Our Key Priorities
- Providing advice, guidance, ideas and information to refugees and asylum seekers and BME communities to enable them to effectively integrate into the society and access services and opportunities;
- Raising awareness amongst refugees and asylum seekers and disadvantaged people from BME about available services and how services can be accessed;
- Facilitating and supporting the participation of refugees and BME communities in local activities for leisure, learning, volunteering and decision-making processes.
- Organising public awareness on issues relevant to social integration, equality and inclusion;
- Representing our service users in decision-making and consultations arrangements to ensure they reflect the make-up of local communities.
- Organising access to appropriate training (e.g. ESOL) and other community learning opportunities that contribute to provide new skills, increase confidence and motivation.
- Supporting refugees and people from BME communities to overcome barriers to learning, employment and training.
- Assisting children and young people in overcoming any barriers they may face by offering information, advice, advocacy and practical support and by brokering access to services that individuals might need including leisure and sports services.
- Providing advocacy on behalf of young people with their education, training, employment and social needs.
- Promoting and encouraging young people to develop their creativity and confidence, technical and performance skills.
- Act as facilitator to promote self-help in the community.
Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World - UN Human Development Report 2004
"Accommodating people's growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth."
Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture - so that all people can choose to be who they are."
(Human Development Report 2004 'Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World', United Nations Development Programme)
