Our latest Newsletter can be downloaded can be downloaded here.
Asylum Link is over 20 years old. This is a film celebration our 20th Birthday in 2022
Asylum Link Merseyside is based in St Anne’s presbytery next to St Anne’s Church in Overbury Street, Wavertree. It is a safe space for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, to meet, relax and find out about the community they have been dropped into.
Our most recent Newsletter can be read here. It has a brief round up of the last few months and the current issues Refugees are facing.
We offer a wide range of services which are centred on the principles of Friendship and Welcome. These include access to other agencies delivering refugee services on site, the Merseyside Refugee Support Network MRSN, and the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, GMIAU.
You can get everything from a cup of tea and a chat, access to well-being programmes and advocacy, and help for the destitute. If you would like to know more, visit our Services Pages
We provide our services because we believe that fundamentally, all humans are equal, and that Asylum Seekers need our help to overcome the barriers which prevent them from living in our community as equals. People have asked for help and we should give it.
See more about our Management and Staff at Asylum Link
ALM also has Facebook and Twitter accounts:
www.facebook.com/asylumlinkmerseyside www.twitter.com/AsylumLink
Here’s a series of video links which explain some aspects of what ALM is all about.
Tree Planting in Wales
ALM and the Big Garden Bird Watch
This was the ALM Choir at the Albert Dock in June 2022 with a performance at Liverpool Museum for Little Amal, the Syrian Puppet.
What we get up to when left to our own devices
ALM in 2015
History of Asylum Link
Kensington Welcome, an informal organisation of be-frienders, was set up in 2000, to offer friendship, practical support to Asylum Seekers arriving through the Governments new policy of dispersal. People were sent to Liverpool, with very little knowledge about the area and very little was available by way of help or assistance. As demand grew it became clear that a broader based service was required. In response, Asylum Link Merseyside was formed in March 2001 and moved to St Anne’s, Overbury Street in 2002. It has been there ever since. Asylum Link has grown steadily since its formation, adding new services and projects each year, to the point it now delivers programmes with partners in four other cities.
Our Charitable Objects – as stated in our memorandum of association:
- The relief of refugees and asylum seekers resident in Merseyside and adjacent areas, who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress, particularly but not exclusively through the provision of information, advice and assistance;
- To advance the education of the public, other statutory and voluntary organisations and asylum seekers in order to assist their inclusion into the wider community.
Asylum Link Merseyside Charity Number: 1095180.
ALM is a Company limited by guarantee, Company Number: 4468629
Asylum Link has an OISC certificate and has met the standards laid down by the OISC.
Principal activities
The provision of “drop-in” facilities for asylum seekers and refugees
The provision of office and teaching accommodation for teachers and professional advisers to asylum seekers and refugees
The provision of help and assistance to asylum seekers and refugees from our own resources and through projects funded by statutory organisations and charitable trusts
Health education projects, in particular around Well Being, TB, HIV and Mental Health
Organisation of enrichment events such as trips, training, parties and social activities
Education and awareness raising amongst the public through talks and events
Consultation and co-operation with charitable organisations with similar objectives.
For more information see our services page
Asylum Link offers more than a collection of services
We engage with many other groups, providing active guidance and support to statutory bodies like the Council’s strategic group, the North West Regional Strategic Migration Partnership or the Police Community Advisory Group Forum. We have hosted meetings or provided information sessions for International Migrants Day, LARA (Liverpool Asylum Seeker and Refugee Association, Merseycare, Police recruits and visiting EU projects through the City Council.
We support other organisations, mainly through active participation, such as City of Sanctuary, or the Merseyside Refugee Support Network. Our partnership extends through formal work with Faiths4Change, Support for Asylum Seekers SAS, Refugee Action and the Red Cross in service delivery.
We also work with other organisations enabling them to provide services to our client base: for example Oasis, a Church Organisation, provide food which we distribute on a Thursday, and many other statutory and voluntary sector agencies who use the centre as a gateway to the Asylum Seekers in the city. Additionally we provide the opportunity for other groups to meet and work with Asylum Seekers; for example young people working with Positive Futures, STAR through their conversation club and the Fire and Rescue Service through the Princes Trust have delivered projects at the centre.
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