As a specialist counselling service, Solace is committed to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of all the refugees and asylum seekers that it serves. We carry out this aim through counselling, advocacy, groups and complementary therapies and our work depends heavily on the expertise of interpreters. We have a strategic aim to be a […]
Archive | January, 2025
📢 FREE ESOL CLASSES AT MEMEC! 📢
📢 FREE ESOL CLASSES AT MEMEC! 📢 Looking to improve your English and boost your confidence? Join our FREE Pre-Entry ESOL courses at MEMEC in Leeds! ✨ What we offer: ✅ Confidence in English ✅ Get Ready for Work ✅ Digital Skills ✅ Confidence Building for Improvers 📅 Starting in February 2025! 📍 Location: MEMEC, […]
NRPF Task and Finish Group – Third Sector Briefing
This briefing provides an overview of the work Leeds City Council is undertaking on no recourse to public funds task and finish group.
Updated Asylum Decision Guidance – Leeds City Council, January 2025
The Asylum decision flyer provides important guidance for people seeking asylum who receive a decision on their asylum application to better understand the next steps. What’s new: This guidance has been updated for Jan 2025 as British Residence Permits (BRP) are no longer being issued by the Home Office and explains the process in getting […]
Migration Yorkshire Migration Headlines report – Jan-March 2025
The Migration Yorkshire migration headline report for Jan-March 2025 is to be used in conjunction with the migration round-ups which Migration Yorkshire post to their website each Monday – Migration news roundup | Migration Yorkshire.
Help improve MindWell for a chance to win a £50 Gift Voucher – Jan 25
MindWell, the go-to online source for adult mental health and wellbeing support in Leeds, wants to hear from you! Share your feedback in their annual surveys to help improve their resources and ensure they meet the needs of communities in Leeds. If you use MindWell for your own mental health, take the General Public Survey. […]
FREE Welcome Cafe by ZEST
We are running a Welcome Café for refugees and asylum seekers in our Cookery School in Leeds market. Each week we cook dishes from around the world, we then sit and eat lunch together. This is not a teaching class but more of a community cooking session where we all learn from each other.
Yorkshire Policy Innovation Partnership are recruiting to their community panel – could you help?
By Jon from LASSN on 27th January 2025 in Activism & Campaigning, Funding, Opinion, Policy & Research
Yorkshire Policy Innovation Partnership (YPIP), a research project led by the University of Leeds that will coordinate initiatives, evidence and learnings to help reduce inequalities and address climate change in Yorkshire and the Humber. Y-PIP, is run by multiple universities in Yorkshire. It is a research project, but it will also be issuing community […]
Weekly Women only Iranian Dancing Classes at RETAS from Thursday 30th January 2025
From next Thursday at 12.45 pm we will have Iranian dance classes at RETAS. Our sessions are led by one of our lovely volunteers who is a qualified dancer/instructor in Iran and has over 20 years experience! These are women only sessions and we expect demand to be high so please ask people to contact [email protected] […]
Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Meeting – 30th January 2025
The Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Group are meeting on: Date: Thursday 30th January 2025 (10am-12pm) Venue: British Red Cross, Unit 2, Humanity House, Armley Court, Armley Rd, Armley, Leeds, LS12 2NB Meeting theme: LMP Priorities (Review and Refresh) and Safeguarding (Information Sharing) The next LMP strategy group meeting will focus on updates from partners regarding the review and […]
Updating Mears’ Local Information/Welcome Pack – deadline 29th January 2025
Mears have offered LMP colleagues the chance to help update their local information pack – the info they hand to asylum seekers who are new to Leeds. Here’s the previous version. A Google Doc has been created to enable colleagues to comment and make suggestions on things which have changed, been omitted or which may […]
Asylum Matters update 22nd January 2025 – advocacy, campaigns and resources
By Jon from LASSN on 23rd January 2025 in Activism & Campaigning, Destitution & Housing, Education, Training & Work, Jobs, Policy & Research, Resource
Advocacy and campaigning Initiatives Fight the Anti Refugee Laws Calls grow louder for safe routes With the new Government’s continuation of tough border enforcement and criminalisation leading to a record number of Channel fatalities in 2024, pressure is growing to establish safe routes for people seeking asylum to reach the UK. Australian offshoring deemed a breach of […]