In October and November 2024 our UKRI/AHRC ‘Collaborative Community Research to Tackle Health Inequalities’ funded project held multiple launch events. Stakeholders from local government, ICBs, NGOs and community members local to our 12 fieldsites in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, North London and South London were invited to find out about our plans and how they can engage with this work. We explained that we were looking closely at how resources in their community were being used, what stops people from using them, and discover any hidden resources.
Our goal is to make sure that community assets used by local communities are collaboratively identified and better supported to help improve the health outcomes for refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant communities by shaping the design of models to tackle health inequalities – repurposing/developing existing assets.