Archive | June, 2017
BHA Skyline celebration – 29th June 2017
BHA Leeds Skyline are celebrating 10 years of HIV support and prevention services in Leeds. You can come and meet the teams, and see first hand the great work they are doing across the city. Date: Thursday 29 June 2017 Times: 12 noon to 3.oo pm, with an opening speech at 12.30 pm. The event is drop in-style […]
Refugees Guides Project
‘Tales of a City Tours is a new and exciting project, which aims to promote cross-cultural understanding and community cohesion through the development of cultural walking tours around Leeds, led by refugee guides. Each refugee guide would have the chance to tell stories about their home country, their culture, and their experiences in Leeds, to […]
Consultation over the way anti-social behaviour is addressed in Leeds.
Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police are currently consulting on the methods they use to control anti-social behaviour in Leeds. If you want to have your say, you can complete this online survey http://www.leeds.gov.uk/pspo. PSPOs are not without their critics – read the concerns voiced by Liberty here and coverage of PSPOs in the Guardian […]
Create a community of welcome in your area, take part in a Sanctuary Supper!
After uprooting their lives and fleeing to safety in the UK, many refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds find themselves isolated from the wider community. Create a community of welcome in your area – Take part in a Sanctuary Supper! Sign up now Get together to break bread, build bridges and forge friendships in your local […]
Seminar: Children and childhoods in the context of asylum, 18th September 2017
One in every 122 people is displaced by war, violence and persecution… and more than half of all refugees are children (United Nations, 2015). The Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research, University of Huddersfield, warmly invites you to a seminar that looks at children and childhoods in the context of asylum. The event […]
Refugee Week Event: Celebration of Language and Interpreting with International Open Mic: Tuesday 20th June 1-5pm
Refugee Week Event: Celebration of Language and Interpreting with International Open Mic Tuesday 20th June 1 – 5pm One Community Centre, Cromwell Street, Lincoln Green LS9 7SG This is an event hosted by Manuel Bravo Project to celebrate language and to promote interpreting. We will also take the opportunity to discuss with any organisations present […]
Refugee Week events at Left Bank Leeds
via Leigh at Left Bank Leeds Left Bank Leeds are hosting an exhibition of photographs by Humans of Leeds, which aims to set the stories of refugees alongside the stories of others who have moved to Leeds for work or study or family, in recognition of the fact that refugees are as much a part of our city […]
Basic Safeguarding Awareness for small community orgs, from VAL
Voluntary Action Leeds delivers a safeguarding children basics course within the community. This course was developed to enable people to learn about the basics of safeguarding before they went onto undertake more formal training, like the Level 1 course offered by the Leeds Safeguarding Children Board. This course has been well received in the […]
Update: New Leeds Refugee Week Posters
Great work here from Leeds Refugee Forum
Vacancy: Integration Project Manager £41-43k – Migration Yorkshire
Project Manager for a unique integration project Are you a talented leader who is passionate about improving the prospects of vulnerable and marginalised migrants? We’re looking for a highly skilled project manager to lead and develop Connecting Opportunities, a new project to support the most socially excluded new migrants in Leeds City Region to tackle […]
Challenging Conversations – The Findings Friday 30 June | 9.45am – 11.45am | Leeds Civic Hall
Voluntary Action Leeds have been working in partnership with six community-based organisations with the aim of better understanding the drivers that may lead young people to commit hate crimes and identify potential solutions to reduce incidents in the future. Please join us to hear more about the findings of this Home Office funded project and […]