One of the unexpected outcomes of our Welcome Festival in Hebden Bridge on 29th October is the idea of setting up a Welcome Choir for asylum seekers, refugees and other members of the community. Fundraising is now taking place to raise £900 for the first ten sessions – see details here
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The Co-operative Bank gives grant
Many thanks to The Co-operative Bank for their grant to Together We Grow. Our project has a business account with the bank.
Thanks to the Co-operative Bank
Many thanks to The Co-operative Bank for their grant to Together We Grow. Our project banks with them.
Conference on support for refugees
Took a car full of clothes, shoes, toys, books, etc to asylum seekers and refugees for a second time this month. Went to a conference on support for asylum seekers and refugees. Among the speakers were MIND, Red Cross, Planet Mercy UK, a refugee and Rochdale Refugee Project. A good discussion on how we can […]
Halifax Choral Society performance
On 1st December we took some refugees to Victoria Theatre in Halifax to hear Halifax Choral Society, a brass band and an amazing choir of primary school children from Parkinson Lane School singing in Arabic, English and Latin! In the break we had ice creams. The conductor talked about Together We Grow and welcomed the […]
Vote for us
http://www.galaxyhotchocolate.com/…/profil…/together-we-grow Galaxy Hot Chocolate give away five grants of £300 every week and Together We Grow has a chance of being one of the winners if you vote for us using the above web link. In total there will be 70 grants.
Concert on 10th December
Some of our refugees will be performing with Stone Flowers at Manchester Museum on Saturday 10th December at 12 noon and again at 2pm. Entrance is free and we will go for the 12 o’clock performance with any of our asylum seekers and refugees who want to come, including buying them train tickets and lunch […]
Visit on 26th November
On 26th November we had 27 asylum seekers and refugees coming. It was warm sunshine with no wind – so ideal for playing outdoor, cutting and packing salads, celery, (green) tomatoes, mint, etc to take home. Many of the small children made arts and craft decorations while some of the older children tried out the […]
Donations to refugees
Our next visit of asylum seekers and refugees is this Saturday, 26th November. The pictures show some of the donations given to them: toys, cloches, shoes, rugs, duvets, kitchen stuff, etc. Thanks to everyone who has donated these items, in particular Louise, Jac & Phil, Caitlin and John. We show the pictures so the asylum […]
Want to give a refugee a theatre ticket?
Following on the success of the Welcome Festival we held – with nearly 400 attending of which around 75 were refugees – where we asked people to sponsor a refugee to attend the event by paying their for their transport, lunch and refreshments we now want to ask if you want to sponsor a refugee […]