News and Events

Dawn Smallwood is walking to raise crucial funds for Bahar Women's Association. Enabling them to continue providing essential services & support to refugees.

Volunteer online language teachers needed for Gazan students.

You are warmly invited to this public event which follows a two-day workshop with sanctuary seekers living in Bradford. The workshop is about playing, and designing board-games, along with other participatory creative practices and will offer a space to reflect on what it means to build home, community, and futures in Bradford.

Advicenow will be running a free housing/homelessness rights course for community groups supporting refugees. The course will be delivered online and is funded by The Disrupt Foundation.

Please join us for our next online ESOL regional networking event. Meet virtually and share ideas with colleagues supporting ESOL learners!

The attached updated Asylum decision guidance provides important guidance to better understand the next steps for people seeking asylum who receive a decision from the Home Office on their asylum application.

Join the IATEFL ESOL SIG for the Lively and Interactive Annual Swap Shop Event! Come together with fellow teachers to exchange practical classroom ideas in a dynamic and collaborative setting.

Dates for your diary – this is our schedule of MESH events for the 2025-26 Academic year, including Regional Networking Events and Lunchtime Showcases. We look forward to seeing you at as many as possible!

Right to Remain have produced two A5 fact sheets; on immigration detention, and on staying safe against the threat of far right violence (samples attached). The leaflets offer clear definitions and practical information on what you can do if you are facing immigration detention, or find yourself at risk of aggression or violence from the far right. They are offering these fact sheets free of charge to groups. If you’d like to receive a batch, please get in touch by emailing sara@righttoremain.org.uk.

NATECLA co-chairs Naeema Hann and Paul Sceeny on the recent comments by Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick. Please read.

MESH is hiring! We have a new job opportunity to help us deliver an exciting new project in the East Midlands. If you can travel easily around this area and have knowledge and experience of the ESOL sector, please take a look!

STEP (Specialist Training and Employment Programme) is a free online programme run by World Jewish Relief offering personalised employment support and high-quality English classes to Ukrainians and HK BN(O)s in England.