Hackney CVS would like to invite you to another Black History Season starting with an event on 22 October. As usual, we will have important debate, knowledge and power sharing for our communities and partners. This will be followed by African music, dancing and a hot Caribbean lunch. This is not to be missed!

Festival of Flags

Once again, we are asking all of you to contribute to our Black History exhibition. In response to the current campaign of division and hate using the Union Jack and St Georges Cross flags, we would like you to contribute as many flags from African and Caribbean countries as possible and we will create a wonderful display of unity and love. We will be accepting flag contributions as of today, 1^st October. The exhibition will be installed by Thursday 16^th October. Please put the name of your organisation on the flags so that they can be returned to you. We welcome a written message on the flags as well to strengthen the meaning of the exhibition.

For any queries on contributions to the exhibition, please email reception@hcvs.org.uk

Black History Event 22^nd October 2025 

Running order of the day:

11am Welcome and introductions

11.30am Health & Wellbeing in Black Communities

Janet Murungi, Community African Network - Bowel cancer in the African Community

Deryck Browne, African Health Policy Network - Sickle Cell Anaemia

12.30 Break with African music

1pm Climate Justice and the Fight for Racial Justice

Dr Leon Sealy-Huggins, War on Want Organisation

Leon is an academic at the University of Warwick whose work centres on the social and political relations of climate breakdown, with a particular focus on the Caribbean region.

2pm Music, dancing and lunch

This will be another fantastic celebration of Black History at Hackney CVS and look out for future events throughout the season.