Journeys to health

Bedford Bangladeshi Women’s Association developments

On the 30th November we had the launch of the Bedford Bangladeshi Council which was a huge a success. A lot of time was committed into organising the event. A lot of our volunteers helped with the catering/ distributing leaflets and posters and also with the set up and the clearing of it at the end of the day.

We had approximately over 250 people attend the event. We had various people from statutory and voluntary organisations hold stalls such as Health Horizon, 0-19 Inform, Children’s Services, Pine cone children’s Centre, NHS and Bedford Police.

Bedford Bangladeshi Women’s Association also held a stall to promote and give more information about the services we provide, what we have achieved and what we would like to do in the future. We also had a leaflet to display the need for more volunteers and how they could benefit.

We had local MP Patrick Hall, Councillors, Journalists from Channel S and Bangla TV (digital channel 786 and 813) attend on the day. The day was a huge success it was family orientated event. We had face painting, balloon modelling and a children’s entertainer. The community were able to find out more about what Bedford Bangladeshi Council would be and most importantly be able to nominate for a position.

We have since been working in partnership with Shackleton Lower School working in Partnership with them to introduce Bangla classes after school, as there are a high number of Bangladeshi pupils attending that school.

Many of our Volunteers will be teaching and working as teaching assistant. We have completed CRB’S for all. All our volunteers have been generously giving their time to help produce resources to run the classes. Letters have gone out to parents and we have had a positive interest. We have had a meeting on the 23rd of January with the Head teacher and parents to inform more on how this will be delivered and how their children will benefit from this. The Bangla class will be officially be starting once a week after school from 3:10-4:30pm at Shackleton lower school on the 04th February 2009.

We will be looking into more training to help our teachers develop themselves. We have booked First Aid Training for our volunteers on the 14th of March which is a Saturday with British Red Cross.

I look forward in telling you more about the Bangla class and Bedford Bangladeshi Council.

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  1. by Stela Yordanova

    On February 10, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    To find out more about the wide range of first aid services, training and products provided by the British Red Cross please visit http://www.redcross.org.uk/firstaid


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