Completed Projects
Projects from 2018-2022.
2018-2019 Projects
Tackling Knife Crime funded by Awards for All. This project dealt with the knife crime issues affecting BAME and refugee communities. Our many years of dealing with our client group taught us that a holistic approach is required to address criminality within the community. Based on our experience, literature reviews and consultation with the community, we ran a three-strand project covering the community, young people and the police.
Grassroots Integration This project was to create and enhance friendships and good relations among the increasingly diverse communities that are living side by side in the years to come. Where new friendships were created; new contacts and networks were formed through a shared meal in the community.
2019-2020 Projects
Refugee Journey Project funded by the Heritage Fund - This project filmed, shared, celebrated and disseminated the wide range of achievements and contributions made by refugees living across Tyneside through their working and family lives, showcasing their stories and experiences promoting better understanding and empathy. 15 Refugees were interviewed, 25 hours of footage captured, a 15 min video produced detailing the life journey of 6 refugees. The final film is on Triangular facebook page and hosted on YouTube.
Link here:
https://youtu.be/KQekwIwfV4o?si=N4j4u9YOpdOaiEAH
Kurdish Syrian Football Project funded by Sport England - was supporting a group of 50 recently established refugees who have started new lives in Gateshead after fleeing the Assad regime. Weekly indoor coaching football activity, followed by a shared meal prepared by family members was funded by Sport England. The project built upon existing informal networks, providing qualified coaching and structured activities supported by volunteers and a sessional project worker, where the group developed their skills and ensuring the growth and sustainability of the group membership.
Peer Support Project funded by Awards for all - This project aimed to tackle loneliness and social isolation, improve sense of belonging and confidence by engaging women who are refugees and recent migrants in a regular community activity. Cultural and language barriers as well as previous reliance on men often precludes refugee/migrant women from coming out of the house and forming friendships and meaningful connections. We hosted weekly meetings, to support refugee/migrant women beneficiaries, offering peer support in order to make new friends to help alleviate loneliness and social isolation, support them through settlement process and citizenship, retain cultural links through socialising and a shared meal.
Crisis Response 2020-2022
Weekly food delivery for vulnerable people (Emergency response)
After finding out that there were many people who were not taking advantage of the various food delivery initiatives in the area due to language and other barriers, during the lockdown we started running a pilot scheme to deliver donated food along with fresh produce purchased from supermarket. This supporting many households to continue to stay safe and self-isolate. This was initially funded from our reserve. Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, we were able to continue and expand on the project, delivering food packages to the most vulnerable people in our communities whilst providing some regular face-to-face contact at a safe distance and a brief chat to check everything was ok and provide up to date health information.
Training Community Champions with lived experience to help others (Employability)
Funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust Covid 19 Support Fund, this project enabled us to re-engage 2 experienced sessional project workers from refugee backgrounds to work intensively with community champions from various Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs). These community champions were supported to work among their own respective communities to deliver direct support to around 160 refugees and asylum seekers affected by the crisis in the Tyneside region. The work involved reconnecting with volunteers and helping them identify beneficiaries most in need. We delivered virtual drop-in sessions via Zoom and WhatsApp to support service users with issues related to Covid-19 with particular focus on employability, This included support such as updating CVs and helping them apply for jobs, help with filling in forms and benefits, arranging mock interviews and helping with building confidence.
