UPDATES

24 June 2022

We are proud to release our Refugee Week Newsletter for 2022. Keep updated with everything that’s going on in all our projects and where your donations are going.

07 May 2022

We are very excited to announce a new Community Interpreting Training starting at the end of this month! The training is free to trainees and will help you, whether you’re looking to get into training as a career or just want to make sure you’re doing the best you can for friends and families.

If you’re interested please sign up here.

March 2022

The Real Resettlement project is up and running. We have trained 9 amazing volunteers to work with refugees coming to the UK. They will work with people coming from Egypt to help them prepare for their journey to the UK. Thanks to our partners at St Andrew’s Refugee Services,

20th October 2021

Our Community Interpreting training started on Tuesday evening with nineteen new trainees. Very excited to be working with our colleagues from Voices in Refugee on this project, and to increase the range of projects we are offering.

18th October 2021

Our first face-to-face board meeting for eighteen months!

18th July 2021

Our wonderful trustee Wafa is in the news! Project in Bristol helps Muslim women take up swimming - BBC News

5th May 2021

We are delighted to announce that our partner organisations St Andrew’s Refugee Service has just been announced as one of the five organisations that has been awarded a share of $24,000,000 as the Iconique Larsen Lam prize, for their ground-breaking work with Refugee Community Organisations in Cairo, Egypt. See the full story below.

Larsen Lam ICONIQ Impact Award Grants Over $24M to Five Non-Profit Organizations to Create Long-Term Transformational Change for Refugees | Business Wire

 

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