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Organised by & Finance 38 Business Partners & Sponsors mojatu .com REFUGEE DIVERSITY FASHION SHOW By Angela Wathoni The event will take place on Saturday 23 June 2018 at Nottingham Trent University and it is being organised by Fearless Youth Association in conjunction with other sponsors. seekers in the planning, organising and implementing this one-day event which will entail a diversity fashion show by bringing together diverse communities to celebrate showcase their rich diversity City Council’s community B cohesion team lue n ai nt ou M and community engagement teams, Nottinghamshire Police and various local We will engage some refugees and asylum and We have confirmed promises from Nottingham while celebrating friendship and life in Nottingham. councillors and community leaders. FYA also focuses on new arrivals and local groups from deprived areas and who often live in council properties. As with our previous events and work, Fearless Youth Association will build on partnerships with local organisations to make young people feel safer, proactive, capable of making a difference and standing up The aim of the Fearless Youth Association (FYA) for their views while tackling negative and project is to improve relationships among extremist views and attitudes. Our partners young people from different ethnic and faith also stated that they will continue working backgrounds around Nottingham. It will also with us and will have hands on engagement support them in being active and visible in bringing in this project. groups and communities together, be creative, discuss issues and organise and implement events and activities, including online engagement. Empowering the young people to take up roles in active lifestyles, training to gain confidence and knowledge in decision making and It will help build friendships, trust and links helping them become integral part of their among young people with similar interests neighbourhoods will help improve their local irrespective of their differences in background, neighbourhoods and create positive attitudes faith and attitudes, a thing that would and views of living within Nottingham. It will otherwise not happen left to themselves. This reduce a sense of “abandoned youths” will make the local area and neighbourhood which is a view some of us felt when we set safer and friendlier by making the young up this group. Overall, this will have a long- people more active and focused while making term impact in the activities and role of the the project sustainable through skills attained, young people involved in the project and the music and online contents produced and community as a whole seeing what we as growth in interests and investment in music and youths can do. entertainment. See page 25 for more details