Our mission is ‘vision for change’ to promote primarily but not exclusively the empowerment and quality of life for women in BME groups across all ages and also for older people through encouraging active social engagement, social learning between generations, community led research, inter-disciplinary training & excellence in practice and services. We are keen to assess how accessible services and benefits are to BME women and older people. To overcome barriers, to improve services and generally improve quality of life for individuals.