Welcome to Bristol Refugee Rights website
- Bristol Refugee Rights
NEWS FLASH
New web page for VOICE project
Part-Time Job Vacancy at the Refugee Welcome Centre: VOICE Assistant Co-ordinator
2 days per week (15 hours)
£17,161 pro rata (SCP 18): Actual salary £6,864 p.a.
Closing Date: Friday 27th January 2012 9am
Bristol Refugee Rights (BRR) offers an exciting opportunity to join the staff team at the lively Refugee Welcome Centre in Easton, Bristol. Our project “Developing Community Engagement” has been granted 3 years funding through the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Programme.
The VOICE project aims to set up opportunities for BRR members to engage in the local community through volunteering and involvement in community engagement events.
How to apply go to Work with us … page to download an application pack or phone us and ask for a printed version 07734 347817
People from refugee backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
Bristol Refugee Rights
Welcoming people into a safe place
- Empowering people to achieve an independent and productive life
- Enabling social inclusion
- Bringing public attention to human rights aspects of asylum law and
practice based on information collected in the welcome centre.
The key values that underpin the work of Bristol Refugee Rights are
inclusion, partnership working, commitment to provision of a quality
service, empowerment and accountability. We work to sustain these
values both in the Welcome Centre and in our human rights
campaigning.
We were set up as a voluntary organisation in 2005 to uphold and champion the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees. We provide a place of welcome in Bristol where asylum seekers and refugees can meet and be supported to play a full part in the life of the wider community and also campaign for the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Bristol Refugee Rights aims to deliver a ‘user-led’ service that addresses the practical, psychological and human rights needs of refugees and asylum seekers by:
