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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tomorrow!
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🧡🧡🧡 Celebrated our asylum seeker and refugee volunteers today at a special Refugee Week lunch made with beans, cabbage, onions and herbs grown at Claver
Refugee Week 2025: Community As a Superpower
Join us for Refugee Week, 16–22 June 2025, and together let’s unleash the superpower of community.Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival...
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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