READ: What we achieved in 2024-25
We have just published our Annual Report 2024-25, sharing some of the highlights of our year. Read about the impact we achieved here.
In 2024-25, we reached 101 participants across our Community Hubs in London and Stoke-on-Trent, with 59 creative workshops in artforms such as music, drama, photography and poetry.
Key Highlights:
An incredible exchange programme with King Alfred School, in which two of our London participants taught their students bellydancing and their students taught our participants photography, culminating in a performance and exhibition
Our London Hub participants created and screened a film with The Roundhouse
Stoke Hub participants created an amazing art exhibition for Refugee Week, with the theme of ‘Dreams beyond Borders’
One of last year’s Leap graduates became our London Hub Assistant
Participants from both hubs came together for four days in rural Wales for a creative wellbeing retreat
Looking to the Future
After a successful launch, the Stoke Hub is gearing up to run weekly workshops from January 2026, while the London Hub will continue with two workshops per month under the helm of a new coordinator. We will be running two residential trips in 2026 - one for our London and Stoke participants, coordinated by one of our Leap Programme graduates, and one for our staff and wider team focused on wellbeing. Alongside our hubs, we hope to develop our workshops offer for corporate and charity partners.
Having been recruited in Summer 2025, our Advisory Board are now in a position to help guide the organisation as we create a new strategy, and begin the process of transitioning to become a registered charity.
Finally, with a new Communications Lead in place, we hope to develop a new strand of work - the Babylon Advocacy Group. Facilitated by our Communications Lead, this group will comprise members of our lived experience community who will learn skills for digital communications and campaigning in order to develop their own campaign to raise awareness of refugee experiences, and counter hostile narratives about people from refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant backgrounds.
