Latest News and events

We join together as NHS and charity leaders to encourage people with a weakened immune system to continue to book in or visit a walk-in centre for their COVID-19 vaccines. 

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2022/05/open-letter-from-nhs-charity-and-community-leaders-to-people-with-a-weakened-immune-system/

Dr Tan is running the Birmingham half marathon on 1/5/22 in raising funds to improve the dementia care in the Chinese community in U.K. 

The dementia community in particular in the Chinese speaking community is often the most neglected and vulnerable; the new project of the Chinese welfare trust will create a new post in a specialist dementia nurse and will greatly improve the quality of our Chinese elderly population. 

Being a geriatrician, he fully supports this project. 

We hope you will join us and kindly donate to this project 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fundraising-for-chinese-welfare-trust?fbclid=IwAR3OY9c4bZOaF1Q8zo8p6zrMFrgcHwjnOJ94wi9kSmc3Y0w0pNmgFRQMapw

We are delighted to announce that CWT will be taking part in a joint research project commencing in January 2022 entitled “Improving knowledge and increasing understanding of brain health in order to prevent dementia across five major Chinese communities in the UK’. Led by researchers from the University of Wolverhampton and the University of West England, the project has been awarded funding by Alzheimer’s Research UK and will involve collaborative working with four other Chinese community centers in England - Chinese Health Information Centre (Manchester), Chinese Wellbeing (Liverpool), Chinese Community Centre - Birmingham (CCC-B) and Chinese Community Wellbeing Society (formerly Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Group).

The national project aims to (1) engage the local community to develop and design culturally appropriate brain health materials, (2) improve understanding and knowledge of brain health in the general Chinese population, and (3) impart knowledge to the Chinese community organisations on brain health, physical exercise and diet for Chinese elderly people and people with mild dementia. Collectively, we will be hosting 15 workshops across England and delivering culturally appropriate materials to enhance knowledge and understanding of brain health, in order to create greater openness about dementia and develop a dialogue about brain health within the communities. It is hoped that this will create a positive impact leading to early help-seeking for dementia.

This ARUK project ties in nicely with our own flagship project which we are developing with Dementia UK on training the first Chinese-speaking Admiral Nurse (dementia specialist nursing service that takes a family-centered approach). We are hugely looking forward to bringing the benefits of these two projects to the UK Chinese communities.

CWT is proud to have co-hosted the third webinar with CARG (Covid-19 Anti-Racism Group) on improving the ESEA communities' understanding on how the criminal justice system works in delivering justice on cases of hate crime.

The online event was held on 21 April and the contents were mainly delivered by the national hate crime lead at the National Police Chiefs' Council alongside two policy and legal leads from the CPS. As in the previous two webinars with the CPS, this one was well attended by delegates from across the country. The opportunity to have a dialogue with the police and decision makers was valued by the delegates and the discussion was lively and thought-provoking.

We thank the CPS and the National Police Chiefs' Council for being proactive and keen to engage with the Chinese and ESEA communities up and down the country during a time when so many in our communities have experienced or have been worrying about falling victim to hate incidents and crime. We will continue to explore ways to collaborate and reassure members of our communities going forward.

We've listened to your feedback...and here's a second round of hate crime online counselling workshops that emphasise on peer support. In collaboration with the Chinese Community Health and Wellbeing Service.

Mandarin - 15/4, 6-8pm

Cantonese - 27/4, 10am-12pm

English - 1/5, 10am-12pm

Sign up here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Asianhatecrime/

We and our partners at Protection Approaches and Newham Chinese Association have produced a 2-page info sheet in 7 different  languages on hate crime to support community members. Help spread the word so that more people can benefit from understanding what a hate crime is and what to do when it happens.

This 2-page info sheet is in English, Chinese and the following ESEA languages:

• Vietnamese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Thai
• Malay

All versions of the info sheet can be downloaded from the website of Protection Approaches:

Hate crime | Protection Approaches (scroll down to the bottom of the page which says 'info sheets')

On 9th March, Chinese Welfare Trust, Protection Approaches and Newham Chinese Association hosted the first national conference on COVID-related hate, bringing together representatives from Chinese and ESEA community groups across England that have received training and support as part of our project funded by the National Lottery and the London Community Response Fund. 

The conference provided an opportunity for members of the national network to share with each other and other stakeholders what they are doing to increase understanding of hate crime, and to support victims and witnesses. It was also an opportunity for community representatives to discuss their concerns around hate crime, the impacts the pandemic is having in their local communities, what support they would like to see in the future, and how they would like the national network to develop.

Sarah Owen MP opened the online conference in a pre-recorded video. In attendance were also representatives of our project funders who were invited to witness the positive difference their generous support has made to the staff and volunteers of Chinee and ESEA community organisations in equipping them with resources and training to rise to the challenge of Covid-related hate.

The national conference reaffirms the importance of collaboration between community groups and other stakeholders in the wider community. It is generally agreed that a community-led approach to combating racial hate crime is an effective way to help raise awareness among community members and bolster a robust support system for victims. 

An outcomes paper with clear recommendations has been produced to capture the essence of the discussion at the national conference.

Our work on hate crime has caught some attention.

We are honoured to be invited by the Crown Prosecution Service to contribute an article to each of their last two issues of newsletter.

Our work involving the CPS since the arrival of Covid includes two CPS-led webinars on hate crime tailored for the needs of the Chinese, East and Southeast Asian communities in the UK.

The articles can be accessed here:

CPS Hate Crime Newsletter, Issue 26 | The Crown Prosecution Service

(special issue on National Hate Crime Awareness Week, October 2020)

CPS Hate Crime Newsletter, Issue 27 | The Crown Prosecution Service

(February 2021)

We are pleased to announce that free counselling sessions will be available to Chinese, East and Southeast Asian victims who are residents in the Greater London area.

This forms part of the resources available through the national project on "Confronting Covid-related Hate". We are grateful to the London Community Response Fund who has enabled us to offer this valuable service to benefit our community members. 

The Chinese Community Health and Wellbeing Service will provide bilingual counsellors (Chinese and English) who are qualified clinical practitioners. The service is free of charge and provided in strict confidence. During lockdown all counselling sessions will be provided remotely via phone or video conferencing apps.

Please get in touch by calling 07464890902 and leave a message. A counsellor will return your call to make a booking.