ABOUT GLOBAL LINK

We are a Development Education Centre (DEC) based in Lancaster, UK.We run workshops, exhibitions, training and other events in schools, colleges and the wider community on global citizenship issues such as diversity, human rights, migration, fairtrade, climate change and sustainable development.We also provide a range of support services and integration activities for refugees and asylum seekers.

“CREATIVE LEARNING AND ACTION FOR A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD”

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1 day 11 hours ago

A glorious afternoon for our Blue Influencers exploring the Heysham coastline, rockpooling, using a quadrant to measure species numbers, creating sand sculptures, eating a picnic

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3 days 12 hours ago

A busy week already with our Afghan volunteer at Our Lady's High School yesterday sharing his experiences of the Taliban who killed 1000 other Afghan

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1 week 12 hours ago

We’ve had a really interesting day at the Morecambe Bay curriculum conference at Lancaster University. It’s been great to speak to teachers about our work

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1 week 2 days ago

We had a great morning at Lancashire Archives and Local History Archives with our Carnforth Library project volunteers, learning more about the collections held at

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1 week 4 days ago

Great to meet Lizzie Collinge MP today with two of our volunteers - asylum seekers who want to work but are not allowed to. We

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1 week 4 days ago

It was a privilege today for Global Link staff to attend the funeral of Bernard Deeks, our former volunteer of many years’ standing. Bernard was

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2 weeks 1 day ago

A good planning session with our Blue Influencer group and our new environmental youth worker, Laura Roper. We also decorated these plastic milk bottles to

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2 weeks 2 days ago

Another day with Escape to Safety at Lancaster & Morecambe College, today celebrating the College's College of Sanctuary Award. Here again tomorrow, then on Saturday

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2 weeks 4 days ago

Colleagues ran myth busting workshops at Cardinal Newman College today, with Ahmad sharing his story of being an Officer in the British Army in Afghanistan

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2 weeks 5 days ago

Thank you to our volunteers for another great (although really wet!) session. We watered the polytunnel, weeded the beds, planted more pumpkins and peas and

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2 weeks 6 days ago

Our busiest Refugee Week ended yesterday with an assembly at Cathedral Primary School and the launch of the exhibition of paintings produced in Somayeh and

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3 weeks 13 hours ago

We’ve had a great final day on our Migration Stories Carnforth project, working with children from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School. We met

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3 weeks 1 day ago

A good day for Escape to Safety at Lancaster Town Hall for Refugee Week with about 70 visitors followed by a public event in the

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3 weeks 2 days ago

We’ve had a fantastic first workshop on our Carnforth Library heritage project. What a great group of volunteers, all buzzing with ideas for our research!

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3 weeks 2 days ago

Tomorrow!

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3 weeks 3 days ago

🧡🧡🧡 Celebrated our asylum seeker and refugee volunteers today at a special Refugee Week lunch made with beans, cabbage, onions and herbs grown at Claver

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3 weeks 4 days ago

🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 Lots of events in Lancaster this Refugee Week #RefugeeWeek

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3 weeks 4 days ago

Thank you to everyone for joining yesterday, we got out tomatoes plants watered and pruned (that are getting huge!), sowed some more seeds, cleared the

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4 weeks 8 hours ago

A wonderful Refugee Week party and last Global Dance Party for a while. Games, laughter, music, dancing and food from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Syria

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4 weeks 12 hours ago

We’ve had an amazing week working with Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School in Carnforth on our Migration Stories Carnforth project, funded by the

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4 weeks 1 day ago

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4 weeks 1 day ago

Great to be promoting Global Link’s heritage projects as part of today’s Lancaster Day events. Come and see us in the Education Room at the

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1 month 1 day ago

A particularly busy lunch today with over 50 people, some new arrivals, many interested to learn about the role of the monarchy in the UK.

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1 month 2 days ago

Delighted that our brilliant refugee support worker, Ahmad, could meet the King today. Ahmad is himself a refugee from Afghanistan where he was an officer

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1 month 4 days ago

A new community heritage project is looking for volunteers interested in researching and celebrating the heritage of Carnforth Library as it reaches its 90th anniversary

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1 month 4 days ago

Last chance today to see this very powerful exhibition 'Expats' (next to the cafe) about migrants and refugees in Tunisia, a country we hear less

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1 month 4 days ago

Each year, about 25 - 30 asylum seekers and refugees volunteer for Global Link as cooks, gardeners, barbers, building decorators, SMART technology engineers, Escape to

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1 month 5 days ago

Great to see the Migration Stories NW pop-up exhibition in Carnforth Library to mark this year’s Refugee Week. Check it out if you’re in the

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1 month 6 days ago

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1 month 1 week ago

Another busy day with a pre-entry English class, 11 haircuts (thank you Rekar), a tasty Syrian meal (thank you Diia), a Maths class taught by

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1 month 1 week ago

Newcastle United has officially been presented with the Football Club of Sanctuary award! This is in recognition of Newcastle United's commitment and dedication to support