PR O PO S AL PARTICIPAN TS Florence: Florence is the founder of Lives of Colour and has worked for over ten years within community development settings in both the UK and abroad. She is a passionate speaker, educator, and mentors’ young people. She works with them, encourages and empowers them to reach their goals. In 2018, she created the G.R.A.D.E.E.S. (page 4) inclusion workshop, a part of the Lives of Colour training programme, to support schools, organisations and businesses with diversity and inclusion strategies. She recently launched the Authors of Colour initiative which includes a curation of diverse books for schools and families. She is an innovator who has led different projects for the Heritage Fund, Awards for All and was part of the team that founded FestivALL in Gloucestershire. Most recently she curated the I-MMIGRATE exhibition that showcased the portraits and oral histories of the Windrush generation and African diaspora in Gloucestershire. This was exhibited at the Museum of Gloucester until the end of October 2020. In Gloucestershire she has organised Black History Month Gloucestershire events since 2014 and this summer co-hosted the Black Lives Matter event in Cheltenham. She has facilitated summer volunteer trips for students as part of @ProjectKenya to go work in an orphanage and school in Kenya, organised by Nowans Community Trust and continues to support the orphanage and school. Nabeela: I’m from Birmingham, have lived in Cheltenham since 2010 and AWP, worked clinically in mental health NHS, social care for a number of years. With time the roles become more specific, limited in terms of engagement & outreach reflecting the services. These have been both paid volunteer roles with marginalised communities in a variety of settings including looked after children from many different backgrounds including refugees, these were mostly Afghan in earlier 2000s, otherwise I’ve supported or worked with children, young offenders, survivors of domestic abuse, homeless, learning difficulties, neuro diverse. Eby grew up in London in a close-knit community where people looked out for one another, and he’s found that Cheltenham doesn’t have a similarly cohesive community. He wants to see that happen here. When he participated in the Black Lives Matter movement, he had the realisation that he’d been prepared for this throughout the course of his life and he felt now is the time to speak out and build something new. He’s concerned that some of the momentum of the summer protests has been lost, and wants to ensure that the substantial and practicable action continues. Jermaine has been campaigning for a conference of this nature for a long time, and is now working with Florence to bring it to reality. His ambition is to reduce inequality at first in Cheltenham and then further beyond. He’s considering establishing channels through which people can share their experiences so we can proactively help to address them. He’s lived in Cheltenham for the past ten years, and has approached Florence to work on a conference and ensure that it’s a project led fundamentally by the people most affected by the issues it concerns. He’s a Doctor of Psychology working at University of Bath. BACK TO CONTE N TS CCC Report and Proposal V5.indd 7
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