As part of its ‘deep engagement’ strategy to hold focus groups to ‘increase awareness on community experiences of health inequalities’, Birmingham City Council is spending £1.2 million.
Last month, it agreed contracts worth £589,226.5 with some of the 13 ‘communities’.
Its Pakistani Deep Engagement Partner, ‘The Delicate Mind’, gets £55,578 and says it will ‘critically examine structural inequality and how this exacerbates poor mental health we also explore the intersection between faith, identity and masculinity and how this effects mental health and wellbeing’.
Legacy West Midlands, which gets £89,851.50, ‘delivers sports, arts, heritage and youth programmes for the benefit of the whole community, including marginalised and underrepresented groups’.
Christians get £85,455; the Caribbean community £89,999; Bangladeshis £89,851.50 while Soft Machines Ltd, the scheme’s ‘academic support partner’, is being paid £57,390 and consultants Deepcx Insights Ltd receive £39,954.
The Somali Deep Engagement Partner, Allies Network, a community interest company, is being paid £89,998.99. On the council’s website, it talks about the opening hours at its Balsall Heath office and warns: ‘Please only attend if you are a black, African or Arab woman, family or elderly person.’
This is all chicken feed, of course, compared with the £1.5 million the council spends trying to persuade its citizens to give up smoking, the £4 million that goes on helping gamblers and alcoholics not to mention the £5,250,000 devoted to human resources training.
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/424484/allies_network_cic
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