Our stories

Toni Harris

I qualified as a Fashion Designer in 1981 at Salford College where I also became a member of The Society of Industrial Artiste and...

Lorna Downer

Lorna is the Treasurer and Director of Communications and Social Media with the CAHN organisation (Caribbean African Health Network)....

Verna Davis

Service Manager for the Manchester Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Service and lead specialist Haemoglobinopathy Counsellor. The service...

Marilyn Cuffy

I was born in Dominica, where English and Creole (French) is spoken. My sister and I were raised by our grandparents. We joined our...

Judy Craven

I am a Chinese-African-Caribbean woman from Kingston, Jamaica. I completed school, university and my teaching diploma in Jamaica before...

Mrs Mary Saloma Chaba

Born on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts & Nevis) Eastern Caribbean. Her parents were among the migrant workers who were invited...

Dr Erinma Bell, MBE DL

In 2003 Erinma became a co-founder and CEO of her own formidable charity known as CARISMA - Community Alliance for Renewal Inner South...

Professor Carol Elaine Baxter

Professor Carol Baxter CBE, FRSA, PhD, MSc, DN (Lond.) FETC, RHV, RN, RM, HonMFPHM has over four decades of experience of working across...

Jackie Bailey

“My life-long passion and commitment has been facilitating people, particularly women, individually and in groups to a place where they...

Julie Asumu

My name is Julie Asumu and a mother of three children. I am an African trained diploma holder in Social Work with teaching...