News | Essex Cultural Diversity Project

Let’s Get Active

Active Essex has received Tackling Inequalities funding from Sport England and will work with ECDP to deliver onward grants to BAME community organisations.

Windrush Day on BBC Essex

For Windrush Day 2020 Essex Cultural Diversity Project and friends were invited to speak on Essex Voices, BBC Essex’s weekly programme that focuses on Community.

Helping diverse organisations access funds during the Coronavirus crisis

Essex Cultural Diversity Project is working closely with Essex Community Foundation to help more organisations that identify as Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) make applications.

Close and Remote on BBC Essex

In 2018 Essex Cultural Diversity Project commissioned artists Close and Remote (Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor) to create new work in collaboration with residents in Jaywick Sands. In May 2020,…

An Indian Princess in Essex: a new discovery

In this interview on BBC Essex’s ‘Essex Voices’, Sikh Historian and author Peter Bance reveals the fascinating story of Princess Helen Rundeer Singh Ahluwalia of Kapurthala who lived in Essex