Creating pathways to belonging, wellbeing, opportunity and participation.
Supporting Black African and Caribbean women and ethnically diverse communities through connection, knowledge, and culturally responsive wellbeing.
Belonging Through Knowledge, Care and Action
Every woman deserves to feel seen, supported, and a sense of belonging.
At TIE to Wellness, we believe belonging is the foundation for wellbeing, opportunity, participation, and lasting change.
How We Support Women
Whether you are navigating a difficult moment, looking for community, or simply seeking a space where you feel genuinely understood, TIE to Wellness is here.
Supporting women to prioritise their wellbeing in ways that recognise culture, identity, and lived experience. Health, mental health, and holistic support that sees the whole person.
Amplifying community voices and helping women access information, opportunities, and support. Navigating systems and signposting services so no woman is left to figure it out alone.
Creating welcoming environments where women feel seen, valued, connected, and able to belong. Community events, peer support, and spaces where culture is celebrated not overlooked.
Working alongside women to shape conversations, research, services, and solutions that affect their lives. Lived experience is not a footnote here. It is the foundation.
Who We Are
TIE to Wellness CIC is a community-led organisation based in Warrington, working alongside Black African and Caribbean women and ethnically diverse communities to create pathways to belonging, wellbeing, opportunity, and participation.
TIE to Wellness was created with Black African and Caribbean women at its heart. From that core, we warmly welcome ethnically diverse women from all backgrounds who are searching for connection, support, community, and a place where they can truly belong.
We believe lasting change begins by listening to communities, valuing lived experience, and working with partners to create practical solutions that improve lives and strengthen belonging.
Our Organising Framework
Belonging Through Knowledge, Care and Action is not just a tagline. It is how we think, work, and measure our impact.
We learn, listen, and build understanding rooted in real community experience. Through research, health information, financial literacy, and cultural competence, we equip women with what they need to navigate, decide, and lead.
We create spaces where women feel seen, supported, and connected. Compassion, inclusion, safety, and community are not add-ons to our work. They are the work.
We work with communities and partners to turn insight into meaningful change. Through advocacy, leadership, programmes, and partnership, we move from conversation to impact.
Where Knowledge, Care and Action meet: Belonging.
Connection · Inclusion · Dignity · Wellbeing · Opportunity
What We Work On
Whatever brings you to TIE to Wellness, there is a place for you here.
Our Strategic Framework
Together these reflect the challenges and opportunities that shape women's lives.
Creating welcoming spaces where women can connect, build confidence, share their voices and experience a genuine sense of belonging.
Supporting women to access information, opportunities and culturally responsive approaches that promote wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
Helping women build financial confidence, navigate economic challenges and access opportunities that support independence and security.
Working to ensure women are safe, informed about their rights and supported to access help when they need it.
Using community-led research and lived experience to generate insight that informs services, policy, practice and community action.
These five areas are connected by one principle: Belonging Through Knowledge, Care and Action.
NHS Partnership Programme
This is the TIE Belonging Framework in action.
Too many women from Black African and Caribbean communities are missing out on breast screening. Not because they do not care about their health, but because existing outreach has not always reached them in a way that feels safe, culturally familiar, or genuinely for them.
Screen and Thrive is TIE to Wellness's response to that gap. Relationship-led, culturally responsive outreach that builds trust before it builds anything else.
One in seven women in the UK will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Screen and Thrive exists to help close the gap in early detection for Black African and Caribbean women in Warrington. Breast screening is completely free on the NHS. You do not need a GP referral to contact us.
Community Events · 2026 Series
A community events series celebrating connection, culture, and belonging.
She Gathers is TIE to Wellness’s community wellbeing and belonging programme, bringing women together through conversation, connection, shared experiences and community voice.
Grounded in listening, trust and co-design, She Gathers creates culturally responsive spaces where women can build relationships, strengthen wellbeing and influence the conversations that affect their lives.
Current and emerging themes include:
Voices of Belonging · Wisdom Workshops · Wellbeing Conversations · Mothering Minds
Each strand is shaped by the women who take part, ensuring that lived experience informs what happens next.
An intimate afternoon of holistic wellness, honest conversation, and genuine community connection.
Date Being ConfirmedAn outdoor gathering inspired by joy, culture, and community. Grazing boards, good company, and a dress code that celebrates who we are.
Coming SoonAn evening of creativity, conversation, and connection. Artistic expression paired with a wellness theme.
Autumn 2026A gathering to celebrate, reflect, and look forward. Women together for conversation, storytelling, and advocacy.
October 2026Expertise and Training
Helping organisations better understand, engage, and work alongside ethnically diverse communities.
Understanding a community and genuinely engaging with it are two different things. TIE to Wellness offers cultural competence expertise, community insight, and engagement support to help organisations bridge that gap.
We bring over ten years of qualitative health and social research, community engagement, and lived experience work alongside Black African and ethnically diverse communities in Warrington, across the North West, and through national partnerships.
Commission TIE to Wellness
We help organisations engage communities, strengthen participation, gather insight, and develop culturally responsive approaches through research, training, facilitation, and partnership working.
TIE to Wellness works with NHS bodies, local authorities, educational institutions, housing associations, charities, and private sector organisations. We do not just teach cultural competence. We practise it every day. Whether you need a single workshop or a long-term strategic partnership, we welcome the conversation.
Reaching and building trust with Black African, Caribbean, and ethnically diverse communities. Evidence-based, relationship-led, and culturally responsive outreach that delivers genuine participation.
Helping organisations design services, programmes, and policies with communities rather than for them. Facilitating genuine participation and lived experience involvement at every stage.
Bespoke training for NHS teams, local authority staff, educators, and voluntary sector organisations. Grounded in over ten years of community research, engagement, and practice.
Designing and delivering community-based research that centres lived experience. Bringing community voices into the evidence base that shapes your organisation's decisions.
Keynote speaking, panel participation, event facilitation, and Black History Month programmes. Delivered for conferences, NHS events, educational institutions, and corporate organisations.
Working alongside NHS bodies, public health teams, and health charities to design and deliver culturally responsive health outreach, engagement, and community health programmes.
Designing and delivering culturally rich Black History Month programmes for schools, colleges, universities, NHS organisations, and corporate employers. Workshops, speaker sessions, cultural activities, and staff engagement events.
Facilitating meaningful International Women's Day events that centre diverse women's voices, lived experiences, and leadership. Panel discussions, community conversations, and celebratory gatherings tailored to your organisation.
We believe the strongest solutions are built with communities, not for them. Where appropriate, TIE to Wellness works with trusted partners, trainers, researchers, and specialists to deliver high-quality programmes tailored to local need.
If you would like to commission a project, explore a partnership, or discuss how TIE can support your organisation, we would love to hear from you.
Our Work
Supporting women and families navigating settlement, connection, wellbeing and participation in community life.
We work alongside women and families who are navigating the challenges of settlement, belonging and community participation. Whether newly arrived, long established or somewhere in between, every woman deserves access to spaces, support and opportunities that recognise her experience and respect her identity.
Our approach is grounded in listening and co-design. We work with communities rather than for them, ensuring that lived experience shapes every programme, partnership and conversation.
This area of work is developing in response to what we are hearing from women in Warrington and across the North West. If you would like to connect or collaborate, we welcome the conversation.
Get in TouchWhat We Are Building Next
These are the initiatives currently in development.
Supporting migrant women, refugees, asylum seekers, and newcomers through skills development, digital inclusion, confidence building, and pathways to participation.
In DevelopmentA dedicated programme supporting women to build financial confidence, navigate debt, and strengthen long-term economic resilience.
In DevelopmentDeveloping a collaborative approach to health equity across organisations, researchers, and communities. Conversations welcome.
Conversations WelcomeConnecting ethnically diverse women with culturally competent mental health providers and healing spaces that genuinely understand their experience.
In DevelopmentFormally accredited training for organisations and practitioners. Built on the TIE Belonging Framework and over ten years of community research and lived experience.
Coming SoonAbout and Leadership
TIE to Wellness is a community interest company created to bridge the gap between lived experience and decision-making.
We create spaces where women are heard, connected, belong and are involved in shaping the services, systems and opportunities that affect their lives.
Guided by the TIE Belonging Framework — Belonging Through Knowledge, Care and Action — we work across community engagement, health equity, research, economic empowerment and advocacy.
We believe wellbeing starts with belonging. We believe the people closest to the challenges are often closest to the solutions. And we believe meaningful change happens when communities are not only listened to, but involved in shaping what comes next.
Rooted in Warrington, working across Greater Manchester and the North West, and partnering nationally to advance equity, wellbeing, and belonging.
We believe communities are experts in their own experiences. Before developing programmes, partnerships or solutions, we take time to listen, learn and understand what matters most to the people we serve.
Meet the Founder
Founder and Chief Executive · TIE to Wellness CIC
I built TIE to Wellness because I kept seeing a gap between services and lived experience. There were organisations doing important work, but many women still didn’t feel seen within them. They didn’t always know where to go, who to trust, or how to navigate systems that often felt unfamiliar and difficult to access.
“What I saw missing wasn’t necessarily another service. It was belonging.”
I saw women carrying challenges related to health, wellbeing, migration, isolation, poverty, confidence and identity, but without enough spaces where they could speak openly, connect with others and feel understood without having to explain themselves first.
TIE was created to help bridge that gap: between lived experience and decision-making, between community voice and the services, systems and opportunities that affect people’s lives.
We believe the people closest to the challenges are often closest to the solutions. We believe wellbeing starts with belonging. And we believe meaningful change happens when communities are not only listened to, but involved in shaping what comes next.
Through TIE to Wellness, we are creating spaces where women are heard, connected and involved, and where community insight becomes meaningful action.
About Fola
Fola Olurin is a researcher, community engagement specialist, and health equity advocate whose work sits at the intersection of community voice, research, and systems change.
For more than a decade, she has worked alongside women, families, and communities to understand and address the challenges that shape health, wellbeing, participation, and opportunity. Her work spans health equity, poverty and debt, economic exclusion, community wellbeing, cultural competence, and access to services, with a particular focus on ensuring that lived experience informs policy, practice, and decision-making.
She has contributed to community research, public engagement, advocacy, and participation initiatives exploring issues including health inequalities, women’s health, family wellbeing, migration, poverty, and barriers to accessing support. Through this work, she has helped bring community voices into conversations that influence services, programmes, and systems.
Fola is particularly passionate about strengthening the relationship between communities and institutions, ensuring that healthcare, research, public services, and community initiatives are shaped with communities rather than for them.
Her academic foundation includes studies in Medical and Pharmacological Sciences and Health Services Management, bringing together scientific understanding, research insight, and community-centred practice.
Alongside leading TIE to Wellness CIC, Fola serves as a Director and Trustee, contributing to initiatives focused on equity, belonging, participation, and community development.
Get in Touch
Whether you are looking for support, exploring partnership, or want to commission our work, there is a place for you here.
Every message is read. Every enquiry matters. We will be in touch as soon as we can.