As part of our reaching out to members of the community during the lock down, we realised there were some members of the community that needed immediate hot meals and non perishable foods. We made sure the got hot meals and supported them with non perishables from our food bank. This made a huge difference...
During this pandemic we have witnessed families facing a lot of challenges from mental health issues to access to food because of loss of jobs or not being able to access benefits. Bolton CDP has set up a regular food bank program that helps to reach out to individuals and families within the community, so...
The current Pandemic has placed an unprecedented financial and psychological pressures on families especially within the young people from ethnic minority communities. Most of them have to rethink the kind of jobs they do in order to be able to provide for their families due to multiple closures of businesses and also the prospect of...
In line with the mission of Bolton CDP, to build strong, sustainable, secure, prosperous and healthy communities, whilst focusing on the Ethnic minority communities of Bolton and Greater Manchester. During the Covid 19 lockdown, young people within the African community wanted to carry out activities that would help improve their skills in areas that they...
The COVID 19 pandemic has affected families in ways that they never imagined. The pressure it has placed on families is beyond just health but also economic with lots of job loss and mental health issues. Families from ethnic minority groups are the worst hit. Bolton CDP has launched a food bank and distribution of...
Bolton CDP as part of her objective to empower women in the area of leadership and entrepreneurship initiated the Women of Purpose conference in collaboration with the Institute of Directors (IoD), Precious Gems UK, African Council and Pentecostal Community Association (PCA). This conference aims to bring women from the ethnic minority and deprived backgrounds together...
Bolton CDP as part of Our Project Engage campaign working with ethnic minority communities in Bolton to deliver English classes for speakers of other languages from African background. This will help in engaging participants into the wider community and also serve as opportunity for them to make new friends, contribute their gifts and talent for...
This campaign is aimed at enabling members of the ethnic minority groups to play an active role in the economic development of their host community, through entrepreneurship and professional development and mentorship. This will entail workshops, mentorships’, placements, networking events all aimed at giving opportunities to members of the community who would naturally not have...
Bolton CDP facilitated the meeting between the policy and strategy team of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and policy team representing the African/Pentecostal communities across Greater Manchester. This platform will serve as the beginning of active engagement between all stakeholders in order to actively engage the African/ Pentecostal communities in the co-design and implementation...
Bolton CDP team took part in the leadership brainstorming session held as part of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in London on the 19th of April. This session was dedicated to exceptionally gifted young leaders from the Commonwealth countries who are winners of the Queens young leaders award program.
