A Beautiful Mess
A Beautiful Mess is place where asylum seekers and local residents alike can come eat, meet, and visit events. Its main activties involves its community restaurant within asylum seeker’s center.
Aikido Utrecht
Objective: Aikido Utrecht works in collaboration with the Welkom in Utrecht Foundation to invite refugees to participate in Aikido lessons. They offer separate lessons for children, youth, and adults. These lessons are primarily learned by watching and doing, hence knowledge of Dutch is not necessary. Activities: Free Aikido Lessons for Refugees
Beats of Hope Africa Foundation
Beats of Hope Africa Foundation’s branch in Utrecht aims to change perspectives of Africa and foster intercultural connection through music, culture, and community-oriented events. As a social enterprise and charity, they utilize initiatives like the Africa Safari Festival to build trust and promote inclusion between Afro-diasporic communities and wider Dutch society.
Buddy to Buddy Utrecht
Objective: Buddy to Buddy is an organization that aims to foster mutual integration by connecting refugees and local residents based on equality and shared interests. It is a national organization that is active in 20 cities. In Utrecht, they pair individuals from the city with newcomers who have a refugee background, encouraging participants to broaden…
Buurtmaaltijden- Happy Hap Pahud
Buurtmaaltijden is a restaurant where asylum seekers and local residents alike can share a meal together. Its main activity is the Weekly Community Meal at Plan Einstein Pahud.
Changing Stories
Changing Stories aims to create an imaginary world filled with play, the universal theme of ‘party,’ and possibility for children within asylum seekers’ centers and refugee camps. Their activities include travelling to camps, slums, and asylum shelters for children growing up in precarious circumstances and engaging them through trauma-sensitive play and theatre.
Common Frames
Common Frames believes in the unifying power of creating media. They develop and organize film and media literacy projects for (young) newcomers. In their projects, they bring various worlds together, looking for common frames. Through the skills of experts in the field of media in relation to migration and diversity, they share this knowledge through…
De Voorkamer
Objective: Creating an inclusive space through cultural practices. Their goal is to reduce the distance between different groups in society through art and culture. Activities: creative workshops language cafes jam sessions storytelling events
DOCK- community center De Leeuw
Objective: This is a community space as part of a large organization of community spaces across Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Zaanstad, Schiedam, and Vlaardigen. De Leeuw offers space to various activities, initiatives and organizations for, by and with the neighborhood on a daily basis, Activities: Walk-in consutation hours Cultural activities (painting, dancing, music etc.) Courses
DOCK- Welkomhuis
Objective: a safe and vibrant place where people integrating can follow activities and information, go with questions, practice the Dutch language, find a listening ear and where they can meet Utrecht residents and other people integrating for a chat. Activities: Consultation hours (parenting and pregnancy, health, legal and financial matters etc.) Language Cafe
