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Enabling Towards Cohesion

b:RAP

b:RAP aim to make a sustainable difference by working with others to better understand how practice might be improved in ways that reduce inequality.

9th Floor
Edgbaston House
3 Duchess Place
Hagley Road
Birmingham
B16 8NH
Tel:0121 456740

www.brap.org.uk

IMPACT

IMPACT's aim is to provide and maintain high quality services to enable and improve the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in West Midlands.

17 Stoney Lane      
Sparbrook     
B12 9RH
Tel:0121 773 9426

www.afrobritish.org.uk

B:RAP went into partnership with IMPACT, an Afro-British Support Services project which is a refugee led and managed community organisation based at Sparkbrook, Birmingham, to execute a project called Enabling Towards Cohesion for asylum seekers.

IMPACT aim to help and support asylum seekers and refugees overcome a variety of challenges and barriers they face to seamlessly integrate and contribute socially economically and culturally to their new home country and neighbourhoods.

This project, funded by ASPIRE, informed asylum seekers about the support and services provided by NEXTSTEP contractors.

Because of the New Asylum Model, asylum seekers have to be informed as early as possible about where to access employment support in case they receive a positive decision and leave to remain.

This partnership presented the opportunity to a build a track record that enabled IMPACT to receive funding and fill a gap in the provision of support services for asylum seekers and refugees.