Working in partnership to support male asylum seekers and refugees.
GAP is a charity that works with refugees and asylum seekers in Newport. The youth and play service provides GAP with monies from the youth support grant. This money funds the football project that runs once a week and is co-delivered by GAP, Newport Live, and the youth and play service. Around twenty young people regularly take part in the session, many of them coming straight across the road from the local further education college, where they are learning English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). The football is the main attraction and has allowed staff to build relationships with the young people who are cautious of strangers due to the dangers they faced in their home countries. The youth workers have made links both with the young people and the college staff who work with them. The youth workers have arranged to go into the college to continue to work with and support the young people. Youth workers have also arranged to speak to the female refugees accessing GAP to develop activities that they would like to take part in.