Happy Birthday Hands Up!

A month from today it will be our 10th Birthday!

We’ve actually been doing our Hands Up thing since early 2015, but on the 23rd November 2016 we officially became a registered charity with the UK charities commission.

We think this is an important thing to celebrate, so on Sunday 22nd November (a day before our official birthday) at 4pm Palestine time (2 pm UK time) we’ll be having a mini online conference for all of our friends and supporters around the world to mark 10 glorious years of Hands Up!

The conference will be face-to-face in our spaces in Bristol and Totnes (Uk), Ballinrobe (Ireland) and Cairo (Egypt), (please come along) and online via Zoom. Some of the current members of our team will be sharing 10 minute talks about different aspects of our work.

And there will be cake! Please bring a cake along where you are and we’ll do a joint, simultaneous, blowing out of the candles (Did you know that Zoom now has this feature - you can actually blow out the candles of a cake on the other side of the world! 😉 )

As a run up to our birthday celebrations we’d like to invite you all to share one of your favourite moments from the last 10 years. This could be one of our hundreds of blog posts, a video on our youtube channel, or something else on one of our social media channels. You should share it as a comment here on this post, or on Facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin, bluesky or TikTok.

Please tag the Hands Up Project in anything you share and please use the hashtag #HandsUpTurns10

Happy Birthday Hands Up!