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Leeds author, Jennie Cole showed her support for asylum seekers and refugees by donating copies of her new books to Leeds Asylum Seeker Support Network (LASSN). Jennie, and the stars of the books, visited the LASSN office to make their donation and find out more about the charity. LASSN’s English
The final production in the Quarry Theatre at West Yorkshire Playhouse before it undergoes a multi-million re-modelling features the people of Leeds. Searching for the Heart of Leeds is written by Mark Catley based on interviews with over 200 Loiners and is performed by a cast of community actors drawn
RETAS is pleased to have received funding from the Leeds Community Foundation for the expansion of our Welcome to Leeds Drop-in services, which helps to facilitate the settlement of refugees and asylum seekers who have recently moved into the area. In order to reach out to a greater number of
On Wednesday 25 January, four students from Year 6 in Park View Primary Academy helped refugees of Iraq by sending Clothes, Bed, sheets, shoes nappies and other items that will keep them warm. The Vice Principal, Mrs Annable, took the four children to the Holy Spirit Church, Beeston Hill to
Last summer, I discussed the idea of heading to Calais as a volunteer with my mum. It was around the time where Aylan Kurdi monopolised the headlines; this was an inescapable crisis. But then, life got in the way. There was work to do, rent to pay, and friends to
Earlier this summer we saw that shocking photograph of Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach. This small and precious child had his whole life before him when his desperate family – victims of a civil war that is raging through Syria – stepped into a boat. They had
The refugee crisis continues and public opinion seems to swing one way and then another. Throughout the year people have been drowning in the Mediterranean. Sometimes it gets in the news sometimes it’s ignored. Katie Hopkins was able to get away with saying she “Didn’t care if migrants drowned”, then