Where can i find info on difficulties faced by refugees in uk?

Question

I work with a group of asylum seekers and refugees from Eritrea who would like to start a training and advice centre for their community, and also set up a volunteering program so that they can put something back into the community.
We need to find research evidence of need to apply for funding.

Answer 1

Clearly, you won't find this information from the majority of the moronic, knee-jerk, racist users of Yahoo! Answers.

Here are some websites that should provide useful resources for you.

1. REFUGEES - advice & training

a) National Organisations
i) The Refugee Council http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/
ii) Refugee Action http://www.refugee-action.org.uk/
iii) Evelyn Oldfield Unit http://www.evelynoldfield.co.uk/
iv) Refugees in Effective & Active Partnership (REAP)http://www.reap.org.uk/
v) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) in UK http://www.unhcr.org.uk/info/faqs_links/links.html#support
vi) Refugees Online http://www.refugeesonline.org.uk/index.htm
vii) Refugee Therapy Centre http://www.refugeetherapy.org.uk/
viii) Refugee Legal Centre http://www.refugee-legal-centre.org.uk/
ix) Safra Project http://www.safraproject.org/asylum.htm
x) Refugee Arrivals Project http://www.refugee-arrivals.org.uk/html/2000/index.php
xi) The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK http://www.icar.org.uk/
xii) Refugee Women's Association http://www.refugeewomen.org/rwa.htm
xii) Education Action http://www.education-action.org/
xiii) Medact Refugee Health Network http://www.medact.org/ref_about_network.php

b) London Organisations
i) London Refugee Economic Action http://www.loreca.org.uk/
ii) Migrants & Refugee Communities Forum http://www.mrcf.org.uk/
iii) Ealing Refugee Forum http://www.ealingrefugeeforum.org.uk/

c) Other Regional Organisations
i) Northern Refugee Centre http://www.nrcentre.org.uk/
iI) Manchester Support Refugee Network (MRSN)
http://www.mrsn.org.uk/
iii) Leeds Refugee and Asylum Support Service, 155 Kirkstall Road, Leeds LS4 2AG Tel: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]
iv) Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum http://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk/

d) Business, Vocations & Employment
i) Refugees Into Business http://www.refugeesintobusiness.org.uk/
ii) Refugees Into Jobs http://www.brent.gov.uk/regen2.nsf/24878f4b00d4f0f68025663c006c7944/ec2f5fea68fcef5780256ed900500a45!OpenDocument
iii) Refugee and Overseas Qualified Doctors Programme (ROQDP) http://www.ihse.qmul.ac.uk/chs/nhs/refugeedoctors/
iv) The Higher Education for Refugees and Asylum seekers Network http://www.heran.org.uk/
v) The Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit (RAGU) http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ragu/
vi) Refugee and Asylum-seekers Centre for Healthcare (REACH) North West http://www.reachenw.org/
vii) Council For Assisting Refugee Academics http://www.academic-refugees.org/
viii) Refugees and Overseas Qualified Health Professionals into Employment in Health & Social Care http://www.rose.nhs.uk/index.html


2. ERITREAN COMMUNITY - existing associations
a) Nationwide (Eritrean Community in the UK, 266-268 Holloway Road, London N7 6NE Tel: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]
b) Hammersmith & Fulham (Eritrean Community in Hammersmith and Fulham, Palingswick House, 241 King Street Hammersmith, London W6 9LP Tel: [phone])
c) Lambeth (Lambeth Eritrean Community, 365 Brixton Road London SW9 7DB Tel: [phone])
d) Manchester (Eritrean Community, 2nd Floor, Refugee Hot Desk Office, Greenfish Resource Centre,46-50 Oldham Stree, Manchester M4 1LE Tel: [phone])
[NB there are more in London. At the REAP site ( 1. a) iv) above) click on London Refugee Directory, then input 'Eritrea' as the key word.]

I hope this is useful. Fortunately there are one or two good guys around.

Answer 2

What difficulties?? Like why do Africans smell like bad ham? or why do jamaicans play loud reggae music declaring there love of jamaica from a BMW in Birmingham? Just go to your local job centre play the race card they will throw all the funding you need at you.

Answer 3

Funding!
A volunteer group!..Funding!
Are you yet another that thinks it is easy to screw money out of tax payers by jumping on the asylum seeker bandwagon.
Funding?

Answer 4

the local community are you trying to set up another ghetto think if you just join all your local communities activities you might integrate better and find the people more open than setting up your own wee club try being British

Answer 5

Nicely worded but just another way of getting taxpayers money. When will you realise enough is enough, we just cannot go on funding these people.

Answer 6

Just give them a map to the nearest dole office.

Answer 7

try mcdonalds

Answer 8

NO !!!
F**K OFF BACK HOME!!