Naz Project London (NPL) provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to culturally and linguistically distinct Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in London, and campaigns for effective sexual health policy and good practice.
Impetus support:
Impetus investment period: 2005
-2009
Total funding: £275,000
Value of expertise provided to date: £347,000
NPL has 'graduated' from the Impetus portfolio.
Read a review of the investment.
Background to the investment:
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS pose significant issues for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities because of language, cultural barriers and poor access to traditional health services. The impetus for our involvement was to not only help NPL provide support to a greater number of sufferers amongst the BME communities but also work with them to reduce the incidence of STDs through prevention especially amongst teenagers.
Focus of Impetus expertise to date:
Key achievements:
- Launch of peer education and community volunteer services
- NPL is now working with 11 London primary care trusts
- A new impact measurement programme has been agreed and is being rolled out
- Premises move completed
Find out more about Naz Project London
and how it has helped
Berikti come to terms with living with
HIV.
Naz Project London photos on this website are courtesy of Naz Project London and Monica Masih.
Performance:
Average annual growth in income: 14%
Average annual growth in no. of people helped: 31%
| Year prior to Impetus
investment 2004/05 |
Latest year end draft 2008/09 |
|
| Income (in millions) | £0.51 | £0.86 |
| HIV support group numbers |
250 | 636 |
| Community volunteers
trained |
n/a | 73 |
| Teen peer educators trained | n/a |
29 |
All figures as of NPL's 2008/09 year end.
We could not have achieved the growth and impact at the pace we wanted without support from Impetus.
Bryan Teixeira
Chief Executive, NPL