Working With The Community
The Trust staff work with other community and voluntary groups in Manchester to run activities and produce resources. Working with the Trust allows those groups to develop new initiatives and projects.
The Trust has recently worked with four groups in Manchester:
Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST)
WAST is a women's collective which raises awareness about the issues that force women to seek asylum. It also promotes positive and realistic images of asylum seekers. WAST received funding in 2007 to collect the testimonies of its refugees and asylum seeker members. Through 2008, WAST and the Education Trust worked together to turn those testimonies into the publication Am I Safe Yet? It was launched in July, 2008 and is available to purchase through the Education Trust. Visit our publication pages to find out more about the book and how to order. Click here to find out more about the book and how to order. Find out more about WAST by visiting their website: http://www.wast.org.uk/
Multiple Heritage Project (Mix-d: uk)
The Multiple Heritage Project provides information and training on issues relating to Mixed Race identity. The project delivers seminars and workshops for young people and bespoke training for practitioners across the UK. The Trust has worked with the project on Manchester based initiatives since 2007 collaborating to produce a DVD examining the experience of being Mixed Race, host a national conference in October 2008 and produce a portrait book of Mixed Race adults and children. For more information about the work of Multiple Heritage Project visit: http://www.multipleheritage.co.uk/
Mapping Our Lives
Mapping Our Lives is a group of Caribbean immigrants who talk about their own experiences both in the Caribbean and the UK: ‘to tell the children what life was like to us, coming to England and growing up in the Caribbean’. They were originally brought together at Hulme Adult Education Centre to celebrate 50 years since the Windrush era. They have created small exhibitions and compiled a collection of oral histories and artefacts. The People's History Museum based their highly successful production ‘Gabrielle’ on some of the work of Mapping Our Lives. The group meet at the offices of the Resource Centre and the Education Trust every Tuesday. If you would like to talk to a member please call the Centre on 0161 275 2920 between 10.30 and 12pm on that day.
Yemeni Community Association
Between February to April 2010, the AIU Education Trust developed a Beacon Project, in partnership with the Yemeni Community Association (YCA) in Eccles and Salford University. This small project surveyed the Yemeni community to see how many people feel comfortable and confident discussing their own history in the area. We were interested to see if people would welcome a larger, community-based oral history programme. The Beacon project came about because community member Yusuf Bagail expressed his fear that as the older people (many the original migrants of the 1950s) come closer to the end of their lives, the heritage of this community is at risk. Few of their histories have been recorded and information about early efforts at community organising, the founding of the Eccles Mosque, the first Yemeni café and other historic firsts, can only be found in the memories of the elders. These memories need to be captured so that this hidden history of a minority community in Eccles is not lost forever. In our pilot, we found a very high level of interest in the possibility of a community history project and we are working closely with the YCA to develop a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to record the history of the community and generate a legacy and stronger sense of identity for future generations. In April 2011, we were sucessfully awarded a grant of £49500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to conduct the oral history project. Click here to find out more
Our Meeting Room
The Centre and Trust have a large meeting room available for day-time use by community groups. Please call the Centre to book the room. Contact Centre
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