New Citizens News

25 November 2021

Your Voice Matters Podcasts Workshop For Seniors

NCV invited speakers from parliament to the Persian Centre, North Kensington to present a workshop for migrant seniors. The workshop is part of our training and selection process for the current Your Voice Matters Podcasts series.

You can see photos from this day and others here.

The Your Voice Matters Podcasts is now in it's second series, the Young Voices series being the first.

This project is funded by the Community Fund.

11 OCtober 2021

Faik Hanna -- NCV Director

Congratulations and a huge "Thank-you!" to NCV Director Faik M Hanna. Faik has been a part of the team at New Citizens Voice for over ten years (since 2008). From Baghdad but now widely travelled, he brings a perspective of many different countries to the NCV Team.

Faik contributes to NCV as a journalist and photographer, though considers these simply as personal hobbies. His wonderful photographs fill many of our galleries and bring a lot of joy to participants of NCV events.

Read more...

28 September 2021

New Citizens Resumes Parliament Tours and Workshops

The restrictions imposed for coronavirus have now been lifted and NCV is resuming it's highly successful programme of interactive workshops and tours of Parliament.

Many thanks to the engagement team at Parliament for their support over the last decade. You can see photos from the most recent tour of Parliament here.

NCV is once again delivering face-to-face training and producing a new podcast series for December 2021, in partnership with Morley Radio and funded by the Community Fund.

05 August 2021

NCV's first "Young Voices" podcast series was recorded

Five amazing young people, ages 8 to 11, were invited to share their hopes and dreams for the future at Morley Radio studio. Read more...

All of the podcasts are listed here on the NCV website.

This project was funded by Comic Relief, Black Training and Enterprise Group and the National Emergencies Trust.

22 March 2021

New Citizens Radio is going digital!

This summer we are producing two series of podcasts for new citizens.

The "Young Voices" project is funded by Comic Relief, Black Training and Enterprise Group and National Emergencies Trust. A podcast series "Your Voice Matters" for adults follows later in the year and is supported by the Community Fund.

Thanks to the funding of all our sponsors NCV continues it's mission to educate and inform young and adult migrants living in the UK, now using this popular digital format.

20 October 2020

NCV project "Domestic Workers Society" was complete successfully.

This project was funded by the Community Fund.

22 March 2019

New Citizens Voice has been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund for the seventh consecutive time. This grant is to create another innovative project "Migrant Domestic Workers Society". More details to follow.

We would like to thank The National Lottery Fund for their help and assistance.

4 June 2018

We welcome Sophia Bac onto the NCV Management Committee.

30 May 2017

Photos from our recent workshop delivered in the Houses of Parliament with MP Greg Hands as our guest speaker.

Maria Leyva is nearing completion of her Masters in Journalism which will help shape the future direction of New Citizens Voice

24 November 2015

New Citizens Voice has been awarded repeat funding from Awards for All from the Big Lottery Fund. This is to create citizenship workshops for unskilled migrant parents living in London. The workshops will be delivered in the Houses of Parliament in 2016. We would like to thank Awards for All for their help and assistance.

18 June 2014

In partnership with Parliament we will be delivering a large Your Voice Matters event to 80 people from 20 nationalities.

Photos of the event are now available to view on our Google+ page

Our events are always following by a guided tour of Parliament. We are now fully booked but we will have more events later in the year.

12 February 2014

Another successful Your Voice Matters event at Parliament. Photos of the event are now available to view on our Google+ page

Thank you to the Westminster Adult education Colleges and NOVA for recommending and bringing their ESOL students.
And thanks go out to all participants who gave excellent feedback and as they found it useful now they are recommending their friends and family to attend as well. We can only deliver these unique citizenship events thanks to our partnership with Parliament. Special thanks go to Eleanor Laing, one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons for attending our event - our participants enjoyed speaking with her.

Thanks you Faik M Hanna for taking photos at each event. He's been working with us for a long time and participants have commented on how approachable and professional he is.

24 July 2013

New Citizens Voice has been accepted as an official Parliament Week partner. We will be running 'Your Voice Matters' events and activities to form a part of a major programme across the UK, outside of Westminster. This ensures that people across the country are getting involved with their local community. Parliament Week 2013 will run from 15-21 November.