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Black Cancer Care charity in Harlesden is closing for good at the end of March 2021. - Credit: Google A cancer charity in Harlesden has a new lease of life after health chiefs u-turned on funding the vital service. However, Brent s Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has agreed to fund the charity for six months, then a further six months if key performance indicators are met , a total of roughly £75,000. Professor Frank Chinegwundoh MBE, chairperson of Cancer Black Care in Harlesden. - Credit: Ralph Hodgson Professor Frank Chinegwundoh MBE, chairperson of the charity, said: The CCG have said six months then a further six months. We have to show all these key performance indicators and be actively helping people to continue to the second tranche, which is very good indeed. ....
He discovered that there was a lack of appropriate information and that the level of cancer awareness amongst his Afro Caribbean community was very limited. Professor Chinegwundoh, Consultant Urological Surgeon at St Barts Hospital, was made chair of trustees in 1998 and was instrumental in bringing about policy changes which have had far reaching effects nationally. He said: There are very few black organisations in the cancer sector. Raising independent funds to keep going has been a constant struggle. Every now and then we get pots of money to do a particular projects, such as a men s drop in project, but to get core running costs is a struggle. ....