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The First Of Ten New Community Centres For Ethnic Groups Has Been Opened

1983 , Luton (Bedfordshire)

Cat no. 49708

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Funding to create community centres and provide translation services for minority groups.

Ten new community centres for ethnic groups will be supported with a year’s funding from the Manpower Services Commission. In Luton a small crowd of men and children watch a man up a ladder as he hammers a sign above a doorway for the Bangladesh Welfare Association. The entrance is next to the Halal Meat grocery store on the corner of Hampton Road. Scenes of other community centres. Inside a kitchen, people of West Indian appearance struggle with a damaged carpet. At a Hindu shrine at the end of a sports hall, people celebrate with singing and bells. Anglia TV reporter Owen Spencer-Thomas talks to Roy Edwards who describes the community benefits of the funding. Jobs will be created, enabling support services with language translation to help answer enquiries at organisations like the Town Hall, the DHSS and the education service and for youth work. He hopes this will help promote multi-racialism in the town. What will happen in a year’s time when the funding ends? This video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Community centres; Hindu shrines; Translation services; Multi-racial communities

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The First Of Ten New Community Centres For Ethnic Groups Has Been Opened

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