News & Updates
Learnings from Neurodiversity in BAME Community Conference
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG I attended the Neurodiversity in BAME Community conference organised by Autism Voice UK at the end of September 2023. As the Policy & Research Officer of ESDEG, a grassroots charity working with ethnic...
Impact of Art Therapy on Mental Health
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG These days we hear a lot about Arts Therapy, but do you ever wonder like me what exactly is it? Arts Therapy can be defined as a type of expressive therapy that utilises the process of creating arts to...
Making The Most of Summer Holidays
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG British summer may not appear every year, but the school holidays do from late July to early September when every child in the country is officially on holiday. For most adults and children summer means...
Dreams Of A Brighter Future For Young People From Low-Income Households Through Tech Incubator
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG The youth of today are perhaps the nimblest adaptors of the rapidly evolving technology landscape and in turn technology has had far reaching impact on them and has been successful in opening up new...
Mentoring the Youth from Low Income Households in West London
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG Mentoring is an effective way to support young people in their formative years. If you are wondering what mentoring entails - according to MentorCliq “Mentoring is any form of social learning where...
Distributing the Household Support Grant – An ESDEG Experience
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG Household Support Grant (HSG) was introduced by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in autumn of 2021 to provide support to the most vulnerable in London through small grants of food, clothing,...
How the Northolt Community Food Bank Is Helping Fight Hunger During the Cost of Living Crisis
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG Ever since Ms. Ragini Patel started running a food bank on Friday mornings from the Viking Community Centre in Northolt where ESDEG operates from, my colleagues have been telling me about how brilliantly...
A Week of Blog Posts to Celebrate the London Challenge Poverty Week 2023
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG London Challenge Poverty Week (LCPW) begins today and we at ESDEG feel this is a great opportunity to get together with 4in10 and the other charities to raise awareness about the reality of poverty at the...
Will Migrant Mothers Have a Place in Ealing’s
new Health & Wellbeing Strategy?
Suchismita MajumdarCommunications & Policy OfficerESDEG ESDEG welcomes Ealing Council’s New Health and Wellbeing Strategy which recently gotapproved. You can read in detail about this plan in this article in Around Ealing published on the24th of May, 2023. We...