Refugee Week 2025
Community is the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force!
“We can begin the process of making community wherever we are. We can begin by sharing a smile, a warm greeting, a bit of conversation; by doing a kind deed or by acknowledging kindness offered to us.”- bell hooks
Communities can bring people together. Bridging divides and offering support. Spaces of resilience and places for healing.
This Refugee Week everyone is invited to spend time with friends and build new connections in and beyond our neighbourhoods. From communal meals and open air film screenings, to football matches and music making, let’s share the feelings of welcome and belonging. Listening, learning, laughing together.
It’s amazing what we can do when we move together towards a shared goal. So let’s redefine and rediscover our collective power to shape hopeful futures and begin by practicing, celebrating and rehearsing it every day.
Join us for Refugee Week, 16–22 June 2025, and together let’s unleash the superpower of community.
Superhero Cape project
It was lovely to see so many Coventry school pupils contribute to the Superhero Cape project organised jointly by EMAS and the Coventry Migration Team. Pupils from four schools participated: Coundon Court School, Sidney Stringer Academy, Little Heath Primary School and St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School by sending in individually decorated fabric squares which were then sewn together by the Carrier's of Hope Sewing Group into a superhero cape that was exhibited during Refugee Week at Friargate, The Central Library, The Council House and The Herbert.
Refugee Week school event at Warwick Arts Centre
For the third year running, schools came together at Warwick Arts Centre to celebrate Refugee Week by taking part in a variety of workshops. Pupils from Charter Primary School, Little Heath Primary School, St Anne's Catholic Primary School, John Gulson Primary School and Westwood Academy spent the day learning about Refugee Crisis from the University of Warwick Unicef Society, taking part in a movement workshop with Sam Strachan and working together to create a collaborative bread sculpture with Tereza Buskova. Staff and pupils commented on the day:
"We all loved it so much - so valuable for the children and such a great range of activities - with the thread of empathy and community woven through all."
“We were able to be artistic and create our own unique sculpture.”
“The drama workshop should have been longer!”
“Imagining leaving our home and only being able to pack a 5 kg made us evaluate what was most important in our lives.”
“It was good to find out where we could donate food, toys and games and clothes locally to help refugees.”
How to take part
To share any of the work that your school has completed this Refugee Week, please upload it to our School or Sanctuary padlet. To find out more about how you can become involved, look out for our Refugee Week briefing in March 2026.