WY VCSE Power Event: Harnessing the Power of Diversity

The WY HCP’s Harnessing the Power of Communities Programme would like to invite VCSE partners and wider health and care colleagues from across the region to celebrate the strength our VCSE sector and its work with health and care partners to improve the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities.

This is part of a series of #VCSEPower themed events developed by the WY HCP to create a ‘living library’ of the wealth of knowledge and experience from the VCSE sector to celebrate our achievements and to learn from which you can access here on Mon 11 July from 9am: https://www.wypartnership.co.uk/our-priorities/harnessing-power-communities/VCSE-events/harnessing-the-power-of-diversity

Join us to:

• Get to know the WY HCP’s Harnessing the Power of Communities Programme which works to empower the VCSE sector as equal partners in the health and care system

• Learn about the best practice examples occurring in the VCSE sector around diversity, ethnic minorities and race equality with health and care partners

• Understand and discuss intersectional approaches to improving health and wellbeing for our communities

• Shape how you want the WY HCP’s Harnessing the Power of Communities Programme to champion VCSE organisations working in this area and our ‘asks’ to system leaders

• Continue to access, share and contribute to our ‘living library’ after the event

Guest Speaker

This #VCSEPower launch event will be facilitated by Marvina Newton as Mental Health Ethnic Inequalities Lead (Children & Young People) at Forum Central in Leeds. Marvina Newton is a Nigerian-born community leader, activist, feminist, intersectional environmentalist and mother of two. As a youth, she overcame significant barriers that she hopes to remove for future generations.

Her roles also include being co-founder of Black Lives Matters Leeds and United for Black Lives, working as a coordinator of African Arising UK and being the founder of the charity Angel of Youths, which empowers young people from disadvantaged and marginalised backgrounds to use their voice and influence to lead social action projects challenging inequality.

She is passionate about engaging, supporting and energising system leaders and advocating for a different culture sensitive approach to addressing health inequalities platforming and empowering people whose voices are often stifled to drive change. She brings a wealth of experience of working in collaboration with communities, the VCSE sector and the health and care system to tackle stigma, ensure equitable access to services and understand the specific needs of people from a range of backgrounds.

This event aims to be the start of a programme of work to explore how we can empower VCSE partners working with our diverse communities to be equals within the WY HCP. Using what we hear from conversations on the day, we will explore what this will look like and take this forward.