Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Group Meeting: 5th October 2023 – all are welcome to attend this meeting. The Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Group are meeting on Date: Thursday 5th October 2023 (10am-12pm) Venue: LASSN, 22/23 Blayds Yard, Leeds, LS1 4A Meeting theme: Asylum discontinuations: Leeds City Council Migration Team, Leeds Housing Options and DWP will provide an […]
Archive | September, 2023
Launching the Leeds Volunteering Strategy, 12th Oct 2023
We are excited to announce the launch of the Leeds Volunteering Strategy and would love to see you there! The strategy will launch alongside a celebration of the Community Champions programme and a showcase of the Volunteers of Leeds Campaign. If you are a volunteer manager looking for inspiration and to network, a volunteer who […]
Free Forest Schools for Dads and their children under 7
Free Forest Schools for Dads and their children Under 7 – exploring nature first-hand – playing, digging, learning, exploring, laughing, offering lovely opportunities to create wonderful memories for Dads and their children. Meet other Dads and their children and have fun in a wonderful safe environment. And stay and visit the fantastic Meanwood Valley Urban […]
Household Support Fund (HSF) – Cost of Living Grants
Forum Central are administering the Household Support Fund (HSF) – a Central Government fund. Grants panel to be held w/c 25 September. Please send applications before this date. This funding, administered by Forum Central, is to be distributed to organisations who support Communities of Interest including cultural diversity, people with mental health (including Young People), […]
Office space available next to Solace
This isn’t your normal LMP blog post and I’m bending the rules a little but some office space above Solace has become available. It would be great if a partner could consider moving in next to us. To arrange a viewing or to obtain any further information please contact: Simon Turner Tel: 0113 205 1400, […]
Resources from Meeting about LCC Asylum Funding 20/9/23
A meeting took place today, organised by Dave Paterson from UPA and hosted by LASSN – to discuss ways of ensuring the bids submitted do not duplicate one another. It’ll take a while for the minutes to emerge, but for the time being, here are the resources shared by NACCOM to help groups and agencies […]
Solace Newsletters
Solace has published it’s September Newsletter. We would like some more subscribers to promote our work. If you would like to receive it directly to your inbox please add you details at Solace Newsletter signup You can you also read the latest newsletter here. The next one will be published in December.
LASSN are recruiting volunteer Hosts – do you have a spare bedroom?
Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network is looking for volunteers in Leeds to host asylum seekers’ who have nowhere else to stay, for a mimimum of 3 months. In exchange for your time, we offer training and support and the chance to make a real difference to someone’s life. If you are interested in hosting, please […]
African heritage women, we need your views to help improve access to sexual and reproductive health services for other women in the U.K
I am Glenda, a researcher from the University of Bristol. I am working to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services for women of African heritage including refugees and asylum seekers . If you are a woman of African Heritage over the age of eighteen and would be willing to take part in an […]
Oceans of unmet need: the current state of Legal Aid feat Manuel Bravo
Skip to pages 34 onwards for a rather bleak account if where we’re at right now in Yorkshire and Humber. Kudos to Manuel Bravo for their involvement in this excellent piece of work.
National signposting : useful organisations list
By Colin Archer (Conversation Club Leeds) on 19th September 2023 in Funding, Policy & Research, Resource, Safety & Inclusion, Services
Conversation over Borders offers a new national listing: “a collaborative extensive list of organisations and charities working with displaced people in the UK. To help this to grow you can submit new organisations or resources to the list using this form. We hope for the list to continue growing and become a thorough network of […]
Room Sharing Criteria for Asylum Hotels in Leeds, September 2023
This guidance is a summary of information circulated by Mears to Migration Yorkshire. It has been shared to enable people who are compelled to share a room to know the way in which decisions are made, and to enable support agencies to correctly advise clients of likely outcomes. We have removed the original document at […]