group CONTACT Lara Uzokwe [email protected] 01473 487004 07751660833 Website: www.karibuawsg.com

GOALS/IMPACT To provide support to advice, help, support and counselling to African women in Suffolk area.

SURREY

ORGANIZATION 27

ORGANIZATION 25 Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum

North Surrey Domestic Abuse Service CONTACT

01932 260690 GOALS/IMPACT Surrey-wide support service for Black, Asian and minority ethnic people experiencing domestic abuse. This community-based service offers emotional and practical support, as well as advice and safety planning.

ORGANIZATION 26 Southall Black Sisters

CONTACT 0208 571 9595 Monday to Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

GOALS/IMPACT Information, advice, advocacy, practical help, counselling and support to women and children experiencing domestic and other forms of gender-related violence. Our holistic services are aimed at helping all women escape violence and abuse and to this end we address a range of inter related problems.

CONTACT Astolat Coniers Way Guilford

GUl lJG

01483447136 [email protected] f.org.uk

07711944265 GOALS/IMPACT Supporting the needs and aspiration of ethnic minority population. Projects including health & race Women affecting Isolation seniors and homelessness.

SUSSEX ORGANIZATION 28 Writing our Legacy CIC CONTACT 113 Queens Road Brighton BNl 3XG

07732697290 Graham Lally [email protected] GOALS/IMPACT Lack People telling their story through Literature and Arts.

ORGANIZATION 30 Hastings Older Peoples Ethnic Group (Hope-G)

CONTACT 42 Asten Close, Hastings, TN38 8DJ 07511 248278

GOALS/IMPACT Aims to provide a voice for predominantly, but not exclusively, black and minority ethnic (BME) older people (50+) in East Sussex. We speak up about health, social care, economic and community issues that affect senior people from all BME and religious backgrounds.

ORGANIZATION 29

BMECP Centre Sussex CONTACT

NATIONWIDE GROUPS

1Oa Fleet Street

Seetec

Brighton BNl 4ZE

Dr Cyrian Njue 03003031171 [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Creation of sustainable resources centre to champion BME community Training & Development Health & wellbeing services Drop-in services.

ORGANIZATION 31 CONTACT Main Road, Essex, SS5 4RG 01702201070 [email protected]

GOALS/IMPACT Delivering employability and skills programmes across the UK, including exoffenders.