PATH Yorkshire is offering FREE English/ESOL classes and Employment help and support to Leeds residents who have indefinite leave to remain, on spouse visa, Eastern Europeans/EU citizens, with permission to work but not currently working Free Services provided by PATH Yorkshire: One-to-one help and support towards getting jobs English/ESOL Classes – Entry 1, 2, 3 […]
Archive | February, 2018
Job opportunity with The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN)
TERN are looking to expand their work into Yorkshire and are currently looking for a business support officer to run a new pilot entrepreneurship training programme for refugees in the local area. The role will: · Involve working with our leadership team in London to co-design the programme delivery and co-develop a strategy to sustain activities […]
Stone Flowers music collective – March 13th at Royal Armouries.
Stone Flowers is a refugee torture survivor music collective who have fled war, conflict and violence from countries including Iran, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Syria, Afghanistan, Cameroon and the DR Congo. Survivors express themselves through the languages and music traditions of their home countries as well as in English. Have a look at their pages on […]
West Yorkshire Playhouse Young Company seek recruits!
WY Playhouse Young Company are looking to recruit creative, curious and collaborative artists aged 18 – 25 years old from all backgrounds and disciplines to join the West Yorkshire Playhouse Young Company. Auditions will take place on Monday 12 March. Applications can be made via the website, or through the application form
DEADLINE Extended until the 5th March – Call for Evidence for the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration – Asylum Accommodation Inquiry
ICIBI Extends Deadline until 5th March for Call for Evidence : Asylum Accommodation The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration is currently gathering evidence for an inquiry into asylum accommodation. They have recently put a call out for written evidence, asking for interested parties to submit evidence to the ICIBI by the 5th March. This is a great […]
LMP members submission to APPG on ending homelessness for NRPF
Last week we put out a call to LMP members to contribute to a consultation on ending destitution amongst people with no recourse to public funds. Ruth from PAFRAS coordinated the response of some LMP members which you can read here. Enormous thanks to everyone who contributed: Ruth Davany, PAFRAS, Dave Paterson, Unity in Poverty […]
Resource of the week #12: How to measure your impact on wellbeing
This looks like an interesting resource for measuring your org’s impact on wellbeing: https://whatworkswellbeing.org/measure “The What Works Centre for Wellbeing is an independent body developing robust, accessible and useful evidence that governments, businesses, communities and people can use to improve wellbeing across the UK. In this guide we at the Centre have brought together the […]
Update from the new Migrant Health Board
Background The Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board have created a sub group called the Migrant Health Board. This group will report directly into both the Health and Wellbeing Board and Leeds Strategic Migration Board. The Migrant Health Board met for the first time on Thursday 22nd February, and was Chaired by Ian Cameron, Director of […]
Asylum Stats Q4 2017 (Oct17-Dec17)
Via Asylum Matters Here are the immigration statistics for October to December 2017. Key asylum figures are below and you can find the data tables here. The most notable finding is that the backlog of cases pending an initial decision for more than 6 months has grown by 39% (from 10,552 in Q3 to 14,650 […]
Reminder: Refugee Week Steering Group Meeting 26th Feb at 10am
A quick reminder that the Refugee Week Steering group meeting will be on Monday 26 February, 10.00 am at One Community Centre
Job: GRT Inclusion Support Worker Post- Leeds City Council
Job title: GRT Inclusion Support Worker Hours: 37 hours per week Grade & Salary: C1 £20,661 – £22,658 Education data within the recently published Race Disparity Audit shows that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils are consistently one of the lowest performing ethnic group’s at all key stages, and have significantly above average rates of absence […]
Resource of the week #11: healthinleeds.org.uk
One of those websites you find hiding in plain sight healthinleeds.org.uk provides basic info on accessing health services in Polish Lithuanian Czech and Romanian