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Emergency COVID-19 Fund supports Chinese Community

Essex Cultural Diversity Project will be working with the Colchester Chinese Culture Society who have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through delivery of regular weekly activities including Tai Chi, Language classes, Calligraphy, cooking classes. Through CCCS a reach out programme to encourage participation and engagement through online activities such as music, dance, Calligraphy, Tai Chi, Yoga, crafts workshops via Zoom video. The online digital platforms will be accessible to these communities to promote wellbeing, fitness, and mental health. This will be an interim process until the easing of the Lockdown over the next 6 months reaching out to 350 people from the Chinese communities in Colchester & Tendering. Reaching out these communities will be a new approach for us to reach out through digital online approach especially elderly venerable and young people.