This is volunteer’s week… …and to celebrate, we decided to release the Friends Not Foes Newsletter for the year 2020. Enjoy ! Many groups played along, and we ended up with the impressive number of 30 sleeping bag, ready to send to Care4Calais. Philip, who is the current head of Refugee Action-Colchester, offered to carry[…]
Category Archives: Community
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Nov
Nov
The start of the school year has been hugely successful for Friends Not Foes. The arrival of a lot of new faces, coming along with new ideas brought a refreshing motivation to the group. We continued to build on our past successes whilst undertaking a number of new challenges to benefit Colchester’s Refugee Community. Here[…]
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Aug
Aug
When I joined the Colchester Sixthform in 2018, I already knew a fair amount about the Refugee Crisis and the challenges of being a refugee. I had always been wanting to do something to help but could not think of any way to do so. I first heard of Friends Not Foes through one of the second[…]