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Explore and Test: RISE – Refugee Integration Support and EngagementBolton Lads and Girls Club
Bolton Lads and Girls Club is one of the largest youth centres in the UK. It plans to trial a new approach to supporting and integrating young refugees, in partnership with local organisations working with refugees/migrants. It aims to better meet the social and emotional needs of young refugees and improve relationships between them and young people who have lived in Bolton all their lives, reducing potential tensions. Learning about the role of youth organisations in supporting the integration of young refugees and migrants will be shared widely in the youth and refugee/migrant sectors.
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Explore and Test: Integration through place-based artsCounterpoints Arts
Counterpoints Arts supports and produces arts by and about refugees and migrants. It aims to ensure that their contributions are recognised and welcomed in the UK. This grant will support Counterpoints Arts to explore, test and evaluate new place-based, arts-led approaches to bringing people together and fostering integration in areas experiencing high levels of inward migration: Blackburn, Halifax, Wakefield, Nottingham and Newcastle.
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Explore and Test: Brexit: Threats and Opportunities for UK Migration PolicyCentre for Global Development (CGD)
Centre for Global Development (CGD) works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community. This grant will support CGD to explore bold, new migration and integration policy options for the UK government in light of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, in consultation with expert stakeholders. These will be presented to government officials and others in positions of influence to inform progressive change in migration and integration policy.
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Explore and Test: Safe Passage – Calais+
Citizens UK Charity
Citizens UK organises communities across the UK to act together on social justice issues. This project is a partnership between Citizens UK, the Migrants’ Law Project at Islington Law Centre and Bhatt Murphy Solicitors, which will support individuals trapped in the Calais Refugee camp and further afield in Europe, who have settled family in the UK to apply for their asylum claims to be heard by the UK.
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Explore and Test: Part-time Co-ordinator
Refugee Youth
This grant will support the role of a part-time coordinator, who will carry out the following functions:
- Strategic planning
- Fundraising and promotional activities
- Human resources activities
- Communications – lead communications with funders and other stakeholders
- Operational & financial activities – oversight of delivery of projects, monitoring and financial reporting.
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Explore and Test: Living better together
brap
brap is an equality and human rights charity, based in Birmingham, which undertakes community engagement, training, research and campaigning. It will explore innovative group facilitation techniques as a way to engage communities experiencing high inward migration more positively in the integration debate. The ‘process work’ method of community dialogue will be used to explore various viewpoints on issues of concern, in particular ‘unheard’ and ‘marginalised’ voices. The aim is to better understand community conflicts, establish meaningful relationships between residents and to inform public sector strategic thinking on migrant integration. Learning will be captured in a guidance document and shared via Birmingham-wide and national events.
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More and Better: Frontline Immigration Advice: Increasing access to immigration advice for migrants.
Refugee Action
Migration Fund £150,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2016The Frontline Immigration Advice Project will offer a tailored capacity development programme for frontline destitution support organisations: enabling them to provide OISC advice. This will expand the number of organisations outside London providing general immigration legal advice, enabling specialists operating at Level 2 & 3 to work more effectively. Building on work that has been operating since December 2015, this project addresses the fragmentation of immigration advice provision. It will link immigration advice providers and refugee and migrant support organisations, to facilitate cross sector collaboration through improved signposting, referral pathways and immigration advice skill development.
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More and Better: Migrant and refugee community organising
Migrants Organise Ltd
Migration Fund £180,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2016Migrants Organise aims to trial its new model of community organising in four regions of the UK. It will identify, train and mentor 100 migrant and refugee leaders in community organising and movement building for social justice. The project will support greater civic engagement by refugees and migrants and meaningful integration in British society, through alliances with other local organisations and institutions working together to take action on issues of mutual concern.
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More and Better: Immigration Advice Capacity Network
Cardinal Hume Centre
The Cardinal Hume Centre enables people to gain the skills they need to overcome poverty and homelessness. The Immigration Advice Capacity Network will build a network of London organisations providing OISC advice, as well as facilitating cross-sector collaboration through improved signposting, referral pathways and immigration advice skill development. Through the network Cardinal Hume Centre will establish a more effective system for immigration casework referrals across the network to ensure those with the most complex cases are able to access specialist advice.
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Explore and Test: Fighting destitution together
Project 17
Project 17, in partnership with Southwark Law Centre, is seeking to test an integrated model of crisis intervention. Together they will offer a combined service to destitute families and children: combining support, advocacy and immigration representation. This is in response to new provisions within the Immigration Act 2016, which is likely to increase demand for Project 17’s services. The partnership with Southwark Law Centre will help them to meet this demand.
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Explore and Test: Integration Parent Champions Pilot
Family and Childcare Trust
The Family and Childcare Trust (FCT) is the leading national charity for policy, research and advocacy on childcare and family issues. FCT will adapt their successful Parent Champions programme to explore whether this model can support children and parents from new migrant communities to integrate. Partnering with The Parent House, a community based organisation in Islington, they will recruit and train a minimum of 10 Integration Champions who will provide peer-to-peer information, advice and support to 400 migrant and refugee families. An external evaluation will be commissioned to capture learning on the integration pathways of each of the parents involved over an 18 month period.
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Explore and Test: Mobilising communities to campaign for community based alternatives to detention
Right to Remain
Right to Remain is a national organisation working to promote and defend the rights of people seeking the right to remain in the UK. This grant will support a pilot project to build local hubs in Greater Manchester and Liverpool, which will develop a diverse and vibrant network of campaigns focused on ending immigration detention and pushing for community based alternatives. These campaigns will be migrant led, inter-linked and decentralised. Each local hub will maintain its own identity, membership and ownership with Right to Remain acting as an anchor organisation providing resources and support.