This story bank aims to demonstrate the impact on the NCBI's work by looking at how it has benefitted the lives of four very different individuals, allowing them to go on and help other individuals, groups and communities.

People's health and well-being in our communities are seriously affected by prejudice and discrimination.

NCBI models help us to learn to negotiate our differences constructively through dialogue, and to build bridges across difference (nationality, race, gender, religion, class, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or life circumstance).