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NW migration heritage
14 December 2021Global Link leading new project on NW migration heritage We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the... -
Learning from the Past Exhibition to open at last at Lancaster City Museum!
4 May 2021Learning from the Past Exhibition to open at last at Lancaster City Museum! We are excited to announce that, following... -
Global Link has embarked on a digital design process, as part of the CATALYST National Lottery Funded programme
10 March 2021This month Global Link has embarked on a digital design process, as part of the CATALYST National Lottery Funded programme,... -
Launch of Learning from the Past online exhibition!
8 March 2021Launch of Learning from the Past online exhibition! We were excited to launch our online Learning from the Past exhibition... -
Learning from the Past peace heritage exhibition
25 January 2021Learning from the Past peace heritage exhibition The ongoing Covid crisis means that our final Erasmus+ project exhibition at Lancaster... -
New Learning from the Past films
17 December 2020New Learning from the Past films LFTP partner, Mi-Gen, has created two short films about Global Link’s Erasmus+ peace heritage... -
Escape to Safety soundtrack
11 December 2020Escape to Safety soundtrack We have completed our latest Escape to Safety soundtrack which you can listen to here, without the experience of... -
Lancaster’s First Online Refugee Week Celebration
7 July 2020Lancaster’s First Online Refugee Week Celebration This year, because of the lockdown, Global Link hosted a celebration of Refugee Week... -
Refugee Week Celebration Event
12 June 2020Refugee Week Celebration Event Refugee Week is celebrated each year in the UK in the third week of June. It... -
Coronavirus (COVID-19): get support if you’re a migrant living in the UK
29 April 2020Coronavirus (COVID-19): get support if you’re a migrant living in the UK For information, the government has just posted a... -
Global Link update
22 March 2020Global Link update Because of Coronavirus most support services, including education, English, advice and information, and Lunch Drop-ins and meetings... -
Sharing Learning from the Past with Youth in Europe
30 January 2020Sharing Learning from the Past with Youth in Europe The Learning from the Past (LFTP) team is delighted to announce... -
launch the new website RefugeeHome created BY refugees, ABOUT refugees and FOR refugees
25 December 2019launch the new website RefugeeHome created BY refugees, ABOUT refugees, and FOR refugees. We are delighted to launch the new... -
UK launch of the European ‘Learning from the Past’ map
25 October 2019UK launch of the European ‘Learning from the Past’ map Global Link has officially launched our new online community map...
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🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 Lots of events in Lancaster this Refugee Week #RefugeeWeek
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A great day out in Silverdale with our Blue Influencers youth group (and parents), with a windy but dry walk along the coast gathering beautiful
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Great day with the environmental youth group at Claver Hill, learning about drought, and impact of lack of water on food growing. Also learnt about
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Our clothing stocks are depleting, so we would very much welcome donations of MEN only clothing and shoes, particularly for young men. Please drop them
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A busy day with Rekar cutting hair for almost 6 hours, a fabulous Rohinga lunch, a lively presentation on sexual consent, then an art workshop
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been
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Tomorrow (staffed between 10-4pm, but open after that if you bring your own headphones and phone) is the last chance to experience the E2S exhibition
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The end of our second successful art workshop today
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If the Government lifted the ban on asylum seekers working (in any profession), so many of the asylum system's problems could be solved, including reducing
Work ban forcing 10% of UK female asylum seekers into sex work
Research also finds many trapped in abusive relationships and unable to afford sanitary products and other basics
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Successful launch of the Escape to Safety exhibition at Lancaster University Library today, with our colleague describing his resettlement in the UK (previously having been
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We are delighted that Global Link has been awarded a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to research and celebrate the heritage of Carnforth
