PROJECTS

 

Community Engagement

Samphire’s community engagement work brings together the diverse communities of Dover to celebrate and embrace a welcoming culture for all. We reach out to the wider Dover community to involve them in conversations and activities that encourage social inclusion and cohesion.

Samphire’s Community engagement work includes several projects:

Dover’s Inclusion projects were originally developed in partnership with East Kent City of Sanctuary who hold the vision that the UK will be a welcoming place of safety for all and proud to offer sanctuary to people fleeing violence and persecution.

Samphire is keen for members of the Dover community to take the lead and for ideas to come from local residents.

The inclusion project includes:

    • Community Events including Dover Multi-Cultural Festival and Deal Winter Lights
    • International Coffee mornings
    • English conversation lessons
    • Monthly Walk and Talk meetings led by a One You trained advisor 
    • Drop Ins with attendance from Council Officers and NHS health advisors
    • Cultural bridging support

 If you would like to get involved, check out our volunteer page 

To join the Samphire’s Mailing list contact kay@samphireproject.org.uk to hear about all the wonderful welcoming things that are going on in the Dover area.

Recent Projects

DOVER Multicultural Festival

Samphire’s festival aims to bring the diverse communities of Dover together to celebrate and explore diversity. Showcasing the rich variety of cultures which make up Dover, the festival gives people the chance to hear new music, try new foods, dance and art, and to learn about other cultures as well as to celebrate traditional British culture, and to see the positive impact that diversity can have.

 This has been an annual event since 2017!

Winter around the world

Samphire’s Winter Around the World Project has completed its third year with a series of school based workshops talking about winter festivals around the world and culminating in a parade of lights along Deal Pier.  For the last two years we have worked closely together with Deal Town Council as part of their successful bid to become a Town Council of Sanctuary

napier Drop-in

The Napier Barracks Drop-In CIC is run by local volunteers to support the residents of the contingency accomodation Napier Barracks in Folkestone for newly arrived people seeking asylum.  

Samphire’s caseworker supports the directors of the CIC in organising activities and events to support the wellbeing of the residents as well as providing welfare advice and support for the residents during their time at Napier