At our Refugee Week stall, we connected with others working in the sector, sharing passionate conversations, insights and learning. It was a valuable space to reflect and plan our next steps in supporting asylum seekers and refugees together as a multi agency approach. Seeing team members across different projects come together for one cause was inspiring alhamdulilah.
We held two powerful readings from
Connecting Voices which truly highlighted the impact of the stories and reminded us all how important this work is. This book shows what’s possible when you place the community at the heart of a project – the goodness is ongoing and its strength only grows with time, masha Allah tabarak Allah.
Knowing that this book will continue to make a meaningful, lasting impact is something we’re incredibly proud of and as always to our storytellers for coming forward with their experiences.
It was fantastic to meet so many of our professional friends and meet new ones during this event. Thank you to Pavlina from Newport City Council for including us and truly being a pillar of support.
We moved from flower prints to needle and thread today as we began the embroidery part of our creative journey! Inspired by the pressed plant prints and drawings the group started learning hand embroidery techniques turning their nature sketches into beautiful stitched art. This workshop highlights included: Intro to basic embroidery stitches Translating flower and…
Each person made progress on their piece, taking time to stitch over shared conversation, plenty of tea and freshly baked cake The group reflected on their choice of design. Some chose to select Welsh and British plants while others integrated native plants and flowers from their home countries. We learned there were similarities in native…
What a lovely session today at our kids club with No Bake Trifle Cake. The kids had so much fun mixing, layering and decorating their tasty creations! they all had the same ingredients but the end product for them all was so different. We enjoyed sandwiches, painting, bracelet making and some quiet time in our…
