Eimaan Culture and Community Services CIC
Community Pride Award Winner
Eimaan Culture and Community Services CIC is a specialist service provider promoting activities and learning to improve equality, diversity, inclusion, health and wellbeing in the community.
Working in collaboration with the NHS, North Yorkshire Police & Fire Services, Education, Local Authority, voluntary sector and other organisations to ensure people from under-represented groups feel supported.
Providing Cultural Awareness and Lived Experience Training to enhance cultural competency for organisations to create a more compassionate workplace where difference is valued and respected. Enabling delivery of fit for purpose services that are relevant and relatable to customer needs.
Desired outputs are:
Providing cultural-appropriate opportunities and events
Providing networking, friendship and unifying opportunities
Improving social integration and enhancing overall community connections.
Supporting health and well being
Empowering vulnerable communities
Delivery of cultural awareness and lived experience training to enhance organisational competence
Providing consultancy, diverse panel and project management services to improve organisational equality, diversity, inclusion & cultural compliance
Celebrating inclusion and diversity
Delivery of diverse learning/awareness sessions to improve wider understanding of other cultures, backgrounds and heritage.
Sharing lived experience accounts to provide hope and inspiration to others who are on a similar journey and to promote understanding and compassion in the wider community.
Shamim Eimaan, director of Eimaan Culture and Community Services CIC, was awarded Best Community Project, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, at the annual York Community Pride Awards last Thursday (September 5).
Shamim’s nominations were littered with feedback about the overwhelming success of the event, highlighting that ‘it was amazing, informative and interesting’ and that ‘it was a fab way to get people talking about health’ and Shamim deserved recognition for her contribution to promoting diversity, fostering inclusivity, mutual respect and addressing health disparities.
York Press - 10 September 2024
by Kevin Glenton
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