Greater Manchester and Manchester BME Network Joint Networking Event
14 February, 2020 - 09:30 to 14:00
Manchester BME Network and Greater Manchester BME Network will be holding their next joint networking event on Friday 14 February.
This event will consist of speakers from across Greater Manchester and the Department for Education, setting a local and national picture with regard to apprenticeships, as well as hearing from apprentices themselves on why they chose this path. Finally it will see discussions within the Network on the best way forward to close the ethnicity gap in GM’s apprentice population.
Shared Topic Areas:
CAHN’s ambition is to work with Caribbean and African community in Greater Manchester to eradicate health inequalities within a generation.
The Windrush Day Grant Scheme will support groups to celebrate and commemorate the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush and the contribution of the Windrush Generation in communities across our country. It will also seek to educate about this contribution and the history of the MV Empire Windrush. This programme will support people from many different ages and backgrounds to embrace our shared history.
Did you know that when WW1 began, there were churches in the British West Indies with racially segregated seating; or that the vast majority of their populations were non-Whites – Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people - excluded to the edges of society; kept in extreme poverty without the right to vote? And did you know by the end of WW1 a new Black pride and civil rights struggle had ignited the British Caribbean?
As you may be aware, earlier this year Manchester City Council and Manchester Health and Care Commissioning launched a competitive tendering process for the contract to provide support to the city's voluntary and community sector for the next three years. We are delighted to announce that Macc has been awarded this contract.
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