Take part in refugee week!

About the webinar

This session will give you everything you need to know to support your group to take part in Refugee Week from 17-23 June. Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. The webinar will take a look at our involvement last year, introduce why Refugee week is important and give you the resources you need to get involved this year!

Who is this training/course for?

• Friends of the Earth local action groups

Why attend?

• Find out why Refugee Week is important for Friends of the Earth to support
• Hear about the link between the climate crisis and migration
• Get to see what groups did last year
• Find out the key resources to help you take part
• Have time to discuss and plan activity together

What to expect

First we’ll get settled and go through our ground rules and agenda, then you’ll hear about why we’re taking part in Refugee Week. You’ll then hear about the activity groups were involved in last year, hopefully with an account from a group member (tbc). We’ll go through the key Refugee Week resources together after that, before having a discussion together on how we can get involved.

Your hosts/facilitators

• Finnian (International Activism Officer)
• Denis (Campaigner) from Friends of the Earth.

Accessibility

During this webinar we will use Zoom, Powerpoint and breakout rooms. We will also potentially use jamboard. You don’t need to prepare or read anything before the session – it's designed for everyone, no matter your campaign experience level.

In addition we have the follow processes in place to support accessibility

• Closed Captions on zoom
• If you require a palantypist or a BSL interpreter please contact community@foe.co.uk two weeks before the training and we will aim to book an expert this service. If there are no available palantypists or BSL interpreters, we will work with you to do whatever we can to support your engagement in the training.
• All PowerPoint presentations have ALT text for images and pictures

• PowerPoints and handouts will be emailed prior to training for use with screen readers

Please let us know via the booking form if you have any other accessibility requirements or alternatively you can email us on community@foe.co.uk to talk to us about it.

Recording

We will record this event for internal training and development purposes. If you’re unable to make it, please come along to another session as we run these regularly.