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.
Thanks to CFFC
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Visit on 11th June
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 […]
CONVOY TO REFUGEE CAMPS IN NORTHERN FRANCE
Three people from Blackshaw Head are going to the refugee camps in Northern France on 17-19th June with donations of clothes, food, etc to the people living in the camps. This trip is part of a national convoy that will meet for a rally at Whitehall in London. The convoy leaves London on Saturday June […]
Visit on 14th May
31 asylum seekers came to Blackshaw Head on 14th May. We walked to a smallholding to see the animals (sheep, chickens, ducks and pigs). Many thanks to Phil and Lucy for having us. Afterwards there was time to play some new games, do a bit of gardening, some arts and craft work and just sit […]
Summerhouse and poly tunnel
The summerhouse has been used several times by the asylum seekers for arts and craft activities and making bird boxes. The second hand summerhouse was donated to Together We Grow by Jacob’s Garden. The asylum seekers have helped making the summerhouse along with Abs, Mark and Gez. Gez has also donated various materials for the […]
Cooking class
We had a cooking class on 16th April with four asylum seekers teaching local people some of their recipes. Many thanks to Tim & Michelle for hosting the session in their house and generally helping out on the day.
Out in the orchard
On 16-4 some of the asylum seekers helped filling over a hundred bags with woodchip and took them to the community orchard in Blackshaw Head where the woodchip will be used as mulching around the fruit trees and bushes.
Heptonstall Social and Bowling Club visit
On 16th April 34 asylum seekers came to Heptonstall Social and Bowling Club. Some of the children made lanterns and paper cuttings while others played football and visited the play area. Many thanks to Di, John and Pat for making activities for the children and thanks to the many drivers who gave lifts to the […]
Pottery workshop by Great Rock
On 12th March we had 32 asylum seekers coming – about half of them children. First we all went to Tim and Michelle’s house where there were a variety of activities. One of these were working with clay, either on a potter’s wheel or on a table. Thanks to John, Bardy, Pat and John for […]
More donations
Getting shoes, clothes, toys, duvets, etc ready for the asylum seekers to take home when they come on 12th March. The winter jackets and the booths in particular will be needed this winter.