Impactful stories

When a group of Swansea-based community leaders first discussed the idea of forming a charity to offer a warm welcome to the city’s new arrivals, Britain was a different place. The year was 2012. That summer saw the Olympic Games come to London, and the positive impact of this vibrant multicultural event spread far beyond the capital. Britain’s greatest hero of those Olympics was a Somalian immigrant and a practising Muslim who had migrated here at eight years of age. Mo Fara