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  1. Bake sale

    bake sale A recipe for a fundraising classic! Baking something delicious for others to enjoy feels good – and it’s even more rewarding when you’re doing it to raise money for a great cause ... are fine too! Plan what you're going to sell. Appeal to all tastes by selling a wide range of baked goods, allowing for dietary requirements. Plan how much you're going to charge.  Set a price for each

  2. Is there an increased risk of coronavirus for BAME older people?

    that our BAME populations have been more at risk of the worst consequences of coronavirus than the white population. The Office for National Statistics recently revealed that in England and Wales, from the ... quarters (73.5%) of those people were aged 65+. Most BAME populations are younger on average than the white population, and when this is taken into account, the chances of BAME people dying of COVID-19 have

  3. Black History Month: Community and culture

    Williams It’s a struggle for many. They were used to coming out, meeting up, having a laugh and a good chat. The impact of coronavirus Before lockdown, Colin was registering upwards of 45 older people ... “It’s a struggle for many. They were used to coming out, meeting up, having a laugh and a good chat. Suddenly, older people were told they had to stay at home, so I’d receive phone calls

  4. Coronavirus and Black older people

    000 Black African and Caribbean men and women had a much higher risk of dying from coronavirus than White men and women, whose age-standardised rates of death were 107 and 66 in 100,000 respectively. How ... larger numbers of new cases of coronavirus for every 100,000 Black people than for every 100,000 White people in England. For example, in the week ending 3 April, just after the UK was put into lockdown

  5. How we raise our funds

    How Age UK raises money to help older people.

  6. Poverty and low income among Black older people

    but for older people from Black ethnic groups the risk of poverty is nearly twice as high as for White pensioners. Why are people from Black and other minority ethnic groups at greater risk of lower income ... figures show that 3 in 10 (30%) older people from Black ethnic groups are in poverty compared to 16% of White pensioners. Unfortunately these figures are not published for more specific ethnic groups so we cannot

  7. Elaine reflects on Black History Month

    face. “As Black women, we have to double our efforts to be exceedingly good, while working twice as hard as our white counterparts.” And she holds on to hope for the Black older people affected

  8. Sumita's support

    violence against women in South Asian communities. “South Asian women faced racist attitudes from white women if they went to mainstream women’s refuges.”  “I cannot stand bullies in any ... osteoporosis. This, combined with her fear of COVID, led to increasing feelings of isolation, even with good friends to speak to. “I was feeling so down and depressed,” she admits. “It became

  9. Dr Lucy Pollock on ageing with optimism

    an appointment with my GP’. But the narrative we don’t hear so often is ‘Thank goodness I can get a phone call with my results and don’t have to make an appointment’. This ... diverse places in our society. I live in quite a rural area where the population is almost entirely white – but the hospital has nurses and doctors from all over the world. “Many have come from

  10. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in BAME communities

    up the invitation to have a coronavirus vaccine, and found differences between ethnicities: 85% of White people said they were likely to accept the invitation to be vaccinated compared to 72% of Asian people ... February, more than three quarters of people who had been vaccinated against coronavirus were of White British ethnicity. Our best data comes from OpenSAFELY, which analyses the medical records of more

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