For anyone who is familiar with the plight of the Roma people, would be surprised to find the words ‘Roma’, ‘community’ and ‘care’ in the same sentence let alone in the title […]
Roma Community Care: A unique approach in Derby
Russell Pollard
Christian attitude to War; Is it a matter of religion or just human behaviour?
This week, Dr Alan Billings presented an interesting thesis at Derby Cathedral on the changing attitude of Christianity towards war under the title, “The Dove, the Fig Leaf, and the Sword”. The […]
Multi-Faith Centre: 10 Years of promoting Cohesion and Understanding
On September 11th 2004, Derby’s Multi-Faith Centre (MFC) was opened. This date in September was not engineered to coincide with the events of 3 years earlier but, in retrospect, it is extremely […]
Health Champions: “Be Clever on Cancer” in Derby’s BME Community
Health Champions from all over Derby’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community (BAME/BME) gathered in a city centre hotel to continue their Cancer Awareness campaign. Nishi Madan from the Public Health Team […]
People with HIV in Derby, require more Positive support.
In the last 30 years HIV/AIDS has evolved from being a disease that was going to “threaten humanity” to one that is barely spoken about, publicly. Depending on where one sits on […]
Urban Turban: A brief glimpse of Sikhs in Derby
This is the second year that the Sikh Community in Derby have created an event in the City Centre to give others a glimpse into their culture. On offer was the opportunity […]
Rally for Gaza in Derby; Missed opportunity to promote cohesion
2 weeks after a national demonstration in London in support of the Palestinians in Gaza, Derby held its own version on 23 August 2014. The group of about 150 people, mainly Muslims, […]
English Language Training (ESOL) in Derby: Is it Delivering for everyone?
In April 2014 the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), in conjunction with the Skills Funding Agency, issued a joint statement that introduced new rules regarding the assessment of English language […]
Landlords : Are they contributing to the fly-tipping problem?
It is fairly self-evident that the fly-tipping in the Normanton area is a symptom of an underlying problem that is more profound and complex than people just dumping large, unsightly items in […]
Fly-Tipping in Normanton – How serious is the problem?
This week has seen publicity on Channel 5 and in the Derby Telegraph on the fly-tipping in Normanton centred around the findings of the Normanton Empowerment Team (NET). I went out with […]
Tuberculosis in Derby : A menacing presence
Tuberculosis (TB) is usually considered by the lay public to be a disease of the past in the UK, and only really prevalent in Third World countries. This is not the case. […]
Trussell Trust Food Bank statistics – Misleading
Trussell Trust who run over 423 Food Banks in the UK ( currently zero in Derby) declared in their 2013/14 report that they handed out parcels to 913,138 people. This is a […]
Petra : Roma, finding home through the English Language
Petra, a Roma girl from Plzen in the Czech Republic, remembers her school days. “We were scared to go to school , they were waiting for me at the gates. They used […]
Arboretum Park (Normanton) Music and Family Day in the Sun.
Arboretum Park in the heart of the Normanton district of Derby was host to a small Music Festival ( courtesy of Derby City Council) and a Family Fun Day ( courtesy of […]
Food banks – should be about People not PR!
Derby has over 22 organisations supplying food and/or hot meals to the vulnerable in the City. These are operated through a variety of faith based, ethnic minority and refugee support groups. Each […]
Jangir Khan: Proud that Derby is his Home.
In 1962, in a small village, 10 miles away from Mirpur, in the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan, a young man, with his wife, and small children sat, thinking about his future. […]
International Day to Celebrate Nurses in Derby
A few days after the official International Nurses Day, a parade took place in Derby from the St Peters Church through the City Centre to the Cathedral. A large audience of Nurses, […]
Improving employability for Refugees and New Communities
Although there are many standard Work Programme facilities to help Job Seekers into work, there is little that provides the focussed attention to help people who are refugees or migrants. New Communities […]
Normanton : The Underlying Problems of Litter
There are many anecdotal reports about the state of the streets in Normanton and particularly the fly-tipping of large household items in the area. Whilst the council have responsibility for managing this […]
3800% increase in the use of Food Banks in the East Midlands in 3 years.
The meteoric rise in the availability of food via Food Banks is a story of many dimensions. In one respect it is a modern day tragedy that anyone in the UK feels […]
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