Latest News from Positive Action in Housing

A new surgery has been established in Govanhill in response to the needs of new migrant communities in the South of Glasgow. A Positive Action in Housing caseworker will be available every Wednesday morning between 10am and 12 noon to give free, independent, multilingual and culturally sensitive housing information and advice.

This surgery commences on the 25th of July at Cross Roads Youth and Community Association, 19a Belleisle Street , Govanhill, G42 8HL. To find out more, email our casework team.

If you have unwanted furninture that could be of use to someone else, or if you want to find free or cheap second-hand furniture, check out all of these projects:

EMMAUS GLASGOW
101 Ellesmere Street
Glasgow
G22 5QT
(t) 0141 353 3903

SECOND OPPORTUNITIES
Braes Shopping Centre
33 Dougrie Drive
Glasgow
G45 9AD
(t) 0141 631 3620
(e) info@newtwo.org.uk
(w) www.secondopportunities.org.uk

SECOND OPPORTUNITIES
302 Broomloan Road
Ibrox
Glasgow
G51 2JQ
(t) 0141 425 1177

RUCHILL FURNITURE PROJECT
Unit 3
89 Chapel Street
Maryhill
Glasgow
G20 9BD
(t) 0141 945 2746
(f) 0141 945 0094
(e) ruchfurn@yahoo.co.uk

SPRUCE CARPET
Furguson House
302 Broomloan Road
Glasgow
G51 2JQ
(t) 0141 425 1555
(e) info@sprucecarpet.org.uk
(w) www.sprucecarpets.org.uk

Messages of Support
Positive Action in Housing’s 12TH AGM is taking place at:

11.00 am for 11.30 am
Friday 7 September 2007
Satinwood Suite
Glasgow City Chambers
George Square
Glasgow G2 1DU

Its been a challenging year and a highly productive year in which we have delivered on almost every front. And it would be a great boost for our staff, volunteers and management committee, to receive messages of support from everyone who is aware of our work or been in contact with Positive Action in Housing as partners, service users, funders etc. A selection of messages will be placed on this website.

Please feel free to add your message of support here.

Editorial Comment
Hello, hope everything is going well. I am going to Italy in 2 weeks, the first time I have went this year. I will be away for 3 weeks, so we are looking for someone to write Quickmail whilst I am away. A few people have already been nominated for the job and I will let you know the name of the New, Temporary, (of course) Quickmail Editor next week.

Thanks to everyone who raised money from sponsorship and selling things at the sleep out, check out this link for more info on it. £563.07 has been raised as a result.

If anyone from Glasgow got ‘the grid’ magazine from Glasgow Young Scot, I would suggest you read it and let me know what you think. They asked me and Amal (Glasgow Girls) to write an article about issues affecting young asylum seekers living in Glasgow. They also gave £100 to PAIH Destitution Fund as a thank you - that was nice of them. Take care, Jamie

Forwarded from UNITY CENTRE……….

Several of the people detained in Glasgow over the last few weeks have had their removal directions stopped.

The Hazizi family had their removal flight on Thursday last week stopped after their lawyer lodged a Judicial Review of the decision to remove them. Merita (22) and mum Diana and dad Naim are still in Dungavel after attempts to move them to a detention centre near London was stopped on medical grounds.
Today their lawyer lodged an application for bail and the Dean of their local church is going to stand as a ‘cautioner’ (”surety”) for them. We hope they’ll be released at a bail hearing on Thursday and will be back home in Glasgow then.

Rahila Choudary and her family of four children are still in Yarls Wood detention centre - their lawyer has lodged an application for bail and two sureties have been found who are willing to go to the bail hearing but this might not happen until next week. We’re waiting to see if the Home Office will release them earlier because the children have now been in detention for almost one month now.

Charles Atangana was due to be removed back to Cameroon yesterday evening but swift action by his lawyer managed to stop the flight. We’re waiting to see if he will be released without needing bail.

Dorcaf Kimani and her 14 month old son Dean (detained in Birmingham but held in Dungavel) were due to be returned to Kenya last week but had the flight stopped because they hadn’t had adequate anti-malarial treatment.

Finally Kishwer Ashed and her children has just, today, been given Leave to Remain in the UK for the next three years…. Amazing!

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