About SANGINI...
Mission: To improve the quality of women’s lives by increasing their physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being, through artistic, educational, cultural and recreational activities that also celebrate cultural diversity’.
Our values are centred on the following:
- The well being and health of all women
- Empowering and uplifting minority women and excluded women
- Learning, enjoyment, creativity and development through the arts
- Promoting inclusion, integration and participation through the arts
- Challenging the inequality and invisibility of women
- Making a difference
Sangini works with women and young people from under represented and disadvantaged backgrounds. Fostering partnerships and sharing of knowledge are at the heart of its activities. Over the years it has worked with a host of organizations, community groups, artists, individuals, statutory organizations, schools, local businesses and funders.
Sangini believes in creative interventions and often works with artists from diverse backgrounds to create a variety of approaches to engaging with marginalised groups, often addressing issues, such as mental health, domestic violence, gender equality.
The activities include:
- Arts projects
- Artists commissioning
- Educational workshops
- Participatory workshops
- Taster sessions
- Support and guidance
- Fundraising activities
- Cultural activities
- Training and development
Sangini now has over 500 members from Sunderland and across the region diverse cultural backgrounds, including: South Asians, Afghans, Angolan, Congolese Iraqis, Iranians, Chinese, Phillipinos, Zimbabweans, etc
