Community Lecture Series

Summary: Join us as we launch our first set of community lecture series! In response to this year’s BHM theme honouring our communities, we aim to engage Black people across London in pressing topics, relevant to the community. We will be covering sustainability, economics, education, connecting back to Africa, the Caribbean and more. Look forward to energetic and fruitful conversations with likeminded people, who want to discuss and improve our community, but haven’t had the opportunity to do it.

Date specific

5th October: Join us with Mr Money Jar, to discuss how we use economics as a tool to uplift and improve the material conditions of African and Caribbean communities in Britain.

Learn about financial literacy as resource management, implementable strategies to manage and grow your money, what to put in place for yours and your family’s future, discussion on types of wealth (financial, holistic), and what money means for Black British people?

About the speaker

Rotimi Merriman-Johnson DipFA - known professionally as Mr MoneyJar - is an award-winning content creator, author, -qualified financial advisor and founder of UK financial education company, Mr MoneyJar Limited.

He is a trusted voice on the topics of Black British wealth, financial literacy for children and the UK economy and financial systems.

Rotimi is the host of The Mr MoneyJar Show, a weekly podcast on the topic of black British wealth and wellbeing. He has also been featured on the BBC, the Financial Times, ITV News and Sky News, offering regular comment on financial and political events.

He is an ambassador at National Numeracy, a UK charity that promotes the importance of numeracy and number confidence for UK adults and children.

He is also the Financial and Digital Inclusion Ambassador for Big Issue Group, the UK's number one street paper and social enterprise.

His previous clients include the UK Government, the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Oxford University Press. He has also authored three financial literacy workbooks published by Oxford University Press as part of its Financial Literacy Skills series for primary and secondary schools worldwide. For enquiries, or collaborations please get in touch with the team at hello@mrmoneyjar.com.

12th October: On Monday 12th October, join us with Lavinya Stennett to think about how us (Black Brits) can ensure our work goes beyond the UK. With our history, community building doesn’t start and end in Britain. We have communities in Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica, and Barbados; as diasporans, shouldn't we be thinking about how to give back?

During the evening, we’ll be discussing Ghana’s Diaspora Affairs Office, reciprocity and tangible ways to give back.

During the evening, we’ll be discussing Ghana’s Diaspora Affairs Office, reciprocity and tangible ways to give back. Speaker to be announced.

19th October: Join us for our talk with Udoka Maya Okonkwo. This one is urgent, crucial and involves everything. From Hurricane Melissa to our most recently, record-breaking relentless summer – how are Black Brits responding to the climate crisis? What is our relationship to sustainability, and where have our wisdoms on connection to the natural environment gone?

Food insecurity, environmental racism and the climate crisis is real. As diasporans, in a country that heavily contributes to the destruction of our home and families in the Global South – what can we do now?

26th October: Join us for our last talk of the month. We’ll be at Prince of Peckham again with Annabelle Woghiren to think about Black British identity, culture and the crossroads we face. What does it mean to be in community? What does elderhood look like? How do we build more nurturing initiations from adolescence into adulthood?

Agenda:

6.30 - 7pm: Arrival, check tickets, collect merch and mingle

7.00-7.15pm: Introduction

7.15 - 7.45: Lecture

7.45 - 8pm: Break

8.00 - 8.30pm: Activity/Discussion

8.30 - 9pm: Closing, Mingling, networking, discussion, end