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£1M FUNDING FOR 40 NEW COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS |
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| On Wednesday 23 May 2007, health minister Rosie Winterton announced funding for 40 new community engagement projects, which includes ours. This announcement forms part of the Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health programme in the United Kingdom. |
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| certificate of thanks |
| Members of the african community, refugees and asylum seekers where invited to take part at the Labour party Annual Dinner in Stockton-on-Tees. The event was hosted by Dari Taylor MP for Stockton South. Tees Valley African Women Voice were also present and their Chair person Phoebe Mwesigwa, who hosted the first African Woman fashion show event last March at the University of Durham, Stockton Campus, used the opportunity to present to Dari Taylor her Certificate of Achievement. She received it in recognition of her support to the group since it started a few years ago. Phoebe said: "we want to be more and more pro-active in the Tees Valley so that we can better prepare our future and that of our children. We are full of talent and we are going to make them available for the community so that we can give something back in recognition of our integration in the area." Also represented were members of the Kurdish community, Tahib and Mustafa. The Chair of Tees Valley Voices For Justice was there just as usual, playing the VIP. We made friends and there were also a lot of good food. Special guest was Baroness Scotland of Asthal, the first ever black woman made Queen’s Counsel in 1991. She was due to be made a high Court Judge before receiving a life peerage as Baroness Scotland of Asthal in 1997. Currently, Patricia Scotland, Baroness of Asthal, is now responsible for the Criminal Justice System and Law reform at the Home Office. |
