Welcome to Choices.
We are dedicated to empowering African Caribbean communities in Islington.
We offer a comprehensive range of holistic services.
Our advocacy efforts focus on race equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring that every voice is heard.
Join us in our mission to uplift and support our community through various projects and initiatives tailored to meet the unique needs of our members.
Windrush status& Compensation scheme
Choices are committed to justice and fairness and want to support individuals and families affected by the Windrush scandal.
In April 2018 a Windrush Taskforce was set up to help to deal with long-term Commonwealth citizen migrants who were able to demonstrate their right to remain in the UK.
This came as a result of a number of high-profile cases in the media concerning Commonwealth citizens who had lived in the UK for decades but were struggling to prove their right to live in the UK.
It helps people to access documentation so they can continue to live and work in the UK. An application can either be granted British Citizenship or Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR).
Commonwealth citizens who who settled in the UK by 1973 & their children who were born in the UK or came before the age of 18 and have continued to live in the UK, can apply for British Citizenship.
Our experience in advocacy and community outreach means we can help to raise awareness, provide guidance and support people navigating the Windrush Compensation Scheme and documentation process.
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Please contact us at choiceslondoncic@gmail.com
DIVERSE COMMUNITIES HEALTH VOICE
Choices have been a Diverse Communities Health Voice (DCHV) partner for many
years, delivering workshops with a focus on health prevention and providing information based on residents’ need.
As a partnership, we share our skills and insight to strengthen each other’s’ work.
We want to engage communities on issues that matter to them, in ways that are accessible and meaningful to them. We don’t ask people to give us their opinion without giving them information or support in return.
We are working together to gather insight from the Islington residents that our organisations represent so that these can inform service provision and commissioning, increasing equality of access.
Food Bank
Choices offer a weekly food bank every Tuesday. We also run a monthly
Cultural Food Co-operative where local residents pay a membership fee of £5 in return for £20 - £25 worth of Afro-Caribbean foods
Please contact us for further details at choiceslondoncic@gmail.com
STOP & SEARCH COMMUNITY MONITORING GROUP
Islington Stop & Search CMG
CMGs have a vital role in delivering this accountability, by acting as
independent overseers of the use of police powers in their boroughs, providing a voice for their local communities, communicating the experiences of street encounters especially around stop and search.
The monitoring process exists to improve the trust and confidence of the public in the way the police employ stop and search interactions, examine any apparent unfairness in the way they operate; and to hold their local commanders and officers accountable on policies and practices so as to assist in driving down disproportionality.
CMGs are groups comprised of volunteer members of the community. They will monitor all local Stop and Search issues including the legal powers, number of stops, arrest rates, disproportionality, complaints and Body Worn Video footage. CMGs can also identify and share best practice with other CMGs through their membership of the London-wide Community Monitoring Network (CMN). The CMN is the MOPAC mechanism to assist in delivering community scrutiny of the Metropolitan Police Service use of stop and search
powers.
We need passionate people who care about social justice to join our group, so
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