Our health is the most important thing we have. Find out more about issues, healthy living, organisations and services concerning the Caribbean community in London, and around the UK.
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BLACK MEN ON THE COUCH In conversation with the actor Ashley Walters (Hustle, Top Boy, Inside Men) about his challenges, successes and his views on the value of talking therapies.
PLAY WIT IT CONDOMS
Trinidad and Tobago is about to go global in a way that no one could have possibly foreseen. On April 15 T&T's young singing sensation, Orlando Octave will officially launch his very own line of condoms.
A SURVIVOR'S STORY
Towards the end of 2008, I went to see my doctor (GP) for unrelated matters but while at the surgery asked her for a PSA blood test.... I had prostate cancer.
MAN ON A MISSION
Comedian, chef & presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli, is a 'Man on a Mission' leading the donor recruitment drive to recruit 1000 new potential donors to their blood stem cell donor register.
BROKEN SILENCE
The annual Broken Silence talent show takes place on Saturday 1st October at Brent Town Hall in Wembley and will be hosted by comedian Wayne 'Dibbi' Rollins & AJ King from Kiss FM.
ACTION DEAFNESS
Thousands of people with a varying degree of hearing loss from Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) backgrounds across Leicester and Leicestershire are missing out on support services, according to a leading D/deaf charity.
MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie Cancer Care Needs Caribbean Support! Marie Curie Cancer Care are hosting our Walk 10 fundraising event in Dorking on the 13th August 2011 with a Caribbean flavour.
RAS DANIEL BABU
Ras DANIEL BABU, renowned Rastafari healer and diet specialist based in Japan, was in London in from the 30th June - 14th July, read more about the 2011 Tour.
FUNDRAISING BALL
The annual event, organised by Friends of the Caribbean in Milton Keynes, was attended by two Caribbean High Commissioners and has raised over £1400 for The Prostate Cancer Charity.
HAPPY SOUL FESTIVAL 2011
The award-winning festival, now in its fifth year, will take place 31st May - 12th June, and is dedicated to raising awareness of wellbeing and mental health in the Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities where these issues are often stigmatised.
MENS HEALTH CONFERENCE
A conference on Men's Health to be hosted by the Association for Prostate Awareness (APA) will be held on the 19th March 2011 at East Ham Town Hall, Barking Road, East Ham, London E6 2RD.
ACLT CRISIS
Leading UK leukaemia charity, the ACLT (African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust) are launching an emergency national appeal to urgently raise £80,000 by the end of March 2011 to avoid closure.