The Welcome Festival on Saturday 29th October at the Birchcliffe Centre has now booked a famous singer, Moheddin Aljabi, to come and perform. He can sing in Arabic, English and French. His daughter, Enas Aljabi, will also be singing. Unfortunately, Stone Flowers is no longer able to come on 29th October but more updates later […]
Yesterday, two members of Together We Grow went to Birmingham for the Welcome Summit, which was attended by around 500 people from groups in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England supporting asylum seekers and refugees. There were a large number of 3-4 minutes speeches from UNHCR, Safe Passage, the Home Office Resettlement Team, Bristol Council, […]
Together We Grow has now got a second domain for our website: http://togetherwegrow.org.uk/ which will lead to our other domain name http://togetherwegrow2.org.uk/
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 […]