Contacts for refugees - learning and work
- Communities into Training and Employment Swiss Cottage Central Library Sessions
- Ethiopian Community in Britain
- Refugee Council One Stop Service
- Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit
- Training Link
- Communities into Training and Employment
- Hillside Clubhouse
- Manor Gardens Advocacy Project
- Somali Education and Development Agency
Communities into Training and Employment Swiss Cottage Central Library Sessions
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Information, advice and guidance on employment and training for unemployed people. Workshops on CVs, job applications and life coaching.
Ethiopian Community in Britain
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Provides information, advice, advocacy and referral services and training for all unemployed people and Ethiopians. Also runs ESOL and IT training and outreach, sports and leisure activities. Runs Ethiopian languages and cultural courses for children and adults. Social Club. Rooms for hire.
Refugee Council One Stop Service
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Advice line Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 10am-1pm, 2pm-4pm and Wed 2pm-4pm.
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Based at the London office in Brixton. Provides advice and referral to asylum seekers and refugees. Day Centre services include: surgeries with the Medical Foundation and the Red Cross Tracing Service, help with homework and other studies for young refugees and asylum seeking children, food, showers, laundry, emergency provisions, English language classes, women's group and computer classes.
Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit
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London Metropolitan University
236-250 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PP
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Provides advice, guidance and specialist training programmes for refugee healthcare professionals, teachers and refugees with higher education qualifications. Runs courses and workshops.
Training Link
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Basic skills training for men and women who have had limited access to main stream provision, especially people from black and ethnic minority communities. Courses include English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), personal finance, IT, citizenship, European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) and community development.
Communities into Training and Employment
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314-320 Gray's Inn Road
London
WC1X 8DP
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Information, advice and guidance on employment and training for unemployed residents of Camden.
Hillside Clubhouse
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Provides work-based rehabilitation for people with mental health problems. Also assists refugees and makes literacy and numeracy support available. Has part-time paid work placements in the community for members and external catering opportunities, including cafe work and events. Moving to 29/30 North Road, N7 2GJ in August 2010.
Manor Gardens Advocacy Project
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Training and development programme for bilingual unemployed refugees in community interpreting and bilingual health advocacy. Interpreting and bilingual health advocacy service available at primary health care appointments in Camden and Islington. Empowering Communities Scheme works with health specialists and refugee community organisations to organise interpreted health workshops.
Somali Education and Development Agency
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Employment and training information advice and guidance, job brokerage support, job search support, supplementary school for children from the age of 5-18. Parenting courses (strengthening families and strengthening Communities parenting programme), ESOL Courses up to level 3, SIA security courses, forklift courses and many other skills courses.
020 7974 4444