Since 2019 CWA has been a recipient of Belfast City Councils Active Belfast funding. We scoped the needs within our BME communities to create ME Active Project.

Active Belfast, part of the Belfast Strategic Partnership, aims to tackle health inequalities as well as improve the health and wellbeing of citizens by encouraging more people to get involved in physical activity and to eat more healthily to lead a healthier lifestyle.

The key priorities of the programme are to increase:

• The skills and capacity of those working and volunteering in the physical activity sector.
• The quality and accessibility of place to be active.
• Levels of participation in physical activity.
• Partnership working across the physical activity sector.
• Promotion of the benefits of being more active and eating more healthily.

Through ME Active, the Chinese Welfare Association has and continues to engage with a range of health lead partners to deliver programmes throughout Belfast.