One World Centre Isle of Man

This year’s annual Global Village event will take place on Tynwald Day Monday 7th July and applications for a stall are now open.

The Global Village is a celebration of the different cultures represented in the Isle of Man as well as a showcase for local organisations and groups involved in international and sustainable development.

Based in the arbortem at St Johns, just down from Tynwald Hill, the Global Village is a great family day out – and it’s free for visitors and stallholders to attend. Follow the links for the relevant forms and event Terms and Conditions.

Global Village 2025 Stallholder Application Form

Global Village 2025 Stallholder Terms & Conditions

We are delighted to host, along with Isle of Man Friends of the Earth, a talk from James Levelle – explorer, filmmaker and environmentalist – as he recounts his exploits travelling from the UK to a climate change conference in Chile without using fossil fuel, collecting messages along the way from young voices to present to conference attendees.

In a voyage filled with adventure and unexpected twists and turns – not least the cancellation of the conference mid-journey – James reflects on our relationship with nature, and on the need for young people to have their say on global issues which directly affect their future.

An award-winning cinematographer, James has filmed around the world – from documenting child labour in India’s cotton fields and deadly pirate fisherman off the coast of Sierra Leone to exposing the criminal trade in tiger skins and bone and the multi-million pound illegal logging industry in Southeast Asia.

These intense filmmaking adventures opened his eyes to the power of film and its extraordinary potential to change people’s perspectives.

Since then, James has worked in some of the world’s most extreme environments directing and presenting some of adventure TV’s most groundbreaking and successful shows such as Alaska: Gold Rush, Free Ride: South America, Primal Survivor: Amazon and Race For The Future.

The talk will be held at Erin Arts Centre at 7.30pm on Thursday 3rd April. It’s free to attend but tickets must be booked in advance to secure a seat. Please either use this link or get in touch with the Erin Arts Centre directly.

We’ve recently been marking Global Learning Fortnight – two weeks when we talk about what we are doing all year long as a development education and global learning charity!

The theme for this year was Connecting People for an Inclusive Planet and we put together some information about how the One World Centre and other local organisations are putting this into action through the projects we all run.

We’re always looking for new ideas on how to connect people in the Isle of Man with others around the globe to make the world a fairer and more sustainable place. Let us know if you have any ideas you’d like to share.

Join us for another of our Mighty Movies – films with a global perspective.

This time we are showing Five Years North, a documentary that follows the experiences of a young Guatamelan boy who arrives undocumented in New York and his struggles to live, study and work.We also see the situation through the eyes of Judy, a first generation immigrant from Cuba who works for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

As usual, the film will be screened free of charge at Henry Bloom Noble Douglas City Library and will start at 7pm on Thursday 28th November. No booking required, just come along.

How good is your general knowledge? Our “All Around the World” themed quiz night will get the brain ticking while raising funds for our work in raising awareness of global issues – and encouraging a positive response.

The event takes place at Bar George in Douglas on Thursday 7th November, 7pm for a 7.15pm start. Our guest quizmaster is Andrew Langan-Newton.

This is a key fundraising event for us this year (all proceeds will go to the prize fund of our One World Charity Challenge project) so please come along if you can – and encourage friends, colleagues and family to take part too. The tickets are just £7 donation per person, and you can have up to five people in a team. There will be prizes for the winners and we’ll also have a raffle.

Please email or call Wendy on 310191 to reserve tickets. 

We have today launched a new poster campaign to raise awareness of modern slavery and exploitation in the Isle of Man.

It is the latest development in the One World Centre’s ongoing project around modern slavery which began when the charity invited modern slavery consultant Robin Brierley to give a talk to the general public and Members of Tynwald in 2022.

The posters highlight the telltale signs of exploitation and encourage anyone affected or concerned about others to seek help by calling the Isle of Man Safeguarding telephone numbers provided (686179 for children’s services and 685969 for adult services) or to use the anonymous Isle of Man Crimestoppers hotline (0800 555 111).

Launching the campaign One World Centre Coordinator Wendy Shimmin said,“The term modern slavery is not very well understood. It encompasses many different types of exploitation including “county lines” where young people are recruited into ferrying drugs or the proceeds of crime, sexual exploitation, people trafficking and domestic servitude.

“Although we all think of the Isle of Man as a small and safe place to live, we know there is a risk of exploitation taking place in any community. Our campaign aims to raise awareness and signpost any vulnerable people – or those concerned about others – to sources of help.

“We can all be vigilant to the signs and we hope that local businesses and organisations will support us by displaying our posters in public areas so they get the maximum visibility.”

For more information and to get copies of the posters please contact us or call 310191. The poster campaign has been funded with the support of the Isle of Man Government’s International Development Education and Awareness Raising grant.

Come and join us for a free screening of Perfect Days, an award-winning and Oscar-nominated film from Wim Wenders about the life of Hirayama, a caretaker of Tokyo’s public toilets who balances his job with his passion for music, literature, and photography. His structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that force him to reconnect with his past.

The screening takes place at 7pm on Thursday 26th September downstairs at Henry Bloom Noble Douglas Library. It’s free to attend and no booking is required. The film is in Japanese with English subtitles and is rated PG.

This is a screening in our Mighty Movies series, a community cinema initiative in collaboration with Henry Bloom Noble Douglas Library featuring films with a global perspective.