via Alex at LeedsDEC The Leeds Development Education Centre would like to invite you to come to our free screenings of 2 Award-winning films, which we are putting on with Leeds Film Festival: 24th October To the Four Winds – the story of a ‘heroic’ French people smuggler, who helps migrants to safety. 5-7pm at […]
Archive | October, 2019
Return of Conversation Cafe – Wednesday Afternoons at Leeds Playhouse
Our Conversation Café is back at the new Leeds Playhouse. Come to the café in the new front entrance and someone will be there to meet you. Free activities for refugees and asylum seekers at our weekly Theatre of Sanctuary Conversation Café. Develop your language skills Become more confident speaking and understanding English Meet with […]
Learming English in Yorkshire and Humber event: 20th November 2019
via Ewa at Migration Yorkshire What? Whether you are an ESOL provider, a support worker or a volunteer, the event will be of interest to you. Explore our new website and find out how it can benefit both ESOL learners and providers. Keynote address by NATECLA. Practical workshop sessions. When? Wed, 20 November 2019 09:30 […]
Home Office Funding: English language training to refugees
via Sam at LCC Communities team The Home Office is about to award a contract worth £75k to an organisation, or a partnership of organisations to develop a shared vision for commissioning and delivering English language training to refugees. The delivery partner is being asked to run a series of regional events that bring together […]
LMP’s Blog performance Apr19 – Sep19
You’ll remember in April 19 we posted an end of year post about the LMP blog’s performance. Here’s a 6 month interim report. We’ve used the graph of the last 2 years (below) for context TL;DR The number of website users and sessions remain pretty steady (as they have done over the last 2 years) […]
Women’s Football Sessions
from Georgia at Republica Internationale I am currently running some women only football sessions on the first Saturday of every month and am keen to engage women from diverse backgrounds in these sessions who typically would struggle to access football. We received some funding from the FA and so my football club Republica Internationale FC […]
Resource of the week #95 – Sanctuary in the Arts resource pack
Promoting a culture of welcome for people seeking sanctuary ‘Sanctuary in the Arts’ is a resource pack to inspire, support and promote the use of arts in nurturing a culture and practice of welcome for people seeking sanctuary in the UK. This resource pack contains practical guidance on how your organisation can embed sanctuary in […]
Representative to the Strategic Regional Migration Group (SRMGs)
This is a call for appointing a Leeds VCS representative to the SRMGs. The purpose of the SRMGs is to assist the Strategic Migration Group (SMG) to provide a strategic leadership, advisory and coordination function in the region and to provide a forum for senior representatives of LAs, Police, Health, Home Office, asylum accommodation and […]
Language Hub fund open to applications
Leeds City Council Communities Team are pleased to let you know the application period for Language Hub funding has been extended. The funding is for up to £5000 for volunteer-led activities which bring people together from different communities to share their skills, build relationships and have opportunities to practise conversational English. Application deadlines are as follows […]
Escape to Safety Exhibition
Find out more here http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/events/escape-to-safety-exhibition Leeds Trinity University, in partnership with Leeds Development Education Centre, is proud to host Global Link’s Escape to Safety Exhibition, from Monday 21 to Thursday 24 October 2019, on campus. Students, staff, partners and friends of the University are invited to attend the interactive, multi-media installation that enables […]
ICRAA: Call for volunteer proposal/grant writer
Volunteer Proposal/Grant Writer At: International Committee for Rehabilitation Aid to Afghanistan (ICRAA) Details: A volunteer opportunity to support our funding proposals and grant writing work that ensures the continuation of our project. The role involves seeking and researching appropriate sources of funding and/or find donor within the UK or abroad. Any other previous experience related […]
UPDATE Volunteering opportunities with refugees and asylum-seekers in the city from LCoS
via Tina at Leeds City of Sanctuary Following the session I delivered last night, here is information about current volunteer opportunities with R&AS in the city. It is lengthy but certainly not exhaustive! If you would like your volunteer role to be included for the next session please send me the details. Please share this […]