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In our second edition of mojatu London, continues focusing communities, organizations that support them and businesses in the post pandemic period. A major discussion was dedicated to mental health and wellbeing, as we acknowledge costs of living, poverty, energy support schemes, and nutrition, may not be sole causes, but main challenges and issues communities are facing today. That would aggravate their overall welfare.

We genuinely believe that beyond statistics, figures and charts displayed in all the reports we see here and there, there are usually real human stories that are worth telling. And that is exactly what mojatu does. Typically, as we say that there is one person living poor every six adults living in the UK, what we technically mean is that many millions of children and working-age adults can not make ends meet every day. As millions of kids heavily depend on school meals, and when no school or during the holiday risk going to bed hungry.

In this edition, we introduce the concept of intergenerational trauma, its impacts, and the process to heal from it. From experience, we thoroughly discoursed that due to difficult backgrounds and their current challenges many of our communities go through, exacerbating their level of mental health and continue paralyzing their physical and mental wellbeing that would enable them to administer a stable and better life. In this edition, there is also an indigenous financial and money practices minority communities.

Particularly the black community usually use to finance new startups, education, and other household related investment.

Omar Mohammed - Managing Editor

Editorial

Group Editor: Frank Kamau – frank@mojatu.com

The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the publishers. Every effort has been made to ensure that the contents of this magazine are accurate but the publisher cannot take responsibility for errors, omissions, nor can we accept responsibility for the advertisements or editorial contributions.

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GOVERNMENT’S ENERGY BILL DISCOUNT SCHEME

Last month, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, James Cartlidge, announced the government’s plans to follow the Energy Bills Relief Scheme by announcing the new two levels of support:

From 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, eligible nondomestic customers who have a contract with a licensed energy supplier will see a unit discount of up to £6.97/ MWh automatically applied to their gas bill and a unit discount of up to £19.61/MWh applied to their electricity bill, except for those benefiting from lower energy prices.

A higher level of support will be provided to sectors identified as the most energy and trade-intensive – predominately manufacturing industries. The list also includes “library and archive activities, museums activities, historical sites and buildings and similar visitor attractions, botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserve activities”. Those in scope will receive a gas and electricity bill discount based on a supported price which will be capped by a maximum unit discount of £40.0/ MWh for gas and £89.1/MWh for electricity.

The January announcement contains many wins for the charity sector particularly, and these include Charities are once again explicitly included and acknowledged in the government’s thinking - that alone is a very different

Furthermore, the government heard that: continued support needed to be guaranteed for a full 12 months to allow time to plan, continuing support through the existing mechanism of subsidising energy bills was the most effective route - the alternative would most likely have been applications for grant or loan funding, with all the complications and pitfalls that would bring, cherry picking specific parts of our sector for support would be invidious, inequitable and dangerous in terms of unintended consequences.

For more information:

Press release: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ chancellor-unveils-new-energy-bills-discount-schemefor-businesses

Detailed factsheet: https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/energy-bills-discount-scheme-factsheet

List of sectors included: https://assets.publishing.service. gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_ data/file/1128021/230104_ETII_List_for_gov.uk.pdf