The Centre has developed a new survey to help understand why Covid-19 is disproportionately impacting Black and Minority Ethnic people in the UK. It has been developed along with the University of Leicester and the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). The survey takes no longer than 20 minutes to complete, and asks about: Your Read More
Upcoming Training Update – May 2020
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to cancel the Community Engagement Training session arranged for 19 May 2020. We are reviewing the situation on a regular basis, and will post updates regarding future training sessions. We as an employer have a responsibility for safeguarding and keeping well our employees as well as Read More
South Asian Female Kick Boxing Evaluation
The nine week programme in which 11 ladies attended weekly sessions at Rendall Munroe’s Gym in Leicester completed in December 2019, and work has taken place on evaluating the programme. The programme funded by Leicester-shire & Rutland Sport and supported by the Centre offered specific types of kickboxing and yoga warm-up exercises with skills training. Read More
Upcoming Training Update
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to cancel our ‘Cultural Competence’ training which was due to take place on Tuesday 02 April and Thursday 16 April 2020. We are currently looking into alternatives to deliver training courses arranged for later in the year. Further details about these training courses will be posted Read More
Walking Cricket Update!
The Centre in partnership with the Leicestershire County Cricket Club secured funding for a further 12 months worth of sessions which is currently running until September 2020. After consulting with participants of the previous programme held in 2019, they were very excited for the opportunity to have further regular sessions and share facilities with Read More
Prostate Cancer Toolkit – available now!
The prostate cancer toolkit as part of the #PlayDominoTalkProstate campaign was launched at the Famalaay Get Together Event in September 2019. The event in collaboration with University of Leicester, Prostate UK and Prostaid attended by all ages involved some very competitive games of domino and walking football! Pamela Campbell-Morris, Project Assistant and Community Champion in Read More