Real conversations. Real people. Real spaces.
Jollof Nights™ brings communities together over food and honest conversation — in trusted everyday spaces where people already gather, connect and feel comfortable.
Since launching in 2021, over 1,000 people have taken part in more than 50 community-led sessions across trusted spaces in South East London.
Trusted community spaces for awareness, wellbeing & connection.
Jollof Nights Connect™ brings people together over food and honest conversation — rooted in culture, peer-led, and built for long-term trust across South East London.
Peer-led, in person
Real conversations in trusted community venues — not clinics or call centres.
Rooted in culture
Food, dialogue and connection that reflect the people we're built to serve.
Awareness that lasts
Health pathways and reflections that turn one night into long-term change.
Equal Breath Lung Health Survey
The Equal Breath survey is helping surface lung health inequalities affecting Black communities across the UK. Delivered through trusted community spaces and conversations, the survey helps ensure lived experiences shape future respiratory health research, prevention and health priorities. Participation is voluntary, confidential and community-led.
Survey open until 15 June 2026
Complete the survey and unlock a £10 participation support voucher.
Genotype Awareness
One optional outreach pathway running inside Jollof Nights™. Move at your own pace, track your awareness milestones, and unlock participation support along the way.
The strands behind Jollof Nights™
Culturally grounded, peer-led, in trusted spaces.
Working with health, community and frontline partners
Some of our sessions and pathways are shaped alongside NHS nurses, specialist practitioners and community health teams, so clinical perspective sits in the same room as honest, peer-led conversation.
Hosted in real community spaces
Jollof Nights™ brings communities together over food and honest conversation — in trusted everyday spaces where people already gather, connect and feel comfortable.
Delivery venue · GreenwichHeadlinerz Barbershop is recognised as a trusted community hub supporting health conversations, prevention and social connection. Additional venues for women-only sessions are being confirmed.
Built with the people we serve
Our work is shaped alongside grassroots organisations and trusted system partners who deliver the work alongside us.
System & trusted local partners
The current community expansion phase across trusted barbershops has been supported through the Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund — backing prevention-focused wellbeing, culturally grounded engagement and peer-led conversations in trusted spaces.
Delivery & training partner
CHIFA Lab Limited
CHIFA Lab Limited leads facilitator training, accreditation pathways, community facilitation standards, reflective practice frameworks and trusted-space delivery standards behind Jollof Nights™. Facilitators trained through CHIFA carry the CHIFA-trained badge on their public profiles.
Become a coordinator, facilitator or venue lead
Paid and volunteer pathways. Training included. Built for trusted local people.
See opportunities
Support & wellbeingNeed someone to talk to?
Trusted local pathways across South East London — mental health, housing, debt, bereavement, family and crisis support.
Find local help
From the community
Moments from recent Jollof Nights™ sessions across our trusted spaces.
A reflection we carry with us
"You saved my life."
— Anonymous attendee, Jollof Nights™
Voices from the community
"Jollof Nights™ makes me feel part of something. I no longer feel alone in Greenwich."
Anonymous reflections shared by Jollof Nights™ attendees.
Inside Jollof Nights™
A documentary look across the venues, conversations and people behind the work.
