Photographs courtesy of Levi Hepburn and slideshow created by Katie Morgan.
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The Voice newspaper have given the Heart Health programme (and Patty Dumplin!) a great write up, you can read it below or click here to read the full article on their website.
“The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has unveiled a new initiative to raise awareness about keeping the heart healthy. Entitled ‘Heart Health’, the programme has been designed to get the African-Caribbean community outside London thinking about heart and circulatory diseases.
In order to further garner attention, BHF has enlisted the campaigning prowess of Patty Dumplin, fictional “larger than life” character who is a chef.
According to BHF, “people with an African Caribbean background are most at risk of having high blood pressure or a stoke, and amongst the highest risk for type-2 diabetes of all the ethnic groups in the UK.”
Recently, Dumplin was deployed to Nottingham to visit African-Caribbean community events where she spread the word on healthy eating and dietary habits. Whilst talking to locals the colourful lady chef handed out recipe books and information packs, and also gave her own unique tips on how to lead an active, healthy life.
When handing out a recipe book to a young boy at a local farm event, Dumplin said: “De little boy pickney show off to all him friend de British Heart Foundation new recipe book and point out what him know. Me so proud of him. Big up to granny who teach him!”
BHF’s Christmas message is: “Enhance your festive fuzziness this Christmas by giving a donation.
“BHF funds life-saving research, campaigns for the best healthcare for heart patients, funds and supports more than 800 dedicated heart nurses and other healthcare professionals and runs scores of outreach and education programmes to help people of all ages and from all backgrounds look after their heart health.
To donate, just text the message BHFB22 and the amount you want to give to 70070″
At the weekend Bright Ideas went to help BME Cancer Communities and the British Heart Foundation at their event to train 100 people in Emergency Life Support (including CPR). Check out This Is Nottingham’s article:
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Funded by the Castle Cavendish Community Fund, the eNerGy Squad is back again for 2013 in the NG7 area- Radford and Hyson Green!
Check out http://theenergysquad.wordpress.com for more information and to find out how you can get involved in bringing energy efficiency to Nottingham!
We’re really pleased to announce that Learning Into Leadership on the Internet Project won the WEA award for the East Midlands. Some of the team went to collect the award at the Parliamentary Event and Awards Ceremony in London on 7th November. Please see the image below for more info on the Project. Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved in the Project.
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We’re pleased to announce that the Families Rooting for Recovery event was featured on page 4 in the One Nottingham bulletin for October. You can see the bulletin here: One Nottingham Bulletin October 2012
You are invited to the first
97.5 kemet fm Health Party
Positive vibes for well-being and mental health in
Nottingham’s black and urban communities
Broadcasting live from the Nottinghamshire HealthCare NHS Trust House
Booking essential:
events@brightideasnottingham.co.uk
Telephone: 0115 837 9474
Twitter hash tag #KemetFMHealthParty
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More information …
Your FREE ticket includes:
- Welcome and hosting by TV and radio presenters, Trish Adudu and Christine Belle
- Keynote by Professor Mike Cooke, Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare
- Presentations by Professor Chris Packham, Dr Pat Williams and Patrick Vernon OBE
- The Power of Patient Experience – stories from the black community
- Quiz, competition and music from 97.5 kemet fm
- Caribbean lunch and feel-goody bag
- Reggaerobics with brilliant Carol Burrell
Health Party numbers are capped. A high proportion of tickets will be reserved for community members and the community and voluntary sector. Statutory sector places are limited.
Click here to see The Trust’s flyer! Please feel free to circulate it.
Please register your interest by sending:
Name:
Email address:
Daytime telephone number:
Organisation / group (if applicable):
Position (if applicable):
Dietary requirements:
Access requirements:
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Responses
Our events team members are very busy out and about in the community and are very rarely in the office at all from Friday to Sunday. Please email us or call us with your telephone number (please repeat for accuracy) and we will endeavour to get back to you in two working days (Monday to Thursday). Venue information and maps will be provided with reserved tickets.
Stand space and programming
Stand space and programme time has already been allocated so unfortunately 97.5 kemet fm is unable to accommodate any requests at this stage. However, please feel free to register your interest for space at future events.
News:
www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk
www.brightideasnottingham.co.uk
Please reply to events@brightideasnottingham.co.uk
On Saturday 6th October, ‘Friends and Bredrins’ were in the Nottingham Post!
Friends and Bredrins is a new support group for African Caribbean men who have been diagnosed with cancer.
Friends and Bredrins, or ‘FAB’ as it is known, meet every second Wednesday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Self Help Nottingham at Ormiston House, Pelham Street.
For more information call 07985 999 372.
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2012-13 Programme for African-Caribbean Communities
Contents:
- Reggaerobics Meets Zumba
- Come Nyam Wid Me dining experiences
- Community Training opportunities
- The Love Hearts (volunteering opportunities)
- The new Clifton Love Hearts
- About Hearts and Minds
Click here to read our latest press release.
Click here to see the original Love Hearts flyer.
Reggaerobics Meets Zumba
10am to 11am Monday mornings at The New Art Exchange
Join The Love Hearts and Carol Burrell for Reggaerobics Meets Zumba classes. We have men and women of all ages, shapes and sizes. The only criteria is that you want get back into, or increase your level of physical activity.
Just follow the teeth because everyone who has tried it, just can’t stop smiling.
Reggaerobics is FREE. However, you can make a voluntary donation to the British Heart Foundation if you wish.
Evening classes are coming soon.
Come Nyam Wid Me
Chez Cors Monday 12th November, 7pm
Chez Cors Monday 19th November, 7pm
Jamaican Ways Monday 26th November, 7pm
Jamaican Ways Monday 3rd December, 7pm
Join Nottingham’s new hilarious celebrity chef, Patty Dumplin’ and The Love Hearts for a dining experience that you will never forget. We will be cooking up recipes from the British Heart Foundation’s Caribbean recipe book, showing you how it’s done and then sitting down with you to dine in style.
These sessions are aimed at people who cook African-Caribbean food on a regular basis and would like to learn how they can enjoy their favourite foods in a healthier way. We will be filming each evening and we’ll be making short films for You Tube etc. so that we can spread the message and the fun further.
Places for this are extremely limited so we can’t promise everyone a place. However, do encourage friends and family to listen to 97.5 kemet fm where you can win free tickets every week.
Come Nyam Wid Me evenings are FREE. However, you can make a voluntary donation to the British Heart Foundation if you wish.
To book please call 0115 837 9474 or email events@brightideasnottingham.co.uk with ‘Come Nyam Wid Me’ and your preferred date in the subject box.
Community Training Opportunities
We are searching for 100 people who live and work closely in the African-Caribbean community to become potential life savers. We want to train 100 people on the same day in emergency life support.
We are also running other sessions such as Pass It On sessions and heart awareness sessions in the community.
For more information about FREE training opportunities, please contact BME Cancer Communities on 0115 9348487
Be A Love Heart
We have couple of vacancies for Love Hearts. Potential applicants must be available for day-time volunteering. (We have enough volunteers who are available for evening and weekend work.)
Contact Lorna on 0115 837 9474 for more information or email lorna@brightideasnottingham.co.uk
The Clifton Love Hearts
Some local people in Clifton loved what we were doing so much that they have set up their own volunteer team: The Clifton Love Hearts. The Clifton Love hearts will be fundraising for the British Heart Foundation and raising awareness about heart health with local people. They will soon have their own section on the project blog www.TheLoveHearts.wordpress.com If you know anyone who wants to fundraise for The British Heart Foundation, please encourage them to get in touch with us.
Hearts and Minds
Reggaerobics and Come Nyam Wid Me are part of the Hearts and Minds programme. Hearts and Minds is a programme of activity aimed to raise awareness of the British Heart Foundation in Nottingham’s diverse communities. You can find out how the British Heart Foundation works with all sections of the community by going to www.bhf.org.uk
This year (2012 – 2013) the programme in Nottingham focuses on African-Caribbean communities and we are currently planning our programme aimed at South Asian communities for 2013-14.
The programme is being developed as a model of good practice that can be shared by the BHF across the UK.
So far the partners have:
Recruited a small team of volunteers called ‘The Love Hearts’ who advise us and assist the project partners
Held the Hearts and Minds community conference for the second year which was broadcast live on 97.5 kemet fm
Represented the BHF at a number of community events including Notts Carnival and Pride
Distributed thousands of BHF resources in community engagement settings
Visited and engaged Caribbean businesses and services to support them to access resources for their customers
Scripted 5 radio adverts about different aspects of heart health.
Organised training sessions in the community
Started up FREE Reggaerobics classes
Planned 4 x Come Nyam (eat) Wid Me dining experiences.
You can follow the blog www.thelovehearts.wordpress.com for updates
On 12th October 2012, Bright Ideas Nottingham and the ACNA centre hosted a talk and discussion with Professor Matt Whitaker on his UK tour to discuss Obama’s administration, campaign, and race issues in American politics. To see a full report from the event, please click here.
Lisa Robinson, Dino Kritsiotis, Matt Whitaker and Julie Cassidy-Gosling at the event