Settlement & Integration Support Services for Newcomers to the UK

Dialogue

Dialogue is a new low cost easy access bilingual communication service aimed at the Voluntary Sector within the Borough of Great Yarmouth.

Visit the Dialogue Website for more information.

GYROS exists to:

• (a) Provide seamless support services for people seeking asylum, refugees and other Newcomers to the UK living in the County of Norfolk.
• (b) Share and develop identified good practice within these groups across the County of Norfolk.
• (c) Help refugees into independent living and to promote active participation in sustainable integrated communities.
• The service has been operating since December 1997, we have three full-time and three part-time paid staff.

The main areas of our work are:

• (a) Running an information and advice drop-in service in Gt Yarmouth, four days and one evening per week.
• (b) Direct support work in hostels and homes as well as accompaniment and advocacy.
• (c) Integration events and outings.
• (d) Providing and facilitating a monthly multi-agency forum in Gt Yarmouth open to all agencies and organizations that have contact with or provide services to asylum seekers, refugees or ethnic minorities.
• (e) Involvement in the development of support and services to these groups in Norfolk and the East of England