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The Minority Ethnic Communities (MEC) Health Fair 2024 took place on 16 October 2024, 10am-3pm at Cardiff City Stadium.

Theme: Building Healthy Communities: Embracing Self-Care and Achieving Health Equity

The previous year, more than 300 people found out about health and wellbeing services at the event, which was held at City Hall, Cardiff. In 2024, we were pleased to build on that success and offer even more.

The event was FREE to drop in and aimed to build healthy communities by giving individuals and families the opportunity to access a wide range of information from various organisations on how to look after health and wellbeing and inspire one another. Health professionals were also present to support the event and provide advice through a Q&A session.

Goody bags were given to the first 100 visitors.

MEC Health Fair Sponsors and Stalls in previous years include: Age Cymru, Alzheimer’s Society, Ara Recovery4All, Bowel Cancer UK, Cardiff & Vale Health Charity, Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board – Dementia and Brain Health, Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board – Unpaid Carers affected by Dementia, Cardiff and Vale Public Health Team – Immunisation Services, Cardiff and Vale UHB – Children and Young People Health Services, Cardiff and Vale UHB – Primary Mental Health Services, Cardiff City and South Primary Care Cluster, Cardiff Council – Care’Diff, Age Friendly Cardiff and The Wellbeing Service, Cardiff South West Primary Care Cluster, Cardiff Third Sector Council (C3SC), CAVAMH, Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR), Community Care and Wellbeing Service, Community Dietetic Department, Pre-Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Services, Cwmpas, Diabetes UK Cymru, Diverse Cymru, Macular Society, Patient Experience – Cardiff and Vale UHB, Public Health Dietetics Team NHS, Public Health Wales – Screening Engagement Team, Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Race Equality First, RNIB, Sight Cymru, South Wales Fire Service, The Birth Partner Project, The FAN Project, The Mentor Ring, The Open University in Wales, Time to Change Wales, Versus Arthritis, Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) – Macmillan Community Innovation Project, Wales Gene Park (Cardiff Council), Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust, WOMB inc CIC, Women Connect First

Event Format

• 10am to 3pm: Open exhibition and organisation stalls
• 10am: Welcome address and keynote speaker
• 10:30am-3pm: Health checks
• 11:00am-3pm: Q&A Panel session and activities*

*Activities have included demos such as yoga, henna and massage in previous years
*Welcome address by First Minister (TBC)

The event featured…

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How to get involved

Every year, the Minority Ethnic Communities Health Fair invites sponsors and volunteers to play a direct role in supporting the event to take place and reach as many communities as possible. We are passionate about providing ethnic minority communities with information relating to health, social care and wellbeing to close the gap on health inequalities affecting various populations of our city. 

In the past, volunteers have supported with translation, offering accessibility support via transport as well as on-the-day support in the running of the event.

If you support Minority Ethnic community groups and would like to help in the future via donation, promotion, and contributing to the accessibility of the event, please e-mail anna.r@c3sc.org.uk with the subject “MEC Health Fair community”.

We also welcome the support of C3SC members to get involved in this annual event.

Have a question? Get in touch

For any enquiries regarding the upcoming MEC Health Fair, please email enquiries@c3sc.org.uk or call 07973 725335.