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Bolton CDP in collaboration with Loveworld focuses on building the capacity of young people, especially looking at issues faced by young people. This includes leadership training and mentorship sessions. 

It has been a great time of learning for our volunteers during the training sessions of oral and visual history training sessions delivered by Dr Stephen Kelly and Judith Kelly. Our volunteers learned a lot and are ready to deliver the interviews for the Grandma cooking project. We are so gratful for the Heritage lottery...

Bolton CDP has been awarded a £45,094 grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund to explore memories of African Food in Bolton’s African Community. We intend to carry out an oral history of African food which we’ve called Grandma’s Cooking Project. We are going to interview several people in some depth about their memories of how...

We are really excited to be working closely with the young people of Bolton to be able to organize the Bolton CDP talent competitions, which are aimed at identifying various talents of our young people from the African community. This particular competition is focused on singing. It was a really great event. We are grateful...

Bolton CDP through various community engagements and consultations has been able to identify that a lot of men, especially within the African community don’t have activities especially focused on addressing issues affecting them socially unlike the women. This has led to a lot of them bottling up issues within them and could lead to feelings...

We are grateful to be able to partner with Loveworld church Bolton to work together to support the community by providing food bank support. We have been able to reach out to more people.

Bolton CDP is focused on community engagement and as part of that, we work closely with various communities especially the ethnic minority communities across greater manchester. We have the privilege of working with the Rwanda community of greater manchester, to work on areas around capacity development and wellbeing. Bolton CDP supported organizing a community celebration...

Bolton CDP runs regular food bank sessions in Bolton in other to provide much-needed food support for Bolton residents who desperately need it. We started the food bank during the Covid 19 lockdowns, during those times we reached out to a lot of people. But we came to realize that so many people were benefiting...

Bolton CDP received a recognition award from the University of Manchester Department of Public Health for our work in improving health and wellbeing. Bolton was represented by Dr. Oboh Achioyamen our director. The award was presented by Professor Arpana Verma the head of the Department of Public Health. 

Bolton CDP is focused on empowering and building the capacity of the youth because we believe that they hold the key to our tomorrow. In order to achieve this we are currently working with our partners collaboratively to organize a series of regular training programs for young people. This program covers a wide variety of...