Great to attend PwC's 'Festival of Charities' today to chat about our work supporting asylum seekers & refugees in Wales. 🧡
Thank you to our volunteers for taking part!

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Today I joined community sharing information with asylum seekers reporting to the Home Office about how to get help if they are detained for deportation to Rwanda.

People are at risk of being bundled into vans & taken away.
We really need people there ready to respond

Our Oasis Junior football is steadily growing in size and we now have a team of really enthusiastic and motivated members! Training every week, we hope to someday participate in matches against local teams. ⚽️
#RefugeesWelcome

Happy 4th birthday to Action Asylum! This national project has been running in Cardiff since 2022 and aims to create opportunities for people seeking sanctuary to volunteer & connect with their community...
like this new community allotment we recently started👇🥬

Odissi dance at Oasis! 💙
Classically trained dancer, Maanasa Visweswaran, will perform and lead a session on this expressive dance.

⏰ 25th May, 2-4pm
📍 Oasis, 69b Splott Road

All ticket sales will support Oasis!
oasiscardiff.org/Event/pallavi-…

Brilliant, detailed information, please read and share! #Knowledgeispower

Tai Pawb’s Rob and Jennie are at Oasis Cardiff 🧡 today, listening to some of the housing issues faced by people seeking sanctuary - and attending a peer support session.
We will be bringing you a joint awareness campaign soon - watch this space.
#NationOfSanctuary #SeekingSanctuary

When you have a child & then you get crushed with the news they are disabled & all the hopes & dreams you had for them are snuffed out, you worry.

When aged 17.5 they go on a work placement with lovely caring people & at the end of the week they come home with this, you cry!

The “inhumane and inappropriate” Rwanda plan is “creating huge impacts on people’s health and mental health” says Susie Ventris-Field from our partners Oasis Cardiff 🧡 in WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

She's absolutely right. 🧡

#FightTheAntiRefugeeLaws

walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

Our CEO, Susie, spoke to WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 on the damaging impacts of the Rwanda bill 👇
walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

Every month, £500 is up for grabs for yourself and £5000 for us by choosing us as your Co-op Local Community Fund!
1. Choose us as your Local Community Fund cause
2. Spend £5 at Co-op and you will automatically be entered.
Find out more 👇
coop.co.uk/communities?dm…

Congratulations to our most recent Mind-Spring cohort for completing the course!

“I learnt that coping strategies like smoking & drinking too much, can temporarily reduce stress, but in the long term they are unhealthy and actually cause even more damage.” - participant.

Early Bird – Save the date!

We are excited to announce that Summer School 2024 will be running from 10 – 21 June 2024. More information will be released on this page in the coming weeks!

Calling all artists! 🎨🧑‍🎨
Do you have any acrylic paint gathering dust that you can donate - especially blue, green and white colours?
We would be very grateful if they could be dropped off at Oasis by Monday next week!

Year 5 enjoyed asking questions to learn about the experiences of our visitors from Oasis. We are inspired by the work at Oasis so we are excited to find ways to take action and welcome families into our own school community. Oasis Cardiff 🧡 #uncrc #article22

We had a lovely time at Moorland Primary - thank you for such a warm welcome 💙