Merseyside Refugee Support Network
Description
Merseyside Refugee Support Network (MRSN) supports newly-granted refugees with their social and economic integration into life in Liverpool and elsewhere.
With 80% of those they work with saying MRSN helped meet their needs, the value of their support, including legal and housing advice, cannot be underestimated. Bulk decisions on backlogged asylum claims have left hundreds of refugees in Merseyside homeless. This and wider policy changes have accelerated demand that they are struggling to meet. With the CEO now largely focused on firefighting, the opportunity to focus on organisational resilience is limited.
Our funding will enable MRSN to hire an additional caseworker, increasing the capacity of the CEO to focus on strategic development and fundraising to expand services to fully meet demand.
Funding programme:Core Programme
Funding round:2024 Summer
Grant amount:30,000
Location: North West
Sector: Health and wellbeing, Housing and homelessness, Poverty and disadvantage