Fresh Challenges: new ideas – ESOL, Learning and Change

3^rd March 2012

Venue: Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield

Guest Speakers Include: Phil Bird (Barking & Dagenham College), Mike Harrison (Bromley College) & Caroleen La Pierre (Kirklees College).

* Phil and Mike are ESOL tutors with a keen interest in technology and differentiation. They are currently working on the British Council Nexus project and undertaking the DELTA programme. Caroleen is a Literacy and ESOL specialist.

There will be an exhibition of publishers, examination boards, and books for purchase.

http://www.natecla.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_3325.doc

To book your place please contact: [email protected] by 17th February (for catering)

City of Sanctuary Glasgow world ceilidh

16 December 2011

An event focused on building a culture of hospitality for people seeking sanctuary.

* Friday 16 December 2011, 12-4pm

* Garnethill Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RE

Includes:

* Discussion groups

* Storytelling

* Food

* Music

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For more information, email: [email protected] (mailto: [email protected]).

SISO/Refuge National Mental Health Charity Event

National Mental Health Competition

FREE downloads ! FREE Listens !

Come and enjoy all the work online at http://refugemusic.co.uk/competition

On World Mental Health Day 2011 (10th October) Refuge Launch the brand new Charity Mental Health EP ‘Open Minds’ Made up of talented work from all over the country.

Join Leicester BBC presenter and comic Jim Smallman and Steve Huison of ‘The Full Monty’ and Coronation Street in shattering the stigmas around mental health. Fantastic on the night raffle with prizes including a Guitar, Computer, Family tickets to Cadburys World and much much more

£10 adults
£5 Concessions

The Y theatre Leicester
7 East Street
Leicester
LE1 6EY
box office 0116 255 7066

All money raised on the night and through sales of the EP go directly to Charity

Help change views of mental health for the better …

book online through site
http://refugemusic.co.uk/competition

Peter Hirst
SISO Development Worker
Advance Support
5 Faraday Court
Conduit St
LE2 OJN
07734 804 286
www.advancesupport.org.uk
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Women for Refugee Women

Home Sweet Home – Women refugees have left their homelands to try to find safety among strangers.

When they arrive here they struggle to find a home: they may be placed in shared accommodation with strangers, constantly moved from place to place, even left destitute without any means of support.  In the Home Sweet Home project women refugees are exploring what home means to them. They are photographing the streets where they walk, the hostel rooms and friends’ floors where they sleep, the belongings they take from place to place. These images shine a direct and moving light on to what it means to be a refugee in this country.

Read the recent article in the Observer on the Home Sweet Home photography project, with links to more of the photographs.   The Home Sweet Home photography project can be seen at the House of Commons from 12 September 2011, and at the Riverside Studios in London from 18 September 2011.  Press enquiries to [email protected] or 020 7250 1239; enquiries regarding further exhibitions to [email protected]

The Home Sweet Home photography project is produced by Women Asylum Seekers Together London and Women for Refugee Women, with the assistance of Adele Donovan, Hannah Maule-ffinch and Aliya Mirza

Demo against new family detention centre

30 July 2011

A demonstration against the new ‘pre-departure accommodation centre’ for families which is due to open this summer at Pease Pottage.

* Saturday 30 July 2011, 1pm

* Muster Green Park, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 4AG

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Bring banners, instruments and placards.

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Asylum Monologues performance

Time: Friday, December 10 · 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Location: Council House, Coventry – Diamond Room 2, Earl Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

Asylum Monologues is an account of the UK’s asylum system, told first hand by the people who have experienced it.

With personal testimony at its core combined with public opinion, political statements and statistical fact, this production will disseminate what it really means to be displaced in the UK. This project is a collaboration between iceandfire and Actors For Refugees, a new network which aims to use the collective might of UK performers to influence community attitudes toward refugees and asylum seekers and to encourage a humanitarian response to their situation, using Asylum Monologues as their main advocacy tool.

Coinciding with Human Rights Day, Aylum Monologues is being staged in collaboration with Coventry Refugee Centre and NCADC (National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns).

Refreshments from 18:30, programme starts at 19:00.

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Protest against pre-entry English tests

29 November 2010

A demonstration to oppose the introduction of pre-entry English language tests for people coming to the UK on spousal visas.

* Monday 29 November 2010, 1-2pm

* Assemble outside Topshop on Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL

FOOTNOTE

Called by No-One is Illegal ( http://www.noii.org.uk/).

RELATED LINKS

London No Borders (http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/434)
No-One is Illegal ( http://www.noii.org.uk/)

View a map here ( http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SW1E+5JL&sll=51.497123,-0.141739&sspn=0.006118,0.013797&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=London+SW1E+5JL,+United+Kingdom&z=15)

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16 days of action: The rights of asylum-seeking women

26 November 2010

The launch of a postcard campaign to highlight the experiences of women seeking asylum.

* Friday 26 November 2010, 10.30-12pm

* Pearce Institute, Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow G51 3U

Guest speakers include:

* Christina McKelvie MSP

* Anne McLaughlin MSP

* Karibu African Women’s Organisation

The 16 Days Campaign brings local, national, and global attention to the various forms of violence that women face. Govan and Craigton Integration Network is supporting the ‘Every Single Woman’ (http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/charter) campaign from the Women’s Asylum Charter which has been endorsed by over 200 organisations including the Refugee Council (http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/) and Scottish Refugee Council (http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/

RELATED LINKS

Govan and Craigton Integration Network (http://govanintegration.wordpress.com/events-4/)
‘Every Single Woman’ campaign (http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/charter)
Scottish Refugee Council (http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/
Refugee Council (http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/)

Ensuring access to healthcare for vulnerable migrants

24 November 2010

A conference on health inequalities in the UK, with a focus on access to healthcare for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.

* Wednesday 24 November 2010, 1.30-6.30pm

* Red Cross, Bradbury House, 7 Lowe Street, Camp Hill, Birmingham B12 0ER

This event is organised by Doctors of the World (http://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/default.asp) and is being held in conjunction with the HUMA (Health for Undocumented Migrants and Asylum Seekers) network. For more information and a registration form contact Jenny: [email protected] (mailto: [email protected])

Understanding immigration bail and the asylum process

An workshop for all those interested in learning about immigration detention and the asylum process.

* Saturday 2 October 2010, from 11.30am
* Gateshead Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8 1HH

Speakers:

* Adeline Trude – Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID)
* Frances Webber – Institute of Race Relations

Topics include:

* The role of immigration bail
* Where immigration bail meets the criminal justice system
* Supporting asylum seekers in claims and appeals
* Bail and deportation hearings
* Community support in the courtroom

For further information, contact Mark Cookson: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

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