National Lottery awards community interest group £55k to tackle health inequalities in the black community

The Black Health Matters project will develop clear and accessible materials such as short videos, podcasts and action tool-kits that facilitate black communities to take better control of their health and well-being

PRESSING ISSUE: The COVID-19 pandemic has made health inequalities faced by the black community clearer (Image via Getty Images)

COMMUNITY INTEREST company The Love Tank has been awarded more than £55,000 in National Lottery funding to tackle health inequalities in the black community.

Established in 2018, the Love Tank is a London-based not-for-profit organisation that promotes the health and wellbeing of underserved communities through education and research. 

The £55,414 grant from the UK’s largest funder of community activity will go towards Love Tank’s new initiative, the Black Health Matters project.

The aim of the project is to bring together the lived experiences of leaders and organisations who are affected by or involved in tackling health issues that impact black communities. 

Black Health Matters will develop clear and accessible materials such as short videos, podcasts and action toolkits that enable black communities, their allies, and policy makers to take better control of their health and wellbeing.

Marc Thompson, co-director of The Love Tank said: “There is currently little strategic and programmatic public health and health equalities work that collates and draws threads between lived experience leaders who address black health inequalities, and builds responses that influence systemic change to tackle these inequalities.”

The grant is part of the National Lottery Community Fund’s Lived Experience Leaders programme, which yesterday announced £2.5million of funding that will go to 49 projects across the UK. 

Cassie Robinson, Senior Head of UK Portfolio at the National Lottery Community Fund said: “Thanks to National Lottery players, people with lived experience will use their unique expertise to lead social change and help their communities to thrive, which is vital in the response to – and looking ahead to the recovery from – COVID-19. 

“We know that supporting those with first-hand experience to become leaders is a key enabler for civil society to do more, help more people, and for the sector to continue to make a positive impact.”

In 2020, the National Lottery Community fund distributed over £650 million to more than 13,000 community groups as part of the coronavirus response. 

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