Unity Centre Glasgow

Come to our next monthly anti-deportation workshop - the first Saturday of every month.

Has your asylum case been refused? Are you worried about being detained by the Home Office? Are you scared of being deported? Come and find out how to organise YOUR anti-deportation campaign. Understanding the system is the first step to winning your claim!

Organised by UNIITY and supported by NCADC (National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns) Second workshop Saturday 7th Novmeber 11am - 4 pm

At the Kinning Park Complex, on Cornwall Street, off Paisley Road West.

Without Borders …
A FREE day of film, skill sharing and discussion on migration, borders and freedom of movement

Saturday 17 October 2009
11am – 7pm
Glasgow Social Centre, 66 Osborne St, Glasgow, G1 More information here

Come to our monthly anti-deportation workshops - the first Saturday of every month.

Organised by UNIITY and supported by NCADC (National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns) First workshop Saturday 3rd October 11am - 4 pm

At the Kinning Park Complex, on Cornwall Street, off Paisley Road West.

Read more here

Two keen supporters of the Unity Centre are about to start a massive world cycle tour to raise money for our ‘Unity in the Community’ charity (Registered charity SCO40466).

Leaving in just under three weeks, Margo and Ben from Ibrox plan to cycle more than 18,000 miles from New Zealand to Glasgow. Riding about 80 miles a day the pair will ride from New Zealand then along Australia’s Pacific Highway, through the jungles of Indonesia and then into Bangkok. They also plan to go through Uzbekistan, Iran and Turkey arriving back in Glasgow in 18 months time in the Spring of 2011.See more about Margo and Ben’s plans here!

Unity in the Community, the Unity Centre’s charity organsation (Scottish Charity number SCO40466) is pleased to announce that we will be starting free, weekly, English classes for asylum seekers, refugees and any other speakers of other languages who wish to improve their English skills. Starting on Thursday 3rd September, they will be held in the rooms above our charity shop every Thursday evening from 6pm - 8pm.More information can be found here.

  Thanks to the hard work of a team of dedicated volunteers, the Unity Centre’s charity, ‘UNITY in the Community’ (registered charity SCO40466) has now opened its new charity shop at Govan Cross. (See map here.) As well as providing a cheap source of good quality clothes, books, toys, videos, CDs, DVDs and small household items to local people the shop is also the storage, collection and distibution point for the free clothing service we provide for destiute asylum seekers and other people in need in Glasgow. For more information see here.

We’ve been amazed by the response to our recent financial appeal. Thanks to your generous subscription, we’ve been able to reach the target amount of £2,500. This means we have been able to get the outstanding fixtures and fittings needed to open the new charity shop, and are no longer at risk of having the phones cut off in the Centre.

Although the charity shop should now be self-sufficient, the Unity Centre is only able to operate in the way that it does through the generosity of its supporters. Thank you for helping to make it possible.

The UNITY Centre needs your help to stay open.

We need to raise £2,500. Please make a donation today to help us.

Over the three years the Unity Centre has been open in Glasgow over 2,000 asylum seekers and their dependents have registered their personal details with us. On average thirty people come into the Centre every day to sign before they go to report or because they need our help.

At the same time we have given support to over 300 people who have been put into detention without warning by the Home Office. Over half of the people we have helped have been released with their families and returned back to Glasgow to continue their asylum claim.

For the last three years we have been open from 10.30 to 6pm five days a week. And we have done all of this with only volunteers and without funding. No-one is paid to work in the Unity Centre and we rely 100 per cent on donations from supporters.

Over the coming month we hope to start an ambitious new project – the Unity in the Community charity (registered charity SCO40466) which will have a second Unity office and shop at Govan Cross. This charity will allow us extend the sort of services we provide for asylum seekers and refugees and will let us organise more intercultural events to bring people together in the local community.

Please read the full financial appeal here now

For details of how to make a donation click here!

Unity were invited to participate in June’s Govan Fair procession on the 5th of June. With help from the Carnival Arts Centre, our contingent was an awesome sight.

Our float was widely recognised as the missing statue from the square at Govan Cross.

Thanks to all who participated, or who turned out to see the parade! If anyone has any additional photographs, we’d love to see them.

Home Office terrorise family to prove a point!

Mum and son dawn-raided in Sighthill this morning

Support the protest tomorrow morning outside the Home Office in Glasgow at 10.00am.

In a shocking move the Home Ofice Enforcement Team at Brand Street have carried out an unexpected dawn raid on a young mother from the Ivory Coast who had been living in Sighthill.

More information here