Encouraging Action for Peace
It’s Refugee Week, and this year the theme is Healing: “Through creativity and conversations, Refugee Week 2022 will be a celebration of community, mutual care, and the human ability to start again.” Counterpoint Arts, organisers of UK Refugee Week In Birmingham, events to mark this week include: 11:30am Thursday 23rd June: a visit to Victoria […]
Our current theme Live, Love, Learn is all about peaceful & sustainable education. Questions of peace are at the forefront of our minds right now, but what does ‘peaceful education’ mean in practice? Our sister organisation Peacemakers works in schools to help children and staff develop the skills to understand and resolve conflict. For primary-age […]
As we reopen for 2022, our first theme at Peace Hub is Live, Love, Learn – all about sustainable education. Education helps us to gain skills and knowledge that allow us to work and support ourselves. But it’s about much more than that. Education helps us to understand the world the world we live in, […]
Refugees have always been a part of the UK, and of Birmingham. It’s who we are. Visitors arriving in the city by coach are greeted by a sign declaring ‘A Hundred Thousand Welcomes’ (photo above by ell brown is licensed under CC BY 2.0). Here are just a handful of the generations of refugees who […]
White Poppies are now available at Peace Hub for 2021 – pop in to get one for a donation, to wear in the run-up to Armistice Day & Remembrance Sunday. What are white poppies, and why do people wear them? This video, made by one of our volunteers Jacob, explains: White poppies are produced by […]
10th-16th May is Mental Health Awareness Week – the theme for 2021 is connecting with nature. The week was created by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) who describe it as “an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health.” This past year has taken a toll on our mental […]
Our theme Speak – Listen – Change is all about having positive conversations about mental health: by speaking openly about mental health we can challenge stigma; by listening deeply to other’s experiences we can create a supportive environment. Being open to mental health doesn’t have to be awkward! Being there for someone can make a […]
Our theme for April, May & June 2021 is: Speak, Listen, Change – how can we support each other’s mental health & wellbeing? ‘Mental wellbeing’ is our general emotional state: how we feel and how well we can cope with day-to-day life. It is part of our broader ‘mental health’. For many of us, the […]
Image: USDA CC BY 2.0 There are lots of small actions we can all take to eat more sustainably. But to make the big changes we need to feed everyone whilst also maintaining our environment, our food systems need to change. A sustainable approach to this called ‘Agroecology’. But what on Earth is agroecology? And […]
A round up of online actions you can currently take on the climate emergency – personal, local, national and international: Personal Action Eco Action Families have made a great video explaining some simple personal actions that you can take, including switching to a renewable energy provider and choosing a bank that invests sustainably. They then […]