The Suffolk Law Advice Centre which provides free legal advice to residents across Suffolk is looking for sponsors to help it raise much-needed funds as its staff, volunteers and supporters join the fourth Ipswich Legal Walk on Monday June 26th. The walk starts at 5:30pm that day, gathering at the front of Christchurch Mansion, and […]
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ISCRE #SuffolkSolidarity General Election 2017 Candidate Initiative
As campaigning for the General Election gets underway, the county’s leading civil rights body has announced that it will be writing to all confirmed candidates asking them to conduct their campaign in such a way that boosts rather than undermines community cohesion. The Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) is asking that those […]
“This is seriously good news”: ISCRE secures Comic Relief grant
Suffolk’s leading civil rights charity is celebrating today as it announces a £30,000 grant from Comic Relief. The money has been awarded to the Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) to help it improve core resilience and strengthen its independence to continue to deliver its services aimed at empowering Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) […]
What’s next for EU nationals? Brexit briefing in Ipswich.
As MP’s were debating whether to trigger Article 50 in the House of Parliament, residents of Ipswich were trying to keep the idea of Europe alive at an informative gathering with local community leaders, politicians and EU citizens. On the 1st February, one hundred people packed out Burlington Baptist Church in Ipswich to find out […]
Free advice session to know your Family Friendly Rights At Work
A free drop-in advice session aimed at informing local workers about their pregnancy, maternity and paternity rights at work is scheduled to come to Ipswich later this month. The Family Friendly Rights at Work initiative is being run by Tackling Discrimination in the East, part of the Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) […]
ISCRE media release: ISCRE legal chief celebrates ten years working with and for some amazing people!
ISCRE legal chief celebrates ten years “working with and for some amazing people!” Audrey Ludwig celebrated clocking up a full decade working at Suffolk’s leading civil rights charity last night (6th December) at a party held in her honour at Manor Ballroom, Ipswich. Audrey is currently the legal director at the Ipswich & Suffolk […]
Ipswich Integration Project – Helping Others to be Active in the Town
A project aimed at giving recent overseas arrivals to Ipswich the chance to make new friends and gain in confidence in contributing their skills to the wider community has just been given an extra funding boost. Ipswich Integration Group (IIG) was set up by a number of recent migrants to the town in 2015. […]
Suffolk Law Advice Centre hopes for support for Legal Walk 2016
An Ipswich-based charity which provides free legal advice to residents of the town and across Suffolk is looking for sponsors to raise help it raise much-needed funds as its staff, volunteers and supporters – including the new Mayor of Ipswich – join the third Ipswich Legal Walk on June 27th. The walk starts at […]
Suffolk Solidarity
As local organisations that seek to support some of the most vulnerable communities in our county from illegal discrimination, exploitation and marginalisation, we are very concerned about the recent upsurge in attacks on non-UK nationals since the EU Referendum result was announced. We all accept the validity of the poll in question, but we […]
New grant “means Suffolk’s poorest and most vulnerable to discrimination will have access to free legal advice”
Staff, volunteers, partners and clients of the Tackling Discrimination in the East (TDE) legal service were celebrating today (July 12th) at the news that their application to the Big Lottery Fund for £350,000 to fund them for another three years had been successful. TDE is a Suffolk-wide project run by the Ipswich & Suffolk Council […]