MigrationWork CIC’s activities have benefited the community in a number of ways throughout the period 2024-2025. The main benefit to the community has been through the following MigrationWork CIC projects: Unites project: MigrationWork CIC has been working as an expert partner on the transnational project, UNITES – Urban Integration Strategies through Co-Design. The work started in January 2022 and concluded in December 2024. It focuses on co-designing integration strategies with migrants and other stakeholders. During the period of March 2024 – April 2025, MigrationWork CIC has been working as an expert partner on the transnational project, UNITES – Urban Integration Strategies through Co-Design. The work started in January 2022 and concludes in December 2024. It focuses on co-designing integration strategies with migrants and other stakeholders. During the period of March 2023 – April 2024, MigrationWork supported the project’s city partners (Athens, Bologna, Dusseldorf, Grenoble Alpes Metropole, Oulu, Prague, Zagreb, Zaragoza) in developing their pilots applying co-design in integration strategy development. MigrationWork also facilitated city field visits by peers from the project to five of the cities. The purpose of these was to monitor these activities and provide recommendations. Furthermore, MigrationWork further developed a How-to-Guide and a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on co-designing integration aimed at workers from the public sector and migrant-organisations, based on feedback received on a beta version. Both products serve to share learning from the project with external stakeholders. They will be made public by Eurocities in November 2024. For more information: https://eurocities.eu/projects/unites/ Co-creating asset and place-based approaches to tackling refugee and migrant health exclusion: a partnership funded by UK Research and Innovation and Arts and Humanities Research Council: This project takes place over three years from February 2024 to February 2027 and is a collaboration between Anglia Ruskin University, Middlesex University, University of Greenwich, and a project team of partners including MigrationWork CIC, the East of England Local Government Association, GYROS (Great Yarmouth Refugee Outreach and Support), Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign, Queen’s Nursing Institute, Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network, and Barnet Citizens. It is funded under the mobilising community assets to tackle health inequalities programme, which aims to improve health through access to culture, nature and community. The project explores the use of community assets by refugee, asylum seekers, and migrants in their daily lives. Community assets are fundamental to people’s ability to navigate complex and unstable living situations and include community organisations, food banks, green spaces (e.g parks, allotments, gardens etc), blue spaces (e.g. lakes, swimming pools, canals etc), and support services (e.g. law and advice centres, drop-ins etc), among others. The project seeks to understand the ways that these groups make use of the different assets within and beyond their local communities to support their health and well-being – focusing on access to accommodation and housing, food and nutrition, and services. We focus on three locations – North London, South London and the East of England – to understand the different challenges and opportunities that urban and rural areas provide, work with local communities and their organisations, and identify the assets that provide an essential function for people in order to map the way in which they are used. The project uses a variety of innovative and arts-based methods of research as well as more standard ones. Work for the Greater London Authority (GLA): MigrationWork CIC evaluated two of the GLA’s programmes: the Migrant Advice and Support Fund (MASF) and the Employment Training Programme (ETP). They were both set up to benefit migrant Londoners who face major challenges, including new anti-migrant legislation, the pandemic, exploitation at work, Brexit, discrimination, the “hostile environment,” and the challenges of refugee resettlement. The project started in August 2023 and finished in 2025. The project developed and implemented a robust evaluation framework for the two programs funded by the GLA. These programs aimed to improve advice and support for migrants and build capacity to promote employment rights in migrant communities. At the time of writing, an evaluation report, an executive summary, and a toolkit are with the GLA for sign-off. CONSOLIDATE: MigrationWork is a key partner of the CONSOLIDATE project, which is funded by the EU and lead by Eurocities. It runs from March 2024 – February 2027. The projects supports local authorities to make their migrant integration strategies more effective through three thematic communities of practice (COP): Housing, Employment, and One Stop Shop models that aim to coordinate service provision. In the period 2024-25, each COP has developed thematic benchmarks (standards of good practice relating to each theme) and participated in ‘peer review visits’ to inform the planning and implementation of an innovative pilot relating to one of those themes in each city. MigrationWork CIC is one of two expert partners working alongside Eurocities to deliver CONSOLIDATE, the other being the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW). In addition, there are 12 city partners, each participating in one of the three COPs: Athens (EL), Cluj-Metropolitan Area (RO), Dortmund (DE), Fuenlabrada (ES), Ghent (BE), Gothenburg (SE), Lublin (PL), Milan (IT), Nantes (FR), Sofia (BG), Vienna (AT), Zagreb (HR). For the period 2024/25, the project developed the thematic benchmarks, completed peer review training sessions, published a peer review manual, and conducted all peer reviews across the cities, which engaged a range of different stakeholders, including the refugee and migrant communities themselves.

MigrationWork CIC has consulted with a wide number and range of stakeholders during the period 2024-25. These have been through the following projects: UNITES: In the UNITES project, MigrationWork CIC consulted with a number of stakeholders including Eurocities; the network of major European cities (coordinator); the two migrant-led organisations, New Women Connectors and UNITEE; and the eight local authorities: Athens, Bologna, Dusseldorf, Grenoble Metropole, Oulu, Prague, Zagreb, Zaragoza. Co-creating asset and place-based approaches to tackling refugee and migrant health exclusion: a partnership funded by UK Research and Innovation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council: To develop the application for the grant, the three universities ran workshops with potential partners and stakeholders to decide the focus and methods of the project, in which MigrationWork CIC participated pro bono. Our work on the project is essentially to consult and co-create with local migrant and refugee communities, focusing particularly on Afghans, Hong Kongers, Italians, Somalis, Syrians and Ukrainians. In the first year we focused on collecting and analysing data, developing and convening a community forum of migrants from the six communities in Islington, working with them to find out more about their use of community assets. We also convened the first of a series of stakeholder forums involving the local authority, health services, other statutory services, and VCFSE sector organisations. These are being used to gather further insights, test findings and later to develop recommendations. Work for the Greater London Authority (GLA): As part of the GLA evaluation, the MigrationWork CIC delivery team conducted 75 interviews - 28 with migrant Londoners (a majority of them recently arrived and/or asylum seekers) and 47 with service providers, trainees, and other stakeholders involved in the GLA’s Migrant Advice and Support Fund (MASF) and Employment Training Programme (ETP). We also received 157 survey responses from migrant Londoners and recruited, developed, and supported a panel of 19 migrant Londoners who have received advice from one of the participating organisations to advise the evaluation throughout. All interviewees, survey respondents and advisory panel members were remunerated for their participation. CONSOLIDATE: MigrationWork CIC has engaged a number of stakeholders for the CONSOLIDATE project for the period 2024-25. This has included the other expert partner working alongside Eurocities to deliver CONSOLIDATE: the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW). In addition, MigrationWork CIC has engaged all 12 city partners, each participating in one of the three COPs: Athens (EL), Cluj-Metropolitan Area (RO), Dortmund (DE), Fuenlabrada (ES), Ghent (BE), Gothenburg (SE), Lublin (PL), Milan (IT), Nantes (FR), Sofia (BG), Vienna (AT), Zagreb (HR). The company has engaged them mostly through a project kick-off meeting, several online meetings, and training sessions, and peer review visits in all of the Cities. In addition to this, within those Cities, the Company have engaged a number of stakeholders working on migrant integration, including NGOs, City Council representatives, employers, Mayors, and politicians at both the local and national level, and migrant communities themselves.

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