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Food with Friends & First Aid Workshop at WBI’s Community Dinner in March 2023

Community, Events

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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WBI and City of Portsmouth College support Migrants’ Tech-literacy

Community, Events

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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Special Online Workshop on Introduction to UK Work Culture with Peter Fincham

Announcements, Community, Events

6 March 2023. Portsmouth-based businessman and part-time author Peter Fincham returns by popular demand to deliver a bespoke session on UK work culture to the fourth cohort enrolled in our WBI-supported Employment Support for Migrants programme.   Online Chat on Work Culture in the UK with Peter Fincham, 9 March 2023, Thursday, 16:30-17:30 Portsmouth Previously, participants …

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With City of Portsmouth College, WBI hosts the ‘Portsmouth Ambassadors’

Community, Events

1 March 2023. With City of Portsmouth College, WBI hosted the Portsmouth Ambassadors programme, which engages the local community and businesses to drive passion for the city, recruiting ambassadors to carry the message of the unique history of our waterfront city. It was great to see a room full of enthusiastic new local residents keen …

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WBI hosts our third “Food with Friends” with a talk on maternity care

Community, Events

21 February 2023. We hosted our third installment of our “Food with Friends” series, combining healthy eating with public health outreach for the migrant community. This project is co-funded by a Community Inclusion Grant of the Portsmouth City Council.   From December 2022, WBI has hosted monthly “Food with Friends” dinners. Our first dinner in …

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Digital Health Workshop with University of Portsmouth Dental Academy

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10 February 2023. Work Better Innovations hosted a group of our newly arrived migrant friends to a Digital Health Workshop. We thank the event organisers: Dr Carolina Machuca Vargas and Nikki Legg of the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. Participants learnt how to navigate the NHS website and were encouraged to use the NHSapp. They …

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Dr Bonny Ling speaks on the issue of Migrant Rights in the Maritime Economy – BEBESEA’s 2nd Regional Workshop

Business, Events

3 February 2023. Our Director Dr Bonny Ling spoke at a NGO-organised Regional Workshop on “Solidarity Building and Collective Advocacy on Rights of Seafarers and Sea-based Migrant Workers,” to promote human and labour rights in the maritime economy. As a social impact research consultancy driven by the goals of UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 – …

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Workshop on Confidence Building – Employment Support for Migrants

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16 January 2023. We launched the 4th series of our Employment Support for Migrants series, with participants from Turkey, Iran, Nigeria, Kuwait to learn more about building confidence as an important life and job skill. Thank you to Bahar Mouland from the Workers Educational Association for leading this session. [Note-taking during the Confidence Building Workshop session led …

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WBI’s Bonny Ling Speaks on Corporate Accountability and Supply Chain Management

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10 January 2023. Looking back on Dr Bonny Ling’s public lecture in Taiwan on 13th December, as part of a series of talks and workshops centred on the issue of forced labour in the Taiwanese supply chain. In December 2022, WBI Executive Director Dr Bonny Ling delivered a public lecture, “Corporate Accountability in Supply Chain …

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Our Migrant-Targeted Employment Support Workshops for 2023 starting this week!

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9 January 2023. Happy New Year everyone!   Since February last year, Work Better Innovations have hosted a free, weekly employment support session for migrants in the Portsmouth community. In collaboration with the City of Portsmouth College (COPC) and Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), we successfully ran three series in 2022. Together, we took three cohorts …

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