Do you have an idea for improving your local environment? We know that working together at every level is key to igniting an incredible climate response. You know what’s going to work in your neighbourhood! So, if you are part of an organisation or charity with a project in mind, we want to hear from you. Grants of up to £30,000 are available through our new ‘Greener Futures Fund’ in partnership with the London Community Foundation.

Here is Steve McQueen's EMBARRASSED - a short film created to help raise awareness of prostate cancer within the black community and featuring Idris Elba CBE, Chiwetel Ejiofor CBE, Michael Ward, and Morgan Freeman.. The message is that if you are a black man aged over 45 you should ask your GP for a PSA test. Prostate cancer is generally easy to treat (without chemotherapy) and survivable if caught reasonably early.

Residents across North West London now have access to GP and practice nurse appointments from 6.30pm-8pm (6pm-9pm in Brent, Kensington and Chelsea, Queen's Park and Paddington), Monday to Friday and from 8am-8pm on Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays. Patients can access these extended access appointments by calling their GP practice to book an appointment or by calling NHS 111 when their own practice is closed.

Increasing vaccine confidence: pregnancy and fertility for both men and women. Please see this useful resource to support your vaccine conversations. It includes the latest insights and evidence, as well as quotes from professionals, key model Q&As and where to find further resources.

The NHS North West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) continue to provide both face to face appointments as well as online services to ensure our patients can access their GP in the way that suits them. The NHS is seeking public views on online GP consultation services. We want to hear from our patients and the public about what’s working, what doesn’t and how we can make it better so that our online services remain beneficial to those using them.

Hearing the Voice (Durham University) is delighted to announce that our ‘Quick Read’ information fact sheets about hearing voices have now been translated into the top 10 spoken languages other than English in the UK. Each PDF provides information about the following topics: What is hearing voices?; How common is it?; Why does it happen?; Coping strategies; Talking about hearing voices – Tips for voice-hearers; Talking about hearing voices – tips for supporters

For its Autumn 2021 funding round The Fore is offering 6-18 month grants of up to £15,000. The Fore is particularly looking to fund small organisations working with marginalised groups and led by people in the community that may have found it hard to access trust and foundation funding in the past. They're looking to support orgs with under £500k turnover and want to see the potential for "transformational impact"

Grants of up to £10,000 are available to help London communities experiencing racial inequality meet their immediate needs related to Covid-19. The deadline is 12 noon (BST), Monday 4 October 2021

We're inviting you to participate in experience-led research and a campaign that aims to address racial inequality and biases in menstrual and female reproductive healthcare. Freedom4Girls are a Leeds based charity working to eradicate period poverty. By period poverty we don't just mean no access to period products, but where people aren't not adequately supported when it comes to their periods!

The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee have published the following report evaluating maternity services: "Evaluation of the Government’s progress against its policy commitments in the area of maternity services in England". You may download and read by clicking through to this item.

In April, we began collecting blood plasma from donations to make vital antibody-based medicines and we urgently need more people to make donations. These medicines – called immunoglobulins will help thousands of people with immune diseases. NHS Blood and Transplant is asking for men between the ages of 17 and 66 to consider donating their blood plasma.

The National Lottery Community Fund and The Ubele Initiative, on behalf of The Phoenix Way Partners, have jointly announced a new £50 million partnership aimed to boost funding and support to Black and Minoritised Community charities and grassroots groups over the next five years. The new initiative will help to facilitate engagement with Black and Minoritised community-led charities and grassroots groups to enable them to access funding and support that have previously failed to reach them and have been difficult for them to access.

The Several Seats Mentorship Scheme aims to promote and facilitate professional development for women aspiring to work in the field of mental health. The scheme offers personal and professional mentoring for 8 months and will be on an online cloud-based app platform. This scheme provides support to women to develop and strengthen their portfolio as well as get their foot through the door of a competitive and demanding industry.

The new Racial Equality strand is open to charities with an income of between £25,000 and £1 million. To be eligible, applicants need to be supporting people from specific minoritised communities to overcome any of 11 specified Complex Social Issues including: Addiction and dependency on alcohol, drugs and/or gambling; Asylum seekers and refugees; Care leavers; Domestic and sexual abuse; Homeless and vulnerably housed; Learning disabilities; Mental health - read on for full list.

The new report ‘Ethnic diversity in fertility treatment’ highlights disparities in access to and outcomes of fertility treatment by ethnic group from 2014-18 and actions for the HFEA and others to undertake in response. The report highlights that people from ethnic minority backgrounds undergoing fertility treatment are less likely to have a baby, with Black patients having the lowest chances of successful treatment.

ASK DOC are in the process of producing a number of videos in different languages about the COVID-19 vaccine to pass on information and hopefully challenge common misconceptions covering the following: How it works - Why ethnic minorities should have it - When will I get it - What’s the process for getting it. Videos are currently available in Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi, Pushto, Tamil, Turkish, Gujurati and Somali.

All children aged 2 and 3 can have a free flu vaccine at their GP practice. The vaccine is usually given as a single painless spray squirted up the nose. This spray contains a highly processed from of porcine gelatine. The NHS are now able to offer an alternative to families who prefer not to have the nasal spray. Parents of 2/3year olds can request an injected flu vaccine for their child at their GP practice. This injected vaccine does NOT contain gelatine.

Please download and see the House of Commons/ House of Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights report: Black people, racism, and human rights - including formal minutes relating to the report.

The BME Health Forum has been funded by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster City Council to run a project providing information to BME communities about the NHS Test and Trace service. We are working with 11 partners to reach 950 households where people are not fluent English speakers and may find it difficult to access information about the NHS Test and Trace service.

Imperial College Healthcare Trust continue to provide urgent and emergency care for all conditions - not only Covid-19. We are beginning to re-open our services, including routine elective procedures and surgery. In a short video presentation you can see important information about how they are keeping patients safe during the pandemic.

Following on from ongoing work looking at the changing impact that COVID-19 is having on the way people live, Public Health England is interested in the impact of Covid–19 on people living with obesity. They are working with Dr Adrian Brown who is a Research Fellow and Specialist Dietitian at University College London to explore perceptions, attitudes and actions of people living with obesity to the COVID-19 outbreak.

BBC Asian Network have produced videos of GPs explaining COVID-19 in the following Asian languages: Gujurati, Tamil, Sylheti,Hindi and Urdu.

In respect of government guidelines relating to the COVID-9 outbreak we are announcing that the BME Health Forum's Emotional Well-being project is continuing via telephone support and with the support of our partners, we hope to be able to continue support clients who don’t speak English in a number of community languages during this difficult time.

In the following video Eddie Chan, former Chair of the BME Health Forum introduces the Chinese Health & Wellbeing Clinic services in Central London followed by lead doctor Dr Kit Wu who gives important public health information about the COVID 19 virus to the Chinese Community.