Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Race and Equality Centre

Archived News

This is where old news stories that may still be relevant will be placed. Newest items will be kept at the top.

2010

Chinese New Year 13th February
On the 13th February there will be a celebration in Chester for the Chinese New Year, the year of the Tiger. You can download a poster and programme for the day here:
Poster (PDF)
Information on the New Year (Word)
Programme for the day (Word)

2009

Multi Cultural Centre Consultation
We recently conducted a consultation into the need for a Multi Cultural Centre on behalf of Chester Asian Council, you can download the findings here (PDF).

AGM
CHAWREC's AGM was held on Thursday 12th November 2009 at the Ellesmere Port Civic Suite. Photos and documents will be placed on this website soon.

Celebrating Black History Month!!
This October we organised a touring exhibit around Cheshire for Black History Month. The exhibit contained lots of information about the contributions of Black and Asian people throughout history. We also have resources for schools, such as quizzes and information booklets that can download below.

Black History Month was officially launched by the Mayor in Crewe on the 7th October, at an event organized between ourselves and OCEAN, a local community based organisation. There was African drumming, lots of different stalls, food from round the world and of course our exhibition on black history. Over 120 children from local primary schools came along to see the exhibition, try their hand at winning our diversity quiz draw and it seems to have a bit of a boogie as well. Helen James of OCEAN took to the dance floor at the Crewe Alex showing the kids a few African dancing moves, which they all seemed to thoroughly enjoy! Check out a few of our photos of the day.

Resources to Download for Black History Month:
Our Booklet to go with the Exhibition (PDF)
Information on Slavery (Word)
Black History Quiz (Word)
Quiz for all ages on Slavery Facts (PDF)
Quiz for Juniors (Word)

Successful Case
We have recently been successful in a case involving a Polish Migrant worker who had been discriminated against in the work place. You can read an article in the Chester Chronicle here. (opens in new window)

New Report Commissioned by the EHRC
You can now download the new report commissioned by the EHRC titled, "Responding to Discrimination: The Geography and Geometry of Advice Provision in England, Scotland and Wales" (PDF) from our website.

Equality & Human Rights Commission take action against the BNP
The EHRC have issued legal proceedings against the BNP regarding their membership criteria, please download the press release for more details. (Word)

2008

REC Secures Over £400,000 from Capacity Builders
We have just heard that we have secured £410,555 of funding from Capacity Builders to develop a new community development service to reach out to frontline BME and faith community organisations across Cheshire. We have been recruiting a new community development team which we hope to be up and running by the beginning of September.

The Service will:
Provide advice and support to set up new groups and develop existing ones
Help and handholding with funding applications
Skills based training
Set up and maintain a BME Network across the area

Housing Project Begins!
We have been commissioned by Cheshire Housing Alliance to undertake a project to find out more about the housing and support needs our diverse communities. The project will look at two distinct pieces of work – developing a tool for frontline staff to use about diversity and the needs of BME communities and a separate, more focused piece of research into newly emerging communities within Cheshire , primarily Eastern European. As part of the work we will be out and about talking to people about what they want from housing providers. If you are interested in getting involved or would like to be interviewed as part of the project please contact the REC office on 01244 400730.

2007

IT Support
BME Groups can now access free computer help and advice through MACAW, an IT organisation set up through ChangeUp money. For more information please visit www.macaw.org.uk or phone them on 0845 3370577