30 August 2023. For the August edition of Food with Friends, we welcomed back our international friends inside a grade 2 listed building in Old Portsmouth to experience a British picnic with an ethnic twist. Guests enjoyed an array of sweet and savoury treats, after a talk on liver health wonderfully delivered by Dr Kate Owen-Glynn …
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25 July 2023. We are celebrating with National Lottery Community Fund today as a recent award recipient. We thank them for their support, which enables us to continue our Food with Friends project on food security and health education for the migrant communities in Portsmouth for one more year. Today, the National Lottery is marking their £252m of …
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10 July 2023. Last week we concluded the 5th run of our Employment Support for Migrants program. Our Employment Support Workshops are a journey of preparing for the UK job market. Each workshop takes the participants a step closer to finding meaningful employment. The group had nine participants from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Gambia, Afghanistan, Turkey, …
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6 July 2023. We are looking back on the 2nd Anniversary of Welcome Wheels, celebrated at South Parade Pier. Sustrans set this project up in partnership with Portsmouth City of Sanctuary and Southsea Cycles to support volunteers from the national initiative Action Asylum. WBI bridge-funded the project last year before long term funding arrived. With friends, collaborators and volunteers from Sustrans and …
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26 June 2023. WBI invited local artist Michelle Ezeuko (former Artist-in-Residence at Aspex Gallery) to facilitate a Vision Board Workshop for our current Employment Support for Migrants cohort. The Workshop was organized to creatively empower our participants to visualize their future and map out their next career steps. Planning the future can be a daunting …
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6 May 2023. We are absolutely thrilled to share that we have received a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to run our Food with Friends project for another year. In November 2022, we received a Community Inclusion Fund from the Portsmouth City Council for Food with Friends. We match-funded, so that together we …
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29 April 2023. Marking the end of Ramadan, WBI hosted a special Human Rights Eid Celebration with Amnesty UK at Aspex Gallery to conclude Amnesty’s national series of Human Rights Iftars, which started in Edinburgh and went on to Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds and Sheffield before finishing on a sunny note in Portsmouth. [Audience members seated …
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18 April 2023. WBI spotlights the release of the findings from consultations to set Portsmouth City Council’s new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy. In January 2023, WBI took part in the consultation workshop and provided our feedback and hopes for EDI and Portsmouth. The consultation was part of a series of discussions and surveys …
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20 March 2023. WBI welcomed the arrival of spring with the fourth run of Food with Friends, a community dinner alongside a NHS-supported health workshop. We have been running Food with Friends since December 2022 – thanks in large part to Portsmouth City Council’s Community Inclusion Grant to improve migrant integration and well-being in our community. …
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16 March 2023. To support migrants’ tech-literacy, WBI were thrilled to host a special workshop delivered by a digital privacy advocate in partnership with City of Portsmouth College. The workshop looked at how, as smart-tech users, we can ‘Take Back Our Online Privacy’ and prevent the misuse of our data for profit or discrimination. For …
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