Networks & Forums
Minority Ethnic Forum
Resources for new arrivals in Harrogate
This document provides useful information for new arrivals to the Harrogate district. It lists helpful organisations like Citizens Advice Bureau who have information online in different languages, North Yorkshire Welcome Pack which gives information on many aspects of living in North Yorkshire, such as work and education. There is health and safety information and contact details for North Yorkshire Police. This list for new arrivals is not exhaustive and is being updated with new information regularly.
This document has now been translated into five other languages. Please select which language you require by clicking on one of the following Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish.
Sadly the Minority Ethnic Project finished at the end of March 2011, as following the end of the Migration Impacts Funding we have been unable to secure any replacement funding.
The project has done a variety of partnership building and outreach work since it’s inception in December 2007 in both urban and rural areas. This has included:
- Supporting establishment and promotion for, the ‘Welcome Pack’ for migrant workers/ new arrivals in North Yorkshire by the North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership.
- Supporting people to access ESOL and conversational classes
- Health promotion (community health fairs and raising awareness of how to access health services)
- Running the Harrogate District Minority Ethnic Forum and Ripon BME Forum
- Promoting volunteering as a way to engage in the community and improve language skills.
- Working with Harrogate Library to increase their engagement with migrant workers.
- Supporting self help groups:
- North Yorkshire Chinese Community Group
- Harrogate Muslim Association
- Polish Mum’s and tots group
- Harrogate Malayalee Association (Indian
- Polish School club
- Community Safety :
- Working with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to promote home fire safety checks and safer driving
- Working with North Yorkshire Police on tackling hate crime and making links with local communities of interest;
- Promoting alcohol awareness
- Promoting domestic abuse services
- Working with Yorkshire Police to support the Police Interpreter’s Project, and to encourage participants to use their language skills in volunteering locally.
- Running various training events on for example understanding faiths locally
Read more about what had been achieved in the End of Project Report
Find out more about the background to the Project here
Our thanks go to everyone who has supported the project over the last three years.
