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Refugee Awareness Week at Leeds Beckett

We are delighted to announce the final program for Refugee Awareness Week at Leeds Beckett Students’ Union, in partnership with Leeds City of Sanctuary, and student group Action Interactive International. The week will run from 19-25th March and includes sports, food, socials, talks and even a bake sale. All events are totally free and welcome […]

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‘Existence is Enough: 10 Days of Action in Solidarity with Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ – Launch Event 6pm Monday 5th March

Eyewateringly short notice, but here’s an invitation to LUU’s launch event on Monday “Leeds University Union (LUU) would like to invite you to the launch event of our campaign ‘Existence is Enough: 10 Days of Action in Solidarity with Refugees and Asylum Seekers’. This campaign aims to get students to re-think the idea that refugees […]

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Leeds City of Sanctuary Open Evening to help volunteers find the right asylum or refugee project for them

Want to know how you can volunteer with refugees/asylum seekers in Leeds ? Want to know what opportunities are out there? Then our Volunteer Information Session is for you! Monday 26th February, 6-7pm Oak House, Park Lane, Leeds. LS3 1EL Our session is to help people: Find out about organisations supporting refuge and asylum in Leeds […]

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Women of Palestine – the Ongoing Nakba (catastrophe)

The largest and longest-standing group of refugees in the world are Palestinians. We invite any Leeds refugee/asylum seeker groups who would like a stall or to provide literature to display at this International Women’s Day event  to get in touch. Please help to promote the event which is open to all.

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Talk by the authors of ‘ The Good Immigrant’

Nikesh Shukla, Kieran Yates, and Inua Ellams are three contributors to The Good Immigrant, the award-winning, bestselling essay collection featuring emerging British black, Asian and minority ethnic writers, poets, journalists and artists. In their essays about race and immigration, they paint a picture of what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that wants you, doesn’t […]

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