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How can we Invest in Peace?
This International Peace Day (21st September 2021) we’re exploring how we can invest in peace to help us all become more secure. If we see others as competitors or enemies, we naturally seek security in out-competing or defeating them. But this can lead to a cycle of destruction– even if we briefly ‘win’ we’re never…
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Keep taking action to Share our Common Wealth
After 12 days celebrating sport and our city, hosting athletes and teams from across the world, the Commonwealth Games closed last night. Our theme Sharing Common Wealth? continues until the end of August, so feel free to pop into town (now that it’s a bit less busy!) and say hello to us on Bull St.…
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Climate Justice & the Commonwealth
The UK has just experienced its hottest day on record, a stark reminder that climate change is already affecting our lives, and is set to get much worse without urgent action. But extreme weather like this doesn’t affect everyone equally. Whilst all of us struggled with the extreme temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, people on…
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It’s a Penalty
It’s a Penalty is an organisation using the Commonwealth Games to take a stand against human trafficking. Does sport have the power to change the world? Today (29th June), It’s a Penalty have launched their official campaign for Birmingham 2022, with England netballers Sasha & Kadeen Corbin talking about why they support the campaign (photo…
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Refugee Week: a time for Healing
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…
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How can schools build peace?
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…
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How Can We Provide Peaceful & Sustainable Education?
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,…
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Who We Are
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…
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Mental Health Awareness Week
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…
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Having a Conversation about Mental Health
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…