Ok, so it’s not a blog, but once a month the BME Hub at Voluntary Action Leeds do an excellent roundup of things they’ve come across. This is the kind of content they included on November’s edition Leeds Refugee Forum Seeks Trustees Experiences of Mental Health Crisis Services for BME People Support for New Migrants […]
Leeds Migration Partnership – Strategy Group Minutes
On Wednesday 22nd November the first of the Leeds Migration Partnership – Strategy Group meetings took place at Oak House. A focus for the meeting was to start to develop priorities for the group – please see the minutes provided
Migrant Access Project Plus seeking volunteers in Beeston, Holbeck, Armley and New Wortley
Do you work with people who would like to get involved in the local community, share their experience with others and help make a real difference? MAP+ is an exciting new project in Beeston, Holbeck, Armley and New Wortley which brings communities together through volunteering opportunities and weekly get-togethers to support each other, help people […]
5000 Mile Book Launch – sorry we posted this late
This arrived a little bit late – but we thought you’d like to know about it. The 5000 mile book launch took place on Wednesday, 29th of November at Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax 11-12.30. The book is about 2 boys from Afghanistan- who walked alone at 13 from Afghanistan over several months, via many […]
English Conversational Classes at Leeds Beckett Mondays 10-12
Leeds Beckett Students’ Union volunteers are now running a free English conversational class every Monday 10am-12 in the Students’ Union Living room, City campus. The classes are open to anyone, but are especially put on for Refugees and Asylum seekers. Children are welcome and there are play work volunteers helping to run the class. We are […]
Guest Blog: Forum Central
A few years ago, there used to be loads of umbrella organisations for orgs working in health and social care in Leeds. Each of them represented a different area of work – mental health, learning disabilities, physical and sensory impairments, older people etc. A while ago they merged under a single banner of “Forum Central” […]
What do we post about on the LMP Blog and which are the most popular?
We’ve done a quick analysis of the top 50 posts, and here are the results:
Meeting space at Oak House
Rent rooms at Oak House from Refugee Council. For more info contact Fleur or Richard on 0113 2449404 Prices compare very favourably with St George’s, Leeds Church Institute and VAL
Resource of the week #2: Loads of things for teachers and schools
A treasure trove of resources, collated by the British Council to help schools prepare for asylum seeking and refugee children, as well as resources for running lessons. The list is a couple of years old now, but all the links still work, and there’s some really good stuff in here. A guide to good practice […]
Social prescribing services in Leeds
Social prescribing is a way of connecting people with health difficulties to community activities which may help them. There are three orgs doing this in Leeds, covering different areas of Leeds North CCG – run by Community Links South and East CCG- run by Touchstone West CCG – run by BARCA
Leeds Migration Partnership – Operations Group Ideas
If there’s particular things you’d like to see discussed at the Operations Group please write them here Loading…
Become a member of an NHS Trust, and get your voice heard
At today’s LMP Ops group we discussed ways of influencing local NHS Healthcare providers. NHS Trusts are supposed to consult, draw inspiration from and seek support from their members. Why not put this to the test, and become a member of your local NHS Trust? Leeds Community Healthcare Trust Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust Leeds […]