Move On Advice Project

• Set up in April 2008 with a three-year Big Lottery Fund grant, the project works with people granted any type of status/leave to remain (refugee status, humanitarian protection, discretionary leave, or indefinite leave to remain) as a result of claiming asylum in the UK.

• We give advice on benefits, housing/homelessness, employment, training, education, health, and any other social welfare need.  The aim is to support people through the transition from asylum support to mainstream provision, and to help ensure their longer term integration into British society and local communities in the north east.

• We work throughout the north east.  Our team has three Move On Advice Workers – two based at the North of England Refugee Service’s Bigg Market office in Newcastle, covering Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, and parts of Durham; and one at its Middlesbrough office, covering Tees Valley and adjacent parts of Durham.  The Project Coordinator is based at Bigg Market.

• We operate outreaches in Newcastle (at the West End Refugee Service and the East Area Asylum Seekers Support Group’s premises, Common Ground), South Shields, and Stockton-on-Tees (at the Citizens Advice Bureau).

For more information, please contact: Tim Kell

Move On Advice Project Coordinator

19 Bigg Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1UN

Telephone: (0191) 245 7301, ext. 230  *  Facsimile: (0191) 222 0239

Web Site: www.refugee.org.uk  *  Email: tpk@refugee.org.uk

Registered Office: The North of England Refugee Service Limited, 2 Jesmond Road West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PQ

Registered Charity No.1091200 A Company Limited by Guarantee No.3643622

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