What are Refugee Community Organisations?

Refugee Community Organisations are groups that support refugees and asylum seekers from certain communities. They do this by organising cultural events, offering advocacy sessions, providing English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, helping refugees to build their IT and English skills and hosting other activities.

Currently, 58 Refugee Community Organisations are members of Leeds Refugee Forum. Between them, they support thousands of people.

How does Leeds Refugee Forum help Refugee Community Organisations?

At Leeds Refugee Forum we work closely with Refugee Community Organisations. We encourage and assist discussions between different groups to create positive links between these communities. This helps mobilise them to advocate for the needs and aspirations of refugees and asylum seekers.

We organise training and workshops to help Refugee Community Organisations with management, governance, development, funding and capacity building. To provide a base where Refugee Community Organisations can meet and host their activities, we manage and run the One Community Centre.

Every year, Refugee Community Organisations work with us at Leeds Refugee Forum to organise events for Refugee Week.

List of Leeds Refugee Forum member organisations

Afghan Community Alfalh Centre
Qasim Omaid
[email protected]
07450910031
African Great Lakes
Boniface Twahirwa
[email protected]
07904374498
Women Arise in Leeds
Helen Tremenheere
[email protected]
07949323390
Ayanda Sazan Community
John Mer
[email protected]
07468854611
Azar Turk Association
Isa Hamzezadeh Turkoglu
[email protected]
07736931769
Leeds Ethiopian Community in Leeds
Zewdou Mangisto
zewdumg14@gmail,com
07956084900
Amal Eritrean Community in Leeds
Jamal Mohamed Ali
[email protected]
07988940407
Independent Somali Women and Children (ISWAC)
Arami Sharif
[email protected]
07946940875
Somali Community in West Yorkshire
Mohamed Ali
[email protected]
07592203868
Oromo Unity Association in Leeds
Dawit Gobena
[email protected]
07424164895
Yorkshire Burundian Community Association
Godefroid Rubomboza
[email protected]
07985471160
Yorkshire African Cameroonian Community
Nathalie Fopoussi
[email protected]
07962064020
Persian Association in Leeds
Kathy saemian
[email protected]
07939029110
Yorkshire Rwandese Community
Jimmy Kanyambo
[email protected]
07888957851
Eritrean Cultural Centre in Leeds
Eritrea Sabry Rubat
[email protected]
07411972393
Ghanaian Community Association in Leeds
Ghana Osman Jama
[email protected]
07403361277
The Cambia welfare Society Gambia
Bampha Jaifeh
[email protected]
07940006416
Nuba Mountains Solitary Abroad (NMSA)
Zaki Samwiil Jangul
[email protected]
07957753956
Mahber Selam Ertramyan Uk
Teame Hailemichael
[email protected]
07457547585
Eritrean Community in Leeds
Hassaballah Mohamed
[email protected]
07950815555
Ana Sudaniya Women’s Group
Amal Akasha
[email protected]
07860802023
Yorkshire Fullah Community
Mamadou Diop
[email protected]
07506697167
Kurdish House in Leeds
Kashan Kamal
[email protected]
07378373747
Zimbabwe Refugee Community in Leeds
Taurai Cheteni
[email protected]
07932357240
Sierra Leone Community in Leeds
Kadiatu Dawo
[email protected]
07878850979
Association of Angolans in Leeds
Da Gloria
[email protected]
07990323840

Eritrean Community in Leeds and Surrounding Areas (ECLSA)
Daniel Tewolde
[email protected]
07533980885
Nuba Association in Leeds
Sabir Jadir
[email protected]
07944334361
Imolites Yorkshire CIC
Onu Z. Ohaeri
[email protected]
07451354615
Leeds Sudanese Community Association
William Boro
[email protected]
07471360978
Eritrean Catholic Community Leeds
Kidane Kiflezgi
[email protected]
07950820991
Dar Alsalam Community in Leeds (DACL)
Abolance Ayeni
[email protected]
07588223479
Sudanese Community Association in West Yorkshire
Magdi Hassan
[email protected]
07957161961
The Common Cause Tanzania
Michael Murundi
[email protected]
07417533570
Syrian Association in Yorkshire
Nabil Watfah
[email protected]
07717755078
African Autism Services
Solomon Yohannes
[email protected]
07951324908
Somali Youth in Leeds
Mostafa Mohamed
[email protected]
07380798836
Guineans Association in Leeds
Hawa Bah
[email protected]
07427167543
Eritrean Community in West Yorkshire
Kidane Kiflezgi
[email protected]
07961229198
Ogaden Community of West Yorkshire
Samatar Pahir
[email protected]
07962373862
Eritrean Women Hadnet in Leeds (CEWHL)
Hanan Debesay
[email protected]
07896987174
Kurdish Zagrosian Centre Leeds
Kammal Faraj
[email protected]
07707609965
Hbasha women’s Group in Leeds
Tschay Gashaw
[email protected]
07940542790
Swahili Women Group in Leeds
Sada Abdalla
[email protected]
07427040090
Forum for Democratic Dialogue in Leeds
Nawal Hassan Elshiekh
[email protected]
07910111984
Senegal Community in Leeds
Makhame Sene
[email protected]
07868749645
Yorkshire Guineans Association
Mamadu Dian Bah
[email protected]
07861783837
Gongo Brazzaville Community in Leeds
Christian Boomer
[email protected]
07951710157
The Association of Liberians in Leeds
Kafumba Dolley
[email protected]
07594693717
NATNA Tigray Community in Leeds
Mahlet Abera
[email protected]
07737119666
C.I.N.A, the Ivorian Community of Northern England
Toussaint Goh
[email protected]
07446440268
UMOJA Leeds CIC – Youth Football
Maxmed Hussain
[email protected]
07877148459