Educational and social inclusion
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Bury, Greater Manchester, UK
Operating across the North West and Yorkshire
Previous projects
These are a few of our previous projects - more to be added later!
Migration Stories North West (2021-24) is a National Lottery Heritage Fund project.
The Migration Stories North West project was developed by five organisations across the North West of England, supported by historians and heritage organisations from around the region. Each partner has worked with local adults and young people to research and document histories of migration in and out of the North West from the Roman period to the present day.
The project shows how the North West has always been a place of migration, and explores the movement of people to and from other parts of the British Isles and other parts of the world. The reasons for their migration are as varied as the people themselves: their migration resulted from conflict, colonialism and trade, as well as in search of work, educational opportunities or a better life.
Fair Futures CIC worked on phase 2 of the project, with students and staff at The Derby High School. An excellent group of students created oral histories with 10 volunteer adults who had migrated into or out of the North West of England.
Migration Stories North West includes around 100 personal stories of migration, documented by teams of volunteer researchers and school groups from across the region. See the interactive story maps on the Migration Stories page here.
Students working on the Phase 2 Greater Manchester project:
Explored concepts around migration;
Planned how to carry out the interviews and recordings with the volunteer storytellers;
Interviewed people who had migrated in or out of the North West of England;
Edited the interviews;
Created parts of the videos for the Migration Stories North West website;
Showcased their amazing work for the rest of the school.
When the text and videos had been finished, they were sent to the Migration Stories North West team to be uploaded onto the website. You can see them here with other stories recorded by projects in other places in the North West of England.
Later in the year, other students at The Derby High School worked with Ms Fisher from Fair Futures CIC and added their migration stories to the map for the whole school to see.
Funded by The People's Postcode Lottery
Fair Futures CIC was awarded funding from the People's Postcode Lottery to run art classes for asylum seekers and refugees in Bury. The classes ran from September to mid-December 2023, with adults' classes in the afternoon and children's classes after school.
The groups made some amazing artwork under the guidance of their teacher, Lynne Edwards, Head of Creative Projects at Fair Futures CIC.
Funded by the Institute of Physics
Physics sounds like a difficult subject but really, it's happening all around us in everyday things. Our multilingual science activity days helped children find out more about the conservation of energy, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy and how to consider the advantages and drawbacks of wind power. They did this through making games, building structures and playing with different kinds of energy, building windmills and marble runs and investigating the science behind them.
The sessions were particularly aimed at children aged 8-12, learning English as an additional language.
A celebration event for families took place on Friday after the workshops and children explained what they had made and the science behind it.
Science activity days October half term
Science activity days October half term
Family
lantern making
workshop
Fair Futures CIC hosted The Met family lantern making workshop on 18th November 2023. The families taking part had a great time creating and decorating their lanterns and were able to take part in the lantern parade in Bury on Sunday 26th November.
Ukrainian children's social group and summer club
Funded by and British Red Cross
The Ukrainian children's social group and summer club gave refugee children the chance to socialise with other children in similar circumstances, play games and get support from teachers to understand schoolwork and homework.
At the summer club, the children learned more about the local area and visited places of interest in Bury and Manchester. They had a great time walking, playing and creating artwork.
Weekly English classes helped children to develop their language skills and consolidate learning done in school.
Parents were able to find out more about the English education system and things to do in the area.
The funding also enabled us to make webpages with information in Ukrainian, Russian and English to support Ukrainian new arrivals in Bury.
