Yesterday we took the asylum seekers to Todmorden. We had kindly been offered to use the Central Methodist Church near the town hall all day for free. So we could walk there from the train station. After a drink and a snack in the church’s café area some wanted to walk around and see the […]

Stone Flowers will be performing at our event on Saturday 29th October in the afternoon at the Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge. This picture is taken from their performance at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester this Summer. Stone Flowers will be selling their CDs on 29th October.

On Sunday 24th July a couple of a hundred people met at Todmorden Town Hall, where they first heard speeches by the mayor of Todmorden and a local vicar about the importance of showing kindness to each other, including towards non-white people and foreigners. The flooding on Boxing Day and the outpouring of support was […]

On Saturday 23rd July we had 32 asylum seekers coming for our garden party. Also invited were members of our community who give lifts to the asylum seekers and help out with activities during the day. Many thanks to Ben Tasker for providing the bouncing castle which was very popular. We also had a BBQ […]

Many thanks to Community Foundation For Calderdale for promising us a grant to arrange an event in October with asylum seekers, refugees and others performing. We are planning to have the event at the Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge. It is jointly organised with Calderdale Freedom From Torture. The Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge is […]

As part of international refugee day two of the children who regularly come to events by Together We Grow spoke today in front of a packed hall in Rochdale Town Hall about their experience of fleeing their country, travelling to the UK and starting living in the UK while leaving everything behind. They both did […]

Together We Grow and Calderdale Freedom From Torture collected clothes, food, shoes, blankets, soaps, toothbrushes, etc for the refugee camps in Northern France. We had collection points at a couple of local churches and collected from people’s homes. In the end we had so much that we could fill a van. Many thanks for all […]

Many thanks to Community Foundation For Calderdale, CFFC, for their grant to support our project. It will help us cover transport, food and other costs for the asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers helped local residents at the community orchard on 11th June. Grass was removed around the fruit bushes and the bushes at the windbreak. Wood chip was spread around the fruit trees and bushes. The plum trees were pruned and some more steps were created. All in all a very productive afternoon. Some of […]