• Earth Day in Sunderland 2024 – everyone invited for picnic in the park Sunderland Echo April 2024
  • New play equipment forms wave of improvements at historic Sunderland park Sunderland Echo April 2024
  • Birdwatching, litter picks and more as volunteers invited to be good natured by ICOS Sunderland Echo February 2024
  • ICOS Participated in the Refugee Week 2023 – Walk of Sanctuary – Sunderland Echo on 21st June 2023
  • Spark Interview with Julia Wysocka – ‘Who are the ICOS?’ – Spark Sunderland, 9th May 2023
  • ICOS celebrates grant from Newcastle Building Society – reported on WEAR Business on 27th April 2023
  • Sunderland volunteers take action in the fight against climate change and discrimination – Spark Sunderland 
  • ICOS discuss food waste awareness in the North East – Spark Sunderland
  • Blue Plaque Installation celebration in the Backhouse park – Sunderland Echo.
  • ICOS planted 100 trees in the Backhouse park – reported on Sunderland Echo. 
  • ICOS received ‘Greener Communities’ Funding – ESH Group
  • Sunderland Echo article mentioning Olena Davie’s (ICOS staff member) support to Ukrainian families in Sunderland, published on 18th August 2022.
  • Article about the Backhouse park fairy trail, reported on Sunderland Echo on 29th July 2022. 
  • North East Bylines article by Michal Chantkowski and Olena Davie, published on 22nd July 2022. 
  • Shared Sunderland launch event, reported on Sunderland Echo on 30th May 2022.
  • Ukrainian Support – a story of a Ukrainian family, reported on BBC News on 24th May 2022.
  • ICOS was mentioned in a ChronicleLive article about how Newcastle women gather to help stop racist and misogynistic hate crimes.
  • Newcastle Building Society’s Community Fund – read more about the funding and about our employability project HERE.
  • ICOS Photography Competition 2021 and its winning photographs were reported in Sunderland Echo on 20th September 2021.
  • ICOS received a £2,941 grant from the Newcastle Building Society to improve the employability prospects of migrants and people from ethnic minorities in Sunderland. Read more about Newcastle Building Society’s Community Fund HERE.
  • ICOS Photography Competition 2021 was reported in Sunderland Echo on 27th June 2021.
  • Backhouse park Fairy Trail – created by Plybox CNC Woodworking, ICOS/Rangers and our volunteers
    Kasia Cieslak, Agnieszka Cielecka & Marius Sinkunas
    with the support of Sunderland Council East Area and St Michaels Ward Councillors, reported on Sunderland Echo – Fairy Trail on 18th May 2021.
  • ICOS East Rangers clean up in Backhouse Park, reported on Sunderland Echo on 6th April 2021.
  • Michal Chantkowski, ICOS’s Development and Services Manager, has written an article to explain why charities and social enterprises are worried about the replacement for EU funding. This article was reported on  NorthEastBylines.co.uk  on 19th November 2020.
  • ICOS has organised a series of events and activities raising awareness of modern slavery on UK Anti-Slavery day. This was reported in Sunderland Echo on 19th October 2020.
  • ICOS Photography Competition 2020 – The winning photo entries were reported in Sunderland Echo on 7th October 2020.
  • ICOS Photography Competition 2020 was reported in Sunderland Echo on 14th September 2020.
  • ICOS is involved in “Unlock the City” through our membership of the Sunderland Black and Minority Ethnic Network. Here is the report in Sunderland Echo on 5th February 2020.
  • ICOS Development and Services Manager Michal Chantkowski was interviewed by Sun FM Radio 103.4, Sunderland on 24th October 2019 at 2 pm.
  • Back in Control Project was reported in Sunderland Echo on 18th September 2019.
  • ICOS worked with young pupils to clean up the Backhouse Park, reported in Sunderland Echo on 22nd July 2019.

  • ICOS supported The Sunderland BME Network celebrating the city’s diverse communities at mini Mela, reported on Sunderland Echo on 18th March 2017.

  • ICOS urged that there had been a “clear increase” in hate crime in Sunderland since the Brexit vote, as reported in The Guardian in 2017.