New Scots will attend creative workshops and learn and develop their skills.
New Scots will socialise with their own and the wider community to prevent isolation.
New Scots will improve their English language abilities.
New Scots will gain confidence in travelling using public transport.
Sewing2gether All Nations: Caring, Creating, Connecting is a grass roots community-based organisation providing creative upcycling workshops, life skill training and practical support to refugees and asylum seekers who wish to practise English and build new friendships.
Renfrewshire and Greater Glasgow.
July 2022 – December 2023
Refugees & Asylum seekers
Female refugees
New Scots learning English
Supporting Innovation
Sewing2gether All Nations: Caring, Creating, Connecting is a grass roots community-based organisation providing creative upcycling workshops, life skill training and practical support to refugees and asylum seekers who wish to practise English and build new friendships.
We facilitate workshops, conversational cafés, and provide assistance to the refugee community, including coaching in accessing public transport, with an aim to improve the health and wellbeing of the families we engage with and prevent isolation.
Sewing2gether All Nations began providing workshops in 2018, and became a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation SC052445 in 2023.
We have representatives with refugee lived experience on our Board of Trustees, as sessional staff and volunteers. We consult widely with with our group’s participants on plans for activities and developments
Sewing2gether All Nations has engaged with large numbers of New Scots, and built a nurturing environments where participants can grow and develop in many ways.
One of our successes is integration with the local community, as we are based in a local church and café, and we receive a lot of donations to pass on to those in need e.g., clothing, Food Pantry, household goods, and a team who collaborated and provided a Christmas gift for every mother and child on our register.
The organisation continues to grow and develop, with volunteers and sessional staff with lived experience stepping up.
The cost of public transport to allow New Scots to access appropriate services. Accommodation moves across the city and beyond when in the asylum system.
Securing funding to allow us to reimburse travel expenses.
Members of the refugee and asylum seeker community are motivated to learn and engage with the community around them, and have much to contribute as New Scots when they are given the opportunity to do so.
