Intercultural Skills Link (ISL) as an organisation

As a community group for Minority Ethnic of members with more than 20 ethnic origins, ISL is run by funds and by voluntary works.

Current service :

Weekly English Conversation Session on Thursdays with a qualified  English tutor from 9:30-12:30.

Weekly  legal Advice Session on Monday with an independent generalist adviser, Dr. Adrian Thomas

Multicultural Events (trips, walks, presentations)

With the value of multiculturalism and social integration, ISL has a solid relationship with other organizations, as well as a wide range of networks of North Wales Race Equality Network (NWREN), Black and Environment Network(BEN), Wildlife Trust, BAWSO (Black Association of Women Step Out), Gwynedd council, North Wales Police, Coleg Menai, Coleg Harlech, Bangor University, NHS, Gwynedd Museum and Art gallery.

 

Drop-in Session Topics ISL covered earlier

Information providing (Child minding, Financial and Legal advice, Open University, Health and Safety, Drug awareness, Recruitment agencies, Recycling, Learning disability, Business consultation)

Multicultural (Herbs and oils, multicultural presentation, food and wellbeing, digital story telling)

Educational (basic IT courses, Welsh learning, Psychology, art and crafts)

ISL has been successfully running various workshops, trainings and events and was introduced to the wider audience by BBC Radio in December 2008. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/food/pages/africa.shtml)

ISL event in support of Japan - read more

 

 

ISL Events 2011:

ISL event about Kurdish Culture has been done on Saturday 24th September 2011.

ISL event has been run in the consultation event in the Greenhouse on Saturday, 29th October 2011 at 11:00 am . It

took about 3 hours discussion (including lunch).

ISL event was run in the Greenhouse about Welsh Culture and History on Saturday  19th November in the

afternoon,  in the Greenhouse with University  Lecturer Selwyn Williams and Jen Rowland.

ISL event was done in the Greenhouse about the different Creatures in the North  Wales on 4^th December 2011,

Presented by Ben Stammers from Wildlife Trust.

- ISL Trips 2011:

1. ISL trip to Cemlyn with the possibility of making a short visit somewhere else on the way back on Sunday 13th

November 2011.

2. ISL trip to Beaumaris Castle on Sunday, 20th November2011.

 

 

ISL events 2012.

ISL has done the following events :

1. ISL event in the Greenhouse about the role and duties of the police in  North Wales on Saturday 11th February 2012

at  2:00 pm, presented by  Chloe Davies, the diversity officer and Norman Hughes, the Architectural  Liaison Officer

from North Wales police.

2. ISL event on Bangladesh: Country and Culture, by Dr. Iftikhar Uddin Ahmed  on 18th February 2012 at 2:00 pm in the

Greenhouse.

3. ISL event in the Greenhouse about Journalism in the UK, on Saturday, 3rd  March 2012 at 2:00 pm, presented by

journalist Rayyan Sabbet-Parry from the Daily Post.

4. IsL event about Sudan and Sudanese Culture on Saturday 31 March 2012 at 2:00 pm in the Greenhouse, presented by Abuzar Ismael, Suleiman Ahamed and Amanuel Ira.

 

ISL Trips 2012

1. ISL trip to Cwm Idwal on Sunday 25 March 2012.

2. ISL trip to Mariandyrys on Sudany 1st April 2012, coordinated with Wildlife Trust of North Wales.