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Courage! Refugee Week 2026
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. The theme for 2026 is Courage. For refugees around the world, courage is often a daily necessity. It is the courage to face unknown journeys, learn new languages, navigate unfamiliar systems, or simply to…
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Opportunities for Action Summer 2025
Peace Hub is supporting events to take action for peace & social justice in the coming weeks. Stop SDSC We were please to be at Telford International Centre TIC earlier this month, engaging people attending a LEGO event there, to raise awareness that the SDSC arms fair takes place at the same venue. Many attendees…
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Refugee Week 2025
Refugee Week is here, running until Sunday 22nd June 2025. We’re looking forward to joining this festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. This year’s theme is Community as a Superpower This chimes with a lot of what we’ve been thinking about recently at Peace Hub – community and…
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Stop the Telford Arms Fair
Make a Peace Dove to send a message: no to arms and yes to peace. For three days in November 2024, the weapons industry plans to set up shop in Telford at an arms fair called SDSC. The arms fair left the 3 Counties Showground in Malvern after widespread protest. They came to Telford International…
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Show Your Heart
Over the coming weeks and months, you’ll hopefully start noticing orange hearts appearing around Brum. You may have already spotted them on social media. But what’s it all about? The orange heart is the symbol adopted by Together With Refugees – a new coalition of national and local organisations, refugees living in Britain, and people…
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Anti-Slavery Week
18th October is UK Anti-Slavery Day. It’s an opportunity to raise awareness of human trafficking and modern slavery, and encourage government, local authorities, companies, charities and individuals to do what they can to address the problem. For 2020, our friends at Medaille Trust have gone one better, and created a whole week of online events…
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Take your #NewUnionFlag selfie!
Our current theme at Peace Hub ‘Be the Friendly Face of Brum‘ is all about celebrating and welcoming refugees into our community. As part of the theme, we’re delighted to be displaying the New Union Flag in our window. It’s been designed by artist Gil Mualem Doron as a celebration of our diversity. The flag…
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Join In: Creative Activities for Peace!
Throughout the school Summer Holidays 2018, pop into Peace Hub during our normal opening times to take part in creative activities for all ages and abilities. Making peace often involves thinking outside the box – taking part in creative activities can help us get in the right frame of mind to make change. Here are…
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Refugees & Mental Health
18th-24th June 2018 is Refugee Week! As part of our theme Speak, Listen, Change, this article explores some of the mental health issues faced by refugees and asylum seekers. People seeking sanctuary have often fled traumatic circumstances at home, such as war, torture or loss of loved ones. They may have undergone a difficult and…
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Home Matters Art Competition
Birmingham Friends of the Earth are running an art competition to highlight the issue of Climate Refugees, and Peace Hub is delighted to be one of the venues where a winning artwork will be displayed. Birmingham Friends of the Earth (BFoE) explain: “We are launching this art competition to try and encourage people to empathise…