See our Refugee Week page to see how RAY are celebrating Refugee Week 2014. If you are interested in helping RAY organise our events, have some great ideas, are part of another organisation that would like to run at Refugee Week event or just want to know more then please do get in touch.
You can find out about Refugee Week here: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/
See coverage of our exciting Bronze Award for our supplementary teaching in the York Press.
Have a read here:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/inbrief/10881684.Award_for_Refugee_Action_York_s_Turkish_classes/
Refugee Action York are very proud and excited to announce that we have been awarded a Bronze Award from the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE) for the Turkish teaching we offer as part of our drop-in service. At the moment we are the only supplementary school in York to have an award from the organisation. The Bronze Award shows that a supplementary school has put in place the procedures and policies to run both effectively and safely. We now hope to go on to achieve the Silver and Gold Awards.
For some time now we have been looking for a new name for the drop-in. “Drop-in” is not a phrase that translates well so most of our service users have been referring to our sessions as “Turkish school” or “Sunday school” amongst themselves. Since we are no longer only reaching the Turkish-speaking community, and given that Sunday School has religious connotations for many, we felt it was time for a review.
RAY has signed the York Citywide Volunteering Pledge to show our commitment to contributing towards a thriving culture of Volunteering in York.