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Black Thrive focuses on tackling structural and systemic racial inequities that negatively impact the mental health and wellbeing of Black communities. Through partnerships and a collaborative approach, the organization has achieved significant milestones despite operating with a small team and high workload. Black Thrive is dedicated to systemic change, community-driven initiatives, and leveraging research and storytelling to tackle longstanding racial disparities. Thriving Futures Thriving Futures (TF) is a strategic arm of Black Thriving Global (BTG) offering "Backbone of backbone" support to the Black Thrive localities (Black Thrive Birmingham and Black Thrive Haringey) and workstreams. Community Assemblies: Black Thrive Haringey (BTH) and Black Thrive Birmingham (BTB) hosted assemblies that attracted between 100-120 attendees per event. Additionally, on March 1, 2024, we held a Black-led Systems Change event at City Hall in collaboration with Father2Father and Open Minds Alliance (OMA). This event brought together leaders and organizations from across the country, showcasing race equity initiatives, research, and projects, while also providing a space for networking. Storytelling: The Thriving Future Programme prioritizes storytelling as a key method for engaging with the community. Initially focused on the stories of the BT senior leadership team, the project has expanded to feature impactful narratives from within the Black community, using film media. The goal is to employ various multimedia approaches to creatively communicate and share stories, fostering meaningful conversations with the community. Project Heal aims to address the long-term trauma experienced by Black communities and highlight transformative practices that facilitate healing or encourage individuals to take the first steps toward healing. The project involves collaboration among the BTL Communities team, BTH team, and BTG to develop videos and an app as storytelling mechanisms and supportive resources for healing journeys. Recognizing the need for a comprehensive resource directory, the team conceived an innovative app to provide access to a curated selection of videos, podcasts, books, and services aimed at supporting individuals on their healing journeys. The app's development aligns with the team's vision for a lasting legacy, envisaging its evolution into a free, indispensable tool accessible to our communities for years to come. Project Heal represents a collective endeavor to harness the power of storytelling and technology in fostering healing, resilience, and empowerment within our communities. As we embark on this transformative journey, we remain steadfast in our commitment to effecting positive change and uplifting the voices of resilience within the Black community. Children Young People and Families workstream. The Children in Needs Young Researchers Project dedicated most of the year to completing a coproduced research study investigating what impacts the wellbeing of Black/mixed heritage children who live, study, or play in Lambeth. We provided research upskilling sessions to our young researchers and guided them through the phases of research design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of our study findings. The young researchers will soon engage the community to apply for a participatory grant of £40,000 to fund suitable community youth services or individuals, which was one of the main project outcomes. Additionally, we plan to begin evaluation soon and share our coproduction approach within the community and systems. ‘Stop and Search’ Qualitative Study: We had previously partnered with the Centre of Society and Mental Health (CSMH) on a qualitative study examining the impact of 'Stop and Search' practices. Although the study was paused for a period, it resumed mid-year and is currently in the analysis and reporting phase. The South East London Integrated Care Board tasked us with focusing on Children and Young People’s Mental Health as part of the CORE20+plus 5 initiative. They funded Black Thrive to conduct listening exercises with children, parents, and staff in primary schools across five SE London Boroughs (Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Bromley, and Greenwich). The project's goal is to identify the emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of Black and Mixed Black heritage children, recommend interventions to help schools better meet these needs, and support the implementation and evaluation of these interventions over the academic year. Taking a trauma-informed approach, the project aims to develop initiatives that improve outcomes for Black and Mixed heritage children. From this, we identified common themes and what constitutes safe and good mental health. The reports, included recommendations for each school and were presented to SEL and the individual schools. ‘Roots to Wings’ Toolkit: While working on SEL’s Core 20+ programme and reflecting on emotional wellbeing in schools, CYPF identified the need for an easily accessible resource to support the emotional wellbeing of Black and Mixed heritage children. Recognizing the lack of support for Black pre-teens in Lambeth and Southwark, Black Thrive, in collaboration with Comuzi, a London-based innovation lab, co-developed a toolkit to foster and promote wellbeing. This co-creation process involved engaging 61 community members. We aim to launch the toolkit before the end of 2024 and share it with schools, community organizations, and youth clubs by late 2024/25. Black Queer & Thriving Black Queer & Thriving (BQT) is a pilot project aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of Black LGBTQ+ residents in BTG Locality areas. The project collaborates with these communities to develop and advocate for better mental health services and appropriate interventions. Over the past year, the focus has shifted to sharing learnings, building partnerships, and creating opportunities for Black Queer voices to influence system change. Despite challenges like perceptions of homophobia and religious hostility, the project emphasizes working with Black LGBTQ+ communities to drive systemic change. This year, BQT has engaged over 500 community members, hosted six events, and held its first external LGBTQ+ Staff Network event with system organizations. LGBTQ+ Working Group. Over the past year, the Lambeth Working Group expanded to 15 members and collaborated to engage the wider community through research, identify local project partners, and provide capacity-building support. Insights from this work are being shared with the new Black Thrive Haringey LGBTQ+ Working Group and the developing groups in Birmingham and Southwark. Data from the community research project is being analysed to inform future program priorities. Community Research. The LGBTQ+ Working Group, in collaboration with the BQT PPM, developed a community survey to explore the health and wellbeing experiences of Black LGBTQ+ individuals in Lambeth and Southwark. The survey covers mental health, safety, social prescribing, and community relationships. Following recommendations from previous reports, this will be one of the few studies focusing on Black LGBTQ health and wellbeing in local authority areas. The consultation phase is complete, and the report is set to be released in January 2025. Capacity Building. The LGBTQ+ Working Group has recognized the need for increased resources for emerging Black LGBTQ+ community leaders and health practitioners to enhance access to culturally sensitive support. Over the past year, they have collaborated with Lambeth-based Black LGBTQ+ activists to co-host events like A Queeribean Dominos Night and Black Queer Actors’ Playground. These events promote the BQT Community Survey, provide spaces to alleviate social isolation and loneliness, and help activists improve their skills. The group has supported these activists with feedback, fundraising, and connections to capacity-building organizations like Community Southwark. They look forward to supporting more activists and creatives in 2025 with activities aligned with program priorities. Locality Expansion: BQT has partnered with Black Thrive Haringey and Black Thrive Birmingham to integrate the experiences of Black LGBTQ+ individuals into their work. Two introductory Working Group meetings have been held with BTH, and planning with BTB and partner organization Fruit Punch has begun, aiming to start a Working Group in early 2025. BQT is also exploring potential partners to establish a Southwark Working Group in January 2025. Queer Networks Connect. Queer Networks Connect is a pilot initiative by Black Thrive Lambeth and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation to connect LGBTQ+ networks and staff in Lambeth and Southwark. It aims to foster relationships and collaboration while minimizing power dynamics. The initiative supports local LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing by promoting networking and sharing community intelligence. The inaugural event brought together over 60 staff members from 10 networks, highlighting local Black well-being practitioners. A follow-up event focusing on the intersection of Blackness, Queerness, and Disability is being planned. CAPSA – Culturally Appropriate Peer Support and Advocacy Our CAPSA work is funded by the Living Well Network Alliance (including SLaM), Department for Health and Social Care and supported by Lambeth Together. We are building upon the incredible work that the team achieved last year and are working towards phase two of the project. This phase will see further development of our statutory links and a deeper commitment to better outcomes with relation to the Mental Health Reform Bill 2022. Bridging The Gap. Over the past year, the CAPSA team has worked to improve mental health outcomes by addressing cultural and practice-related issues affecting service users in Lambeth and South London. They have empowered service users through co-production in care planning and advocacy, fostering hope and cultural safety. Key efforts include representing service users' perspectives in clinical spaces, raising awareness of cultural barriers, and promoting cultural competence. They have also delivered training to statutory partners, ensuring culturally competent care in line with the Patient & Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF). This work has highlighted the importance of lived experience and cultural competence in building trust and improving relationships between service users and clinical teams. Enriched: Theory of Change Workshop with King’s College London. CAPSA's ongoing efforts to implement PCREF with community partners have led to contributions to Maudsley Charity’s report on potential developments for statutory organizations in the locality. Social Inclusion Workshop: CAPSA partnered with King’s College London to conduct a Social Inclusion workshop, emphasizing the collective community voice. The workshop explored service users' and community members' perceptions of social inclusion and aimed to identify unmet social care needs. This resulted in a paper by CAPSA team members, highlighting the voices of Black individuals with serious mental illnesses, often overlooked in mental health research. Culture of Care. Culture of Care: The team's involvement in NHS England’s Culture of Care program has been crucial in improving mental health inpatient ward practices nationally. Using experiential knowledge from CAPSA service delivery, they identified areas for improvement. Two CAPSA members joined the Culture of Care working group to support Black Thrive's focus on racial equity in mental health inpatient care. Their ongoing work in Lambeth's inpatient wards provides valuable insights for Lived Experience advisors. Research Institute: Increased Collaboration with Workstreams and Localities: We have enhanced our collaborative efforts with various workstreams and localities through bi-monthly support drop-in sessions, providing tailored support and sharing beneficial insights and resources. This initiative has fostered a more integrated approach to research and intervention strategies, ensuring all teams have the necessary tools and information to progress effectively. We have also focused on improving the efficiency of research projects by offering strategic guidance and support. This includes the Barbershop project, which uses local barbershops as community hubs for health and social interventions, and the Basketball project, which evaluates the community impact of basketball events. Our collaborative efforts have streamlined processes and strengthened evaluation mechanisms, leading to more effective outcomes and valuable insights into community engagement strategies. Supported research process and data analysis with Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) for the Young Researchers Project. Research Institute and Observatory (RIO) has provided research support to the Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) workstream in their Children in Need Project. RIO has generated a research protocol, created the data collection questionnaires using a trauma-informed approach. RIO then assisted with data collection and documentation, analysed, coded the data and generated a set of general recommendations and insights regarding the wellbeing of Black children in Lambeth. RIO supported the CYPF team in writing the final report. The RIO team has resumed collaboration with King’s College London (KCL) on a project examining the impact of Stop and Search on Black youth in Lambeth. This project involved qualitative interviews, which were transcribed but not previously analyzed. RIO has now started analyzing these interviews, with all interviews coded and preliminary findings developed. Two articles will be submitted for publication: one on the mental health impact of Stop and Search on Black youth, and another on how Black youth perceive Stop and Search and potential solutions. Started integrating additional socio-economic and mental health datasets to the Stop and Search data dashboard. Co-led the design and formulation of the PCREF aligned anti-racism developmental evaluation framework. As a host organization for PCREF, Black Thrive has been instrumental in shaping the anti-racism developmental evaluation framework for SLaM. The framework, now refined and led by Black Thrive's Evaluation Lead, operates on a cyclical basis with quarterly metrics collection, allowing for quicker reflection and responsive action against racism. With input from a PCREF Staff Lead and a PCREF Service-user Lead, the approach has been finalised and is being implemented in SLaM. The anti-racism developmental evaluation approach will persist in its iterative and evolving process, drawing upon the accumulated knowledge gained from its implementation. Support the Culture of Care programme race equity. The Culture of Care programme, launched in April 2024 under NHS England’s Quality Transformation Programme, aims to transform inpatient mental health, learning disability, and autism wards across England. Its goal is to create safe, therapeutic, and equitable care environments for patients and fulfilling workplaces for staff. Black Thrive’s involvement includes the RIO team participating in the CoC working group, providing methodological rigor in data collection and analysis for evaluating Black Thrive’s Race Equity training sessions. The team has designed evaluation questions, analyzed data, and provided a theoretical and socio-historical foundation for the training. Black Thrive emphasizes the importance of a Black-led research institute to produce high-quality data and evidence, influencing policy and public debate on issues affecting the Black community, particularly in health and healthcare. Community involvement in Research. The core of RIO’s work is to amplify the voices of the Black community through research focused on antiracist methodologies, interventions, and policies. They conduct evaluations and generate insights to improve the health of the Black community and reduce the impact of racism. By sharing their knowledge and work through community workstreams and assemblies, RIO ensures that community voices are central to their efforts.
Community Assemblies are intended to inform, consult, engage, and involve the full spectrum of Black individuals and communities across all our work and throughout our journey and to connect communities with statutory bodies. These gatherings provide feedback on mental health services and collect information to ensure our work aligns with local needs. We are working with young researchers, aged between 9–13, in Lambeth. They are exploring challenges that face young, Black children in Lambeth and are coming up with solutions. We are actively engaged with the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF). We ensure that the PCREF is accessible to our communities through dissemination at our assemblies. We also reach our stakeholders through our social media campaign. We produce an annual activity report which is available to all stakeholders
The overall total amount of remuneration paid to or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services. £15K - £5K to each of the directors. £25K (excl VAT) – for Jacqui for her work on the Culture of Care. But this is for the duration of the project which is 2yrs. So only the element of the amount due to June 2024 has been accrued.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
26 February 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jacqueline Dyer
Status: Director