CARE Hub – Grimsby “It’s fancy – but fancy for everyone” The Charity CARE – (Christian Action & Resource Enterprise) took over this former bank and turned it into a community hub. For over 30 years, CARE has worked in the heart of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, supporting people through some of the hardest moments of their lives. They provide housing, crisis support and practical help to anyone who needs it, without judgment and without barriers. Whether someone is facing homelessness, […]

Péru Continuing my relationship with Edukid that started in 2010 this was my first trip to Péru. The charity work with the Indigenous Awajun Community in the Amazonas region. Although school is free in Peru, many of these families could not afford clothes and a meal each day, meaning some of the children were finding it hard to stay awake during lessons. Many of the children had also travelled far from their home village to attend the primary school and […]

Coast to Coast The Amos Road Club annual fundraiser crossed the country from Whitehaven in Cumbria to Tynemouth. Around 150 miles covered over three days, highs and lows (altitude and weather related)  by over fifty cyclists, raising funds in an act of solidarity, showing the people of Gaza that they are not forgotten.

Sumud SUMUD (meaning Steadfastness) at the Union Chapel, Islington, London. Amos Trust in association with Palestine Music Expo and FORM presented a fundraising evening artists from Palestine and the UK joined together for Sumud, a fundraising event for their Gaza appeal. Mogwai, Nadine Shah, Foy Vance, Shabaka Hutchings, Adnan Joubran, Alabaster DePlume and Beth Rowley performed, while Brian Eno, Maxine Peake, David Holmes, Ahmed Masound, Ahmed Alnaouq and Ambassador Husam Zomlot spoke.

I am Somebody Following the India Tigers – the home team at the Street Child Cricket World Cup. Here is my film about Karunalaya, the advocacy project for street children in Chennai, India. Street Child United build a global platform for street children, so they can demand the protection, support, and opportunities every child deserves.

Medical Research The work of Hull York Medical School is tackling some of the major health challenges of today. From biomedical discovery research which is revealing the therapies of tomorrow, to clinical research which is trialling new and innovative treatments for patients, and applied health research which is reducing inequalities in access to treatment and care.

Collodian at Greenbelt The wet plate collodion process has undergone a revival as a historical technique in the twenty-first century. To mark the 50th Anniversarysary of the Greenbelt Festival, my friend and colleague on the festival team Paul Chambers set about capturing a series of portraits of Festival Makers. The smell (and after a while the taste) of the chemical process took me back to my early days starting out in photography. Documenting a few of the portraits, from initial […]

40 – A Milestone I have learned a lot in forty years, mostly by making mistakes. The bigger the mistake the more it hurts and the more you learn. There comes a certain point when you enter a ‘flow state’ when experience and instinct combine and in that moment there is nowhere in the world you’d rather be, nothing else you would rather be doing. This book is a collection of some of those moments. A soft cover version is […]

Ottolenghi Yotam Ottolenghi, born to Jewish parents in Jerusalem and Sammi Tamimi, a Palestinian also born in Jerusalem work together in London and support Amos Trust with a charity dinner every year to raise awareness of the situation in the Holy Land and funds for the work of the human rights organisation. A dedicated, cosmopolitan team create a magical evening of sharing food, stories and unity.

Making Connexion Portraits of ministers and lay workers of The Methodist Church for the Connexion Magazine.