Get involved with
@cahn_uk
Windrush Day 2024 celebration 🎉 on Saturday 22nd June 2024 at
@AlexParkMCR
Alexandra Park, Manchester!
#Volunteer
#Book
a stall - information ℹ️, recruitment, engagement, etc
#Sponsor
or make a donation 💷💷💷💷💷
📧 windrushday
@cahn
.org.uk
What an honour to serve the communities of Greater Manchester in this capacity alongside the Lord-Lieutenant Sir Warren Smith JP and amazing Deputy Lieutenants within
@GMLO_UK
.
Congratulations
@MrVikas
👏🏾
I look forward to working with you!
#Service
#volunteering
#cohesion
The Lord-Lieutenant is delighted to appoint two new Deputy Lieutenants, Vikas Shah MBE and Rev Charles Kwaku-Odoi as announced in the
@TheGazetteUK
today. Welcome
@MrVikas
and
@charleskod
to the Greater Manchester Lieutenancy.
Real privilege representing Lord-Lieutenant
@DianeHawkinsDL
@GMLO_UK
at
@ManCityCouncil
Citizenship ceremony this pm welcoming 20 people from 13 countries.
They become
#British
Citizens and will no doubt contribute to the prosperity and culture of Manchester
As a Pastor, I proudly support
#GrabAJab
If you’re aged 18 or over, you can pop along to any of the participating clinics for your first dose of the
#NHSCOVIDVaccine
with no appointment needed. 💉
Search clinics, dates and time
@nadhimzahawi
@NikkiKF
Super excited that finally all my
@cahn_uk
colleagues are in the same room for our Away Day.
CAHN’s vision is eradicating
#HealthInequalities
and wider
#disparities
for Caribbean & African people in a generation. This requires a passionate and dedicated
#workforce
to deliver
Just had my
#COVID19
booster vaccine 💉 to ensure I am better protected against the potentially deadly Coronavirus; had all 3 doses 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Have you had your 1st or 2nd jab? If not book it quickly!
If you are due the
#BoosterJab
then please don’t delay!
@cahn_uk
📧 health
@cahn
.uk
Saddened 😭😭 and heart broken 💔 by the news of the loss of yet another Black teenager boy in Manchester to
#suicide
.
Agree it’s difficult time’s with some parents/guardians unsure about their jobs and others struggling. Please spend some quality time with your
#teenagers
.
Not sure how to respond to my very good friend
@786maq
who didn’t warn me before sending this message🤔
I am humbled by your kind words brother Maqsood and would strive to contribute my little quota to our communities and supporting good causes inshallah 🙏🏾🙏🏾
#servicetomankind
Once a week, i will be acknowledging someone who i feel has and continue to contribute to supporting vulnerable member of our communities and a champion of diversity, equality and human rights. This week that indivudual is: Revd. Charles Kwaku-odoi DL
THANK YOU Charles 👏👏👏👏
Lovely sunshine ☀️ at Alexandra Park as we mark where main stage, information gazebo, older people gazebo, bouncy castle and food vendors, fire engine, ambulance, etc will be positioned.
Today is the day b4
@cahn_uk
’s 5th birthday anniversary and we are celebrating
#GlobalMajorityFund
which we run in 2021 giving out £310,000 in grants- £5k, £10k & £15k to Caribbean & African led organisations working across
#GreaterManchester
.
Many thanks to
@comicrelief
1/3
Massive thanks and well done Dr
@FayeBruce17
DL for your incredible passion and dedication to
@cahn_uk
from conception to birth and nurturing!
To all at CAHN (Volunteers, Staff, & Directors) and our community; Happy 5th Anniversary 🎊
#BlackHealthMatters
#HealthInequalities
While working on her PhD,
@FayeBruce17
Chair of
@cahn_uk
was asked what she would do with the data collected from focus groups.This led to the birth of CAHN which officially launched on 27th Oct 2017.
Congratulations to Dr Bruce and the entire CAHN family on our 5th anniversary!
Amazing to have 1000 people on Zoom and hundreds on YouTube and Facebook live!
The event is being livestreamed and you can watch it after on our YouTube channel or Facebook channels.
- YouTube channel
- Facebook page
Congratulations to
@cahn_gm
’s Chair
@FayeBruce17
, well deserved. Congratulations and welcome to Vicken and Muzahid 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I look forward to working with you all.
The Lord-Lieutenant is delighted to appoint three new Deputy Lieutenants, Dr Faye Bruce, Vicken Guy Couligian and Muzahid Khan as announced in the
@TheGazetteUK
today. Welcome
@VickenCouligian
@FayeBruce17
and Muzahid to the Greater Manchester Lieutenancy.
Massive thanks to
@ManCityCouncil
for commissioning
@cahn_uk
as facilitating organisation for the City’s Victims Voice Forum.
This will be a safe space for victims’ voices to be heard and more importantly their reflections of what could help others!
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
We need all govt departments to work together to prioritise what makes us healthy – the building blocks of health and wellbeing – in everything they do.
Here's
@charleskod
of
@cahn_uk
backing a Bill of Health, and sending a message to
#GetWellSoonBritain
.
#CPC23
|
#Manchester
This is really useful study and affirms why lack of trust and inequitable/poor access results in poorer health outcomes for some patients in marginalised communities!
@cahn_uk
@BolaOwolabi8
@sanghera70
@AHamiedNHS
Few weeks to the amazing Greater Manchester
#Windrush75
#NHS75
celebration event led by
@cahn_uk
Are you an org/business that wants to engage new diverse audience?
Why not book a stall windrush75
@cahn
.org.uk
Support as a sponsor by 📧 charles
@cahn
.org.uk
#CSR
#BLM
Happy New Year 🥳 to friends, followers, and all those who have enriched others lives!
May 2024 brings us peace, joy and love even in the midst of adversity!
Brilliant to see so many people at the launch 🚀 of
@cahn_uk
’s survey of Greater Manchester Perinatal and Infant Mental Health services for Black Caribbean & African women.
@CEOHOST
gave background to the project.
@fayeruddock
, Chair of CAHN and also the report author having
Ahead of World Sickle Cell Day tomorrow,
@NHSEngland
has launched a new national campaign to raise awareness of
#sicklecell
crisis signs.
(This gif and other resources available on the Campaign Resource Centre)
On
#InternationalWomensDay
I salute & celebrate 🎉 the amazing
#women
making significant differences at various levels of
#society
. You have continued to break glass ceilings and trail-blazed in many ways. Massive thanks for making our world a better place 👏🏾
#ChooseToChallenge
I keep discovering the most inspiring people doing wonderful work. People with big hearts, intellectual power houses like Charles and Faye of
@cahn_gm
. Looking forward to your brilliant publication on insights into Black community attitudes to
#CovidVaccine
Wishing you all a wonderful Merry Christmas 🎄 as you celebrate 🎉 with family, friends and neighbours 🎊
Remembering all those who are celebrating their first Christmas 🎅 without loved ones… you are in my prayers 🙏🏾
Struggling at this time? Help is available- help
@cahn
.org.uk
Delighted to share
@cahn_gm
's
#COVID19
Impact Report 334 responses from
@greatermcr
Over 50% respondents have said they are worried about the mental well-being of their children as a result of the outbreak-
#BlackHealthMattersGM
Sadly as Lockdown 3.0 starts some homes will be unpleasant and victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse will be hard hit 😭
Thanks to
@MoJGovUK
@greatermcr
the
@cahn_gm
Helpline is available for non-emergency 999 calls; please 📞 📱 07710022382 for support; French/Spanish 👇🏾
Many thanks to our volunteer Doctors who could be providing answers to questions & concerns that were not answered yesterday
This will be captured in the Q&A section of the event report which will shared wt attendees
@DHSCgovuk
@NHSEngland
@GM_HSC
@ManchesterHCC
#CovidVaccines
This afternoon I joined
@charleskod
and an inspirational panel of Black doctors at a
@cahn_gm
#COVID19
discussion on
#vaccine
safety. Thank you to the 1,400 people who tuned in.
Transparency and community engagement are vital to ensuring people get the information they need. 💉💉
Just arrived
@BBCRadioManc
and looking forward to being interviewed by the legendary
@mikeshaft
about
@gmwindrushday
celebrations 🎊 on Saturday 22nd June 2019. 1100hrs for 1200 start .... a must not miss event!
VCSE organisations and Community groups have shown incredible resilience and stepped up to respond to the adverse impact of the COVID-19
We need more bottom-up approach, genuine co-production and learning from what worked well during the pandemic.
#CommunitiesCan
#inequalities
Worth reading this excellent piece by
@DavidOlusoga
‘Much as we love the NHS, we can no longer ignore the ethnic inequalities that beset it’ in
@guardian
This cites the publication by
@NHS_RHO
@DrHNaqvi
What next? 1/2
It’s really important that we dispel myths around the Covid vaccine, esp given the low uptake amongst BAME communities
I’m delighted to host an upcoming event with speakers from faith backgrounds & experts from the NHS Race & Health Observatory
Register:
Day 3 of the Black maternal health awareness week and we are in parliament today!
There will be a Black Maternal Health All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting speaking about the various topics coming out from our awareness week. Stay tuned for more
#BMHAW24
#FiveXMore
"We need that commitment beyond the bill".
Chief officer of The Caribbean and African Health Network
@charleskod
says he welcomes the draft mental health bill which has acknowledged the need to tackle racial disparity.
#KayBurley
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
Today I joined a rally in solidarity with the United Church of God Assembly in Longsight following the racist vandalisation of their minibus this week.
We stand in solidarity with Manchester's Black community, and against those who seek to divide us
#BlackLivesMatter
See you 👇🏾
@cahn_uk
#London
#health
festival in Enfield
📌 Breakfast
📌 Health screening
📌 Entertainment
📌 Face painting
📌 Games
📆 Sat 25th March
🕰️ 10:30 – 17:00
Green Towers Community Centre
7 Plevna Rd, Edmonton
N9 0BU
📧 london
@cahn
.org.uk