*How could your community welcome Asylum-seekers and refugees? *
Pass a resolution of support for City of Sanctuary.
Display one of our "We welcome asylum-seekers and refugees" signs outside your building or office.
Invite a refugee or sanctuary-seeker to speak to your community about their experiences.
Publicise City of Sanctuary, Refugee Week and other refugee events within your community.
Publicise opportunities for voluntary work with sanctuary-seekers and refugees.
Invite refugee groups to your community social events.
Offer befriending or advocacy to sanctuary-seekers in your area.
Offer meeting or worship space to a refugee community group.
Raise funds for Cultures United, KRAFT, Women Centre or other refugee charities.
Provide short or longer-term accommodation to homeless asylum-seekers by offering a spare room, or by contributing to the rent for a house.
Offer volunteer placements for suitably skilled sanctuary-seekers or refugees with your organisation. Consider appointing refugees to positions of responsibility in your community.
These are just a few suggestions of ways that community groups can involve refugees and asylum-seekers in your activities. For more information, contacts with relevant organisations and support with putting these or other ideas into practice please. contact us at coskirklees@googlemail.com
Volunteering opportunities
*KRAFT* (Kirklees Refugees And Friends Together) is a project which supports asylum-seekers and refugees in the Huddersfield area, and would welcome new volunteers… KRAFT offers support to refugees and asylum seekers in the following areas: welfare and legal advice, mentoring and befriending, welcoming service, practical services (clothing etc), education and training guidance, social activities and cultural activities. Open: Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm. Please note Fridays are by appointment only. Website: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/ KRAFT, St Thomas’s Community Centre, Manchester Road, Longroyd Bridge Huddersfield HD1 3HU Tel: 01484 429695 Fax: 01484 429635 Email: pambye_5@hotmail.com
*Women in Exile* specialist support service for women asylum seekers and refugees, including support for children. Website: http://www.womencentre.org.uk/women_in_exile.php Contact: 01484 450 866 or email kate.smith@womenspace.org.uk.
Cultures United in Kirklees A centre which is shared by people from small ethnic communities. It also acts an information point for people from those communities. Cultures United in Kirklees, 2nd Floor, St Patrick’s Centre, 2 Trinity Street, Huddersfield HD1 4DA Tel: 01484 559191The Welcome Centre – emergency food parcels Telephone: 01484 340034 or 421461 Huddersfield Methodist Mission, 3-13 Lord Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1QA
Kirklees Asylum Support Service Help and support for those seeking asylum. We try to house people with others from their country, help them register with a doctor, find schools for their children, and access local amenities. Asylum Support Service, 19 Clare Hill, Huddersfield HD1 5BS Tel: 01484 223443 Email: asylum.support@kirklees.gov.uk website: www.kirklees.gov.uk/asylum
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