Regular readers will remember that every once in a while we lift huge chunks of info from Asylum Matters’ Updates. The last one – sent out on 13th December – is an absolute corker, so we’ve just cut and pasted it below*. We don’t really cover national news like this at LMP – so perhaps it […]
Archive | December, 2018
Performing Britain – can you help with the Advisory Committee
Performing Britain is a 24-hour performance marathon taking place on the day Britain leaves the EU: March 29th 2019. Performances will take place around Mabgate and ask what is British culture after Brexit? The performance will end in a communal feast at St. Aidan’s Church. As part of the project we will be putting on […]
Reading Groups to Improve English Skills
Reading Groups to improve English! Compton Road Library – 5-6:30 pm on Wednesday evenings; Harehills Lane, Harehills, Leeds, LS9 7BG, Contact: Helen Kingstone ([email protected]) & April Geers ([email protected]) Leeds Central Library group meets fortnightly on Thursday at 4-5.30pm; Municipal Buildings, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3AB; Contact: Rachel Webster ([email protected]) Little London Reading Group meets from […]
FUNDING: LCC Language Hub Funding Now Open!
Leeds City Council Communities Team are pleased to let you know the Language Hub funding opportunity is now open for applications. The funding is for up to £5000 for volunteer-led activities which bring people together from different communities to support English language learning. It is intended for activity rather than classroom based learning so could […]
Resource of the Week #55: UK Employers’ Guide to Hiring Refugees
Leeds has a fair number of projects trying to assist refugees to build the skills and confidence to find work in the UK. Aside from the many many orgs offering volunteering opportunities to refugees, RETAS and Connecting Opportunities (and many others) are trying to offer a hand up into employment. Even Business in the Community […]
kooth.com – online mental health support for young people
There’s a new online counselling service for young people called Kooth www.kooth.com – gives 11 to 18 year olds access to free, anonymous mental health and well-being support. It’s been commissioned by NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Meeting Point will remain OPEN over Christmas! :)
Emma from Meeting Point writes Our Women’s Group and English classes will close over the festive period but we will be running a drop-in 1.30-4.00pm on Monday 24th and Monday 31st December. This will be a reduced drop-in mainly focussed on providing food provision and a warm, friendly social space for refugees and asylum […]
Resource of the Week #54: Tons of Online ESOL resources from NATELCLA
Every once in a while you come across a brilliantly curated list of websites and links. NATECLA is the National Association for Teaching English and Community Languages to Adults, and their list of online ESOL resources is even better than the list of resources for ESOL tutors curated by LASSN (and that’s quite a feat) See […]
Job: Project Support and Administration Officer, 16 hrs/wk, £8k actual: Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network
LASSN are looking for a Project Support and Administration Officer to help our four Volunteers Managers with admin tasks, and to support the wider admin needs of LASSN. You can download a job pack from here: lassn.org.uk/jobs Salary: Scale 4 SCP 18-21 £18,870 – £20,541 (pro rata – actual £8,160 – £8,883) depending on experience […]