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Building Stronger
Communities Together
Our mission:
One Community Link was created by Black and Global Majority people to develop integration, wellbeing, and advocacy for Black, Asian, and Global Majority communities, migrants, refugees, and people seeking asylum, while dismantling racism through education
Our Impact
30,000+
Free Hot meal
7500+
Persons attended anti-racism workshops.
400+
English classes
250+
Women only session
450+
Youth dance classes
Our Work in Action
See how we're making a difference in communities
Our Vision
Create a welcoming, safe, and anti-racist Teesside, where Black, Asian and Global Majority communities, including migrants, refugees, and people seeking asylum, experience full integration, challenge hate crime, and have their voices heard, valued, and championed.
What we Do
We support Black, Asian and Global Majority communities through welcoming and safe spaces offering weekly activities, advocacy, anti-racism education, poverty relief, and immigration advice. We provide practical help such as food/ clothing banks, hot meals, 1-1 crisis support, and we deliver anti-racism and decolonising workshops for a range of institutions and organisations. We champion autonomy in Global Majority communities through volunteering opportunities, skills development, resilience building and community events that celebrate diversity and multicultural identity.
Established Since 2016
Serving communities with passion and dedication
Our Impact in Numbers
10,000+
Lives Impacted
500+
Active Volunteers
100+
Community Projects
10+ yrs
Serving Communities
Every number tells a story
From rural outreaches to educational programs and healthcare support, One Community Link has been making a measurable difference for over a decade. We are powered by people — just like you.
KEY AREAS
OF FOCUS
Community Empowerment & Skills Development
OCL strengthens the capacity and confidence of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and Black, Asian, Global Majority communities through empowerment and livelihood initiatives.
This includes vocational, digital, and entrepreneurship training, employability programs, and leadership development to enhance self-reliance and community participation.
Goal: Build confident, skilled, and economically active individuals who can contribute meaningfully to UK society.
Social Inclusion, Integration & Wellbeing
OCL promotes belonging, positive mental health, and self-love within Global Majority communities, through weekly activities, events, and community education programs in partnership with other grassroots groups, schools, local authorities and health providers.
Goal: Create a more inclusive Teesside where BAGM communities feel safe and seen.
Access to Rights, Services & Opportunities
OCL supports displaced and minority groups in accessing essential services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and legal guidance.
Through information sessions, referrals, and case management, OCL ensures individuals understand and exercise their rights within the UK system.
Goal: Ensure equitable access to social, legal, and economic opportunities for all.
Advocacy, Awareness, Influencing Policy & Systems Change
OCL uses advocacy, education, and partnership work to amplify Global Majority, migrant, and refugee voices; using lived experience to address systemic inequalities, and develop inclusive practice and policies.
Goal: Improve inclusion and strengthen community organising through evidence-based advocacy.
Anti-Racist Education and Decolonising practice
OCL works with BAGM communities in Teesside, to race awareness of hate crimes, heal racial trauma, and dismantle racist systems through anti-racist education and decolonising programs.
We lead decolonising work for teachers in partnership with Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) and Teesside University, and we work with Global Majority communities to transform lived experience into social power and organising for systemic change.
Goal: Increase knowledge of racism to end racial discrimination, with BAGM communities leading policy reform and systems change.
Weekly Activities
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Breakfast Club for everyone 📅Mondays 🕒10am -12noon
ESOL (English classes): 📅Tuesdays 🕒10:30am-12.30pm
Women only group(Sewing Classes): 📅Tuesdays 🕒1pm-3pm
Hot Meals: 📅Thursdays 🕒4:30-6:30pm
ESOL (English classes) :📅 Fridays 🕒10:30 - 12:30pm
Organised by One Community Link
📍 Rhema House, 2 Portrack Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 2HG👩🏾🤝👩🏽
Fitness classes: 📅Wednesday 🕒6-7pm
Wednesday: All Inna Dance (youth dance group for ages 13+). This class is held at Middlesbrough College, 6-7pm (please contact us about joining the dance group)
The food bank is provided by Acts of Love International Church, who also operate out of Rhema House in Stockton. Please contact them for more information as you may need to book a slot.
Food bank: Wednesdays and some Fridays
(call 07852 948198 for food bank)
Get in Touch
Address
Rhema House, 2 Portrack Lane
Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 2HG
United Kingdom
Phone
tel:+447863240016
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