What is One World Week?
One World Week is a Development Education Charity*. Each year, "The Week" is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally. More
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* Charity No: 1107762
Living Differently - African Experiences - Thornbury
Event Title: LIVING DIFFERENTLY - AFRICAN EXPERIENCES
Event Location: St. Mary's Church Hall, Eastbury Road, Thornbury, Bristol
Event Town: Thornbury
Postcode: BS35 1DR
Event Date & Time: 21.10.2014 @ 7.30 - 9pm
Contact Name: Marian Stephens
Contact Telephone: 01454 412165
Event Description: Experience three short presentations on the “LIVING DIFFERENTLY” theme; one by Castle School students who recently visited Tanzania and another from Gill Leaper on life at the Butterfly Space project in Malawi (Gill’s daughter Alice is involved with this) plus the Quilter Family on a Tear Fund project. During the break enjoy tasty refreshments –tea, coffee, fruit juice, cakes and savoury snacks based on food or ingredients from Malawi and other African countries. Fairtrade or local ingredients will be used where available. You will also have time to browse the stalls and displays. Organisers Thornbury and District Make Poverty History group are a long established sub group of Thornbury Churches Together but the OWW evening will not be a religious event. Do you try to live differently? Please come to this event to find out how others live both in Africa and South Gloucestershire
Admission Details: Free but donations to cover costs will be welcome.
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Recently Added Resources
New Funding Opportunity - The Common Good Fund - Application Deadline 27 Feb. 2017 see more here
Organisers' Evaluation form for 2016 events Download from here
Wordsearches for Including You events - download them from here
Press release template for 'Including You' events download here
Quotations about building an inclusive peaceful society - Download from here a 5 page booklet as a word.doc or pdf
Pledges to build an inclusive society - find them here
"Who is a Migrant?" - anactivity/game to get people talking to each other at your events. Download the instructions here
School Assemblies from Christian Aid- link to and download a PowerPoint and notes
Looking for a speaker for your event? Download here a list (pdf) from the Discussion page (posted 12 Sept 2016)
Faith resources relating to "Including You".Download pdf here links to materials offered by OWW's partners and supporters: worship, discussion, films ...plus Prayers for OWW(updated 7 Sept '16)
Presentation "A OWW approach to Migration" Download this PDF version of a 12 slides (15 -20 minutes) powerpoint
Need funding for your event? Apply to Big Lottery Celebrate Fund! NOW or you'll be too late for OWW more here and other suggestions
Poster/ flyer design kit - download from here
2016 Leaflets "Including You" download PDF versions here
Introductory PowerPoint about organising local inclusive OWW events - updated for 2016. Down load ppt here
Migrant crisis or poverty crisis? - A briefing paper from Global Justice NOW Download as a PDF here
2016 - "Including You" - Booklet of ideas, links and resources for interpreting the theme. Dowload a PDF here (updated July 2016)
Learning resource/activity for young people about peace - from Fly Kites not Drones; suitable for activites in or out of school. find links here: schools ; activities (added Nov. 2015 but still relevant for this years events)
Organisers' Evaluation Form for event organisers to complete and send to OWW - down load the word.doc from here
Event participants feedback form (for organisers to collect feedback from participants at OWW events) (word.doc)
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