Waging peace in Harehills – at Shine from 6-9 on Tuesday 6th December
Archive | November, 2016
Free ESOL Classes in LS9
There will be a new ESOL class (free of charge) which running from January 2017 in Leeds 9. The classes will be held every Friday morning, 10.00am-12 noon (term time only) and will be at Entry 1 level. The maximum number for a class is up to 15 students. To refer yourself or someone […]
Broken links in the LMAM archives?
Several people have reported broken links with some of the achived posts and so we’ve checked (and updated) everything posted in the last couple of months. We currently don’t have capacity to do this for the 400 or so other posts there have been on the blog, but we’ll try to do this gradually. If […]
Housing and the Migration Crisis Conference, 13/14th December
A conference is being held at St George’s Conference Centre on 13/14 December 9-5pm The conference themes are housing and migration crisis and will be attended by a wide range of researchers presenting their work as well as activist and practice discussion. More details here http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/events/2016/call-for-papers-struggles-over-home-in-a-time-of-crisis Day tickets are £20 and include lunch, refreshments and […]
Safeguarding Adults Training
Apologies to all those who booked on the recent Safeguarding Adults with No Recourse to Public Funds training, that was cancelled at short notice. Changes in the way Leeds Safeguarding Adults Partnership are delivering their training mean that courses of this type will no longer be available. However we are informed that: Level 1 and 2 […]
New NRPF Guidance – Assessing Children and Families
Abdou from Children’s Society just drew our attention to this new guidance on Assessing Children and Families who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF). Here’s a link to the main NRPF download pages http://www.nrpfnetwork.org.uk/guidance/Pages/default.aspx
ASPEN asylum support card – to be rolled out in 2017
via mike@shsh The Home Office intends to introduce an ASPEN card (Asylum Support Enablement) to replace the ARC card and enable asylum seekers to access their s95 cash support. The ASPEN card will be a CHIP & PIN card. Asylum support payments will be uploaded onto the card and applicants can then access their support […]
Migrants Law Project
Briefing from Amy at Migrants Law Project – for more info contact [email protected] The Migrants’ Law Project (MLP), the MLP is a legal and public legal education project which works to improve the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and other vulnerable migrants through public law. We aim to use our expertise in public law to train […]
Leeds Hardship Fund Flyer & Annual Report
Annual Review of StreetLeeds
If you are interested in this initiative or finding out more please contact Emma Blackstone: [email protected]
Refugee-led guided tours of Leeds?
From Emily at Leeds Beckett – for more info, or to give feedback, please email [email protected] We are interested in working with local refugees, students and various community groups in the area to set up guided tours in Leeds which would be refugee-led. This concept is something which has been put into practice before by the social […]
French / English Conversation classes – facilitated by Rehan Majeed
His contact details are as follows: Mobile Number: 07956938235 E-mail address: [email protected]