RAIS Lancaster
RAIS is looking for a new Operations Manager! As our Operations Manager, you will lead a diverse team of volunteers, and work alongside a small staff team, to lead RAIS Lancaster’s work supporting asylum and refugees through drop-ins, office-based appointments, and projects.
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 11th August at 23:59
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RAIS Lancaster
RAIS Lancaster and ARC Blackburn are celebrating Refugee Week together tomorrow night at The Dukes! At 5pm there will be a joint exhibition featuring audio, video, and art from the amazing people we support at ARC and RAIS, followed at 7pm by a documentary about both charities and music and theatre performances from talented refugees. Free to attend and all are welcome 🧡
Bless The People Who Live in This House
New documentary and exhibition at The Dukes marks Refugee Week through film, art, courage and community
RAIS Lancaster
So proud to partner with The Gregson. We love working with other volunteer-led organisations
RAIS Lancaster
We had the best day at Lancaster Pride! 🌈 RAIS's LGBTQ+ group for refugees and asylum seekers made a huge banner that they carried at the parade. We even met another LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who joined in carrying the banner who is ao excited to join our weekly social group.
This is why visibility matters so much; RAIS is proud to stand alongside our asylum seeking and refugee friends and tell them: You are welcome here! 🌈🧡
RAIS Lancaster
We had a busy May at RAIS! Amongst the usual hectic drop-ins, full office, and our weekly LGBTQ+ social group, we had our rehearsals for The Dukes, Lancaster The Box project, which we shared with the public last week! Our refugee and asylum seeker group shared their performance along with Prime Time (a creative group for those 60+), Lancashire Young Carers, the Traveller Heritage Group, Queer By Gum, and 4Ever Unique (Unique Kidz & Co's group for disabled adults aged 18-30). RAIS closed the day with the RAIS House Party, getting everyone involved in dancing and having fun! We also
RAIS Lancaster
Beats Without Borders is back this Friday! Come to the Gregson at 8:30pm, where we will be celebrating international music and dance with DJ Wasswa on the decks.
Suggested £5 donation towards drinks' fund for asylum seekers and refugees at future dance nights. Free entry for asylum seekers and refugees. See you there 🕺💃
RAIS Lancaster
🌹RAIS IS GOING TO PRESTON!🌹 We are now looking for Preston-based folks to join our new drop-in volunteer team (see advert below). We are excited to announce that beginning Friday 29th May, RAIS will run a drop-in helping asylum seekers in Preston! We are delighted about joining the network of organisations supporting asylum seekers in such a wonderful city. And we are very grateful to Preston City Council funding us to do this work and to help the asylum seeking community in such a wonderful city. We are searching for more volunteers based in Preston to join our team. We
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The Helpful RAIS team being Helpful and Very Active Lifting Furniture! (Not at all posed for a photo...)
Thank you for bringing silliness and joy when the work we do can feel so heavy. We are lucky to have you 🧡
RAIS Lancaster
*TONIGHT AT 8PM* Tonight, in a Volunteer Special for Beyond Sanctuary, we are in conversation with Lindsey, who has been a volunteer at RAIS Lancaster for years. A former probation officer (who worked with the highest risk sex offenders) and NHS nurse, we hear her informed opinions on the misinformation and myths around asylum seekers and doing this work as a woman. We reflect on her journey to becoming a strong advocate for refugees and listen to some of the music that inspires her. We also dedicate a song to our departed friend, Asrin, who passed away the night after
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RAIS Lancaster
Today, RAIS closed to honour our friend and client, Asrin. We are heartbroken to write that at around 4:15am this morning, on 15th April 2026, Asrin passed away at 28 years of age. After a sudden deterioration beginning on Thursday last week, after weeks of relative stability, it became evident that Asrin had short time left over the weekend and that medical repatriation was no longer possible. She began slipping away from the world peacefully over a course of days, surrounded by those who love her, and having calls with her family during a nationwide internet shutdown in their country,
Donate to Grant Asrin's Final Wish To Be With Family, organized by Caitlin Cheshire
My name is Caitlin and I live in the North West. I am a friend of an amazi… Caitlin Cheshire needs your support for Grant Asrin's Final Wish To Be With Family
RAIS Lancaster
Tonight at 8:30pm at the Gregson! All are welcome🧡
RAIS Lancaster
Introducing Beats without Borders, beginning Friday 27th March
Come to the Gregson Centre (LA1 3PY) at 8:30pm on Friday! RAIS is now hosting bi-monthly music/dance nights to celebrate the wonderful cultures in this city. DJ Wasswa will be doing the music and taking song suggestions so choose the best songs for us to dance to! Drinks at the bar are free for refugees and asylum seekers. Balcony area reserved for women.
ALL (adults) are welcome, as unfortunately children won't be able to come due to rules at the premises for late events.
RAIS Lancaster
Tonight from 7pm! Everyone is welcome ❤️
RAIS Lancaster
Our Operations Manager is raising money for her friend Asrin, who is also a client of RAIS Lancaster. Asrin is a 28 years old woman who has been battling Stafe IV bile duct cancer for more than two years, which has now become terminal. She has been told she has limited days left to live after fighting since diagnosis in December 2023. Her final wish is to be with her family as she dies, who are in her home country. The only safe way for her to get there is via an air ambulance, which is what we are asking
Donate to Grant Asrin's Final Wish To Be With Family, organized by Caitlin Cheshire
My name is Caitlin. I am a friend of an amazing woman called Asrin who liv… Caitlin Cheshire needs your support for Grant Asrin's Final Wish To Be With Family
RAIS Lancaster
This week, RAIS volunteers gave an incredible 44 hours of their time to helping asylum seekers and refugees! The volunteers came from 11 different nationalities, including: Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Ireland, Kurdistan (Iraq and Iran), Pakistan, Syria, the UK, and Yemen.
Our volunteers gave their time helping with job applications, writing CVs, healthcare advocacy, housing support, legal support, applying for disability support, interpreting from 7 languages (not including dialects!), and getting people legal representation for asylum appeals. We are so lucky to have such an international team where everyone's skills are used to help so many people. 🧡
RAIS Lancaster
🇾🇪🎉13,600 podcast downloads🎉🇾🇪 Our new podcast episode for Beyond Sanctuary has broken a new record for downloads. 'Sam' from Yemen, who shared his story and his own music, was on on the show in November. His episode has been downloaded an incredible 13,600 times. Thank you to all of our listeners who take the time to hear the real stories of those seeking asylum here, and see the importance of them speaking for themselves. RAIS is delighted to have this platform on Beyond Radio so asylum seekers' and refugees' voices are heard. Listen on Apple Podcasts🍏: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/beyond-sanctuary-the-podcast/id1805430516 Listen on Spotify:📱
Beyond Sanctuary - The Podcast - Beyond Radio
This series is a companion to the Beyond Sanctuary radio programme. It highlights the often harrowing stories of refugees and asylum seekers who have arrived in the Lancaster & Morecambe district but often demonstrates the hope that is found in settling in this area.
RAIS Lancaster
One of our wonderful asylum seeking clients, 'Omar' from Uganda is on Beyond Sanctuary tonight in conversation with RAIS Lancaster. He tells us about persecution against certain groups in Uganda, the instability and community fractures caused by colonialism in the country, and how life changed so drastically when he was visiting the UK and needed to claim asylum. 'Omar' is a community-focused person, determined to make the most of educational opportunities and freedom in the UK as he builds his new life. 📻Live from 8pm: www.beyond.radio/player/ ↩Listen again from 9pm: www.beyond.radio/on-air/listen-again/ 🎙Listen to the podcast series on the Beyond Radio
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Please consider donating to this fundraiser for a local refugee to fund her living costs during her MA at Lancaster University: