Events
Events
Sponsored Walk
Sunday 22 June 2025
This year’s sponsored walk to raise funds for the Ruth First Scholarship will be a lovely 15km walk (just under 10 miles) around Barnard Castle. If you’d like to take part, please email Mike Thompson.
This is our most important fundraising activity of the year. We need to raise as much as we can to make next year’s scholarship possible – for travel costs, visa and Health Surcharge, and the monthly allowance.
Please make a donation on our Localgiving page. Every gift, however small, makes a difference.
Ruth First Scholar Seminar
Wed 25 June 2025, 5.00-7.00 pm
Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College, Durham DH1 3LJ
This year’s Ruth First Scholar, Nafisa Ayman Roza:
Bondage, Binaries and Belonging
Roza will discuss neuro-queer desire, intersectional identities, and the radical ways in which South African BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and People of Colour] exist in – and resist with – community
Zahbea Zahra (Hatfield Lioness Scholar):
Honour Killings and Islamic Law: A Legal Enigma
Zahbea will discuss how perpetrators of honour-killing evade accountability by exploiting religious principles in their legal systems
If you’d like to join the event online in Teams, click here
Supported by St Aidan’s Resilience Forum
Ruth First Exhibition
A mini-exhibition celebrating the life and work of Ruth First – on now in St Aidan’s College, Durham.