Give up chocolate to help BHF
Emma Day, head of Dechox, British Heart Foundation, writes:
This March, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is encouraging the British public to take on their Dechox challenge and give up chocolate and other sugary snacks for the month of March. Dechox Warriors will help to raise life saving funds for the 7.6 million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory diseases.
A recent survey carried out by the BHF, revealed that biscuits were the UK’s favourite sugary snack (42 per cent), closely followed by chocolate (41pc).
With the findings demonstrating just how important biscuits and chocolate are to us, giving them up will be no easy feat.
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Join us in supporting Vaccines For All!
The Muslim Professionals Forum has today signed up to support the #VaccinesForAll campaign – and called on all other Muslim organisations to do so too.
Current government policy is that:
-access to Coronavirus testing and treatment is free for everyone, regardless of immigration status, and
-GP services remain available to everyone, regardless of their background.
However, many healthcare workers became concerned that many people would still fall through the net. Organisations within the Patients Not Passports campaign are therefore calling for additional measures to be taken so that #VaccinesForAll becomes a reality.
The campaign is easy to join. The campaign aims, a list of current supporters, and a very simple sign-up box can be found on: http://www.vaccineforall.co.uk/ Signing up takes around one minute.
Lord Simon Wooley tells MPF members, “We’re fighting the pandemic of instutitonal racism.”
The Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF) held a virtual meeting last weekend to discuss whether racism, and particularly Islamophobia, still militate against BAME and Muslim communities becoming engaged in the democratic process. It was addressed by Lord Simon Woolley, founder of Operation Black Vote. A recording of the meeting is available on the MPF Facebook page.
Lord Simon Woolley set out the view that the BAME community is fighting an international pandemic of institutional racism which tolerates BAME people suffering from Covid in disproportionately high numbers and in which institutional racism leads to the death of black men on the streets in the USA and to more incidents of stop and search in the UK.