“Leeds City Free Room is an open environment where conversation, discussion, debate and collaboration is nurtured and celebrated. The space can display creative outputs of our creative city communities. In the spirit of being open and collaborative, we are inviting interesting people to share our space and to make it their own. The Leeds City […]
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Conversation Club’s new website!
Conversation Club Leeds – we are proud to share our new website – please click on the picture below or go to ccleeds.com (or cc-leeds.org.uk) We hope it shows you what we do. Please feel free to contact us with any comments you may have: https://ccleeds.com/about-us/contact-us/
Numbers of people seeking asylum and resettled refugees living in Leeds
If you haven’t noticed already – the excellent Migration Map produced by (Migration Yorkshire) has a new Dashboard feature, enabling you to see numbers of people at a glance. Here’s Qamran – the guy who made this map – talking you through how to use the one on Asylum Seekers receiving s95 support. Here are […]
Migration Yorkshire: Making connections, building resilience: the new Refugee integration strategy for Yorkshire and Humber
Migration Yorkshire has launched a brand new refugee integration strategy that aims to help different sectors and organisations from across the whole community to work together to eliminate barriers to integration, and improve the lives of refugees and asylum seekers living in the region. The strategy has a clear vision, which is supported by a […]
Responding to the Ukraine Crisis – What can you do?
words by Jon at LASSN The UK Govt position on how Ukrainian people can find safety in the UK is rather confused. As we wait for clarity, here are some resources, produced by other people If you want to find out about local fundraising and collections – especially those led by people affected by the […]
Get Set Leeds Opportunities – new sports & resource sessions
via Alex at Migration Yorkshire
Resource of the Week: Leeds Libraries
Brilliant resource shared by Katy from PATH Yorkshire Visiting the library can be a good way to meet different people, develop skills and practise English. Today on a visit we learned about what we can do… Register to get a free library card number, and you can practise listening skills, with audiobooks to download or […]
Support to Asylum Seekers, Refugees and other Migrants over Christmas 2021
This amazing resource has been compiled and updated with the help of Jennifer Jennings at Leeds City Council. A massive thank you from everyone at LMP, Jenny. If you spot anything that isn’t right or that’s missing, please email [email protected] and we’ll do our best to update things. Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Telephone support […]
Changes to Migrant Help Emails – December 2021
Please be sure to look at/download the documents at the end of this post – which contain this info in printer-friendly formats – suitable for pinning to notice-boards etc ;o) As of 1st December 2021 Migrant Help will use the following inboxes to deal with incoming queries from service users and third party agencies. These […]
Resources for Afghan Refugees, from Refugee Action
Refugee Action have been quietly compiling a list of resources to help improve the support offered to Afghan Refugees. From Doctors of the World to the DWP, to translated guides on family reunion – there’s loads to go at here. if you know of anyone working alongside Afghan refugees – please make sure they are […]
Resource of the week – starting Co-production in small charities
via the Homeless Charter folks
Resource of the week: City of Sanctuary’s Guidance for organisations inviting refugees as speakers
Many of our orgs are approached by people wanting to hear refugees or asylum seekers to talk about their experiences. Please see and share this guidance which was developed in consultation with the [City of] Sanctuary Ambassador network to ensure that invitations for people with lived experience to speak are positive and constructive experiences for all those […]