This year’s Refugee Week focuses on compassion. In Brighton and Hove, we are lucky to be part of a community that actively supports refugee and asylum seeker rights and values and celebrates their unique contributions.

Only 1/3 of women worldwide can swim. In many societies, women and girls don’t get equal opportunities to access and get to know and love the ocean.

A “Random Act Of Kindness” is uplifting for the recipient and beautiful to witness.

We’re feeling festive here at Enjoolata HQ, and as we lead up to Christmas, we want to highlight the work of one of our favourite projects last year.

Voices in Exile support refugees, asylum seekers and those with no recourse to public funds. Their ethos  is multi-faith and human rights based and their approach is collaborative and holistic. 

In the summer of 2021 Enjoolata awarded funding to a small group of residents on Stanmer road on the outskirts of Brighton who had got together to transform a piece of scrub land known as The Old Green into a natural and educational resource for the local community.

By the shipping basin in Portslade there is an old boat yard whose entrance is covered in murals.

The first Emmaus community was founded in Paris, shortly after WW2 when a man called ​Georges came to Father Henri-Antoine Grouès for help.