Creating pathways to belonging, wellbeing, opportunity and participation.
Supporting Black African and ethnically diverse women through connection, community, 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, signposting services, and making sure 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, short for Tribe Inspire and Empower to Wellness CIC, was incorporated in July 2024 as a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales.
We are a community-led organisation creating pathways to belonging, wellbeing, opportunity, and participation for ethnically diverse women and communities.
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
At TIE to Wellness, we believe belonging creates the foundation for wellbeing, opportunity, participation, and lasting change.
We learn, listen, and build understanding rooted in real community experience. Through research, awareness, financial literacy, health information, and cultural competence, we equip women and communities 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
This framework shapes how we listen, learn, act, and influence, because every woman deserves to feel seen, supported, and a genuine sense of belonging.
What We Work On
Whatever brings you to TIE to Wellness, there is a place for you here. When women are supported, families and communities are stronger.
Helping women access health services and make informed decisions. Including screening, prevention, mental health, and culturally responsive support.
Supporting women navigating financial hardship and debt. No judgement. Practical support, guidance, and signposting.
Building confidence around money, budgeting, employability, and long-term financial wellbeing.
Supporting women affected by domestic abuse, FGM, or modern slavery with culturally sensitive signposting.
Supporting migrant women, refugees, and asylum seekers through skills development, digital inclusion, and pathways to participation.
Creating spaces where women connect, lead, and grow. This is where belonging becomes real.
Working with organisations to build genuine understanding of ethnically diverse communities through training and community insight.
Using evidence and lived experience to influence systems, policies, and institutions. Making sure community voices are heard.
Our Strategic Framework
Together they reflect the challenges and opportunities that shape women's lives and our commitment to addressing the full picture of wellbeing, belonging, and participation.
Closing the gap between ethnically diverse women and the health services, information, and care they deserve.
Supporting women to build financial confidence, navigate poverty and debt, and strengthen long-term economic resilience.
Culturally grounded awareness and support around domestic abuse, FGM, and modern slavery.
Spaces where ethnically diverse women connect, lead, and grow. Building the conditions for belonging to become real and lasting.
Helping organisations engage communities and using evidence to influence the systems that shape women's lives.
These five areas do not operate in isolation. They are connected by one organising 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.
Developed in partnership with NHS and community partners in Warrington, Screen and Thrive reaches Black African and Caribbean women where they are, in language they recognise, through workers who understand their lives.
This is not a leaflet drop. This is 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. Yet many women from Black African and Caribbean communities continue to face barriers to screening and early detection. Screen and Thrive exists to help close that gap, one woman at a time.
"Our goal is simple: to ensure that every woman has the information, confidence, and support she needs to make informed choices about her health."
Breast screening through this programme is completely free on the NHS. You do not need a GP referral to contact us.
Contact us directly and we will guide you through the next steps.
We answer your questions in a way that feels comfortable and accessible.
Free, quick, and confidential. A TIE community champion may be able to support you.
We stay connected and help women access any additional support they may need.
Community Events · 2026 Series
A community events series celebrating connection, culture, and belonging.
She Gathers is open to Black African, Caribbean, and ethnically diverse women who are looking for connection, community, and a place where they can simply be themselves.
These are not networking events disguised as community. They are spaces intentionally created for women to connect, share, celebrate, and simply be.
An intimate afternoon of holistic wellness, honest conversation, and genuine community connection. A space to arrive, breathe, and belong.
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 and the warmth of community.
Autumn 2026A gathering to celebrate, reflect, and look forward. Women together for conversation, storytelling, leadership, and advocacy.
October 2026She Gathers is where belonging stops being a concept and becomes a lived experience.
Future She Gathers events will also create space for women to showcase their businesses, skills, creativity, and entrepreneurial journeys through our community marketplace.
Expertise 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. Many organisations work hard to be inclusive. But without the right knowledge, tools, and relationships, even well-intentioned work can miss the mark.
We work with organisations across the public, private, voluntary, and community sectors to help them better understand, engage, and work alongside ethnically diverse communities.
This is not generic diversity training. TIE to Wellness brings 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 and networks. We do not just teach cultural competence. We practise it every day.
Collaboration and Partnership
We believe the best solutions are built together.
TIE to Wellness is actively seeking partnerships with organisations that share our commitment to equity, belonging, and community-led change. We are not looking for transactional relationships. We are looking for genuine collaboration rooted in shared values, community voice, and mutual accountability.
We start by listening. We build on community insight. We co-design solutions rather than delivering predetermined programmes. And we measure success not just by outputs, but by whether communities feel more seen, more supported, and more connected as a result.
This is not a leaflet-drop approach to partnership. This is relationship-led, community-rooted collaboration that builds trust before it builds anything else.
What 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, bringing together organisations, researchers, and communities. If your organisation is working in this space, we would welcome a conversation.
Conversations WelcomeWorking alongside culturally competent mental health providers to connect ethnically diverse women with therapy and healing spaces that genuinely understand their experience.
In DevelopmentFormally accredited training for organisations and practitioners. Built on the TIE Belonging Framework and grounded in over ten years of community research and lived experience.
Coming SoonAbout and Leadership
Over more than ten years of working alongside Black African, Caribbean, migrant, and ethnically diverse communities, our founder, Fola Olurin, noticed something repeatedly.
The women who truly thrived were not always those with the most support. They were the ones who felt seen, valued, connected, and a genuine sense of belonging.
That observation became a question. That question became TIE to Wellness.
Today, TIE to Wellness creates pathways to belonging, wellbeing, opportunity, and participation through community engagement, community-rooted research, strategic partnerships, advocacy, and action, guided by our organising framework: Belonging Through Knowledge, Care and Action.
Belonging Through Knowledge: We learn, listen, and build understanding rooted in real community experience.
Belonging Through Care: We create spaces where women feel safe, seen, and genuinely supported.
Belonging Through Action: We work with partners and communities to turn insight into lasting change.
Meet the Founder
Founder and Chief Executive · TIE to Wellness CIC
For more than a decade, Fola has worked alongside diverse communities as a researcher, advocate, public speaker, and community engagement specialist.
Through research, storytelling, advocacy, and engagement, she has worked to ensure that community voices are not only heard, but reflected in the services, programmes, and systems that affect them.
Her work has contributed to initiatives focused on health inequalities, poverty and debt, migration, safeguarding, women's wellbeing, participation, and community-led change.
Alongside leading TIE to Wellness, Fola serves as a trustee of SAWN (Social Action Women Network) and contributes to national initiatives focused on equity, belonging, participation, and systems change.
She is passionate about creating safe and inclusive spaces where women feel seen, supported, and empowered to shape their own futures.
TIE to Wellness is powered by a growing network of trustees, partners, advisors, community champions, and women whose lived experiences continue to shape and strengthen everything we do.
Ready to co-create spaces of belonging?
Get in Touch
Whether you are looking for support, exploring partnership, or simply want to find out more, there is a place for you here.
Every message is read. Every enquiry matters. We will be in touch as soon as we can.