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WBI Runs Workshop to Develop Migrants’ Digital Skills for Job Search

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28 June 2024. As part of WBI’s commitment to support migrant employment, we hosted a LinkedIn workshop to provide guidance to optimise jobseekers’ LinkedIn profiles, including facilitating a session for professional profile photos. This project was made possible by Portsmouth City Council’s Community Inclusion Grant 2024. The workshop was delivered by a QA Engineer, Emre Bektas, …

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WBI hosts Food with Friends in collaboration with Hormones on the Blink

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24 May 2024. For our May Food with Friends we invited hormone health training provider Sophie Cartledge, from Hormones on the Blink, to deliver an information session on Menopause for women from the Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  Hormones on the Blink is an education and advocacy provider, specialised in addressing the often overlooked …

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WBI Hosts Digital Privacy Workshop with City of Portsmouth College

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6 May 2024. WBI hosted another Digital Privacy workshop to raise awareness of how personal, browsing and financial data could be exploited online. To support the new migrants’ tech-literacy WBI runs this workshop twice a year in collaboration with City of Portsmouth College. Participants were surprised to discover that their browsing history and personal information …

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WBI Conducts Interviews on Community Gardening for Local Research

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7 May 2024. As part of our upcoming project report on local environmental action, we share a preview of the quotes gathered as part of our qualitative research. In March 2024, we sat down with project participants from various minority backgrounds to hear why they are taking part, what is their experience of community gardening, …

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WBI & Migrant Volunteers celebrate Earth Day with Community Gardening in Portsmouth

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22 April 2024. Happy Earth Day from the WBI team! We wrapped up the final gardening session for our research project funded by Natural England at the Milton Piece Allotment in Portsmouth, where our migrant volunteers joined in the community gardening.  What better way to celebrate our planet than being outdoors, connecting with nature and …

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Food with Friends in Collaboration with Personal Choice, Project to Respond to Local Community Needs

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15 March 2024. Welcoming the first signs of spring with a special edition of Food with Friends. In partnership with Personal Choice this week, we hosted a socially-engaging lunch with a talk on health and wellbeing facilitated by the Health Inequalities Lead for NHS Portsmouth University, Shipa Ahmed Khan.   Personal Choice is a project of …

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WBI Receives a Portsmouth Community Inclusion Grant to Leverage Digital Skills for Migrant Job Search

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23 February 2023. We are delighted to announce that we have been granted a second Community Inclusion Grant by Portsmouth City Council to fund a new project targeting digital inequality.  It was a pleasure to attend the award ceremony presented at The Guildhall alongside 32 awarded community leaders and organisations.  Back in November 2022, Work …

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Climate Resilience and Community – new WBI Research Initiative funded by Natural England Seed Corn Grant

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6 February 2024. Driven by the commitment to build a sustainable economy from the ground up, WBI will pilot a new project to research the impact of community gardening on the sense of health and wellbeing and level of climate agency experienced by minority groups.  This WBI initiative is supported by Natural England’s Seed Corn …

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WBI Conducts Workshops to Include Minority Voices in Health and Care Research

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2 February 2024. WBI is in the Raising Voices in Research Project with Action Hampshire to introduce harder-to-access communities to health and care research. We started this work in November-December last year to outline and demystify community research over two workshops. Our goal is to increase minority and migrant participation in community research and use …

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