In order to fulfil the government’s instruction to stop all non-essential contact, CARAS will not be conducting any face-to-face work with beneficiaries until further notice. We have closed our project space and office and are not running any in-person services during the lockdown. We will review this whenever government guidance changes. In the meantime we […]
We hope you are enjoying this wonderfully warm summer weather! We have had a lot of reasons to celebrate this past quarter, from achieving the Silver Quality Mark from London Youth to seeing our young people co-facilitate 10 Signs of Welcome workshops throughout our local community. Our women’s group continue to enjoy weekly yoga sessions […]
We are proud to share with you the 2018 CARAS Annual Report, which details our impact project by project.
2017 has seen CARAS hold 10 different regular groups and activities for more than 500 refugees and asylum seekers. We spent an incredible 28,000 hours together, at ESOL, Visiting Project, Study Group, Women’s Drop-in, Thursday and Saturday Youth clubs, Youth Council, ‘Problem? No Problem!’ clinic, individual support, Family Activity Days and trips all over London […]
English is the thing people most often ask for help with. Language is an important first step to feeling like you are part of the local community and that you can look after yourself, and your family, within that community. We believe that friendly and accessible opportunities to learn and practise English help people to […]
Now feels like a good time to take stock of all the opportunities that have come our way in the first quarter of the year (but, really, how can we already be in May?!). We have been incredibly fortunate to receive a lot of goodwill and some much appreciated cold, hard cash in recent […]
Helen Thompson, Youth Case Worker I’ve been volunteering with CARAS since September 2016. I work in international development, and did a posting in Afghanistan and a stint working on the Syria refugee crisis. After these experiences, and in the aftermath of the devastating Brexit referendum result, I was keen to do more both to support […]
The Chickpea Sisters are independent! The Chickpea Sisters have built a name for themselves as a catering organisation with a difference. They have become well known for producing delicious food from around the world, and we have lost track of the number of people who phone to tell us how good they are, and […]
Spring is shaping up to be a busy time at CARAS. A lot has been going on already and we’re not even halfway through the month! We’ve been running volunteer training sessions and now have 10 new fully trained people ready to get started in our Visiting Project, providing targeted one-to-one support to refugees […]
Looking back at 2016… In 2016, we worked with over 300 individuals offering a wide range of support. In addition to all of our regular activities supporting refugees and asylum seekers we did all of this: In January we formalised our Fundraising Working Group, a highly dedicated group of volunteers who have helped give […]