South Brent Refugee Support Network meeting at 7.30pm in the Aune room at the Old School Community Centre.

Meeting open to anyone interested in contributing ideas to our local response to the current refugee situation.

Caroline Lakin will be talking at this meeting about her experiences of being with refugees in Tunisia.

Please tell anyone you know who is interested to come along.

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See also the Refugee integration programme to be delivered by South Devon partnership.

Plans for a year of activity to build cross-cultural connections and help South Devon-based refugees and asylum seekers settle in the UK have been given the go ahead.

The project will be supported through a Big Lottery Fund grant and aims to provide a cross-cultural training and retreat programme that will help refugees, asylum seekers and other UK residents to build social and cultural bridges The programme has been developed by the inspirational community organisation Integr8 UK (formerly Embracing Refugees) and will be delivered by Integr8 UK in partnership with The Dartington Hall Trust, supported by other members of the South Devon Refugee Support Network (SDRSN)