17 November 2023. WBI congratulates the 6th cohort of our Employment Support for Migrants for successfully completing the course. To celebrate this achievement, and to highlight the overall success of the programme tailored in partnership with Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and City of Portsmouth College, we are releasing a video featuring two of our former …
28 October 2023. For the October edition of Food with Friends, WBI hosted an NHS-led talk on cancer prevention followed by a delicious lunch at the historical venue in old Portsmouth. Our Food with Friends participants were grateful for the interactive discussion and essential information on different kinds of cancer, symptoms and care in the …
Cancer Prevention and Hospital Care Health Talk at October’s Food with Friends Read More »
30 September 2023. The last day of September marked a double celebration at WBI: our monthly Food with Friends event coincided with our second anniversary as a CIC. WBI launched Food with Friends in the winter of 2022 with support from Portsmouth City Council’s Community Inclusion Grant. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, since …
22 September 2023. We are so thrilled to see the release of Workers Educational Association (WEA)’s new learner video to celebrate their 120-year anniversary, featuring two participants, Karla and Abdalazeez, from WBI’s Employment Support for Migrants program delivered with City of Portsmouth College and WEA. Congrats WEA on your 120-year birthday! Back in June 2023, WBI …
30 August 2023. For the August edition of Food with Friends, we welcomed back our international friends inside a grade 2 listed building in Old Portsmouth to experience a British picnic with an ethnic twist. Guests enjoyed an array of sweet and savoury treats, after a talk on liver health wonderfully delivered by Dr Kate Owen-Glynn …
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25 July 2023. We are celebrating with National Lottery Community Fund today as a recent award recipient. We thank them for their support, which enables us to continue our Food with Friends project on food security and health education for the migrant communities in Portsmouth for one more year. Today, the National Lottery is marking their £252m of …
Thank you National Lottery Community Fund for funding our Food with Friends! Read More »
10 July 2023. Last week we concluded the 5th run of our Employment Support for Migrants program. Our Employment Support Workshops are a journey of preparing for the UK job market. Each workshop takes the participants a step closer to finding meaningful employment. The group had nine participants from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Gambia, Afghanistan, Turkey, …
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6 July 2023. We are looking back on the 2nd Anniversary of Welcome Wheels, celebrated at South Parade Pier. Sustrans set this project up in partnership with Portsmouth City of Sanctuary and Southsea Cycles to support volunteers from the national initiative Action Asylum. WBI bridge-funded the project last year before long term funding arrived. With friends, collaborators and volunteers from Sustrans and …
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26 June 2023. WBI invited local artist Michelle Ezeuko (former Artist-in-Residence at Aspex Gallery) to facilitate a Vision Board Workshop for our current Employment Support for Migrants cohort. The Workshop was organized to creatively empower our participants to visualize their future and map out their next career steps. Planning the future can be a daunting …
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6 May 2023. We are absolutely thrilled to share that we have received a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to run our Food with Friends project for another year. In November 2022, we received a Community Inclusion Fund from the Portsmouth City Council for Food with Friends. We match-funded, so that together we …
WBI wins a National Lottery Community Grant to continue Food with Friends Read More »
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