Keziah went along to visit Leeds Refugee Forum 🧡 women's wellbeing groups exhibition over the weekend. It was lovely to see all their beautiful work on display, eat some delicious food and do a little shopping🛍️

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Lock in your summer 2024 highlights at Migration Matters Festival.

We have 45+ incredible events spanning music, theatre, drag, food, poetry, art and much more in Sheffield.
Find the essential details and join us here: migrationmattersfestival.co.uk/programme

Today our thoughts are with the people who came here to seek safety who now live with a new terror.

That is what the Rwanda bill boils down to. Performative, useless terror serving as a cynical distraction from the real problems we face. We will fight it with everything we have.

A dark day. But there is always hope.

The Rwanda bill has been passed. Today we grieve, but tomorrow - along with the 500+ orgs of the Together With Refugees coalition - will continue to fight for something better.

✨The team got together last week for Tamsin’s maternity leave send off! We can’t wait to welcome another Mafwa baby! ✨

📣Fantastic opportunity to be a Project Support Officer for an arts-based research study in Kenya, Uganda and the UK. The candidate would be working closely with families and communities in East Leeds. Apply by April 23rd: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Join us on Friday for Synergy: a community gathering showcasing artwork, music & food from an abundance of cultures! Our wellbeing groups have been working so hard on this so don't miss it!

🧶'First, I met new friends. I relearnt how to knit again. I made something I’m happy with. I forget my stress when I knit.'

Can you help? Our knitters are running out of wool!

Any donations of wool would be HUGELY appreciated💞

Be part of the biggest festival of its kind!

Volunteers are key to the success of the Migration Matters Festival.
We simply could not do it without them.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
English submissions only.
Fiction/Poetry: migrants only; no specific theme.
Non-Fiction, Reviews, Interviews: Open to all, themed Payment: £300 for cover art (Migrant artists).
£100 for other selected submissions.
🔗 Submit: othersideofhope.com/submissions.ht…

🚨The cruel #Rwanda Bill returns to the House of Commons today.

People seeking safety in the UK should be treated with compassion.

No-one should be forcibly deported to Rwanda, or anywhere else.

This Bill will only cause further harm to already vulnerable individuals.

Whether you run your own bookshop, work in retail or hospitality, or are part of sports groups, check out our ‘High Streets Packs’ on our website with ideas to take part in Refugee Week.🧡

Credit: Grace Springer Photography, Refugee Football Tournament. @WelshRefugeeCouncil

Our brilliant Creative Producer Dina tells us all about ‘Yellow’, directed by Elham Ehsas 🌟💛

Now a BAFTA nominated story, its message is as important as ever. We will not let the stories of women and girls in Afghanistan be erased or forgotten. #RememberAfghanistan