WELCOME TO SOLIDARITY HULL CIC – A growing community of people of all ages from around the world! Through critical learning we connect with people together we explore and support one another about the issues that affecting us.

What is Solidarity Hull?

Solidarity Hull is a community organisation run by and for people from around the world. Through a process of critical education, which creates a space of belonging and support, we aim to grow our confidence whilst celebrating and critiquing our cultural identities, allowing us to enter into genuine dialogue with the wider community to bring about positive change on a local, national and international level.

Solidarity Hull CIC is a growing community of people in Hull who come from many different countries of the world. We dream of becoming a rich mix of people with talents and skills, learning together to live good lives here in Hull (and the UK). We want to make Solidarity Hull CIC a place where women, young people and young adult from all over the world work together to make a second home in an atmosphere of equality and belonging; a space where we are free to make mistakes and learn from them, where we build the confidence to dream our dreams, discover our talents, share our skills, our stories and support our families in Hull (and the UK).

Objectives

To have our own space where we create a home based on belonging, love, peace, and freedom, where we can celebrate differences, whilst respecting each other, building a community of understanding.
To explore the wider context of refugee and migrant experiences and to reclaim a language which is often dehumanising and creates negative labels. We want to share our experiences and daily struggles to raise awareness about the realities in our communities, discuss ideas and gain inspiration to act upon them.
To utilise popular education and experiential learning as a collective, learning from one another and sharing our learning with others.
To identify and name the world we live in, analyse the problems we face and find possible solutions.
To create spaces for genuine and engaging dialogue where we can explore the realities and differences between countries of our origin, to take actions to bring about change.
To investigate the mode of production, where resources come from, causes of war, the forced displacement of people and share our experiences to challenge and create alternative and egalitarian means of production.
Expressing and discovering our hidden gifts and skills using creative arts and other means.
To be a self-determined and self-reliant organisation, creating a wider network and movement, locally, nationally and internationally.
To continue our journey of empowerment by sharing and learning from each other and using our power to bring about positive change.
To challenge stereotypes and discrimination, such as racism and sexism, and to discuss these issues within our own community, but also with the wider community. To provoke emotions, encouraging people to look beyond first impressions to create understanding and empathy.
To seek the leadership of women.
To utilise collective strategies – To create politics for people, not politicians.
To celebrate and explore how we create our identities, our similarities, as well as our differences, to enable us to grow as a movement.
As a collective based in Hull, we want to learn to navigate the city better in order to support others and ourselves in coping and thriving in new places and spaces. Contributing to a welcoming community.

We aim to:

Make spaces where we treat each other as we want others to treat us
Learn to work together to bring about change for all people of all nations through the use of popular education and creative arts.
Learn to use our imaginations, share our skills and talents, and show others in Hull, in the UK and in the world, who we really are.
Support our families to settle in Hull (and the UK).