Impact

Recognising a ‘student bubble’ dividing university students and the local community, and the common experience of loneliness amongst the community’s elderly residents, the 2016-17 ParliaMentors team at the University of Nottingham established a novel penpal service providing the first point of contact between the elderly population and students in Nottingham. The team formed partnerships with

As an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham Joe was keen to give something back to the local community: “I was inspired by the local community’s hospitality and felt compelled to ‘give back’. I was also aware of certain problems within this community which I felt determined to remedy”. Participation in ParliaMentors was an opportunity

For Jaspreet, ParliaMentors was an opportunity to push himself and really enabled him to think of himself as a role model for others.

Aware of the problems of division both between and within students and local residents in Coventry, the 2016-17 ParliaMentors team have sought to address the issue through a unique solution: a community allotment. The team have created a new set of community allotments, bringing people together who wouldn’t ordinarily meet and simultaneously supporting people to

Back in 2011, Berlin-born Anya Fahlenkamp was an undergraduate at SOAS studying for a degree in Politics. She said, “At the time, I was surrounded by people from all countries and various faith backgrounds. However, I was startled about the fact that there was no organised interfaith framework at the university that tried to bring