Believe in what you can do for yourself, and someone else, to build better lives.

FreshTies is a non-profit, grassroots rights organisation.

  • Supporting people’s
    rights.
  • Empowering
    communities.
  • Reporting people’s
    life stories.

 

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What we do- in short

Help yourself and someone else.

Our approach

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Reporting people’s life stories
Latest articles from
our news magazine, The Fresh Outlook.

Ryo Love

Ryo’s Love of Modelling
HIV ribbon

“Will I Lose My Dignity?”: HIV and the Media

Read The Fresh Outlook.com

Image of the week from
The Fresh Outlook ‘Life in pictures‘

Founder of FreshTies, talking about rights on BBC Radio Wales

Are you a talent?

Get exposure in our news magazine and help with your rights. Read more.

Supporting rights

Read online article in Mature Times on how this
client of FreshTies helped someone else (another client – see below).

The fight for an NI number

FreshTies is currently defending and supporting this couple’s rights. They also ran out of money, food. Local people and business won’t let someone starve’…read more.

What we do: in short …

Supporting people’s rights:

  • Advice (solution) surgeries.
  • Advocacy & representation.
  • Campaigning on rights.

See What we do

Empowering communities:

  • Training communities on rights.
  • Taking cases on key issues.
  • Giving communities a voice.

See What we do

Reporting on people’s lives:

Our news magazine for:

  • Human interest articles.
  • Raising awareness of issues.
  • Spreading knowledge.

See What we do
Visit The Fresh Outlook.com

Special initiatives based on our work areas above.

Women With Choices:
choices for all women.

Built in to all of FreshTies’ work is action on issues affecting women and positive coverage of women in our news magazine. And more than just advice, our drop in surgeries help women grow in confidence.

Fresh Talent:
Choices. Chances for all talent.

Promotion in our national news magazine, and advice to help with basic rights and knowledge for your career. Read more

 

What you can do: to help yourself and someone else…

Supporting people’s rights

Tell us about an issue affecting you. Help other people by sharing your experience or donating your expertise (legal and non legal).

Visit the ‘What you can do’ page.

Empowering communities

Tell us about issues affecting your community. Volunteer with us. Organisations / groups- work with us.

Visit the ‘What you can do’ page.

Reporting on people’s lives

Suggest human interest stories for our news magazine. Get publicity for your campaign or issue.

Gain exposure or experience if you are a journalist, photojournalist / amateur photographer.

Visit the ‘What you can do’ page.

Special initiatives.

Fresh Talent.

To get help with your rights, share your experience to help others and nominate yourself for promotion in our news magazine- read more.

 

 

Our approach: it’s all about growth.

Whilst our work is all about all people’s rights, we care that our approach treats people as caring, feeling and proud individuals, you know, basic human values. How does that reflect in our work?

More than advice… it’s Know & Grow.

  • We let people talk so they feel important in this world.
  • Issues become opportunities for people to learn about themselves, including their strengths.
  • We aim to resolve matters between parties constructively for meaningful change.

Within our organisation.

We’ve got a ‘Growth Mindset’ too. We want to constantly improve what we do and how we do it. Being open to improvements, wherever suggestions come from, is about the best solutions for people. We are always learning as individuals, and that motivates us, too.

Clients talking about the approach that we take at our FreshTies STREET LAW service.