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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2 days 8 hours ago

We had a very busy Tuesday today with casework, english, math class and our Tuesday lunch drop in. Travel documents, housing, bank accounts, health advocacy,

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1 week 3 days ago

We had a fantastic time last week with our group and Lancashire Youth Challenge at the farm visit. We foraged for berries, made an amazing

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2 weeks 5 days ago

After dodging the morning rain we had a lovely, if rather windy, day at Easedale Tarn with intrepid very cold swimming and high mountain climbing.

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3 weeks 7 hours ago

While Ahmad was caseworking and Eleanor was taking a group of learners to University of Cumbria: Education Library, the Blue Influencers young people's group were

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3 weeks 1 day ago

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3 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks to local therapist Ruth Quinn for an engaging workshop on getting better sleep today, sleep being in short supply for so many of our

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3 weeks 6 days ago

And the decorating and maintenance never ends....! Thanks to our valiant volunteers for a productive day 🙂

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3 weeks 6 days ago

Thank you so much to Lancashire Youth Challenge for providing such fun, engaging personal and team development activities for our under 25s this summer.

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4 weeks 10 hours ago

Hello everyone, a buggy has been donated now,bthank you!

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4 weeks 1 day ago

A glorious day at Crummock Water with our Blue Influencer youth group, observing and listening to, and drawing, the lake, catching minnows, collecting stones, creating

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1 month 1 day ago

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1 month 3 days ago

Fantastic funny and heartwarming Dukes Theatre play in the park this year...the Wizard of Oz!

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1 month 4 days ago

More wonderful news to share...many of you know Mengistu, and some contributed to the costs of family reunion visas for his wife and 3 boys

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1 month 1 week ago

Even the rain did not deter the footballers....! Nor the absence of our treasured Syrian colleague who organise the football. He is visiting his home

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1 month 1 week ago

Great day at Buttermere, with a delicious meal, a walk and a glorious swim! A long rather scary drive, but worth it. 'Out of words',

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1 month 1 week ago

Inspiring workshop this week with Lancaster University historian, Corinna Peniston-Bird, as part of our National Lottery Heritage Fund project at Carnforth Library. Corinna explored with

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1 month 1 week ago

A joyous celebration with this mum and daughter who have won their asylum case on appeal after 6 long years. What a long journey to

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1 month 2 weeks 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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1 month 2 weeks 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 month 3 weeks 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 month 3 weeks 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 month 4 weeks 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 month 4 weeks 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 months 2 days 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 months 3 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 months 5 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 months 6 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 months 1 week 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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2 months 1 week 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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2 months 1 week 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