THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

YOU MAKE THE FESTIVAL A SUCCESS AND WE ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU

Common Ground Café and Shared Workspace is a social enterprise pop-up in the Oxford University owned building in Little Clarendon Street, which was formerly Barclays Bank.

Set up by Jake Backus, Managing Director of Empathy Sustainability, VSM at Linacre College Oxford, cycle coach and sustainability champion and Piotr Drabik barista extraordinaire & trainer and coffee machine mechanic with the support of Magnus Baker, bar tender, barista, furniture maker and mountain biker.

Supporting with exhibition space and event spaces.

Tap Social Movement was founded in 2016 by Paul, Amy and Tess. Having experience in a range of positions across the criminal justice system, they witnessed the difficulty people faced when trying to turn their lives around after coming into contact with the law.  Many of the people they have worked with, especially those who have spent time in prison, struggle to access education, training and employment, hindering their rehabilitation, and drawing them back into a life of crime. Tap Social Movement was founded in an attempt to stop this vicious cycle by providing opportunities which set people up for long-term fulfilling employment.

Supporting with exhibition space and event spaces.

The Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University has an international reputation for excellence, innovation and an ambitious desire to be recognised as one of the most exciting places to study in the world.  Find out more here.

The faculty have invested in the festival over the last 20 years.

Principle funder. Supporting exhibition space, event spaces, student support, costs/funding, staff at Brookes and marketing.
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MissionCleanWatermissioncleanwater.org/, a US-based nonprofit, working to bring clean drinking water and sanitation to underserved communities. MissionCleanWater focuses on the fact that 60% of all clean water projects fail within their first year of operation. Through a community grassroots approach, they hope to show how longer sustainability for water and sanitation hygiene can be achieved. To date, their work has provided clean water to 12,500 people in Uganda and are beginning their clean water efforts in the United States.

Supporting by delivering two events.

Refugee Resource aims to relieve distress, improve well-being and facilitate the integration of refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants – mainly in Oxfordshire – by providing psychological, social and practical support.

Supported by the women's group in planning two events.
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Migration and Refugees Network. Our Network engages directly with these issues. It embraces an enriching interdisciplinarity, with researchers and practitioners from social anthropology, refugee studies, sociology, political science, computer science, media studies, psychology, legal scholars, business studies, among other disciplines.

Supporting and co-funding in 3 events in the festival. 

Cranfield University is a British postgraduate public research university specialising in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics in 1946.

Represented by Dr Nicholas Marquez-Grant

Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with over sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and junior research fellows.
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Represented by Dr Nicholas Marquez-Grant
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The Balfour Project's Mission focuses on acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy.  To persuade the British Government to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.

Delivering a webinar

Actors for Human Rights was founded in 2006 and is network of more than 700 professional actors across the UK who are dedicated to drawing public attention to human rights concerns. 

Performing at Oxford Brookes

ice&fire explores human rights stories through performance. We put human rights at the core of everything we do to make accessible theatre for a wide range of audiences across the UK.
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​The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. The Institution has over 30,000 members operating in over 100 countries.

Supporting event in London with Yasmeen Lari

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.

​Collaboration lecture in London

Design for the Common Good (DCG)   www.designforthecommongood.net/ is a website and coalition of purpose-driven networks committed to design practice, education and research that improves social, economic and environmental outcomes.There are design practitioners, educators, students and activists globally who work together for the betterment of communities under a variety of initiatives such as Social Impact Design and Public Interest Design. The DCG website serves as a collaborative access point for those interested and involved in this work to share best practices, engage in dialogue and get connected with opportunities to make purposeful contributions.

Oxfordshire County Library is the main public library in the city of Oxford, England. The library opened in its current location in 1973 above shops in Westgate, Oxford. Over 500,000 items are available for loan. The library is run by Oxfordshire County Council.

Collaboration with HipHap Collective for an art instillation.