📅 Thursdays | ☕ Coffee & Conversation | 💬 Empowerment & Connection Join us this Thursday for a Coffee Morning celebrating women’s voices, strength, and stories. 📍 Venue: MEMEC. Onward House, Millshaw Park Way, Beeston, LS11 0LS 🕘 Time: 11:00 – 12:30 💬 “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” – […]
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Thrive at Work – Workforce Wellbeing Support
Thrive at Work in Leeds (running from April 2025 – March 2026) is a government funded programme for anyone employed in a Leeds health and social care organisation. The key objectives for the programme are preventing employees going off work due to ill health and supporting quicker returns to work for people who are already […]
Free Energy Adviser/Green Doctor sessions from Groundwork
We ( Green Doctor’s) have recently secured funding to offer FREE Energy Advice and Guidance to those communities in Yorkshire. Groundwork’s Green Doctors help UK Residents Stay Warm, Stay Well and Save Money on household bills.
Breathe Easy Homes Service – access advice, support and equipment to reduce asthma triggers in your home.
The Breathe Easy Homes service addresses issues with indoor air quality in the home, which can trigger attacks for children who have a diagnosis of asthma or other respiratory conditions e.g. viral wheeze. Housing / indoor air quality factors include cold, damp, mould, condensation and allergens such as dust mites and pet dander. A referral […]
‘Naya Rhythm’ Indian Dance Fitness Group for Women Seeking Asylum and Refugees, starting Friday 2nd May 2025
Women’s Health Matters have received Sport England funding to deliver a new Indian dance fitness group. This is a 6 month project for women seeking asylum and refugees who want to improve their fitness and overall wellbeing. Sessions will be delivered by a professional Indian dance facilitator, Minoti Parikh. They will learn ‘Bharatanatyam’, a dance […]
📢 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, […]
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.
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 […]
Updated list of activities happening in Hotels – 22nd Jan 2025
The list of Hotel activities has been updated. Following a check with Mears the information remains up to date with additional info on the Bevan Health Events for 2025 and contact details for Lynne at York Street/Bevan Health. You can find this info on the LMP Confidential page. If you want access to this document (or […]
Leeds City Council City of Sanctuary Draft Award Application
Leeds City Council are pleased to update the Leeds Migration Partnership on the progress towards becoming an awarded Local Authority Network of sanctuary. As a council we recognise there is work to do, our application demonstrates our commitment to the ongoing work to meet the needs of people seeking sanctuary in Leeds. As part of […]
OISC becomes IAA this week (16th January 2025)
In case you missed it, From 16 January 2025, the new name for the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) will be the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA). For more info, this article on Free Movement tells you everything you need to know (or at least what’s known so far).
Support for refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants in Leeds over Christmas 2024 (last updated 13th Dec 2024)
By Jon from LASSN on 11th December 2024 in Destitution & Housing, Health, LMP, Resource, Safety & Inclusion, Services
Telephone support Migrant Help telephone advice and guidance for asylum support and repairs issues is now open 24/7 – 0808 8010 503 To report a problem to Migrant Help/Mears, check the email address list. Also, check (what Migrant Help can and cannot help with) Refugee Council’s Telephone infoline – 0808 196 7272 is open Monday and Thursday between […]