We want to thank everyone who was part of Culture at the Bombed Out Church 2025! We are already planning our 2026 march and festival, but we need your help to make it happen. For more information on how to sponsor or get involved as a community partner, please scroll below.

About Culture is Beautiful

‘Culture is Beautiful’ is our annual event featuring our ‘March to End HBA’ and Festival of ‘Culture at the Bombed Out Church’.

‘Honour’-based abuse (HBA) and harmful practices happen here in the UK, and are too often wrongly seen as part of a person’s culture. Culture is beautiful, and this event celebrates culture while separating it from abuse.

March to End HBA 

March to End HBA is Savera UK’s annual call to end ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) and harmful practices.

Credit: AB Photography
Credit: AB Photography

Culture at the Bombed Out Church

Culture at the Bombed Out Church is a family-friendly event featuring high-profile speakers and diverse performances, celebrating the beauty of culture while making clear there is no excuse for abuse.

Why this event matters

This event is part of a campaign highlighting that HBA and harmful practices, including forced marriage, FGM, and conversion ‘therapy’ happen here, and that it is a violation of human rights.

Become a Sponsor for 2026

Sponsoring our Culture is Beautiful event is a chance to align your organisation with an important cause, broaden your reach, and show a clear commitment to championing human rights, inclusion and diversity.

Credit: AB Photography

 

Credit: AB Photography

 

Become a Community Partner for 2026

Next year, we’re going even bigger. More people. More visibility. More impact, and we’d love for you and your community to be a part of it!

What is ‘honour’-based abuse? 

HBA is a crime or incident that has or may have been committed to protect or defend the ‘honour’ of the family and/or community. The perpetrator or perpetrators feel that the only way to restore family ‘honour’ is to harm or kill. HBA is not a cultural practice. Abuse is never part of culture. Too often, it is wrongly conflated with culture or tradition, when in reality, culture is beautiful. There is no excuse for abuse.