The Award The Ellie Maxwell Award was first given in 2019 to Mxogyny and Colours of Edinburgh as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Ellie Maxwell founding Firefly International. It is sponsored by her family and friends through Edinburgh University. It aims to encourage and support an Edinburgh-based student or group...
A huge thank you to Rufus for choosing firefly for his birthday fundraiser and for the donation he made to our partner projects in Bosnia, Syria, Turkey and Gaza.
Edinburgh University kindly hosted the award ceremony for our two winners of the inaugural Ellie Maxwell Award, an award given by Ellie’s family to encourage students at Edinburgh developing organisations which promote social change. Sarah Smith welcomed everyone to the University and spoke of the importance of this award in...
Last month an intrepid group of Firefly supporters walked 55 miles of Hadrian’s Wall in three days and raised an incredible £9000 to support our partners Firefly for Syrians and Svitac(Firefly in Bosnia). This enormous donation pays for the summer programmes for hundreds of children and to support our work...
We are delighted to announce that we have TWO winners of the first Ellie Maxwell Award Pauline Libsovar and Maisie Palmer. Pauline represents Colours Edinburgh who have created a platform Scotland’s newcomers seeking refuge to share their stories through immersive art, research, and digital media. Maisie co-founded mxogyny a platform which hopes to connect stories from...
Some images of the mesmerising light display kindly donated by Bruce Munro as part of the celebration of 20 years of Firefly International. The display was held in the Old College Quad from the 25th to the 29th of March. British artist Bruce Munro is best known for immersive large-scale...
Thank you so much to everyone who attended the Firefly Gala at St. Paul’s Church last week. With your generous support we have raised more than £22,000. Huge thanks to our performers Neil Stuke, Pandora Colin, Patrick Terry, Rihab Azar, Project Coast, Kenza Stamselberg, Nick Edward Harris and Josh Vivian,...
On the 20th November 2018, Firefly International will hold its 5th annual fundraiser at the Actors Church, Covent Garden. This is a film of our centre in Antakya, Turkey. These Syrian refugee children are in an Arabic literacy class. Please help us to meet the huge demand for our programmes...
It’s less than a month to go before the Firefly International Gala on Tuesday 20th November and our silent auction is now live! We have some fantastic prizes: jewellery from Coco & Kinney, a signed cookbook from the River Café’s Joe Trivelli, a week in a luxury house in Italy, or South France or a cosy...
On Midsummers night in Edinburgh Firefly hosted a supper club for 50 people at our local café, Century General Store. Charlie McMicking and Bill Coles cooked up a feast and Maria Chambers and Harry Crawley gave wonderful rousing speeches, about the work that Firefly’s partners do in Bosnia, Syria and...
Thank you very much for your support Anju! Anju Uppal has just returned from Kathmandu, after climbing to the Everest Base Camp at a height of 5346 metres! Her brave and generous endeavour has raised over £700 for Firefly International children.
Our new Just Giving’s campaign for Ramadan is now live! Please, click on this link to support our children: Salaam Giving Thank you very much for all your help!
Over the May Bank Holiday, 8 teams of keen walkers took on a huge challenge – and raised £8000 for Firefly. The first mountain, Ben Nevis, was snowy with very low cloud and proved quite a challenge. The sun came out for Scafell Pike and Snowdon which helped everyone along....
Ethnic and political divisions in Bosnia are far from being resolved. But, with our help, new generations can achieve the unachievable. Thanks to its multi-ethnic youth arts and education projects, our partner Svitac plays a crucial role in promoting community cohesion and defeating conflict narratives in the ethnically diverse city of Brčko...
Many thanks to the Melksham Fairtrade group who raised money for Firefly International at their Christmas Fairtrade event! A special thanks to Judith and Joan for organising this event which helps us provide safe access to education and a brighter future for many children affected by conflict and violence.
