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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

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 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

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 🧡

Tonight at 8:30pm at the Gregson! All are welcome🧡

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.

Tonight from 7pm! Everyone is welcome ❤️

RAIS is proud to share its first ever Impact Report! 🥳 In our first year funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, we have worked hard to find out what impact we are having on asylum seekers and refugees, volunteers at RAIS, the wider community, and how we have improved as an organisation. We are delighted with the findings! rais.org.uk/our-impact/ A huge thank you to Sharon of Think Forward C.I.C.; her work with RAIS on measuring impact and writing this report has been amazing.

RAIS was busy last week! We began our first ever LGBTQ+ social group for asylum seekers and refugees which will take place weekly on an invitation-only basis to ensure it remains a safe space. Then on Wednesday afternoon, we were joined by Mark from LDCVS at our drop-in, who worked with more than 10 asylum seekers and refugees to get them started volunteering locally. We are very happy to say Mark will be joining us on a monthly basis! In the evening, RAIS had its Annual General Meeting with our amazing members with a wonderful meal from The Global Village