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Leeds has a fair number of projects trying to assist refugees to build the skills and confidence to find work in the UK. Aside from the many many orgs offering volunteering opportunities to refugees, RETAS and Connecting Opportunities (and many others) are trying to offer a hand up into employment. Even Business in the Community […]

Emma from Meeting Point writes   Our Women’s Group and English classes will close over the festive period but we will be running a drop-in 1.30-4.00pm on Monday 24th and Monday 31st December.    This will be a reduced drop-in mainly focussed on providing food provision and a warm, friendly social space for refugees and asylum […]

Every once in a while you come across a brilliantly curated list of websites and links.  NATECLA is the National Association for Teaching English and Community Languages to Adults, and their list of online ESOL resources is even better than the list of resources for ESOL tutors curated by LASSN (and that’s quite a feat) See […]

Leeds Unity Centre have put together an explanation of the detention process and what happens next: https://leedsunitycentre.net/worried-about-being-detained/ Detention Action have a freephone number 0800 587 2096 where you can get help http://detentionaction.org.uk/ Right to remain have developed an excellent action plan for what to do if someone is detained https://righttoremain.org.uk/toolkit/detention/ AVID http://www.aviddetention.org.uk  may be able to help you […]

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 […]