This project is purposely for people over 50 to help reduce stress and support their mental health.

Golden Careers Foundation is very passionate about leaving the planet in a better place for future generations and we believe that little changes can make a big difference.

"Going green" means to pursue knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles.

We attended a 'sustainability' networking event at Nottingham's Marcus Garvey Centre this week and spoke to the organiser Faith Gakanje , who's the director of the African Women's Empowerment Forum.....

Golden Careers Foundation is very passionate about leaving the planet in a better place for future generations and we believe that little changes can make a big difference. GCC was there capturing the Great Big Green Week.

THE GREAT BIG GREEN WEEK IS THE UK’S BIGGEST EVER CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE AND PROTECT NATURE.


"Going green" means to pursue knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles.

We attended a 'sustainability' networking event at Nottingham's Marcus Garvey Centre this week and spoke to the CLLR Audra Wynter.....

Golden Careers Foundation have been recognised by Her Majesty The Queens representative in Leicestershire and Rutland, Lord Lieutenant Mike Kapur OBE for our most well-known service- delivering culturally specific healthy food and nutrition to the BAME community in Leicester West during the pandemic. GCC takes poverty reduction seriously. Majority of our people are struggling to get back to work due to life changing physical fitness because of Covid-19. Others feels isolated with no hope as they struggle to pay bills and send remittance back to the motherland. Migrants find it hard to reach potential employers.

Our community is struggling in all components of deprivation- income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services and living environment. Poverty has significant socio-economic impacts on the community. For those lucky enough to be in a job, they were exposed to Covid-19 because of public facing transport jobs such as taxi driving, delivery services and front-line health and factory workers. GCC will assist beneficiaries in thinking outside the box, job security, entrepreneurship, and impact other stakeholders to ‘open up’ their industries to refugees. In the long run, upskilling and reskilling programs can improve employee engagement and retention, attract new talent, and speed up the adoption of new trends within companies.

Displayed is a photo gallery of the job fair event/ health sector recruitment event we held…

Trust has been built with our beneficiaries because of our long running project delivering food provisions, PPE, and other hygiene materials to our community. GCF find these beneficiaries confide in us over time and tell us about issues affecting them. Reskilling or upskilling is one of the main issues- in general, finding employment for our beneficiaries.
GCC takes reskilling very seriously- we realise that reskilling allows employers to maintain their workforce, while also putting employers in more useful positions that likewise benefit the company. After the pandemic, employees, or jobless casualties’ of Covid will still need work, and that work doesn't necessarily need to be in a different industry or company. People need to be thinking about how to expand their skill set. GCC wants to address the problem of finding new approaches to mobilizing our existing talent base.

Golden Careers Foundation connected it’s beneficiaries with a forward thinking group of UK Health professionals and helped organise a networking event dubbed ' Leicester meet and greet event Health Professionals'
They also say the group discuss pertinent topics that make us thrive as a community - immigration help , life in the UK , health and social care business , agency work , childcare , and many other important issues....

Godfrey Mushandu of Ultra Health Care shares more about the inspiration behind this job creation concept.

Golden Careers Foundation attended the Leicester Caribbean Cricket during its first Annual Commemorative Cricket Match & Community Cohesion day at Ethel Road Playing Fields. It was the first of the Club’s annual testimony to its founder members, together with those who have historically contributed to its longevity.

This fun day was also paying homage to the Chair of the club, George Martin, who's terminally ill- George has nurtured the club, enabling it to reach its 65th year in 2022. Homage was paid to those Caribbeans who are gone too soon- affected by this dastardly virus and other ailments.

IN ORDER OF INTERVIEWS – GCC spoke to Fitzroy Wallace , Alderman Joe Allan, Claudia Webbe MP for Leicester East and finally Maria Garcia and Iris Lightfoote both from Leicester's Race and Equality Centre...

Golden Careers Foundation has heard from creative artiste who report that, the pandemic has been like watching their musical dream fade into the distance.
Listen to a performer speak about lockdown, his career and mental health.

In this episode, Golden Careers Champions discusses how it serves as a conduit between the community and various organisations within Leicestershire and beyond.

Golden Careers Champions in Leicester believe our community’s future economic and social prosperity will be shaped by how we deal and recover from the impact of the pandemic.

In this clip,Our trustees, volunteers and beneficiary’s talk about the work GCC is doing and how that has helped them to achieve/trying to achieve self sufficiency.

Dr Douglas Betts answers your concerns around the misunderstandings and misinformation about the Covid 19 vaccinations...



What Golden Careers Champions knows is…

• Ethnic minority people experience a much higher risk of COVID-19-related death, a stark inequality that impacts on all ethnic minority groups, including white minority groups such as Gypsies and Irish Travellers.

• Local authorities with higher proportions of ethnic minority residents are likely to have higher numbers of COVID-19-related deaths.

• These inequalities reflect increased risk of exposure to the virus because of where people live, the type of accommodation they live in, household size, the types of jobs they do and the means of transport they use to get to work.

• Ethnic inequalities in relation to COVID-19 mirror longstanding ethnic inequalities in health. A

large body of evidence has shown that these inequalities are driven by social and economic inequalities, many of which are the result of racial discrimination.

• Ethnic minorities are also at increased risk

of complications and mortality post COVID-19 infection; greater risk of serious illness with COVID-19 is more likely the result of pre-existing social and economic inequalities manifesting in the form of particular chronic illnesses. There

is no evidence for genetic or genetically related biological factors underlying this increased risk, including vitamin D deficiency.

There are marked ethnic inequalities in COVID-19-related deaths. A focus on these inequalities has been brought into sharp relief by growing public and government recognition that a disproportionate number of the NHS and care staff who were dying were from ethnic minority backgrounds. This concern was reinforced by academic studies clearly illustrating an increased risk of COVID-19-related mortality for ethnic minority groups (ONS, 2020; Platt and Warwick, 2020).

Our own analysis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that the risk of COVID-19-related mortality in a local authority is strongly related to the proportion of the population who are from an ethnic minority group (Nazroo and Bécares, 2020).

Dr Douglas Betts answers your concerns around the misunderstandings and misinformation about the Covid 19 vaccinations...



What Golden Careers Champions knows is…

• Ethnic minority people experience a much higher risk of COVID-19-related death, a stark inequality that impacts on all ethnic minority groups, including white minority groups such as Gypsies and Irish Travellers.

• Local authorities with higher proportions of ethnic minority residents are likely to have higher numbers of COVID-19-related deaths.

• These inequalities reflect increased risk of exposure to the virus because of where people live, the type of accommodation they live in, household size, the types of jobs they do and the means of transport they use to get to work.

• Ethnic inequalities in relation to COVID-19 mirror longstanding ethnic inequalities in health. A

large body of evidence has shown that these inequalities are driven by social and economic inequalities, many of which are the result of racial discrimination.

• Ethnic minorities are also at increased risk

of complications and mortality post COVID-19 infection; greater risk of serious illness with COVID-19 is more likely the result of pre-existing social and economic inequalities manifesting in the form of particular chronic illnesses. There

is no evidence for genetic or genetically related biological factors underlying this increased risk, including vitamin D deficiency.

There are marked ethnic inequalities in COVID-19-related deaths. A focus on these inequalities has been brought into sharp relief by growing public and government recognition that a disproportionate number of the NHS and care staff who were dying were from ethnic minority backgrounds. This concern was reinforced by academic studies clearly illustrating an increased risk of COVID-19-related mortality for ethnic minority groups (ONS, 2020; Platt and Warwick, 2020).

Our own analysis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that the risk of COVID-19-related mortality in a local authority is strongly related to the proportion of the population who are from an ethnic minority group (Nazroo and Bécares, 2020).

Golden careers champions is proud to bring you our latest COVID-19 BROADCAST .

We were taken aback by this statistic ;

The Royal Society for Public Health found that 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people said they would take a Covid vaccine.
This compares with 79% of white people…..so in our usual lockdown champions style, we’d like the authorities to answer your concerns!

We will hopefully bring a medical expert to help bust myths on vaccinations….

Beneficiaries in our project/ community say they are "apprehensive, anxious and reluctant" to be vaccinated against coronavirus.
The reason for this is mainly because of non-evidence based videos that are circulating [which] have been negative and against the vaccine.

Nadhim Zahawi MP, who is the minister responsible for Covid vaccine deployment, said he recognised "the importance of raising awareness of the myriad benefits of vaccination within BAME communities, who are known to be more at risk from Covid-19". He said:
"The NHS provides targeted advice and public information about the vaccination process to build awareness about its benefits,"

Golden careers champions is proud to bring you our latest COVID-19 BROADCAST .

We were taken aback by this statistic ;

The Royal Society for Public Health found that 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people said they would take a Covid vaccine.
This compares with 79% of white people…..so in our usual lockdown champions style, we’d like the authorities to answer your concerns!

We will hopefully bring a medical expert to help bust myths on vaccinations….

Beneficiaries in our project/ community say they are "apprehensive, anxious and reluctant" to be vaccinated against coronavirus.
The reason for this is mainly because of non-evidence based videos that are circulating [which] have been negative and against the vaccine.

Nadhim Zahawi MP, who is the minister responsible for Covid vaccine deployment, said he recognised "the importance of raising awareness of the myriad benefits of vaccination within BAME communities, who are known to be more at risk from Covid-19". He said:
"The NHS provides targeted advice and public information about the vaccination process to build awareness about its benefits,"

Golden careers champions is proud to bring you our latest COVID-19 BROADCAST .

We were taken aback by this statistic ; '

The Royal Society for Public Health found that 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people said they would take a Covid vaccine.
This compares with 79% of white people…..so in our usual lockdown champions style, we’d like the authorities to answer your concerns!

We will hopefully bring a medical expert to help bust myths on vaccinations….

Beneficiaries in our project/ community say they are "apprehensive, anxious and reluctant" to be vaccinated against coronavirus.
The reason for this is mainly because of non-evidence based videos that are circulating [which] have been negative and against the vaccine.

Nadhim Zahawi MP, who is the minister responsible for Covid vaccine deployment, said he recognised "the importance of raising awareness of the myriad benefits of vaccination within BAME communities, who are known to be more at risk from Covid-19". He said:
"The NHS provides targeted advice and public information about the vaccination process to build awareness about its benefits,"

Manjit Sigh talks to Kevin Ncube about the impact of Covid-19 on the Immigration System and gives a brief history on plagues and pandemics.

Mark Prescod, senior lecturer at Business and Law at De Montfort University , Leicester. He Started his working life as the UK’s youngest MBA Graduate. Hear his take on the Coronavirus pandemic and it’s impact on Lectures and students alike.

Grace discusses the Impact of Coronavirus lockdown on family life in this third episode of Golden Careers Champions podcast.

An interview with Bianca Darbey regarding the impact of Coronavirus.Find out just how this Covid-19 emergency is affecting workers in safeguarding.

Mark Esho interviewed by Kevin Ncube about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting Leicester’s business community.

Mark is the author of I can , I will, My story of overcoming Abuse, Disability and Racism.