Hackney Refugee Forum
Hackney Refugee Forum is an umbrella organisation which was founded in April 2000 to support the refugee organisations in the London Borough of Hackney.
Hosted by Hackney CVS, we have 11 different refugee organisations on our Steering Group and we work with 62 different refugee and asylum seeker community organisations in Hackney.
Our role is to strengthen refugee communities and represent their joint interests in the borough of Hackney.
Our network encourages statutory and voluntary organisations to provide services for and to advocate for refugees in the borough. We believe that in providing opportunities for exchanging, sharing and learning from the experiences of refugees our Forum can raise awareness of the issues facing refugees. We work to enable and empower refugees to access their rights, develop their well-being and participate as fully as possible in all aspects of community life.
What are we working on?
- We can organise meetings and help share info on health between community organisations and service providers - click here for more info
- Action for ESOL campaign.
HRF EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME : IMPACT ON LOCAL PEOPLE
Below are just some of the successes we have achieved through this programme;
• 19 people have accessed secure and sustainable employment
• 125 people have benefited from the one to one employment surgeries
• 40 refugee and migrant organisations have received support through this programme and filled in the survey about employment issues of refugee and migrant communities
• 80 people joined training courses to enhance their employability skills
• Over 100 people told us in feedback that this programme has increased their confidence in accessing employment.
Read our latest newsletter
You can find out the latest news from our Forum here
Contact Details
Contact Name |
Ali Aksoy |
Email Address |
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Phone Number |
0207 923 1962 |
Address |
c/o Hackney CVS, 84 Springfield House, 5 Tyssen Street |
CEN networks
Core networks
Cross Cutting networks
- African Women's Network
- Black & Ethnic Minority Arts
- HSCF: Disability Special Interest Group
- HSCF: Drug and Alcohol Services Network
- HSCF Learning Difficulties Special Interest Group
- HSCF: Mental Health special interest group
- HSCF: Older People's Special Interest Group
- Educators Forum ESOL Network
- Hackney Advice Forum
- Hackney African Forum
- Hackney Council for Older People
- Hackney Francophone Organisations Network
- Hackney LINk
- Hackney Women's Forum
- Hackney Unites
- Hackney Vietnamese Refugees Network
- Interlink Bridging & Bonding Network
- OPEN Dalston
- Young Hackney
- Hackney's User Forums
- Hackney Play Providers Forum