North West Migrants Forum

Melanie and Helen cooking up a storm at last year’s fun day in Brooke Park.

North West Migrants Forum’s family fun day returning to Brooke Park in Derry

Some of the young people having fun at last year’s Summer Club which included a list of fun events, activities and excursions.

Registration now open for North West Migrants Forum’s Summer Club

All smiles at the Cross-Cultural Ceilidh organised by the North West Migrants Forum and Sole Purpose Productions.

Crowds dance the evening away at Cross-Cultural Ceilidh

Colr. Terry Crossan , Leas Cathaoirleach Inishowen Municipal District, and Colr. Lilian Seenoi-Barr , Mayor of Derry City and Strabane, publicly endorse the North-West Anti-Racism Charter at The Gap Coffee Company, Bridgend, on Friday. Included in the photo are, from left, Conor Sharkey, NW Migrants Forum, Maeve McLaughlin, director, Bloody Sunday Trust, and Niall Cusack, proprietor of The Gap Coffee Company. Photo: George Sweeney

North West Anti-Racism Charter celebrated

Some of the attendees having fun at the previous ceilidh event. The next one is on May 21 from 6pm to 8pm in Cultúrlann. It is free of charge and everyone, regardless of background, is welcome to attend.

Free event in Derry to celebrate World Diversity Day

Mayor of Derry City and Strabane Lilian Seenoi Barr with staff and volunteers of the North West Migrants Forum. The Derry charity has just been awarded €3 million for its ‘Intercultural Cross-Border Inclusion Project’.

‘A more inclusive Ireland for all’

Chief Executive of Derry City and Strabane District Council, John Kelpie and Mayor Lilian Seenoi Barr presenting Patricia Byrne, co-founder of Sole Purpose Productions, with her Lifetime Achievement Award.

IN PICS: Advancing Race Equality Awards in Derry's Ebrington Hotel

Advancing Race Equality Awards judges: Mukesh Chugh, Donna Mukasa-Nassuna, Eliza Browning and Beverly Simpson with, centre, Mayor Lilian Seenoi Barr. Mark Hamill Photography

'We are building something stronger than hate'

From left to right: Ei Mon, Ahmed and Helen.

Social Café is like a family to Derry immigrants

In the frame for the launch of the ‘Black Heritage in Northern Ireland: The Hidden History Project’ are North West Migrants Forum staff members Eva Kasmetli, Ei Mon Thant and Aynaz Zarif and volunteer Ahmed Al Moshgi.

Raphael Armattoe to feature in North West Migrants Forum black heritage project

Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Lilian Seenoi Barr, with staff, volunteers and members of the North West Migrants Forum in Brooke Park on Saturday where a new Intercultural Café, funded through PEACEPLUS, was launched. Work on the project is expected to begin before September.

Migrants Forum to open new ‘Intercultural Café’ in Derry’s Embassy Building

A group shot of all those who gathered in Coshquin last year. Similar numbers are predicted for Brooke Park on July 27.

Migrants Forum fun day set to bring Derry's Brooke Park to life

Some of the volunteers enjoying a cuppa and a sandwich during the celebrations as part of Volunteers Week.

Mayor Lilian Seenoi Barr says NW Migrants Forum volunteers have ‘changed lives’

Who loves Summer Club? We do!

Registration now open for North West Migrants Forum’s Summer Club

Global human rights icon Little Amal greets on lookers on Monday afternoon. Photo: George Sweeney

71 photographs of Little Amal receiving a rapturous Derry welcome

Helping launch the North West Migrants Forum’s Anti-Racism Art Competition are St Brigid’s College students Peter, Grace and Jayden along with teacher Ciaran Quigley.

North West Migrants Forum launches Schools Anti-Racism Art Competition
Pupils at St Brigid’s College in Derry have helped launch the North West Migrants Forum’s Anti-Racism Art Competition.
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Shannon Doherty

Derry info session set to focus on rights of international students and workers

Members of the Multi-Ethnic Sports and Cultures NI (MSCNI) team. MSCNI picked up the Advancing Racial Justice and Fairness Award.

Hundreds turn out to celebrate third Advancing Race Equality Awards

Western Trust Health Visitors Donna McNally and Cheryl McElhinney called into the Forum’s offices on the third floor of the Strand Road Embassy Building to deliver a whole range of new toys.

Mother and Baby classes return to Migrants Forum tomorrow

Gillian Moss, Head of Client Services at the North West Regional College with Conor Sharkey, Media and Communications Officer with the North West Migrants Forum. The pair were invited to the House of Lords in London to collect a ‘Charity Partnership of the Year Award’, given to their respective organisations following the development of an Asylum Seeker Scholarship which will enable those seeking international protection in Northern Ireland to pursue a study course of their choice.

Migrants forum and NWRC travel from Derry to London to collect prestigious award

Black Paddy during a visit to the Model Primary School.

Social media star ‘Black Paddy’ visits local schools during trip to Derry

Director of the North West Migrants Forum, Lilian Seenoi Barr, getting a helping hand to launch this year’s Advancing Race Equality Awards from the young people at Mallusk Integrated Primary School. Mallusk won last year’s ‘Anti-Racism School of the Year’ title for its efforts in promoting inclusivity and diversity.

North West Migrants Forum launches Advancing Race Equality Awards 2023

Frank Nwanonenyi is the first ever recipient of the NWRC Asylum Seeker Scholarship. He says a lifelong battle with sickle cell anaemia has inspired him to pursue a career in healthcare.

Frank’ Nwanonenyi receives NWRC’s first Asylum Seeker Scholarship

From left: Ken Odumukwu, his wife Adamma and their two sons Daniel and David with North West Migrants Forum Director Lilian Seenoi Barr and volunteer Seun Awonuga preparing for this Saturday’s Black History Summit, being held as part of Black History Month.

‘Black history is not apart from the North’s history but a part of it’

Director of the North West Migrants Forum Lilian Seenoi Barr speaking at a previous event on Lifford Bridge. On September 21 the Forum will take its Common Travel Area campaign to Dublin.

‘The problem is that the border isn’t open to everyone who lives here’

Siobhan McNally of the Derry Square Knitters presenting bags of handcrafted items to North West Migrants Forum staff members Aynaz Zarifmahmoudi and Evangelia Kasmeti with a little help from toddler Halumi.

Square knitters donate array of colourful garments to Migrants Forum

Twelve-year-old TJ Mushapho telling Steve Baker MP about his experiences as black child growing up in Derry. Listening on are North West Migrants Forum Director Lilian Seenoi Barr and Daniel Holder of the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ).

‘There is a massive issue with racism in NI that needs to be dealt with’
NIO Minister Steve Baker is to raise a number of issues with the British Home Secretary after a meeting with the North West Migrants Forum, the Derry-based organisation has said.
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Cheeky smiles all round from Koko and Daniel.

Pictures of North West Migrants Forum's summer scheme in Derry

Mehdi Zoodashna flying the flag for Barbarians at the British Senior Wrestling Championships in Manchester.

Top Iranian Greco Roman wrestler Mehdi in Derry this summer

Pictured following a meeting between the North West Migrants Forum and Ulster University are, from left, Senior Lecturer Dr Philip McDermott, Director of Programmes at the North West Migrants Forum Lilian Seenoi Barr, Ulster University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Paul Seawright and the Migrants Forum’s Programmes Manager Naomi Green.

Migrants Forum meets with Ulster University in Derry

All those who received a certificate for the time and effort they have dedicated to the North West Migrants Forum.

North West Migrants Forum celebrates Derry volunteers

Some of those who gathered in the Fountain Street centre on Saturday afternoon.

Eritrean community gather in Derry to celebrate Independence Day anniversary

Friends pictured at the NW Migrants Forum’s ‘Celebrate Family – Connect Communities’ fun day at Coshquin on Sunday afternoon last. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2320GS – 13

19 great photos from the North West Migrants Forum Fun Day in Derry

A previous North West Migrants Forum Fun Day at Brooke Park.

Celebrate Family – Connect Communities fun day for Coshquin this weekend

Yara Moustafa.

Catholic, Protestant, 'Other': 'I refuse to be called other' - Derry schoolgirl

A large section of the 70-strong group who travelled to Belfast zoo with the North West Migrants Forum on Saturday.

Derry Migrants Forum celebrates end of Ramadan with zoo trip

21-year-old Ibrahim Dandousha and 22-year-old Jordan Nutting.

Derry pair meet political leaders to discuss issues facing migrants

Dr. Manal Mahdi

North West Migrants Forum hosting women’s health workshop with Dr. Manal Mahdi

Lilian Seenoi-Barr

Black History Summit to take place in Derry

Lilian Seenoi -Barr

First ever Black History Summit to be held in Derry

Lilian Seenoi-Barr.

North West Migrants Forum welcomes dropping of BLM prosecutions

The Mayor Brian Tierney with members of the NW Migrants Forum ahead of last night's commemoration.

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Gregory Campbell, MP.

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Lilian Seenoi-Barr, Director of Programmes, North West Migrants Forum. (Photo: Jim McCafferty Photography)

OPINION: Engaging Black & Minority Ethnic people and building a peaceful, shared...

Front row left to right Orla Mc Stravick, TEO, Lilian Seenoi-Barr Director of Programmes NWMF, Dr Mark Browne, TEO, Beverly Simpson NWMF. Back row; Adekanmi Abayomi, EMSNI, Tura Cuthbert, Friend of NWMD, Tshamano Mosapho- NWMF, Reginald Clark- United against Racism, Naomi Green, Belfast Islamic centre and Hannah Davies NWMF.

Call for NI racial equality strategy implementation

MARCH 4TH 2020: Judge Desmond Marrinan, Head of Review, pictured with members of the NW Migrant Forum, Paulette Mutiziztare, Aynaz Zarif, Lilian Seenoi-Barr, Forum Director, Tshamang Mushapo, Hyder Hasan, Yousuf Hassan and Tamal Simpson at the Review of Hate Crime Legislation Outreach Event held in the Guildhall on Wednesday evening . DER1020GS – 010

5k Community Walk Towards Racial Equality in Derry this weekend

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 6th June 2020 - Photo by Lorcan Doherty / Press Eye.

Socially Distance Day of Solidarity Rally - Justice for George Floyd - in the Guildhall Square, Derry, organised by the North West Migrants Forum.

Black Lives Matter : Migrants Forum calls for PSNI apology and scrapping of sanc...

Lilian Seenoi- Barr, Director of Programmes at the The North West Migrants Forum taking a knee at the Justice for George Floyd rally held in Guildhall Square on Saturday afternoon last. DER2320GS – 035

Black Lives Matter / Justice for George Floyd rally - Police challenged over han...

The Deputy Mayor, Councillor Cara Hunter pictured at Friday nightâ€TMs â€ ̃Letâ€TMs Talkâ€TM Cultural Diversity end of programme celebration in St. Ceciliaâ€TMs College. Included are Paul Gosling, main speaker and Lilian Seenoi-Barr, Programme Director, North West Migrants Forum. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

‘Let’s Talk’ Cultural Diversity

(Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

NWMF to host Brooke Park Fun Day Saturday

NOW LETâ¬"S TALK . . . . .Mr. Michael Allen, Principal, Lisneal College welcoming Lilian Seenoi-Barr, Programme Director, North West Migrants Forum to the school on Monday morning. Lisneal is the first of a number of local schools to take part in the â¬ÜNow Letâ¬"s Talkâ¬" Cultural Diversity programme which is funded by DCSDC and Peave IV. Included from left are Lawson McKeown, Joseph Akinyemi, Mollie Barnett, Nandi Jola, Lauren Nash, Sally Neely, Cuthy Daimond and Jamie Sheriffs. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

‘Let’s Talk Cultural Diversity’ workshops at Lisneal College

Councillor MaolÃosa McHugh the Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, was this week joined Noel, and Eddie Breslin of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Lillian Seenoi-Barr - North West Migrants Forum, Mesfin Dejene and other to lauch the Intercultural Dialogue Forum.

Residential to tackle racism in North West

Lillian Seenoi, projects director, with Tshamano Mushapho, chairman of North West Migrants Forum pictured recently after receving a funding boost from Big Lottery.

'˜Wonderful spirit' of Derry to be celebrated

Lillian Seenoi, projects director, with Tshamano Mushapho, chairman of North West Migrants Forum.

Funding for Migrants Forum

NWMF CEO and founder, Lilian Seenoi pictured with the Mayor of Derry and Strabane Councillor Elisa McCallion.

NWMF appeal for people to help refugees

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