As part of National Refugee Week, the Shine Business Centre in Harehills hosted a Police Day on 16th June. With lots of activities to attend, everyone who attended had a good time, especially those who visited the ELFM Caravan of Love in the Shine car park…
Have a listen to the broadcast in two parts – [...]
Connect Housing, the Refugee Council, Stop Hate UK and Community Sports launched Leeds Refugee Week with a children’s and adults’ football tournament and family event held at Thomas Danby College. The event was a great success in bringing together a wide range of teams and spectators from Leeds and Kirklees of diverse ages and communities. [...]
“We really had fun making our ‘Stereotypes’ DVD. We got to interview people about how they had been stereotyped and learnt how to use a video camera and edit our film.” Sukbir, aged 14
Global Youth Action at
Leeds DEC
Leeds Development Education Centre can give your youth group a grant of £1000 to:
Connect [...]
Carr Manor High School is one of the schools in Leeds that plays host to many young people arriving from other countries. The important thing when they arrive is to make them feel welcome
ELFM are working with Carr Manor to create a dvd resource that tells the new arrivals and their families what the school [...]
ELFM caught up with Iranian flamenco guitarist Ramtin Montazemy to discuss life as a musician and as a refugee, he also treated us to amazing music.
For two more pieces of music from Ramtin check out his other podcast by clicking here.
Inspired by the young people, Hiwa and friends from Leeds Kurdish Community Association put together a show discussing some of the important issues for the Kurdish community.
I’d been talking with Richard Byrne about how we can link up our work at ELFM with refugee groups with his work as Regional Media Officer for the Refugee Council. Didn’t realise how much of his work was put into promoting blogging, podcasting and video podcasting. Thought we might learn something from him about how [...]
