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We support North East women into employment through the power of high quality interview clothing and coaching.

A two hour appointment at Smart Works Newcastle can give women the confidence, to fulfil their potential, get the job, and transform the trajectory of their lives.

Our service can be accessed by all women who are unemployed, aged 16+ and based in the North East.

We operate on a referral basis, partnering with organisations and charities to provide our services to women with upcoming interviews, as well as offering one-to-one career coaching to any woman who can benefit from it.

The centre is run by a close-knit staff team of 5 who are supported by over 40 dedicated volunteers and trustees.

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We're dedicated to creating a vibrant and inclusive learning environment that embraces diversity and empowers individuals on their educational journey. Our ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses are designed to bridge language barriers, enhance communication skills, and open doors to a world of opportunities.

ESOL 16-18 learners study towards Functional Skills English and Maths which will support progression to vocational courses in the future. To find out more, click the 'College 16 to 18' button below.

For adults over 19 years of age - course levels include Pre Entry, Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3, Level 1 and Level 2. Some adult courses also include City & Guilds ESOL Skills for Life qualifications in Speaking and Listening, Reading, and Writing. Courses are available during the day over 3 half days or over 2 evenings per week termly. To find out more and to register your interest for a place, please attend one of our open events.

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ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)

Do you want to improve you English?

We offer nationally recognised ESOL qualifications at all levels, and our courses can help with reading, writing, speaking and listening. We will also help you with the skills you need to learn online.

All our teachers are qualified, and we offer Skills for Life ESOL qualifications at all levels, from beginner to advanced.

We also provide information, advice and guidance on a wide range of issues, support looking for work, and courses for international students.

Most courses are free. If you are interested, contact us on 0191 277 3520 to speak to a member of staff.

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Improve your English (ESOL) - Tyne Metropolitan College

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Our ESOL courses help those from other countries or for whom English is not their first language develop their language skills and become more confident.

Our courses range from pre-entry level for those with little to no understanding of English through to Level 2 for those at an intermediate level.

All courses will help you to develop your English speaking, listening, reading and writing skills as well as skills for life and work in the UK as well as developing an understanding of British citizenship.

NEW STUDENTS - please click here to book an assessment.

Please use the "+" button to expand the course lists.

Employment Edge.

It's a mix of the highest standards of education and the real world skills employers look for.

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English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) & Support for Ukrainian Residents

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Welcome to Northumberland College, where we are proud to provide an inclusive and diverse learning environment to help students open doors to a vast array of opportunities.

Our ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses offer more than just learning basic English skills, they are designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to thrive in an interconnected world. Our ESOL curriculum goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; it offers a gateway to increasing confidence, career advancement, and those all-important meaningful connections.

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Learn And Use English As A Second Language

English For All

We are a charity offering free lessons to refugees and asylum seekers who want to learn English.

Classes/Groups are 2 hours, once a week.

Tuesday 10.30 - English (some basic English)

Tuesday 1.30 - Conversation (advanced)

Wednesday 1.00 - Women Only Conversation

Wednesday 6.30 - Evening Class (all levels of English)

Friday 1.30 - Drop-in (all welcome)

All classes are held on Zoom. Please e-mail for details of how to join us.

What You Can Do

On the Learn English page you will find worksheets and exercises from lots of our lessons, on different topics.

From early 2021 we hope to offer help for asylum seekers and refugees in the North East of England to get online. Find out more on our Teaching page

Who We Are

You can find out more about us by looking at our pictures above, or clicking on our Contact Us page.

Find out more:

For information on our classes, e-mail here: email link. You can also find out more on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Englishforalluk/

BEGINNER'S BOOKLET: The alphabet, numbers, handwriting, dates and time, and lots of useful words and phrases.

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Trinity's Community Referral Scheme supports community groups and charities working with newly arrived and settled migrants who need to integrate into UK society, and who wish to make the UK their permanent home.

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The North East Migration Partnership (NEMP) provides support to migrants and helps make sure the region can benefit from migration. NEMP is hosted by Middlesbrough Council and works with national and regional partners.

Find services and support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers

The information on this site is in English. You can translate it using our translator at the top of the page or your browser's translator. Please note, they may not always be accurate when translating the meaning of large or complex paragraphs.

GIVE HOPE A HOME

Can you provide care and safety for an unaccompanied teen who is seeking a home in the North East?

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The Angelou Centre offers a range of holistic women-only* services for black and minoritised women across the North East. The organisation remains unique as one of the few remaining black-led women's organisations in the north east of England, providing specialist support for black and minoritised women and children, locally, regionally and nationally.

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West End Women and Girls are a Living Wage accredited Employer

Our Autumn Timetable is now running -Or click for more details on our Women's Groups and Girls Group s Click here for the full timetable.

Fighting For Social Justice

West End Women and Girls Centre is the first and only open access, community based women and girls centre in Newcastle, we aim to build the power of women and girls, who have been and continue to be disenfranchised. We seek to drive positive change in the world, our community and in women and girls lives.

We do this through group work where women and girls have the opportunity to meet, have fun, learn skills, look at issues relevant their lives and generally build confidence in a safe and supportive environment.

Donate

Our Values

Belonging - We are a welcoming, inclusive and bold family of women and girls working together to build power.

Equality - No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, how much money you have, what your religious beliefs are or where you are from, if you identify as a woman West End Women and Girls Centre welcomes you.

Transformational - Our work changes lives and places, relationships cascade out of the centre and into the wider community, changing social spaces as well as private ones.

Passion - We are passionate and determined to create social change in the world, our community and in women and girls lives.

Grass Roots - We are powered by the local community; all services are developed based on their expressed needs and are reflected throughout the board of trustees, staff team and membership.

Integrity - We provide a safe space for women and girls to ask inquisitive questions, sharing commonalities and growing community.

Leadership - From Estate Matriarchs to teenage Peer Educators developing female pioneers since 1981.

Courage - We have fun whilst we joyfully smash the patriarchy together.

Anyone who identifies as a woman is welcome here

To our friends, neighbours, visitors, we say: you are welcome here. No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, how much money you have, what your religious beliefs are, or where you are from, West End Women and Girls Centre is for you.

Like many, we at West End Women and Girls Centre are concerned about the divisive, hateful speech and actions we are hearing and witnessing across our country. While these feelings are not new for many, we recognise that this is a crucial moment to take a stand for what we believe is right. It is important that we do not become complacent in our mission to build the power of women and girls and drive positive change that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our communities.

West End Women and Girls Centre is committed to re-examining and strengthening our continuing efforts to ensure the centre is a safe and welcoming place for everyone. If you have any suggestions for how we can make the centre better, please send us an email with your thoughts. info@westendwomenandgirls.co.uk

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Volunteer Centre Newcastle - Volunteering opportunities in Newcastle upon Tyne

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The Comfrey Project is a place where refugees and people who are seeking asylum can come to learn new skills, share what they know with others, and start to build a better life.

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Multaka North East England is a project co-ordinated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) and funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Multaka (which means 'meeting point' in Arabic) is a part of Project Multaka, an international network of museums active in the design of programmes and participation of those with migration backgrounds.

Multaka works directly with organisations who support refugees and asylum seekers to inspire engagement with our venues and culturally diverse museum collections. We invite engagement through volunteering opportunities and participation with our bespoke resources, delivered in multiple first languages.

TWAM's Multaka volunteering programme offers the opportunity to develop new skills focusing on particular areas of interest in the collection. Volunteers are supported in the development of their ideas through our in-house specialists and wider training opportunities. Outcomes to date have been downloadable tours and videos. We are currently developing public tours.

For further information on this project or to find out how to get involved please contact:

Nicola Maxwell
Project Co-ordinator (Multaka North East England)
Nicola.Maxwell@twmuseums.org.uk

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The Launch Pad Collective - online employability course

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We are looking for new Trustees to join our Board at Action Foundation to help deliver our purpose. Action Foundation supports and empowers people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants in the North East to overcome immediate barriers, integrate with [...]

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HostNation | Helping refugees through friendship

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A more connected, curious and compassionate society is possible.

For too long our country has been defined by growing inequality, increased polarisation and the rise of populism. Brexit gave the country a jolt. COVID-19 shook us to our core. Our future feels uncertain.

There are many different experiences of life on this small island but we do all need to pull together. We clapped passionately for strangers on our doorsteps yet we still might not know our neighbours. We can do better.

The Roots Programme seeks to break down barriers and bring people together.

We facilitate collaborative learning experiences which deepen our understanding of ourselves in relation to the lives of others. Let's listen to each other. Discover our challenges. Embrace our differences. Inspire each other. Share our stories and ideas. Celebrate new perspectives. And build confidence that we can create a better life for ourselves, together.

about the stories and perspectives
we are each living by

about one another's challenges
and differences

to those who exist
outside our bubble

Are your students feeling anxious about their future? Are they frustrated or struggling with resilience and adaptability in the face of our changing world? Our exchanges, developed by ex-teachers and in partnership with 10 schools and over 100 young people, recognise the challenges being faced on all sides. We bring young people and their teachers from independent and state schools together to look beyond their everyday lives, re-build confidence in their futures, and deliberately develop the skills needed to help them and their communities to thrive.

Have the deep divisions over Brexit, the pandemic and endless other issues been getting you down? How would it feel to help heal our society, dream big and reach for something better? Do you want to build your confidence and get inspired to grasp the opportunities that lie outside our usual social bubbles ahead of us? During this carefully constructed 6 week programme for adults, we travel together on a journey of mutual discovery. It's a warm and brave space for meaningful dialogue, deep listening and curiosity, new ideas for a better future and new connections.

In times of social upheaval and uncertainty, it can be challenging to maintain team morale. Empathy, ethics and the quality of our connections matter to your staff more than ever.

Our training has helped both large corporations and smaller community-focused organisations to build belonging, connect colleagues around issues and to share more of themselves in a way that creates greater degrees of authentic trust and empathy. Our 2.5 hour workshops are for groups of up to 30, ideally across varying roles and levels of seniority. They give employees time to spend away from their desks talking, connecting and both listening to, and learning from, each other.

Corporate Culture Workshops

Frequently Asked Questions

A: We can work with any year group. We prefer however to work with year 9's if possible as they are going through a key stage in their identity formation and brain development, so we are able to see most impact here.

A: 18-20 participants per exchange -

x8 young people and 1-2 staff members from a state school

x8 young people and 1-2 staff members from a private school.

A: Young people are selected through our recruitment and application phase of the programme. School staff members run a pre-prepared recruitment assembly in their school alongside directly encouraging certain young people who they believe could benefit from the programme to apply. Together, Roots and the schools decide the final 14 youth participants.

A: Everything works around school and staff timetables. We do our best to accommodate the needs of all parties involved and so can be flexible around the following.

Timing commitments for the programme itself -

1. a) Online sessions will be around 1 hour each (dependent on school timetables)

2. b) The 2 School Swap days will take up a full school day each (school groups will return in time for the end of their school day/busses)

3. c) The Vision Day will ideally take place at one of the schools, preferably on a Saturday. We can work with schools to accommodate their needs around this however if weekends are not viable.

4. d) A few hours will need to be committed outside of this to support delivery of the programme (recruitment processes, organisation of dates, programme feedback)

Resources -

1. a) Students will need to have access to a device each (school laptop/iPad/computer) in order to participate in online sessions. Devices will need to have a working camera, headset/earphones and access to online platforms such as Zoom. We can help to support with resources such as earphones if schools do not have access to any.

2. b) Transport to and from the partner school for School Swap days and Vision Day should be organised by schools. If this is not possible however, we can support schools with this.

3. c) One room will be need to be booked and available for the whole group involved (young people and staff) for the Roots Workshops on the School Swap Day at each school.

A: State school fees for the whole programme - £500

Independent school fees for the whole programme - £3000

These are subsidised rates that include our own fundraising efforts. We support schools to source these funds for the programme, whether that is through parental support, Pupil Premium, CPD or personal development school budgets, accessing sponsorship through local businesses, donors or charities etc.

ROOTS RELATIONSHIPS PROGRAMME

Let's bring people together to discuss and learn from the things that affect us all. Let's listen and understand each other. Let's recognise not just our differences, but our similarities too. Let's create a better tomorrow, together.

Step in.
Get involved in the Roots Programme.

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We know that an inclusive and diverse workforce is good for business. So we work collaboratively with employers and job-seekers to unlock refugee talent.

Did you know?

Refugees are good for business, not only because of the skills, diversity and reliability they bring, but also because more consumers are supporting businesses that hire them.

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We know that an inclusive and diverse workforce is good for business. So we work collaboratively with employers and job-seekers to unlock refugee talent. Refugees are good for business, not only because of the skills, diversity and reliability they bring, but also because more consumers are supporting businesses that hire them.

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Northern Directions will provide opportunities for young NEET participants aged 16-24 to progress towards or into the labour market sustainably. The area of focus will be in Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside, and Northumberland.

Northern Directions will be providing dedicated support from start to finish by assigning Youth Workers to curate a package plan uniquely for each participant. The package will go beyond coaching and mentoring, but also provide interventions on debt management, benefits, health and well-being, and housing.

The steps of the Northern Directions package will include five main portions to ensure holistic and continual growth for the participants.

1. Mutual Engagement

2. Progressive Assessment and Personalisation

3. Access to Course Learning and Development

4. Employer Engagement and Training

5. Progression and Sustainment

Northern Directions aims to specifically assist and coach individuals who have pre-existing barriers and challenges overcome these challenges all while feeling empowered to get on an employment path for their futures.

We are working closely with partners and agencies to ensure that every barrier and challenge can be met and assessed for all participants to truly create a pathway for success.

Visit (Website) for more information. If you are interested in reaching out or want any further information please e-mail northern.directions@groundwork.org.uk or visit Northern Directions (wordpress.com)

Northern Directions is funded by the European Social Fund and part funded by the North of Tyne Combined Authority.

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The Chinese Centre can give sim cards to asylum seekers

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The Chinese Centre is an open learning centre. It offers free courses in computers, numeracy, literacy, English language, life and work skills. They have a wide range of courses from basic level to advanced levels. Giving learners the chance to take their first step back into learning or to progress to higher education or employment opportunities.

They are also a digital online hub for the local community and are also also known as CICT (Chinese Information Computer Technology) open learning centre

Accredited ESOL classes from Entry level 1 to Level 2. Fast track learning with online resources. Open to anyone eligible for adult education funding who is not accessing other provision.

They also support a wide range of people from diverse communities and ethnic backgrounds.

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Newcastle City Learning provides a variety of courses at their bases on West Road, Heaton and out in the community.

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Newcastle City Learning prides itself on working closely with community partners in a responsive and proactive way to ensure the needs of our city's residents are met.

Much of our work takes place in local schools, libraries, children's centres, community organisations and third sector service providers. We work with many such organisations across Newcastle upon Tyne. We deliver a substantial community-focused programme open to all and the personal progression, learning and success of our learners is important to us at every stage of their development.

Our community courses and projects have been carefully prepared to reflect the needs of those looking to learn something new, connect with others, increase wellbeing, or those
considering voluntary work or moving into employment.

Our current offer includes:

* Volunteering Passport
* Digital Inclusion
* Digital Nature
* Talk English
* Coffee, Cake and Conversation
* Arts and Crafts for Wellbeing
* Five Ways to Wellbeing
* Paediatric First Aid for Parents
* Health MOTs
* Greening Westgate

Whether you are an interested learner, or a prospective community partner, please contact us by visiting one of the Newcastle City Learning centres or call or email us:

Phone: 0191 277 3520
Email: donna.stokes@newcastle.gov.uk

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West End Women and Girls are a Living Wage accredited Employer

Our Autumn Timetable is now running -Or click for more details on our Women's Groups and Girls Group s Click here for the full timetable.

Fighting For Social Justice

West End Women and Girls Centre is the first and only open access, community based women and girls centre in Newcastle, we aim to build the power of women and girls, who have been and continue to be disenfranchised. We seek to drive positive change in the world, our community and in women and girls lives.

We do this through group work where women and girls have the opportunity to meet, have fun, learn skills, look at issues relevant their lives and generally build confidence in a safe and supportive environment.

Donate

Our Values

Belonging - We are a welcoming, inclusive and bold family of women and girls working together to build power.

Equality - No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, how much money you have, what your religious beliefs are or where you are from, if you identify as a woman West End Women and Girls Centre welcomes you.

Transformational - Our work changes lives and places, relationships cascade out of the centre and into the wider community, changing social spaces as well as private ones.

Passion - We are passionate and determined to create social change in the world, our community and in women and girls lives.

Grass Roots - We are powered by the local community; all services are developed based on their expressed needs and are reflected throughout the board of trustees, staff team and membership.

Integrity - We provide a safe space for women and girls to ask inquisitive questions, sharing commonalities and growing community.

Leadership - From Estate Matriarchs to teenage Peer Educators developing female pioneers since 1981.

Courage - We have fun whilst we joyfully smash the patriarchy together.

Anyone who identifies as a woman is welcome here

To our friends, neighbours, visitors, we say: you are welcome here. No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, how much money you have, what your religious beliefs are, or where you are from, West End Women and Girls Centre is for you.

Like many, we at West End Women and Girls Centre are concerned about the divisive, hateful speech and actions we are hearing and witnessing across our country. While these feelings are not new for many, we recognise that this is a crucial moment to take a stand for what we believe is right. It is important that we do not become complacent in our mission to build the power of women and girls and drive positive change that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our communities.

West End Women and Girls Centre is committed to re-examining and strengthening our continuing efforts to ensure the centre is a safe and welcoming place for everyone. If you have any suggestions for how we can make the centre better, please send us an email with your thoughts. info@westendwomenandgirls.co.uk

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The International Rescue Committee UK is working with the NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board to strengthen the local workforces of health and social care providers. By supporting the work readiness of refugees and other newcomers, IRC aims to diversify the talent pool of local recruiters, bringing fresh perspectives and skills to these workplaces.

Partnership

As well as our ongoing commitment to work collaboratively with the partners of the Integrated Care Board, voluntary and community groups and local authorities, IRC is keen to work in partnership with health and social care providers to find great staff, including those in the private sector. We can offer free advice and guidance on widening the talent pool and retaining a diverse workforce. We welcome partners in the following areas:

North Cumbria (Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness)

Northumberland

Newcastle

North Tyneside

Gateshead

South Tyneside

Sunderland

Durham

Darlington

Hartlepool

Stockton on Tees

Middlesbrough

Redcar and Cleveland

Specialist Knowledge

Our support for refugees, as well as asylum seekers with the right to work, will build on our existing Economic Empowerment programmes. Candidates will be equipped with knowledge about the health and social care sector, its on-the-job demands as well as how to navigate job search and application processes. Alongside our comprehensive employability course, we also offer a contextualised English language course and tailored 1:1 coaching for each participant, with support continuing after gaining employment.

Interested to know more?

Interested refugee candidates in the region can self-refer to the programme here. We also welcome referrals from local authorities and colleagues in Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations. Applications are currently only open to candidates with Entry Level 3 English or higher.

Health and social care employers and others can get in touch with our Economic Empowerment team for more information at [email protected]

Find out more about our other employment support services for refugees here.

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Empowering refugees to overcome exclusion

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