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Alternatively, you can visit the Local Resources in the North West page to download the directory entries spreadsheet.

British Red Cross- Refugee Support

British Red Cross Refugee Support, Liverpool City Region, helps people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants on various issues including adjusting to life in a new country through casework support. The session offers the opportunity for people to meet new people and chat over hot drinks and snacks. People can be helped with the following:
  • Healthcare access and advice
  • English lessons information
  • Advice on community integration activities
  • Information and advice on the asylum process
  • Information on legal support
  • Move-on support
  • Family reunion
  • Family tracing
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Asylum Link Merseyside

We offer:
  • Advocacy and advice across a broad area and Immigration advice (OISC1) and support, including student placements.
  • Alleviation of destitution through the provision of food, clothing and housing. A Complex Needs Social Worker assists asylum seekers with needs additional to destitution.
  • Working with the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, we provide Family Reunion Visa Applications and Further Submissions assistance.
  • ESOL classes with two walk-in classes, one for conversation and one for women only at our site. We also hold 80 places for English classes across the week with enrolment each September.
  • Access to 2nd hand clothing, shoes, kitchen-ware and other donated items, daily except Wednesday.
  • Encouragement to asylum seekers and refugees to become volunteers and to engage with their new community.
  • Social events to encourage integration and friendship – Refugee Week, Christmas, trips and visits to other venues, cycle programmes and hill walks and several football initiatives.
  • Well-being projects: bicycle repair, gardening and allotments, cooking demonstrations with other local groups. A Women’s group and a Choir run on Thursdays. Action Asylum projects actively place Asylum Seekers in volunteering roles with non-asylum organisations including beach/park cleans, tree planting, creative writing projects, indoor climbing and arts projects. We now work in 5 other cities with this programme.
  • Input from other agencies including the NHS Community Inclusion Team giving access to GPs and dentists. Access to other healthcare: Covid Vaccination, Sight Tests, Blood Pressure and AF Testing can be sourced through the centre. The Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, Merseyside Refugee Support Network deliver advice from our building.
  • Information and Research opportunities include working with Liverpool University on a Mental Health feasibility study and surveys for the NHS.
  • The Asylum Information Roadshow, School Presentations and Social Work Training. These are wide ranging presentations to schools, voluntary sector groups, universities, local authorities, seminars and conferences.
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Merseyside Refugee Support Network

MRSN Liverpool provide move-on support to refugees and others with leave to remain. We will help people throughout their integration journey for as long as help is sought. It is a person-centred service. We also support diaspora refugee community groups where possible. We run an information sharing e-newsgroup and hold regular network meetings to share good practice and issues of concern. MRSN Liverpool also administers the Liverpool City of Sanctuary group.
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