Asylum Seeker Rights: workshop in a blog

As with all non-essential gatherings our ‘Asylum Seeker Rights’ everyday activism event had to be postponed. In these strange and isolated days we are not powerless, these could be times of learning, reflecting, preparing and even taking some small actions on important topics. So here is the workshop we had planned in blog form, although …

Activism and Contemplation: two sides of the same coin?

Leeds has a fantastic activist community. People are fighting for change on many fronts: climate change, asylum seeker and refugee rights, air quality, the airport expansion, inequality, mental health, I could go on. When I started in my role as Development Officer for the Leeds Methodist Mission I was inspired by the passion of the …

Ethical Fashion

We had another fantastic Everyday Activism event in January, co-hosted with LCI. Following from the success of Low Carbon Christmas last year we explored Ethical Fashion with a lovely group last week. The group shared their top tips and learnt from one another. We continued our theme of positive activism and everyone at the event …

Low Carbon Christmas

We had a fantastic evening last night at LCI discussing how we could have a lower carbon Christmas. Ed Carlisle shared some of the research around the climate crisis and lots of ideas about how we can get clued up but also stay hopeful that change can happen. He then shared his top tips for …