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Throughout the regions, Refugee Action works to improve access to mainstream services and enhance opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers, giving them more knowledge of the UK, more choice and more independence.
Some projects are aimed at particularly vulnerable refugee groups such as women or young people. Our innovative projects serve as pilots for wider dissemination to agencies throughout the voluntary, statutory and private sectors.
Current projects nationally and regionally
BASIS
Refugee Action and Refugee Council are working on a five year project to strengthen refugee community organisations' sustainability, fundraising and ability to deliver services.
Gateway Protection Programme
Assists refugees who arrive in the UK under the global UNHCR Resettlement Programme to build new lives in the Greater Manchester area by providing information, advice and support.
Training
We offer training for organisations across Greater Manchester to promote the provision of high quality services to asylum seekers and refugees.
Wellbeing Project
Reducing isolation and empowering asylum seekers and refugees through arts and sports.
Salford Migrants Project
Working with the community to promote integration and prevent harassment of asylum seekers and refugees.
Volunteering Greater Manchester
Matching employers' needs and refugees' skills in this unique volunteering scheme.
TRIO Policy and Information Network
Supporting organisations dealing with refugees and asylum seekers to play a more important role in influencing policies concerning those groups both at regional and local level.
milestone projects
Refugee Awareness Project
This project was ground-breaking in its style of communicating and raising awareness among communities to make people better informed and neighbourhoods more welcoming for refugees and asylum seekers.
The RAP website is full of useful information, despite the project coming to a close at the end of 2008.
Marketing Project
This project helped refugee community organisations raise funds, improve their services and promote a positive image of refugees in the UK.
Vietnamese Oral History
A flagship project based on more than 100 interviews with people from different ages and backgrounds who came here from Vietnam.
Peer Mentoring Project
Liverpool-based project helping isolated young people settle into life in the city. (Ended May 2007)
Family Support Project
The Family Support Project works in Nottingham and Liverpool to provide support to vulnerable asylum seeker and refugee families.
Youth and Community
This project addressed the needs of young people seeking asylum in Liverpool.
Arts and Culture Project
Raising awareness of refugee arts and culture and building local and regional relationships between refugees, asylum seekers and the local community. The project also seeks to develop an infrastructure to support refugees, asylum seekers and culture initiatives. (Ended March 2008)
The Arts and Culture produced a variety of useful materials for refugee community organisations and organisations working with them on arts projects. Go to our Publications page.
Time Together
Mentoring scheme offering help and friendship to vulnerable refugees in Manchester and Leicester.
Women's Development Project
Providing female-only drop-in centres for refugees and asylum seekers in the East Midlands.
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