Work

Solidaritech repurpose your unwanted laptops, desktops, tablets and smartphones, passing them on to asylum seekers and refugees to help them resolve their immigration status, pursue studies and start their lives in their new country. Solidaritech professionally wipe your old hard drives, installing new Operating Systems to make a new, quicker and more usable machine.

Speak to your support organisation to make a referral.

Horton Housing provides housing, training and support services.

They want volunteers now, to be befrienders for the Connecting Opportunities service.

They will be looking for more refugees and other migrants with lived experience to join the volunteer programme, when their training centre re-opens.

Peacemaker International is a charity for the advancement of conflict resolution through mediation services and training. Major emphasis is on:

• empowering women for justice by supporting survivors of domestic abuse and their children
• providing skills development, mentoring, befriending
• supporting ex-offenders and new arrivals in the UK and
• providing advocacy and promoting the rights of people with learning disabilities and social inclusion of the elderly
• campaigning to raise awareness of issues of forced marriages and female genital mutilation

Projects include :

• Home-School Mediation

• Youth Support

• Learning Disabilities Support

• Women and Children groups

• Youth Inclusion in education, employment and training

• Bradford Women against Domestic Violence

Horton Community Farm is a 2 acre green space run by locals in the heart of urban Bradford. Our work is creating an inspirational permaculture centre for food growing and community resilience through 5 main strands of work. These are environmental education such as forest schools, horticultural therapy, wildlife, food growing and volunteering.

Programmes:

Growing Hope for sanctuary seekers
Growing Together for families with 0-3’s
Mindfulness Gardening for over 50s and carers of over 50s
Volunteering for anyone over 15

See our website for more details.

Healthwatch Bradford is the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. They gather people’s views and they influence improvements to health and social care in the area.

You can get information from the national helpline, about your personal circumstances, job-seeking, existing claims and new claims.

You will be given a lot of information and choices about who to contact next. If you need help with this, you could try asking at Bradford Citizens Advice by phoning 0344 245 1282. Or you could ask at a community centre near you.

Lunch is available on Fridays from midday to 1pm, for anyone who has been to a class at Hope House during the week (in normal non-Covid times).

CAP job club, with help from trained volunteers, in a relaxed environment, with the chance to meet other jobseekers, get support and gain the tools needed to find work. Mondays from 9.30am to 12.30pm. (Contact Corinne on 07709 683650)