Trainer: JCWI Level: Basic Online training: after booking, you will be sent a link to complete your registration on zoom. This webinar is to prepare those candidates sitting the OISC Level 1 Competence Assessment Exam – find out more, including assessment dates, on the OISC website. This course will equip delegates with skills, useful tips and learning…
Trainer: JCWI Level: Basic Online training: after booking, you will be sent a link to complete your registration on zoom. Timings: This course is split into two sessions. Monday 27 November 10am – 1pm Tuesday 28 November 10am – 1pm Overview For anyone wanting to become an accredited immigration advisor, this is the first step.…
JCWI contributed to a collaborative report with The Landworkers’ Alliance, Focus on Labour Exploitation, The New Economics Foundation, Sustain, and a farmworker solidarity network which highlights working conditions under the Seasonal Worker Visa in UK horticulture. “It is migrant farmworkers who experience the agroindustrial system’s worst injustices.” Download the report from The Landworkers’ Alliance This report…
Download PDF Who we are We are writing as a group of 14 organisations working on migrants’ rights and migration issues, to provide evidence of our concerns about the latest Home Office immigration and nationality fee increases (Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023). The latest fee increase From 4 October 2023, increased…
Download the briefing September 2023 What’s the ask? Routes to settlement should be capped at five years maximum. To begin, we recommend parliamentarians commission an independent review of immigration policies and processes. What is ‘settlement’? This refers to permanent residence, or Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). People who are ‘settled’ in the UK can live,…
October 2023 Introduction 1. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is an independent charity established in 1967. Our mission is to promote justice, fairness and equality in British immigration and asylum law and policy. We do this through a combination of policy research and advocacy, and legal casework and strategic litigation relating…
We are mourning the loss of lives of thousands of people in Israel and in the occupied regions of Gaza and the West Bank over the past few weeks, and watch in horror as the violence continues to unfold. As a migrant rights charity, we call for an immediate end to violence leading to mass…
Trainer: JCWI Level: Basic Aim of the webinar: The aim of the course is to equip solicitors, practitioners, caseworkers and advisors with an introductory/intermediate level of knowledge on the application process in relation to fee waivers, sufficient to give initial advice to clients making the application. Objectives: By the end of the training, delegates will have a thorough…
This page contains information relating to artist funding in the UK. We have tried our best to lay out the information available in a convenient and efficient manner, but we always welcome feedback and additions to our resources. Please contact info@shapearts.org.uk with any contributions. Skip to content Finding funding as a disabled artist can be challenging.…
Latest Shape collaboration: Linny was shortlisted for the 2023 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts. Artist statement: Linny Venables is a visual artist based in Liverpool, working in sculpture, installation, curation and facilitation. Linny experiments with kiln-formed warm glass processes as a form of therapy. Slumping, extruding and manipulating glass in to fluid, colourful, slime like shapes. Follow Linny…