Current Projects

17/01/2018

The UK Migrant Voices for Change Project

Our UK Migrant Voices for Change network forms the basis of our work and has hubs in Birmingham, Glasgow and London. The network offers regular training and mentoring in media skills such as writing articles, interview techniques, video making, social media and pitching stories to journalists. We hold regular network…

19/01/2018

The Migrant Media Lab

The Migrant Media Lab – our signature project - aims to strengthen migrant voices by building practical media skills and supporting migrants’ participation in the public debate. The Migrant Media Lab provides group training and one-to-one mentoring sessions led by volunteer journalists and media experts. Topics range from using social…

19/01/2018

Media training

Migrant Voice provides training for its member that promote a better understanding of ‘how the media works’ and how to engage with the local and national media, as well as how to produce different kinds of media outputs. Migrant Voice organises training sessions and mentoring on topics ranging from photography,…

19/01/2018

Engagement in media work

Migrant Voice supports migrants to engage with national and local media. Migrants are underrepresented in stories about migration and it is important to make our voices heard so the public can hear from those with first-hand experience of migration in order to contribute to a more balanced debate, counter xenophobia…

27/02/2018

MiFriendly Cities

Migrant Voice is delivering our signature Media Lab sessions as part of the MiFriendly Cities project in the West Midlands, which was launched in March 2018. Migrant Voice, together with 10 other partners, is rolling out a three-year programme of activities in Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton to support integration. MiFriendly Cities aims…

13/11/2018

Meet a Migrant

This project works to develop the skills and confidence of migrants to speak out in the media, challenge institutional media culture, and seek to influence the media agenda. The goal is for migrants themselves to challenge discrimination and negative rhetoric in the media, amplify their voice, and pass on their…

13/11/2018

Volunteering for Change

Through this Glasgow-based project, we are recruiting, training and supervising 45 volunteers over three years. The goal is for 70% of them to be migrants and 30% from the host community, with a majority from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds. The volunteers are working across key roles in our organisation in…

13/11/2018

PARTICIPATE.iNTEGRATION

Migrant Voice has teamed up with MoneyGram on an initiative supporting integration projects in the UK. Migrant Voice and three other organisations around the country delivered the first projects funded as part of the initiative. Migrant Voice’s project involved the production of a series of videos in cities around the…

28/11/2018

Feel at Home

This project, which is funded by MoneyGram’s integration initiative, is bringing communities together across the UK to create video messages around the topic of integration, home and belonging. Through a series of training sessions, migrants and members of the host communities are learning video-making skills and creating their own videos…

11/12/2020

Resilience Project

This project aims to organise, empower and build networks with some of the migrant communities most marginalised by Covid-19. It is a partnership project between Migrant Voice, Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, and RAPAR (Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research) running between November 2020 and April 2021. The Resilience project provides spaces…

Current Projects