The BME Health Forum is a partnership of Global Majority grassroots organisations
We work together to promote systemic change to address health inequalities in racialised communities. We deliver health and wellbeing services, help our partners and their communities influence healthcare policy/provision, and strengthen Global Majority organisations.
Our organisation is led by people with experience of the issues we address.
The BME Health Forum is governed by a board of 9 trustees, the majority of whom are Directors of Global Majority community organisations. See our current trustees here.
The board is supported by an advisory group which also includes representatives from the NHS North West London ICS, Kensington & Chelsea Social Council, One Westminster, and SOBUS.
We secure funding to coordinate health and wellbeing services, delivered with our partners
We increase partners' capacity to deliver services with training, fundraising, organisational development & governance support
We help partners and their communities influence healthcare policy and provision
Highlights
Public Involvement Front Door launch
The Public Involvement Front Door combines a values-based approach with practical tips and resources to open up the world of public involvement and empower researchers of all experience levels to meaningfully involve public members in their work.
The BME Health Forum's Engagement and Projects Manager - Phayza Fudlalla features in a video sharing her knowledge and insight around developing meaningful research partnerships with community organisations.
The BME Health Forum’s Health Advocacy project involves training bilingual Health Advocates from a number of BAME community groups to help patients in their own language.
This project is funded by the National Lottery and the initial programme ended in August 2025, however we have recently secured renewed funding to continue this work.*
The video above was made by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust showing the impact that Health Advocates make in their hospitals in understanding the barriers that many of their patients are facing.
Read more about this project here
* Read more about our NEW Health Advocacy Service here
You Need To Know - NHS womb cancer awareness campaign
The 'You Need To Know' campagn was launched on the 31st January. Womb cancer is the 4th most common cancer in women in the United Kingdom. It is important to understand what women know about this cancer so that we can increase awareness. Several campaign assets have been developed such as posters, images, and a video that can be shared of which the BME Health Forum's Phayza Fudlalla took part in (see above). These can be shared on Social media, newsletters and placed in community settings. A video in Arabic is also now available.
Bi Borough VCS Health and Wellbeing Strategy
This Strategy has been developed over a period of months through a collaborative process with the voluntary and community sector and colleagues from across the statutory sector/NHS. It presents a number of case studies from the VCS including from the BME Health Forum that illustrate its main goals and offers a set of clear recommended actions.
Our weekly newsletter includes information about health and social care services, events, training, and jobs, with a focus on Northwest London
Latest News
Welcome to the Heart Voices Newsletter! We hope you have been enjoying the arrival of warmer and sunnier weather. In this edition we’ve got lots to share, including British Heart Foundation's (BHF) most recent updates around tackling inequalities, and how to access heart health information for your community. We want to make sure you are aware of everything that could help support your communities' heart health, so please forward anything relevant onto your networks.
Join The Abbey Centre's FREE, friendly 5-week English course as part of their WOW (Women Off to Work) programme, designed especially for women preparing to enter the world of work. Each session will last 2 hours and will give you the chance to build your confidence in speaking, listening and reading everyday English, whilst meeting new people. This is a 5 week course starting on the 1st May 2026.
The One You healthy lifestyle service as well as delivering health checks and healthy lifestyle support, delivers free training on MECC. Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach that encourages staff and volunteers to use everyday interactions to have brief, supportive conversations that help people make positive changes to their health and wellbeing. It focuses on listening, signposting, and empowering people to take small, achievable steps. Upcoming dates are 5th May, 4th June and 16th July.
Join us online for a Lunch and Learn session all about the Windrush Compensation Scheme. This session is being delivered by the Home Office Windrush Engagement team and geared toward Westminster Connects Volunteers, but all voluntary and community sector organisations, volunteers and community leaders in Westminster and Westminster City Council staff are welcome to attend. This is your chance to get the latest information on what the scheme offers and how it could benefit communities that you work with.
Wondering CIC, in partnership with WCL Mind (now known as All Kind), is proud to announce the first public screenings of UNFOLD, a groundbreaking collaborative filmmaking project exploring mental health through lived experience storytelling and biographical film as a tool for therapy. Running over 12 weeks between January and April 2026, UNFOLD culminated in 11 filmmakers each creating a deeply personal autobiographical short film.
The Skills for Londoners Community Outreach Programme (2026–29) is now open and offers multi‑year grant funding of £70,000–£120,000 to small community organisations. The programme aims to support groups to: Work with local communities facing barriers to engagement; Build trust and reach people most in need; Signpost residents to appropriate adult learning, skills and employment support.
The Communities and VCS Partnerships team at RBKC has organised two training sessions to support your work: AI Training for VCS Organisations (29.04.26) - Interested in using AI tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot safely and effectively? This free session covers practical uses for administration, communications and fundraising alongside key considerations around data protection, ethics and confidentiality. The second is Sustaining Your Workforce in Challenging Times - An in-person session for VCS managers and trustees supporting and retaining staff and volunteers when resources are stretched (27.05.26)
Help us improve tailored low back pain education, treatment and pathways for Black and Asian adults. LSBU researchers are looking for adults aged 18 years and above, who identify as being of a Black or Asian heritage/ descent, have lower back pain or have experienced lower back pain in the last 12 months and live in London to participate in a 60 mins focus group to share your personal understanding of lower back pain and your experience of lower back pain treatment. You will recieve a £15 voucher for your participation.
This framework provides guidance for partner agencies on how to respond to concerns or allegations about an employee or volunteer who works with adults with care and support needs, where the concern relates to activity outside of their professional or volunteering role. It also clarifies how to distinguish between matters that should be managed under PIPOT, those that fall under safeguarding adults/children procedures, and those that are best addressed via complaints or quality-of-care processes.
Our Safeguarding Ambassadors are concerned that voice scams targeting older people have entered a dangerous new phase, with scammers using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to clone the voices of family members and loved ones to make fraudulent phone calls—often requesting money for fake emergencies. These scams are highly sophisticated, exploiting trust and emotional vulnerability, with victims often reporting high-stress situations. The webinar will also cover a range of new and emerging scams.
YWF is excited to be sharing news with you about 3 special funding opportunities which could benefit organisations working with children and young people in Westminster. They all have deadlines coming up very soon: UK Youth Fund - expression of interest due 6 May; Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund - deadline 8 May; and Go! London Foundation - sports funding, deadline 5 May.
Are you an experienced, highly motivated project manager with excellent community organisation engagement and communication skills? Family Action is looking for an experienced Community Partners Engagement Project Manager with an impressive track record of co-ordinating and delivering high quality community organisation engagement work in partnership with statutory stakeholders.
NHS West and North London have published a further update on adult community specialist palliative and end‑of‑life care in north west London. This bulletin builds on the March update and provides more specific detail on how the new, more consistent model of care is being implemented across individual boroughs, reflecting phased delivery and different starting points.
Next week is the UK's 7th Annual Black Maternal Health Awareness week. Five X More CIC has come together with a host of organisations, individuals and health professionals for a weeklong campaign dedicated to raising awareness about the disparities in maternal outcomes for Black women and birthing people in the UK.
See updates from Media Trust's latest Newsletter including information about an event on Crafting volunteer opportunities that inspire action, Understanding and combatting health misinformation, Last chance to sign up for their AI Charity Academy, Media interviews for charities: Top tips and tricks , Accessible content creation for charities, and more.
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