Thank you to Queen's House at the National Maritime Museum for inviting us to takeover your stunning venue for a truly special day celebrating Refugee Week and the theme of 'Our Home'. The Queen's House had 400 more visitors over the day than usual and more diverse than a regular Sunday! |
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At a place of female power, we shared our work and through different activities, reflected on what home means for us. Home can remind us of the past, of what we have left but home can also be what we are building here every day, how we want to feel and how we want to live. As one of our members said: "home is here with everyone". We could not have done it without our wonderful, dedicated team, Karen, Lian, Aldjia, Lucie, Fatiha, Felicia, Khadidja, Binta, and Ijeoma. Thanks to Luca Silvestrini for an inclusive dance workshop, to Erene for an inspiring forum theatre session, to Lucie for an excellent languages workshop and to Lydia Powel and Anna Maguire for organising a powerful Stronger Together exhibition. |
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What a pleasure to be part of Protein’s annual Refugee Week event at Woolwich Works, celebrating the contribution and resilience of refugees, people seeking asylum and allies. |
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It was a wonderful day of dancing, singing, eating and connecting with so many organisations across Greenwich. |
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🌺 Racialized migrants navigating the UK Hostile Environment - Symposium Event 🌺 |
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Thanks to Professor Tracey Reynolds and University of Greenwich for bringing together all the authors of a special themed issue of the Critical Social Policy featuring our article "Migrant Women becoming stronger together through the arts: Creating Ground". It was a day of thought-provoking presentations and learning about inspiring work: so much to reflect on and act upon. |
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💪 NHS Confed Expo in Manchester 💪 |
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It was an honour to be invited to the NHS Confed Expo in Manchester to share our experience of co-production with South London Listens and what it means for us to be a Be Well Hub thanks to Citizens UK. What a nice experience, to see so many people coming together for a shared and common interest. |
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🎊 PAR Knowledge Exchange and Community Engagement Workshop 🎊 |
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Thanks to Professor Tracey Reynolds, University of Greenwich for inviting us to run a creative evaluation workshop as part of the Knowledge Exchange event showcasing al the projects awarded under the Participatory Action Research funding. It was again the demonstration of the importance of bringing people from different fields, with different experiences and perspectives together, to share, learn from each other and collaborate removing barriers, labels and fears. |
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🎊 Creative Health Toolkit 🎊 |
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Fantastic to have our work on improving healthcare services for migrant women featured as an Illustrative Example as part of the Creative Health Toolkit initiative, which has been developed in partnership by The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH), NHS England Personalised Care Team and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across England. |
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😋 Good Food in Greenwich 😋 |
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We've been having a great time learning how to cook up healthy, balanced meals with the wonderful team at Good Food in Greenwich. "We had a wonderful time, and we also learnt to eat well and how to cook healthy foods. We made delicious food today." (Project participant, June 2024) |
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🌿 Creatively Together Second Trip 🌿 |
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"It was a fantastic experience. I was really excited to be honest going somewhere new. The view of central London was amazing, seeing all the iconic buildings from a different perspective and angle... I always had to look up, but I was looking down seeing its beauty." (Member of the group reflecting on the trip, June 2024) |
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😊 Join our Stronger Together Forum 😊 |
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Want to help us strengthen solidarity between communities? Want to see how migrant communities can work with different sectors to create positive change and overcome division? Want to see how through an intersectional lens we can find solutions together? Join our Stronger Together Forum where we will see how this can play out in reality, exploring issues around Temporary Accommodation. |
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