Voices in Refuge

09/04/2026

BIG NEWS!

We have been awarded funding by The National Lottery Community Fund to take our popular training course on Community Interpreting ON TOUR across the UK!

If you are an organisation or community group that would like to offer this training free of charge to your staff, volunteers or community members, please get in touch!

02/04/2026

We are still receiving applications for the next interpreting course!
Book your place here: https://www.voicesinrefuge.com/apply
We are grateful to the Nottingham City Council for their renewed support of our work - making sure we can offer this course free of charge to refugees and asylum seekers.

20/03/2026

We are now welcoming applications for the next Community Interpreting course in May!

If you are a Nottingham-based or person and wish to learn new skills to help your community, book your place here: https://www.voicesinrefuge.com/apply

20/03/2026

We wish our interpreters, clients, partners and supporters a joyful Eid al-Fitr celebration!

21/02/2026

Happy International Mother Language Day from the multilingual teams of Voices in Refuge & Nottingham Refugee Forum! 🥳

21/02/2026

Teach at Refugee Forum! 🤓

We’re really excited to be hiring for a part time ESOL Teacher!

Do you want to work with people seeking safety in the UK by helping them to learn English? Are you experienced teaching English as a second language, and able to manage volunteers and develop resources? If yes, we would be so happy to hear from you!

Deadline is 8th March, to find out more about the role and apply head to: https://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk/jobs

Please share widely 🤲

18/02/2026

It's the season of celebration, reflection and compassion.
We wish all our interpreters, clients and supporters a time of peace, kindness and connection.

30/01/2026

Our first (online) interpreting course of 2026 is well underway. We are now accepting applications for the next in-person interpreting course in March. If you are a Nottingham-based bilingual individual with lived experience of forced displacement, you can book your free place here: https://www.voicesinrefuge.com/apply

01/01/2026

The Voices in Refuge team is wishing our interpreters, clients, partners and supporters all the best in the new year! 🎉

We are here for you if you:
- need a professionally trained interpreter
- want to become a community interpreter
- wonder how to best communicate through an interpreter

We are also going ON TOUR in 2026! Keep your eyes out for upcoming community interpreting courses in a UK city near you! 🧐

30/12/2025

Our team recently returned to Oxford to deliver another short course on community interpreting. 9 women completed the course and we look forward to hearing about the next steps in their interpreting journey.

Read more about it here: https://www.voicesinrefuge.com/post/voices-in-refuge-back-in-oxford

24/12/2025

Voices in Refuge Team wishes all our interpreters, partner organisations, funders and supporters a very happy Christmas and all the best in the coming year!

Here's to more fully-funded interpreting courses, access to professionally trained interpreters for all asylum seekers and refugees, and a world where language skills are celebrated, respected and properly compensated! 🥂🎊