Centre for Global Education York
York St John University
Lord Mayor’s Walk
York
YO31 7EX
Tel: 01904 876839
Fax: 01904 612512
11th September 2017
Dear Kerry and all the Trustees of the Scurrah Wainwright Charity,
As promised please find enclosed a report with images and duplicated evaluations of the Migration Project that your Charity kindly funded in July 2016. You will see from the report that our initial hope of receiving funding from Joseph Rowntree Foundation was unsuccessful, resulting in a slight delay in the intended timeline of our project. Funding from Awards4All has ensured that we will complete our project with a celebratory event in early 2018.
We feel it is important that you and your Charity are fully aware of level of participation and impact that your £5000 has generated. 33 workshops to an audience of over 900 young people and adults have been delivered. In addition to this we have worked with over 10 migrants who have grown in confidence and self-esteem through this process. Details of the project are on our website and Facebook page and have attracted interest from other community groups both here in the UK and overseas.
Your funds have not only empowered the migrants we have worked with but you have also changed mind-sets, provided an arena for more accurate and considerate migration information and created greater empathy towards the experience of migration.
‘The children were talking mainly about how they will try to be aware of what it’s like for people who move to their area and put more effort, than perhaps they would have done before the workshop, into making them feel welcome, and getting to know them.’ Fiona Dudley, York Steiner School
The workshop clearly demonstrates that we are all migrants-our DNA alone shows this! Data from our workshops has also shown that although young people and adults know something of migration, they often directly struggle to understand the positive impact that migrants have made in the UK. The workshop has helped them with this realisation as they looked at key figures like Jack Cohen (founder of Tesco) and Sir Mo Farrah( Olympian).
Please once again convey our gratitude and appreciation to all the Trustees for this invaluable and generous grant that gave us and you the opportunity and privilege to create a project that has added value to the community of Yorkshire.
‘My dreams now for the future are to live in Britain and share the magnificence of my home country through my language which is dance.‘Shrikant from India
‘Children understood what migration is and why it happens and that often people do not have any choice.Many children on their end of year reflection have written that the migration workshop was the best visitor of the year.’ Rachel Westerby Teacher Driffield Junior
Kind regards and thanks,
Jenny Zobel and Rosina Gilboy
Centre for Global Education, York is registered in England & Wales as a limited company with a registered office at York St John University
Company number 5565188
Charity Registration Number1155653