News & Stories

Coventry-based eco factory donates over 6,000 pieces of PPE & 1,000 pieces of furniture to community organisations

December 7, 2020

How the FabLab Eco Furniture Factory stepped up to donate over 1,000 pieces of up-cycled furniture to 30 local organisations, […]

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Empowering Migrants Through Hairdressing

February 13, 2020

Written by Sahar Sharifi, Communications Officer at CRMC. It all started with an idea of a pamper day for the […]

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Turning Wolverhampton Houses into Homes

February 12, 2020

On January 28th, City of Wolverhampton Council (MiFriendly Cities partner) launched a mobile pop-up furniture factory to provide training and […]

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Meet social entrepreneur Ali Abdul: How holistic support is helping refugees fulfil their goals

July 10, 2019

Since launching in March 2018, MiFriendly Cities has been developing a holistic employment and skills initiative which aims to go […]

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Refugee Week: MiFriendly Cities Refugee Entrepreneurship & Skills Event

June 17, 2019

Birmingham is celebrating Refugee Week with a series of events starting on Monday (17 June) which will showcase success stories […]

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Launching Coventry’s Pop-up Furniture Factory

May 7, 2019

Housing represents one of the most common reasons for migrants and refugees seeking support, but poor quality housing is also […]

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Social enterprise, community innovation and empowering through language

February 13, 2019

Having moved into the implementation stages of the project, MiFriendly Cities finished 2018 with the successful launch of three initiatives, […]

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