Hi lovely person! Help to keep kids educated during the outbreak! Feel free to forward…📚 Since many kids are/will be home from school, sharing an awesome list of ideas from a parent who homeschools. Online resources: – BrainPop – Curiosity Stream – Tynker – Outschool – Udemy – iReady – Beast Academy (Math) – Khan […]
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Free activities at home
Now that schools are closed for some children and leisure activities, like gyms, are closed for adults here are some possible activities: For adults there are a lot of free university courses on any subject you can image – futurelearn, Open University, etc. They can each last 2-10 weeks but you can complete them in […]
Free testing for coronavirus
https://www.gov.uk/gu…/nhs-entitlements-migrant-health-guide Please note that you will not be charged for any testing or treatment for the coronavirus.
Arabic version on caronavirus
If you read Arabic please read this carefully and pass it on to your Arabic speaking friends and family.
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Cinema trip
55 asylum seekers and refugees along with 6 volunteers went to the cinema. They were all provided with a juice carton and popcorn. Another successful event.
Financial issues
In the first 9 months of Together We Grow’s financial year we spent £14,000. A large part of that is leisure activities for asylum seekers as they receive less than £6 per day for food, clothes, transport, telephone, etc. Last month we spent £500 on leisure activities, which does not include when we have to […]
Singing workshop
On 25th January we had a singing workshop in Hebden Bridge. We had hired Hope Baptist Church so we could have a workshop for children and young people led by Lynn and Denny and a workshop for adults led by Francis. Everyone arrived at 10am and had breakfast before starting the workshops. At 1pm we […]
Committee meeting
Our management committee met on 20th January. We received an update on a skills audit of the committee, which showed the following skills: Typing, record keeping, filing, Accountancy and finance, Project design, planning and management, social researching, participatory research, Using social media, publicity, Interpreting / translating , speaking loudly!! Networking, Training, developing training materials, Fundraising […]
Training courses
Some of our core volunteers do one-to-one English conversation with the refugees and asylum seekers. We arranged a very useful training course for those volunteers on how to spot trauma signs and deal with it. We also encourage the members of our management committee to go on training courses. These courses have now been booked: […]