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We work with lots of other organisations to improve access to services for asylum seekers and refugees, to help understand refugees’ experiences, plan how to be more accessible and to help communities and organisations live and work more easily and happily together with refugees.

Our partnership developments are based on the principles of:

  • prioritising those things which refugees tell us they need
  • not doing what refugee groups can do for themselves
  • using practical, outcome based ideas which have been proven to work
  • the needs and experiences of wider communities

 

Some of our partnerships

Somali Advice Project

is led and managed by St Paul’s Advice Centre in Bristol. The Project has trained 3 paid Somali advice workers, as well as a number of Somali volunteers, supporting them in delivering professional advice in Somali. The Project aims to:

  • increase the availability of first language advice
  • improve understanding amongst the Somali communities of the values of professional advice
  • increase understanding and accessibility amongst mainstream advice service providers

Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS), The Harbour Project, Swindon, Swindon Citizens’ Advice Bureau

are all partners in our Refugee Integration & Employment Service. We sought to work with these sub-contracted partners to deliver RIES services in Gloucester and Swindon, due to their long term commitment to and respect for asylum seekers and refugees, and their high standards of service and inclusion.

Refugee Awareness Project (RAP)

The RAP project ran in Bristol from 2005 to 2008. We are aiming to continue the work (whilst we look for more funding to run it again!) by

  • maintaining up to date facts and statistics
  • continuing to provide interactive talks and presentations
  • making our library of RAP resources available to download and use in your school, workplace, community group and on the bus

Visit the RAP website and download comprehensive facts, figures, resources and unbelievable truths about asylum seekers in the UK today.