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Migrant Help are committed to keeping stakeholders informed about the transition to the AIRE (Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility) contract to support asylum seekers in the UK. The following website link will take you to the first 3  AIRE newsletter’s (20th June, 4th July, 18th July),  which are produced every fortnight.   These newsletters gives you […]

We just found this excellent Guide to Further Education produced by Children’s Legal Centre 

Many people are concerned about Government Spending: people often express views that too much is spent on one thing and too little on another.  We’ve found a lovely infographic at information is beautiful which tries to show the relative size of government income and expenditure. Although it’s not strictly speaking Leeds or Migration related, we […]

Is this a resource? Sort of. It’s a comic which exemplifies the “Don’t try and persuade people with facts: show them relatable human stories” approach we mentioned in the last week’s resource of the week. You can find an HD version of this comic on their website strategiesforrefugees.com as well as versions in a variety […]

This week WomenCentre launched Applying Women Centred Principles at The Hepworth Wakefield. Here is a link to WomenCentre’s website where the report is available in PDF: https://womencentre.org.uk/connecting-opportunities/applying-women-centred-principles-report/   Further, broader info about women centred working is available here: https://womencentre.org.uk/connecting-opportunities/about-women-centred-working-with-women-migrants/ And finally, here is a link to a recent briefing about women centres and why they […]

A lot of us struggle to understand/explain the complexities of the asylum process. LASSN have produced a 90 second animation that attempts to explain things simply. You’ll need to play it at full screen (it’s in HD so you should be able to read it ok) pause/unpause it by hitting the space bar, but it’s […]

Keeping track of updates on websites can be difficult, especially if the site doesn’t use things like RSS or automatically post changes on Twitter. We’ve recently discovered a lovely website called http://visualping.io which will email you when a website has been /changed updated.  Just select the area you want to keep track of, enter your […]

At RETAS we have developed some resources using a tool called Padlet on which we have been displaying recurring social activities and support groups for signposting refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants. We are trying to expand the use of these and have a number of other organisations now collaborating on this.  Here are […]

We produced a style guide and resource pack for people putting together LMP related communications. It’s pretty basic – but here you are A full set of LMP resources can be found here 

“As a new charity trustee, this guide will help you in your role. It can also be used by existing trustees to refresh knowledge and skills.” We post this in the spirit of the University of Warwick paper of 2017 which asked “Asylum and refugee support: civil society filling the gaps?”   There are a […]