June 2011 INSIDE Who’s keeping an eye on College Green? The Memory Shed all our histories Music in Exile A taste of England Welcome to my home My favourite food… Kenya comes to Bristol Faith in the City Bristol City of Sanctuary Steering Committee Bristol City of Sanctuary Supporters CONTENTS June Burrough (Chair) Founder and Director, The Pierian Centre Co If your organisation would like to be Hotwells Primary School ng 3 Letter to Bristol ratula added this lists, please visit Imayla International Organisation tions Lorraine Ayensu Team Manager, Asylum Support and Refugee In - www.cityofsanctuary.org/bristol for Migration Inderjit Bhogal tegration Team, Bristol City Council Churches Council for Industry and Alistair Beattie Chief Executive, Faithnetsouthwest ACTA Community Theatre Social Responsibility 4 Editorial Caroline Beatty Co-ordinator, The Welcome Centre, Bristol African and Caribbean Chamber of John Wesley’s Chapel Mike Jempson to Bris Commerce and Enterprise Kalahari Moon to Refugee Rights l – Jo Benefield Bristol Defend Asylum Campaign African Initiatives Kenya Association in Bristol 5 A movement gaining ground Adam Cutler Bristol Central Libraries African Voices Forum Kingswood Methodist Church Stan Hazell Afrika Eye Malcom X Centre Mohammed Elsharif Secretary, Sudanese Association Amnesty International Bristol MDC Bristol Elinor Harris Area Manager, Refugee Action, Bristol p 6-7 The Memory Shed ro Group Methodist Church, South West ud to b Reverend Canon Tim Higgins The City Canon, Bristol Cathedral Eugene Byrne e Anglo-Iranian Society (Bristol) region a Bryony Hutt President, Student Action for Refugees, Bristol Uni - Anti-Slavery The MediaWise Trust versity Group Avon and Bristol Law Centre Modoto Ltd 9-10 At the heart of Bristol Latif Ismail Chair, Somali Forum Baker Brown Associates Movementor Phil Chamberlain and Mike Barnardo’s South West National Union of Journalists, Ci Bristol Zimbabwe Association t Maria Mapwashike Jempson y of Bedminster Quaker Meeting Bristol Branch Sanc St Nicholas of Tolentino t Fr Richard McKay uar Black Development Agency Off the Record y Naomi Millner Bristol Hospitality Network The Brigstowe Project One25 10-11 Sanctuary at the Seven Stars Christopher Orlink Trustee, Bristol Refugee Rights Bristol Action for Southern Africa Orange Street Creative Studios Mark Steed A message from Inde rjit Bhogal, the founde Robert Porteus Trustee, Bristol Refugee Rights Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Oxfam South West r and national chair of the City of Sanctuary m Rosa Ross Anglo-Iranian Society, Bristol Group Pax Pontis 12-13 A taste of England ovement Valerie Russell Emmott Bristol Multi-Faith Forum The Bristol Bike Project The Pierian Centre Mary Ingoldsby WELL done to a ll organisations Bristol Citizen Advice Bureau Radio Salaam Shalom represent and individuals Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw Coordinator, UWE Refugee Hub a tremendous com who are working Bristol Community FM The Rainbow Programme all r mitment to the hard in this dev esidents, but esp building of cultu elopment. You al Hazel Stark Co-ordinator, Refugee Women of Bristol 14-15 Welcome to my home ecially for those a res of welcome, l Bristol Community Housing Advice Reckless Orchard mong us seeking hospitality and s Dr Christien van den Anker Reader, University of the West of Sabrina Esuka safety from harm afety for Service Red Notes Choir Achievin , and sanctuary g the City of San . England and Migrants Rights Centre Bristol Bristol Darfur Association Redland Park Church blis ctuary standard sful peace. The C does not mean yo Bristol Debt Advice Centre Redland Quaker Meeting ity of Sanctuar u have achieved 16-17 My favourite food wide variety y standard is a s your ‘nirvana’ of local commun ignificant marke , a state of STAFF Bristol Defend Asylum Seekers Refugee Action (Bristol) Zahra Azari, Samsok ity groups and th r to reach, recogn e local council ha ising that a Campaign Refugee Women of Bristol No ve a shared visio Forward Maisokwadzo Development worker Phetnoi and Lisa Pearce w you must sust n for a shared fu Bristol District of the Methodist Roaring Success Communications ain this vision, a ture. Andy Waitt Volunteer administrator nd strengthen it. Church Rolls-Royce Injustic 18-19 COVER STORY: e, war, poverty a Bristol Drugs Project Royal West of England Academy nd persecution c ontinue to put liv Bristol Fairtrade Network Saint Bonaventure’s Roman Raj Rammohun Roy es in danger. Eve We all belong ryone wants to b Bristol Folk House Catholic Parish Prasun Sonwalkar and to each other. W e safe. other. T e all desire the fu he challenge is t llness of life. W Bristol Foundation Housing Shelter Housing Support Service Poushali Mitra b o tackle injustice e find warmth an uild harmonious and hatred that d shelter in each A warm Bristol Hospitality Network SHOP (Vintage Lounge and Arts and hospitable c hurts us all, and tality, and ommunities in w to do all in our Bristol Multi-Faith Forum Venue) CIC are safe, and hav hich all are we power to 20-21 Music in exile e sanctuary. lcome, belong equ ally, have hospi- welcome Bristol Palestine Solidarity Cam - Society of Merchant Venturers In Anita Hummel the context of i paign Somali Development Group njustice and peop make money le desiring safety Bristol Refugee Rights South Avon Conservation and out of other peop it is monstrous t ing trad le’s misery. Hum hat there are tho to Bristol Bristol Somali Forum Amenities Society 22-23 City of opportunity e is today’s slav an trafficking a se who seek to y e trade. Hundred nd the associated Eugene Byrne ear from the car s of children tra sex and child tr Bristol Sudanese Association South West TUC e system (550 in fficked into the U affick- exposed an the last three and K are disappear Bristol Trades Union Council St Gregory’s Church, Horfield d ended. Protect half years). Su ing each Globe the most vulnera ch immigration c Bristol Zimbabwe Association St Nicholas of Tolentino School 24 Bristol Bus Boycott: ble. rime needs to be Well done Bris British Red Cross St Nicholas Tolentino Oral history tol. The City of S Bristol NUJ congratulates Bristol City of Sanctuary movemen anctuary badge Churches Together in Greater Bris - St Pauls Advice Centre ts of people. takes you on in y in winning such wide support for its important work in Mary Ingoldsby our own history tol Staple Hill Methodist Church in relation to the welcoming refugees to the City. We have supported There is much City of Bristol College Student Action for Refugees yet to be done. K City of Sanctuary since the idea was first raised and 25 OPINION: strength eep the conversa Clean Slate Training and Employ - Temwa of a shared visio tions and commu we are very pleased to see that you are spreading n to guide you. nication levels go ment Thinking people Tackling racism ing. You have the your ideas through this new magazine. We wish Re Clifton Diocese Transparency Research Marvin Rees main strong. Bristol Globe magazine every success and a wide Coconut Chilli Digital Tribe of Doris Inderjit Bhogal and appreciative readership. Coexist Trinity Community Arts Ltd. 26-27 Women writers in exile Community Resolve Trinity Henleaze United Reformed Iqbal Tamimi Bristol NUJ is the city's number one organisation for Create it! (Arts) Ltd Church BRISTOL GLOBE professional media workers. We have around 350 Crisis Centre Ministries Tyndale Baptist Church Editor: Mike Jempson members in newspaper and broadcast journalism, 28 Faith in the city Forward Maisokwadzo Cube Cinema Bristol Ujima Radio is published by Deputy Editor: Forward publishing, web publishing, photography, PR and Easton Christian Family Centre Unchosen Bristol City of Sanctuary, The Easton Family Practice University of the West England, 29-30 Twinning: Bristol connections Alix Hughes Maisokwadzo more. Discover more about the union at c/o Refugee Action, 9 Hide Market, www.nuj.org.uk or visit the Bristol branch website at The Ethical Property Company Bristol Editorial Assistant: Andy Waitt West Street, Bristol BS2 0BH the address below. To find out more about the Elays Development Network UWE Unison 31 Kenyan athletes come to town Photographers: Claude Mouthy and Tel: 0117 941 5960 branch, email [email protected] Faithnet Southwest Victim Support-Avon and Somerset Forward Maisokwadzo Anita Hummel Foster Care Associates (Western) Volunteering Bristol Design: Chris Brooker First Bristol Voscur We’re at www.bristolnuj.org.uk 32 PROFILE: Mohammed Elsharif Email: [email protected] [email protected] GWE Business West World Development Movement Layout: Paul Breeden Happy City Initiative (Bristol) Mike Jempson Web: and you can follow @bristolnuj [email protected]/bristol Promotions Team: Mal Sainsbury us on Twitter: The Haven Young Bristol 33-39 Directory of local organisations Twitter @BristolCoS and Judeline Ross 2 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 3 Welcome to The movement BRISTOL GLOBE ‘We all gaining ground AM delighted to be editing the first edition of the BRISTOL enjoy the GLOBE. In 2007 I had the honour of editing a similar magazine amazing range of called Haven in Liverpool. It was the brainchild of Gordon Doh I food, Fondo from Cameroon, who was part of the Exiled Journalists’ music, Network which had started life here in Bristol a few years earlier. As arts and Former HTV journalist Stan Hazell explains the with BRISTOL GLOBE the idea was to introduce newcomers to history the city and local citizens to their new neighbours. that origins of the City of Sanctuary idea That notion of hospitality is one of the goals of the City of Sanc - surround tuary movement, which is why I was also pleased to speak in sup - us’: Mike ANCTUARY! It is a cry that has re - Jempson Main picture : Bristol people march in support of City of Sanctuary port of Bristol’s bid for recognition at the Council House last verberated down the centuries from Inset : Siva Rajah, 26, a Tamil orphan from Sri Lanka, has been in the November.