2023 Annual Highlights
The Foundation team have put together a review of our incredibly eventful past year, we hope this gives you an insight into what we do to support people and planet.
Category «Displacement»
‘’Preparing a Place of Welcome – The Pickwell Foundation Pledge for Resettlement 2024-29’’
The Global Compact on Refugees was officially affirmed by the UN General Assembly on 17 December 2018, paving the way for this new international framework to be implemented and to bring tangible benefits for refugee and host communities. The Foundation team have been busy preparing pledges and contributions that advance the objectives of the Global …
Bibby Stockholm
Over the weekend, some of the Foundation team, accompanied by a couple of beloved volunteers, travelled down to Portland, Dorset, to meet with three former guests of the asylum hotel we were supporting in North Devon. They were recently relocated to the Bibby Stockholm barge and have been adjusting to their new situation over the past …
Dunkirk Commemoration
“There are two things that I will always remember about my time working in Calais, the smell and the shoes – if they had any. The smell of bonfire on people’s clothes: their only source of warmth. And the sand embedded into their shoes, a soundless sign of another failed attempt to cross and escape …