WHAT
NEXT?
Desperate Journeys is just a simulation.
Your Action following it is not
Here are 5 Actions you can do now
If you attended an immersive workshop in Tonbridge, the following is localised initiatives to help you turn your empathy into action. If you know other ones, please get in touch to let us know and we can share with others.
ps- we’d love to hear what you do - let us know.
Digging Deeper
1. Share your Money
Making sanctuary seekers feel safe and welcome in your community with Tonbridge Welcomes Refugees, Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees or Tunbridge Wells Welcomes Refugees
Our friends RefugEase (a local West Kent org) is running an emergency appeal for £48,000 to help it’s vital work going. They are looking for a number of mini fundraisers.
Pickwell Foundation (local work in North Devon)
Community Sponsorship Alliance (national work to spread community involvement)
Empathy Action (building empathy, inspiring action)
You can also share stuff and donate items to group like RefugEase. Or for corporate in-kind donations through Global Hand & International Health Partners (medicines)
2. Gift your Time
Pickwell Foundation - please get in touch to help around N Devon using this form
Empathy Action - we are always looking for people to help stage our workshops and help to run our work (remote help welcome too). Get in touch here (click to email to us)
Volunteers are the backbone of most initiatives - your time is a gift to many groups, we can testify to this!
3. Lend your Voice
Refugee Action Current Campaigns (click for current campaigns)
Choose Love campaigns (inc for petition Afghanistan and asking your MP to oppose the Refugee Bill)
Amnesty International (click for current campaigns)
Oxfam GB (click for current campaigns)
Campaigning is seasonal and based on when initiatives are live. We will keep this page updated, but please sign up for newsletters to find out the latests ways to get involved.
5. Choose Empathy
It’s your empathy… choose to use it again and again. Learn to exercise it and train it to be more resilient.
The world needs it.
Also tune in to the Empathy Collective Blogs posts - each has an empathy exercise that you can use to strengthen your empathy muscle.
And there’s more...
stewarding your influence,
providing of employment opportunities,
being an “intra-preneur” and lobbying your work place to do more
channeling community efforts (eg create inclusive footy groups, crafting groups etc)
it starts with you wanting to do something
“The world doesn’t need charities. It needs more people to be charitable”
#ChooseEmpathy
Contact Us
To find out more about Desperate Journeys or to discuss running it with your group please do contact us today.
About Desperate Journeys
Creator and Director Hilary Sanders and Project Manager Chris Hix have written and produced an immersive theatre experience which enables participants to glimpse the desperation which is forcing so many in the 21st Century to flee from their homes to risk an unknown future.
Empathy Action is indebted to them and to those who have undertaken these journeys and allowed their stories to be heard.
Special thanks to our story consultant Reem Assayyah, Carl Haley (Hale0) and Hilary Sanders for music production, Heather Williams for props and Sarah Ford for costumes
We are indebted to our partners: Pickwell Foundation, Tonbridge Baptist Church, SPA Aluminium, NRS International, Tarpaulins Direct Ltd, Store Anything, Harrod Horticultural, The Gatehouse & New Life Church, Christ Church Tunbridge Wells, and Tonbridge School.