🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

In the season of giving, we are are hosting out very first Raffle! ✊🏾Every ticket goes directly toward supporting Young Identity’s mission to empower young writers and creatives. 🎁 See the full list and get involved at go.rallyup.com/youngidentity/

🎉 Wrap up 2024 with Young Identity 🎉 Join us for our our last week of workshops, where your facilitators will host relaxed sessions to share snacks, work and reflect on a fantastic year. Stay up to date with all your workshops next year at youngidentity.org/workshops

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨 The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre & Library is looking for its next Head of Centre! Lead an inspiring institution, working with The University of Manchester, AIU Education Trust, and Manchester City Council to champion equality and education. 📌 Link in bio.

📢New report in partnership w BEMIS Racism, belonging & COVID's legacy of ethnic inequalities in Scotland Using Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) to understand patterns of inequalities to create a fairer Scotland. ethnicity.ac.uk/discover/brief…

Celebrate home & belonging with Sri Lankan & UK diaspora poets, hosted by Sumithreyi Sivapalan and Prof. Minoli Salgado. 🗓️ 14th Jan 2025 | 6:00-7:30 PM 📍 Manchester Central Library ✨ Refreshments provided! Supported by Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust.

🎄📚 Holiday Hours! 📚🎄 Our desk will be unstaffed 4:30 PM, 19 Dec – 9:30 AM, 6 Jan. Archive appointments? Submit by 9 AM, 19 Dec. Library space & book borrowing still available during Manchester Central Library hours—see the image below! 🌟📖 #LibraryHours #HolidayUpdate

📢 We’re hiring a Project Officer for our Community Led Collecting: Fit for the Future team! 12-month contract | National Lottery Heritage Fund Apply by 13 Jan 2025, 12pm. Details & job description here: shorturl.at/zfpKl #JobAlert #ProjectOfficer #Archives #HeritageJobs

Meet Sumithreyi Sivapalan, PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University, leading "Across Borders: Tales by Sri Lankan Women Poets." Supported by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, these workshops explore the concept of home with Sri Lankan women writers. Hafsah Aneela Bashir

💫 Cancel your plans on Tues 14 Jan 2025 & join us for Across Borders ~ Tales of Sri Lankan Women Poets exploring themes of home & belonging with poetry readings from Sri Lankan poets followed by delicious food from #TheLittleSriLankan! Book tickets here: skiddle.com/whats-on/Manch…

Seasons greetings to all our friends, collaborators, followers and supporters. We hope you have a restorative and peaceful holiday and look forward to sharing 2025 with you.

🌍✨ Join us on Tue 14 Jan 2025, 6-7.30pm at Manchester Central Library!  Fahima Sahabdeen, Shash Trevett, and Professor Minoli Salgado will discuss home & belonging with Sumithreyi Sivapalan, featuring readings from Sri Lankan & UK diaspora poets.  ➡️ shorturl.at/2YwCi

We welcome the Manchester Mill’s article on the story of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah – a tragic but vital chapter in Manchester’s history. It’s a difficult read, but an important one, as we honour Ahmed’s legacy. Read our Trustees’ follow-on piece: shorturl.at/Skz13

Thank you to everyone who joined Across Borders – Tales By Sri Lankan Women Poets on Jan 14! 🌟 We loved hearing Sumithreyi and Professor Minoli Salgado share their journeys and beautiful poetry.  Follow us for more events like this, and stay tuned for the next one!

Supporting the Kath Locke heritage project, celebrating activism in Hulme & Moss Side and honouring Kath Locke’s legacy in Black history education. Join the evening workshops to share memories—everyone welcome! See flyer for details.

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We are very sad to share that Professor Lou Kushnick, one of the Trust's founders, died on 12 February 2025. Lou was highly respected and much loved, and we will miss him. We take heart in knowing that his legacy lives on through the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust.

We are happy to share the news that Maya Sharma has been appointed as our new Head of RACE Centre and Education Trust. UoM Library John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester Libraries The National Lottery Heritage Fund