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CAN YOU SEE THE LANDMINES?

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share. respect. enjoy.the National Cycle Network is loved by many and open to all.

share the space and enjoy the path you’re on.

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share. respect. enjoy.THE NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK IS LOVED BY MANY AND OPEN TO ALL.

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We believe that every child has the right to walk, cycle or scoot to school. To make this happen, we need government to commit to establishing lower traffic speeds and better walking and cycling routes.

Sign below to join the Safer Streets campaign and tell your MP that you want your children to be able to walk, cycle or scoot to school.

We want to see a safer school run.Let’s make it happen.

#SafetoSchool

Sign a petition asking your local MP to make the school run safer for our children. Why not print a copy out to leave at your school’s reception?

Set up a walking bus to your child’s school with other parents. Read our guide to find out more.

Map ‘danger points’ on your school run and encourage others to do the same by sharing your map with your community.

How do your children prefer to get to school – by bike, scooter or foot? Photograph them in these cut-out-and-keep glasses and upload the photos to our website.

Is your school run particularly tricky by bike, foot or scooter? Why not film your route and upload the video here.

Make your own road signs to place along your school run route by following our tutorial.

If you’d like to make your school run safer, why not hold a campaign meeting with your school’s PTA to see what you could do locally?

Seven Steps to Safer StreetsWe want to see a safer school run. Show your local MP that you care about creating safer streets by joining our campaign with one of these free, hands-on activities.

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Thank you for your support. You are critical to our campaign.For more hints and tips visit www.sustrans.org.uk/safetoschool #SafetoSchool

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Project: Brockholes Client: Lancashire Wildlife Trust

Funders and Partners History

The mild spring brought a flurry of colour to Brockholes this week-end, as the apple trees in and around the visitor centre burst into bloom. There’s still time to visit during apple season, and our team were there to photograph them in their glory.

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06. Creating a branded environment — Making the experience memorable, continued06. Creating a branded environment — Making the experience memorableThe Brockholes experience should be memorable for all age groups. Think about different users and how they will react with the space – children and wheelchair users have a different perspective to adults and the more able bodied; for example, their sightline is at a lower level. Likewise, less active visitors may spend more time sitting or resting – consider how they will interact with the brand in seating areas.

A different perspective

Children sit and lie on the floor, lean against walls, roll over and crawl under chairs! They will see the brand from a different point of view from the rest of us, so think about what they will remember -– perhaps a message on the floor or a picture at a low level?

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The black block shown here is to indicate background colour only; the marque does not appear within a black shape.

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The marque is just one part of the brand, along with all the other elements outlined in these guidelines.

02, The brand elements — The marqueThe Brockholes brand has a main marque, shown below. Although at times this will be used as a stand-alone marque – for example on small items where space precludes the use of illustrations – it will more often than not be seen in the same view as the illustrations, spot words and other brand elements.

02. The brand elements — The marque, continuedThe Brockholes marque can be reproduced in black on a white background and white on a black background.

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What’s for tea, mum?A balanced vegetarian diet is a healthy choice and one of the easiest ways to reduce your environmental impact.

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I am a tailor by trade. I fixed clothes like my brother back in Guinea-Conakry. Ladies’ dresses are my speciality but I cannot work here so I don’t get to do it at the moment. Here I help in the kitchen three days a week with the preparation of food as part of the Home & Away project. I also show people round when they arrive here for the first time.

If I am given permission to stay I would like to work in a shop. I have had no support for over a year and I don’t know what I would have done without Asylum Link. No money. No house. No food. I take home food now and cook for myself. If this place closed many people would suffer.

People are very stressed and upset when they come here. Nobody is perfect but we try to help them. Better to be here than doing nothing at home. Loneliness is not good for your spirit.

My friend brought me to Asylum Link three years ago. I was homeless at the time. I now have job here as a volunteer. I help cook for at least seventy people most days. I like to help out and as a result I have made a lot of friends here.

Asylum Link has been great for my confidence. Many people come here. They give food, tea, coffee. We cook Asian food for people. I hope to get a job one day and go to university. My English has become so much better because of this place.

If I am granted permission to stay in this country I would come back and help others at Asylum Link because it is a lifeline for people in need like myself.

My life has been terrible in the past but Asylum Link has helped get me through. I love it here. It has become my home.

FAIZA ALI AMADOU BAH

I come from Zimbabwe where I was a civil engineer in highway construction and maintenance. Getting involved at Asylum Link helped get through many of my problems. The place has become a sanctuary to me and many others – a safe space where people can come together over food and forget our differences.

People from all places come here. I have recently met a jet airplane engineer from Ethiopia and a teacher from Eritrea. We meet and we start from the bottom to help ourselves up to a better life. I would like to go back into engineering one day. I trained with British books in my country so I have an advantage.

People donate clothes and bicycles to Asylum Link via roadshows that they organise. Local police also bring us unclaimed bikes and I mend them or use the parts for spares. The bikes are sold to raise money for the project but we also give them to asylum seekers for free if they need transport to help them out. I love to help here because Asylum Link is my home.

MARA NYIRENDA

Asylum Link has helped to give me back my confidence. Before I came here I couldn’t even go into a shop to buy food for my daughter.

When I’m on my own I tend to think too much about what’s happened in my life, which is why Asylum Link is a great place to come to. They have helped me learn how to enjoy my life again and encouraged me to study to improve my English. I volunteer here and help make meals in the kitchen for between 70 and 100 people as part of the Home & Away project.

Different people have different problems. You listen and you share people’s sadness. I feel it a lot.

If I am granted asylum I would love to get a job. It would be great for me and help offer a better future for my daughter. She loves school so much and I am very proud of her. She has become an expert at computers in just six months. It makes me cry with happiness for her because my daughter is my life. At last I am happy.

KIRAN SHAHZADI

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“ Asylum Link has become a sanctuary

to me and many others – a safe space

where people can come together over

food and forget our differences.”

ASYLUM LINK MERSEYSIDE

t 0151 709 1713 e [email protected] w www.asylumlink.org.ukPublished November 2012

I was a farmer back in Sudan tending cows and sheep. I came to Asylum Link in 2006 when my case to stay in the UK was refused. I came here because I had no money, no family, and nowhere to live.

Asylum Link has helped in so many ways including giving me English classes. When I first came I was scared. I was alone. I came here to meet people. Some even speak my language.

I have made some very good friends here. I work in the kitchen, help give people clothes. I’ve not cooked Sudanese food yet but I hope to one day. Lamb and okra with spicy chili is my favourite. I have had status in the UK since 2010 but still come here two days week to help. I go to college to learn English. One day I would like to be a painter and decorator.

This place is important. It is the best place. They helped me when I struggled. This place is like my house. There is no place like it. I will always help here because wherever I live, wherever I work, I think it is important to help others.

EISA THABIT

Supported by Faiths4Change www.faiths4change.org.uk

Words and design by Creative Concern www.creativeconcern.com

Photography by Ant Clausen www.antclausen.com

70-120 people are helped by Asylum Link every day

6 part and full time staff members and 80+ volunteers keep Asylum Link going

28772 visits to the centre in 2011 alone

People from 76 nationalities needed our help in the last year alone

We work with 5000 individuals a year, of whom 300 are registered with us as destitute

10000+ healthy bowls of porridge have been served since we started our Porridge4Breakfast project

800+ bicycles have been repaired and recycled by our bike shed volunteers since Asylum Link began

3000 people have seen our Destitution Roadshow presentation detailing the reality of an asylum seeker’s life, why they come here and how they can escape destitution

600 individuals took part in our Faiths4Change Home & Away cooking sessions and in our bread-making courses organised in conjunction with Liverpool’s Bread Church

Create a safe place for those seeking asylum where they can relax, eat, talk to others and reconnect with the world

Offer welfare benefits, health and housing advice, and immigration advice

Help the alleviation of hardship and destitution amongst asylum seekers and refugees through the provision of food, emergency cash grants, clothing and some housing

Offer access to second hand clothing, shoes, kitchenware, baby clothes and other donated essentials

Run three volunteer-led English classes each day and computer classes twice a week

Create social events to encourage integration and friendship amongst asylum seekers

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t 0151 709 1713 e [email protected] w www.asylumlink.org.ukPublished November 2012

Supported by Faiths4Change www.faiths4change.org.uk

Words and design by Creative Concern www.creativeconcern.com

Photography by Ant Clausen www.antclausen.com

Imagine if you were to walk out of your

work place this evening with nowhere to go,

no sense of purpose, and no possessions to

your name other than the clothes you’re

wearing. What would you do? How would

you get through the night?

That’s the position many of the people who use Asylum Link Merseyside find themselves in every day – stateless, destitute, demoralised, abused, alone.

You have to admire the sheer fortitude of these people to carry on under such circumstances, in an asylum system that marginalises them and actively keeps them from becoming purposeful members of society.

The success of each project undertaken at Asylum Link is defined by the personalities of the people who run it. And this is absolutely the case with our allotment scheme. A tenacious gardener will work wonders and we see this re ected in the way many of our allotment plots have

ourished over the years.We have found that by getting outside and working

with the earth people can – in a small way – overcome the pressure of dealing with a harsh asylum process. It stops them sitting inside, alone, isolated from the world – a situation that often contributes to mental health issues.

However, as with every allotment across the UK, the weather in 2012 has made for a really difficult year. Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped us growing much needed fruit and vegetables that find their way into the healthy meals we provide for the very people who need our help.

Our Porridge 4 Breakfast project was borne out of necessity. We needed to find a way of replacing bread at breakfast time because it was becoming so expensive. Porridge is a good staple, one of the best. It will take a hungry person through a large part of the day whilst being cheap and nutritious.

It’s a remarkable thing to see people come into Asylum Link after a night out on the street and fill up on porridge. You can see the life ow back into them. But it’s not just a nutritious meal, it’s a chance to share experiences and have contact with others. For many of the people who volunteer to prepare the porridge, it’s a way of reconnecting with a world that they currently play no role in.

Food is not just a way of sustaining people. It’s an opportunity to express social worth, to share with others something of yourself and your culture. The Home & Away project enables asylum seeker and refugee volunteer cooks to connect with indigenous residents using food as a common currency to share cooking skills, recipes, stories and a meal. The volunteer cooks are still enjoying tasty journeys across Merseyside from mums and chicken pie in St Helen’s to baked samosas in Stockbridge Village.

Nobody likes to have to ask for help, however tough things are, which is why our meal times are such an integral part of what Asylum Link has become. It’s the time of the day where people can come together and make a contribution to the world. It’s also the chance to learn about wonderful new recipes and cooking tips that people bring with them from their home countries.

We secure fresh fruit and vegetables every week from local shops so that people can eat healthily. Healthy eating makes such a difference to people’s mental and physical wellbeing, particularly people caught powerless and alone in an unforgiving asylum process.

Working with an extremely limited budget we get fresh food direct to the destitute – those with no money and no home. It’s just a small contribution to the overall work of Asylum Link, but we feel it helps give people the strength to survive and carry on rebuilding their lives.

Asylum Link’s bike shop is a wonder to behold, engaging many of the people who need our help in a practical way. We receive bikes, broken parts and help from organisations such as Liverpool John Moores University and Merseyside Police, to whom we are very grateful.

These odds and ends are then cobbled together to create functioning bicycles by our enthusiastic volunteers. The bike shop helps us in many ways. It makes mechanics out of volunteers, which is a valuable life skill. It provides us with bikes that we can then sell to raise funds for Asylum Link or give to asylum seekers who simply don’t have the money to use public transport. Then there are the obvious health benefits that people get through cycling.

On average we can create one working bike out of every three we receive by donation, which shows the great ingenuity that our volunteers possess even when they’re at their lowest ebb.

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Asylum Link Merseyside exists to help bring people back into society step by step, to make them feel valued again. We help them reconnect physically and emotionally with those around them and offer a safe place to be themselves while they fight to remain in the country.

But the line between success and failure is dreadfully thin. We offer advice, support, friendship if needed but often it’s just a hand to hold and a warm meal that helps get people through the most difficult times of their lives.

Faiths4Change, in partnership with Asylum Link Merseyside, have provided a link into local communities. developing new relationships and forming new friendships. Sharing time and experience has improved the living environment for newcomers and existing populations alike.

We have very little money and raising the funds to continue our work is a constant struggle. Organisations such as Groundwork and Faiths4Change help us to create life-changing projects such as the National Lottery funded Target Wellbeing project. But we need more support.

We don’t always succeed in our work but we always do our best – offering people a safe place where they can stop merely surviving and start to live again.

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