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via Pascale at Refugee Action Please spread the word and promote this campaign. Loads of amazing organisations have come together to support Lifting the Ban to work for asylum seekers. See below for links to articles and videos and remember to sign the petition: https://refugee-action.org.uk/addyourvoice.  Right now, right here in the UK, people seeking asylum are banned […]

Nick Hutton, and Darren Mirefield are the new Cycling Development Officers at BikeRight! which is providing the CityConnect Cycles Project. The CityConnect Cycles Project offer amazing free cycle training and bike maintenance courses offer. CityConnect Cycles Offer: Free cycle training and maintenance courses, for anyone 16+, from beginner too advanced including route planning and journey accompaniment, […]

Have you got something to shout about? If you do, please let the LMP membership know about it. We get a lot of jobs advertised on LMP blog, but very few press releases concerning new developments, or things we should look out for. It could be anything – a refresh of your website, 5 years […]

We are looking to recruit a new member for our England Committee and we are holding open events to create an opportunity to talk openly and informally about the role and provide an overview of the Big Lottery Fund and the work of the England Committee. To deliver on our ambition to be a diverse […]

This is an opinion piece written by Jon Beech from Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network, who also moderates the LMP website. In case it’s not clear, Leeds Migration Partnership are not endorsing a particular app.   TL;DR If you’re using Whatsapp for work, you’re probably breaking the law and you need to find an alternative. […]

If your group or org ever struggles to find the money to do what it does – be sure to look at  http://www.idoxopen4community.co.uk/lcc No – it’s not the most catchy web address, but you can bookmark it. You can also do quite whizzy things with the site, like set up automatic reminders based on topics […]

The immigration statistics for the second quarter, April to June, of 2018 (Q2) have been released today. Key asylum figures are below and you can find the data tables here.  Applications:  In Q2 of 2018 there were 6,584 asylum applications, compared to 6,713 om Q1. In the last year (2017 Q3 – 2018 Q2) there were […]

Stolen from from the latest briefing by AsylumMatters: Local Authority leaders from Yorkshire and Humberside wrote a joint letter to Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, warning that the current procurement process for the new asylum accommodation contracts risks “catastrophic failure” after it was revealed over the summer that there were no successful bids for the contract […]

As we’ve previously reported Leeds was successful in a bid to the Controlling Migration Fund at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to develop a city ESOL strategy and an English learning through activity community grants programme. Communities Team of Leeds City Council have recently recruited successful candidates to lead this area of […]

You may remember the Workshop held on June 6th to discuss NHS Overseas Visitors Charging Regulations. Since then LMP have posted a revised briefing on charging from Asylum Matters.  Here’s the write-up of the event from our colleagues at Public Health in Leeds:  “By way of an update, in line with the feedback from the day, we […]