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It’s fair to say that when we buy a packet of crisps, we’re more interested in the crisps than the packet. But that doesn’t mean we should ignore the packaging altogether. Did you know that crisp packets contain a thin layer of aluminium? Our volunteers do, and that knowledge has given us the idea for a community project which promises to address two issues that the people of Swansea care about very much. We’ll let UiD trustee David Jones tell you more: “When you scrunch up

We think Swansea is a place of unique beauty and appeal. In 1956, Gower was designated the UK's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The first and still the best. Each year, just over four and a half million people visit the Swansea area, spending between £600 and £700 million. That’s a lot of money, obviously, but we don’t think it’s enough. Swansea attracts fewer tourists and less tourism revenue than Windsor Park, which offers beautiful trees and grounds but is 80 mil

Over the past decade a Hungarian man, now in his early forties, has attracted attention for converting to Judaism, beginning to eat Kosher food and observing the Sabbath. He’s also been circumcised. There’s nothing unusual about this until we consider what he was doing in the decade before. Csanad Szegedi joined Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party as a teenager, became its Vice President at twenty-three and in 2009 became its loudest voice in the European Parliament when aged ju

We all experience fear. Sometimes it’s a gut response to a close-up threat. The barking dog around the corner that we hear but can’t see in the darkness. The car that swerves into our path at the last moment. Sometimes it’s an irrational response to something that isn’t a threat at all. Are Muslims taking over Britain? Do they want to? If you believe everything you read online, you might wonder. You might be persuaded to feel afraid. That fear might feel real. Let’s take a mo

A thought for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination In the years following World War Two, Britain’s labour shortage led to Commonwealth citizens in the Caribbean being invited to come to this country and build new lives as British citizens. Led to believe they would be welcome, almost half a million women, men and children made the journey. In 1948, the liner Empire Windrush brought just over 1,000 passengers from Jamaica, and the ship gave its na

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