What community means to me: A podcast by One Strong Voice

This Refugee Week 2025, One Strong Voice (OSV) invites you to explore the power of community. OSV member Nico chats with Jonathan, Madeline, and Maggy—three changemakers with lived experience of the asylum system. 

OSV is a national movement led by people with lived experience, creating change together. Learn more at One Strong Voice or contact us at [email protected].

Speakers

Chair: Nico Ndlovu - OSV member 

  • Jonathon - OSV member
    • Expert by Experience Manager at Refugee Action, a Trustee at Caplor Horizons and One Strong Voice Representative at the Strategic Engagement Group (SEG). He brings a decade of community engagement experience (Freedom from Torture, NHS England, City of Sanctuary Manchester) to champion refugee empowerment through grassroots campaigning, frontline services, and the Expert by Experience Steering Group. His focus is on strengthening meaningful refugee participation.
  • Madeline - OSV member
    • She’s a mum and an excellent cook. Joined OSV in 2024 and she really passionate about helping people in her local community, whether its refugees, women or just people who need help.
  • Maggy Moyo - Campaigns Lead and Community Organiser for These Walls Must Fall Campaign at Right to Remain & Founder, Unified Resilience CIC
    • Maggy Moyo is a nationally recognised campaigner and lived experience leader working at the intersection of immigration justice and racial equity. She is the Campaigns Lead at These Walls Must Fall, a national grassroots initiative under Right to Remain, where she coordinates efforts across the UK to challenge the UK’s hostile environment and push for systemic change. Locally, Maggy is involved with Unified Resilience, a Manchester-based organisation led by people with lived experience.

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