Please join us at Ashton Masonic Hall on Friday May 17th from 10am-2pm to learn about the Greater Manchester Living Income campaign. We envision a local economy where

Everyone can afford life's essentials without getting into debt
Everyone lives in a warm, safe home
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Last year in the UK 136,000 young people became homeless

Tim from Pathfinder explains how they can help young people find a network of support

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📽️Please watch this powerful film! tinyurl.com/ycks6zh4

Support and Action For Women's Network-SAWN Women Asylum Seekers Together 🧡 Caring and Sharing Rochdale The Elephants Trail THANK YOU for sharing this & for all you do in our communities🧡

'The system may lack empathy, but we make up for it with how we support each other.'

'The system lacks empathy but we make up for it with how we support each other..'

Another powerful video from The Elephants Trail part of their series with The Guardian exploring the challenges people are really facing within their community

Support and Action For Women's Network-SAWN

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We met women who had spent decades in the asylum system waiting for a decision. People with so much to offer, stranded in a place of stagnation. It's important that their stories are heard. The Boaz Trust🧡 Made by Mortals Center for Cooperative Media Northern Heart Films youtu.be/rVM195yHKR8?si…

'Women are not hiding anymore because there is no change in hiding.' (Folashade Alonge) The latest film by The Elephants Trail and The Guardian looks at the reality of passing through Britain's asylum system.
Action Together Lizzie Windsor-Welsh
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We’ve spent the last few months making a film with women stuck in the asylum backlog: documenting their struggles, their hopes, dreams and life in shadows of the Rwanda scheme
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A collaborative video project, called Made in Britain w/ The Elephants Trail

A radical idea to reform the job centres in greater Manchester from Andy Burnham theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our film made w/ The Elephants Trail demonstrates how broken the system currently is youtube.com/watch?v=6L0vlt…

Women in Rochdale refusing to be silent about their experiences of the hostile environment.

If you have 10 minutes this weekend & want to be uplifted by the power of communities please 🙏 watch this great video of the ace work of ⁦The Elephants Trail⁩. The women breaking through the silence of the asylum experience. This is real community power theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…

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The past few months i have been working with Guadian newspaper on this project. please share

'women are not hiding anymore because there is no change in hiding.' (Folashade Alonge)

The latest film we have made in collaboration with the Guardian looks at the reality of passing through Britain's asylum system.
The Guardian Caring and Sharing Rochdale Shirish Kulkarni youtube.com/watch?v=rVM195…

The latest from our Made in Rochdale series, in collaboration with women living in the asylum system across greater Manchester. As Agatha says: 'we have trapped and silenced for so long, but there is a power in speaking out' theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…

New Film!! The Elephants Trail is all about exploring the hardest issues. These amazing women let us into their lives to explore the immigration system and how it impacts their community. Support and Action For Women's Network-SAWN GMHAN
GMSystemsChangers Fatou Jinadu Unlimited Potential theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…

Really good to see The Elephants Trail featured in the new film of the launch of #LiveWell - Greater Manchester's movement for community-led health and well-being!
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Our amazing co-production panel have been working on a film to highlight the issues surrounding people being released from prison – specifically the lack of preparation and organisation for people coming out.

Click below to watch and please share👇

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This is such an important, moving film on Britain’s broken benefits system, made from within the community + by uber talented colleague Maeve Shearlaw

WC voices telling own stories is vanishingly rare in media geared towards extractive journalism:

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We want to use film to magnify the stories that matter most in our communities. We are really grateful to the The Guardian for giving us the opportunity to work with them to create this film about the benefits system and how it is impacting those we love.
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The Elephants Trail are all about speaking up for those who have the hardest lives and pushing for change. Some things with the welfare system at the minute need reviewing. Please check out our new film on this topic.

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Watch: moving film about precarious work and benefits. So proud of The Elephants Trail team for latest in our Made in Britain series. Each one is a collab between people with lived experience and The Guardian (@MaeveShearlaw) youtu.be/6L0vlt_sJ1c?si…