What The Anne Matthews Trust does
The Anne Matthews Trust (AMT) is a charity rooted in antiracist, antioppressive practice, supporting refugees and migrant communities through sanctuary, critical education, agroecology, cultural organising and international solidarity.
Based at the historic Braich Goch building in rural Wales, AMT works systematically to challenge injustice through strengthening migrant and refugee leadership, advancing reparative internationalism, and offering healing-centred infrastructure.
Delivering its work through a residential learning centre and community hub, AMT brings together refugee, migrant and local communities to develop collective solutions to social challenges and build relationships.
Their role in our ecosystem
The Anne Matthews Trust is understood as situated within a grounded practice demonstrating alternative ways of holding and exercising power. Within our organisational ecosystem view, we see their role existing in the systemic layer of Stewardship in Practice.
Through their practice, they are shaping future systems and contributing to the foundations of Economic Power and Healing & Repair.
“We are very aware that if we are ‘talking the talk’, and offering critical education experiences for other people, we must ensure that we are also ‘walking the walk’ and doing everything we can to build an anti-oppressive organisation.
We are researching, experimenting with and creating rituals, policies and practices to ensure that we are trying to challenge oppression in ourselves, each other, and society, and facing insidious power dynamics inherited from an unhealthy system when they creep into how we work.”