Leeds City of Sanctuary and Help Refugees are hosting 3 meetings for volunteers during August and September who want to support asylum seekers and refugees in Leeds. The purpose of the meetings are to help people Get an overview of all the types of volunteering opportunities there are in Leeds, with organisations working around asylum […]
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Volunteers wanted for Hate speech Project
Leeds have been invited to take part in a ‘ No hate speech project ‘ funded by the DCLG to challenge hate crime on line. In order for the project to commence we need to recruit 20 volunteers across Leeds. Can you spare 1 hour a week? Do you have a basic understanding of hate […]
Free Mental Health First Aid Training for volunteers supporting refugees
This is the first time in Leeds that Mental Health First Aid has been offered to people who specifically volunteer alongside refugees. It’s a fantastic course, and a great way of building skills and confidence to work alongside people in distress Date & Time: Thurs 12 & Fri 13 October, 9 am – 5 pm […]
Asylum seekers, volunteering and the law
via Jon at LASSN Many organisations in Leeds offer volunteering opportunities to asylum seekers and refugees. This throws up a number of different issues, especially around background checks, safeguarding, and what kind of volunteering is permitted for people who are subject to immigration control. Jon Beech from LASSN recently spoke at a VAL event and […]
Refugees Guides Project
‘Tales of a City Tours is a new and exciting project, which aims to promote cross-cultural understanding and community cohesion through the development of cultural walking tours around Leeds, led by refugee guides. Each refugee guide would have the chance to tell stories about their home country, their culture, and their experiences in Leeds, to […]
St Gemma’s Steering Group are looking for BME members
The group has been set up to help St Gemma’s develop their services for all by making sure they provide sensitive information, and making sure the local community are aware of the services that they provide. The group is specifically for volunteers from the BAME community who live in LS7/LS8 and are willing to attend […]
LASSN are looking for English at Home tutors
Find out more about volunteering with LASSN at lassn.org.uk/volunteer
Volunteers wanted: Leeds No Borders
Volunteers needed for the Leeds No Borders signing support project 🙂 All welcome, no experience needed & you can do it from where ever you are. There are a few different roles & you can volunteer for a day or up to a week each month- Signing support phone-need to have phone with you & […]
Safe passage are looking for bilingual volunteeers
Safe Passage are recruiting volunteers with language skills to help support more people to access safe and legal routes to asylum. If you know anyone who may be interested and speaks Pashtu, Dari/Farsi, Tigrinya, Kurdish, Arabic or Somali, as well as English, please refer them to us “Last year, Safe Passage supported over 870 unaccompanied minors to […]