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Roll up! Roll up for the festival and free events in Portsmouth this weekend and next week.

21/10/2017

 
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The Journeys Festival and One World Week are finally here. A whole week of creative events taking place right across Portsmouth.

Did you know that FWB have funded the Journey's Festival via National Lottery funding and many of our clients and volunteers are helping out? Come along and show your support at one of the many events taking place in the city this week.


JOURNEYS FESTIVAL and ONE WORLD WEEK DIARY

Saturday 21st

19:30  Je Suis Dance Presentation  New Theatre Royal  PO1 2DD

Sunday 22nd

10:30  Service of Worship  Waterlooville Baptist  PO7 7SY

14:00   Tea Party  St Philip Howard PO14 1NA


12:00+16:00   Video Presentation Cathedral Container  PO1 2HH

Monday 23rd

18:30 Discussion  Cathedral Container  PO1 2HH

12:00+16:00 Video Presentation Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

Tuesday 24th

11:00 Childbirth Event Landport Community Centre PO1 1JD

11:30 Discussion St Marks Church Café PO2 8HR

12:30 Chat Over Chai Deaf Centre 279 Arundel St PO1 1LX

18:30 Women singing Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

19:30 Fairtrade Gold Gosport Discovery Centre PO12 1BT

12:00+16:00 Video Presentation Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

Wednesday 25th

11:00 Mobile Workshop Opposite Cascades PO1 1RS

12:00 Celebration Dicovery Centre PO1 3QA

19:00 Malawian Music Film Kings Theatre PO5 2SE

12:00+16:00 Video Presentation Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

Thursday 26th

12:30 Chat Over Chai -Peace Havelock Centre PO4 0LQ

16:30 New Writing Project New Theatre Royal PO1 2DD

12:00+16:00 Exhibition Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

Friday 27th

14:00 Drumming Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

15:00 Discussion Point Battery PO1 2FS

19:00 Global Sounds Coastguard Studios PO4 0SA


19:30 International Food Sacred Heart PO7 7SR

12:00+16:00 Exhibition Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

Saturday 28th

15:30 Childrens' dance ​Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

18:30 Quiz/Ploughman's Supper St John's Fareham PO14 1DM

12:00+16:00 Exhibition Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

Sunday 29th

​10:30 International Mass Sacred Heart PO7 7SR

15:00 Look Up Artists Interview Aspex Gallery PO1 3BF

12:00+16:00 Exhibition
Cathedral Container PO1 2HH

This Friday, 20th October: Panel discussion on migration, displacement and culture

16/10/2017

 
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Diskussion by Oliver Tacke
As part of Journeys Festival International Portsmouth one of our trustees and volunteers, Charles Leddy-Owen, has helped to organise a panel discussion about displacement, cultural adaptability and creativity. It may be of interest to some of FWB's supporters.

​Focusing on dance, in honour of the following evening's performance of #JeSuis at the New Theatre Royal, the panel will be made up of a diverse mixture of artists and academics .

Further details and how to book your place at the seminar (for free) can be found by clicking here. 

CHAIRMAN'S NEWSLETTER

9/10/2017

 

OCCASIONAL NEWS FROM FRIENDS WITHOUT BORDERS (PORTSMOUTH)

JOHN BINGHAM 1929-2017

Sadly, John died on 27th September after a short illness. He has been mentioned in this newsletter before and I recently circulated my speech at his retirement so there isn’t much more to say.

Perhaps I can leave the final words to one of our volunteers “John was such a role model for me. His clear mind, compassionate understanding of the rights and wrongs …. and all the legal procedures was an inspiration and a real help.”  This very much states my own feelings – “clear mind, compassionate understanding, an inspiration and a real help”

​COMING EVENTS 

Journeys Festival

Journeys Festival, organised by our partners Art Reach, is taking place in Portsmouth between 19th and 29th October. There’s an exciting programme of Theatre, Music and Fine Art events and discussions throughout the period and throughout the city. We would particularly draw your attention to the contribution of the Zimbabwean Majid Dhana, one of our “old boys”, who is artist in residence at Aspex Gallery PO1 3BF. There is a host of other good stuff so do look at the programme!

One World Week
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By happy chance One World Week is taking place at the same time as Journeys Festival and their programme can be downloaded at http://www.campaign.exchange/campaigns/one-world-week-2017-good-neighbours/. They too have a host of good stuff, with a faith based slant and more likely to be hosted in church halls than commercial venues. But good stuff - do check out their programme as well! 
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​STEPHEN MORGAN MP

Stephen was elected as the Labour MP for Portsmouth South in June, taking the seat from Conservative Flick Drummond and the majority from the Conservatives in Parliament.

​We were delighted to welcome him to the drop-in on 28th September where he greeted a number of our clients and was photographed by many of them. Surprisingly, he came back the following Thursday to sit with a caseworker and see what sort of problems we tackle. I was not there myself but he was apparently visibly moved by what he heard. A good thing to see in an MP.
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​QUARR ABBEY

In our hunt for accommodation for failed asylum seekers “not eligible for public funds” I recently took two on a trip to Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight. The monks were hospitable and wanted to know how they could help. Having consulted the two asylum seekers I suggested they might host one, the other not thinking he would fit in with a monastic lifestyle. We are still waiting to see what the Abbot thinks about this, and indeed what the asylum seeker will think if the Abbot agrees to host him.

One interesting thing which has come from this is advice from our Access to Justice team about accommodating failed asylum seekers. “[They don’t] have the right to rent and it will be illegal for them or the landlord to enter into a tenancy agreement. However, free board and lodging can be offered (or paid for by a third party, such as a charity). The address must be disclosed to Home Office or both will be in breach of their temporary admission conditions”.

In other words you can legally offer accommodation to a failed asylum seeker. Experience in Chichester seems to show that this works best when time scales are limited (two months with any one host, for example). 
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If anyone would be interested in hosting one of our clients for two months please get in touch with me. We would be strict about the two month rule however well the two of you get on. The scheme would be administered by the charity Refugee at Home.
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​GOODS NEEDED


​We’ve recently been asked about donating clothes. These days we ask people to take clothes to the Red Cross Shop in Southsea: 41a Palmerstone Road, Southsea PO5 3QQ opposite John Lewis. They are the experts and can offer a better service than we do - so we give our clients vouchers to get what they need from there.
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We do keep stocks of nappies and toiletries at All Saints and these are much appreciated.

The Red Cross now has a cycle repair project and welcomes donations of cycles in whatever condition to be repaired and given to clients. 
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We would also welcome donations of good quality cycle locks as these are expensive items but very much needed. 
Any such donations (nappies/ toiletries/ babies clothes/ cycles/ cycle locks) should ideally be delivered during drop-in times - Monday and Thursday 10:00-12:30. The drop-in is at All Saints Church PO1 4BT

​VOLUNTEERING

​We are interested in finding more volunteers and have recently modified the procedure. Please email me if you’re interested and copy to Susan Adeyemo: [email protected]
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Very best wishes to you all,

MICHAEL WOOLLEY
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Chairman, Friends Without Borders

Two homeless asylum seekers and Chairman Michael Woolley visit Quarr Abbey

8/10/2017

 
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Two homeless asylum seekers at Quarr, one hopes to stay there for a while.

John Bingham

8/10/2017

 
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This is an update on our previous post.

John Bingham, founder of Friends Without Borders, ​was buried at All Saints Denmead on 5th October with a full church and representatives from many of the organisations with which he'd worked.

Portsmouth to get its own city app to help the homeless

6/10/2017

 
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Phone by Ozzy Delaney
A new phone app tdesigned to help homeless people get the help they need will be launched in Portsmouth next week.

The Street Support Network, who developed the app, say that its mission is to make it easier for people to collaborate, co-ordinate and provide better support for people experiencing homelessness, and make it easier for citizens and business to do something to help.

The app is already used in Manchester, Leeds and Bournemouth and on Tuesday at 11:30 am Portsmouth will get its own. The app will be officially launched in the John Pounds Centre, 23 Queen St, Portsmouth, PO1 3HN.

After it is launched, the app will be available from the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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