OUR PROJECTS
From community insight to practical action
URP develops projects in response to lived experience, community dialogue and evidence. Our current work focuses on digital inclusion, leadership justice and migrant and refugee education justice, while our completed projects show the wider journey that shaped this work.
Current projects
Our current work combines practical support, community leadership and systems-focused learning. Open any card for a short project brief.
CURRENT PROJECT • 100% DIGITAL LEEDS
Digital Inclusion & Community Empowerment
Practical, trusted support helping refugees and migrants use digital systems confidently for work, education, family life and essential services.
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The approach goes beyond completing tasks for people. It supports individuals and families to develop skills, understand their options, communicate with institutions and become more confident navigating everyday systems independently.
CURRENT PROJECT • LEADERSHIP JUSTICE
Migrant Leadership Justice Commission
A collaborative commission centring lived experience in how services and systems are understood, challenged and improved.
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URP contributes through participant support, facilitation, community engagement and dialogue. The wider aim is to move beyond consultation towards meaningful influence, clearer responsibility and stronger pathways for migrant and refugee communities to contribute to leadership and decision-making.
CURRENT PROJECT • EDUCATION JUSTICE
Migrant & Refugee Education Justice
Practical family-school navigation and advocacy that turns recurring barriers into wider learning about access, voice and accountability.
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This work helps parents and young people understand education and council systems, prepare evidence, make clear requests and challenge poor practice where necessary. It also identifies recurring patterns so that individual experiences can inform wider community voice, more transparent pathways and stronger institutional accountability.
Previous & completed projects
These projects show how URP’s work has developed over time in response to community priorities, lived experience and evidence.
COMPLETED PROJECT • EDUCATION & DIGITAL ACCESS
Thriving Families
A research-led response to home-learning inequalities, combining digital access with personalised learning support for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
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The project responded by combining access to digital equipment with personalised online tuition, helping young people remain connected to learning and continue progressing. It remains an important example of URP turning research and community evidence into practical action.
COMPLETED PROJECT • YOUTH & PARTICIPATION
Young Migrants Can Achieve Change (YMCAC)
A youth-led initiative building confidence, active citizenship and the skills to turn community concerns into positive action.
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The project focused on youth voice, belonging, intercultural understanding and helping young people recognise that they can participate in decisions and contribute positively to change around them.
COMPLETED PROJECT • CIVIC PARTICIPATION
Civic & Political Participation
Community-led work exploring what helps or prevents migrant and refugee communities from participating confidently in elections and civic life.
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Research and community discussion helped identify practical responses including accessible resources, educational workshops, opportunities to ask questions and targeted awareness activity. The wider purpose was to make civic participation easier to understand, more inclusive and more connected to the communities it is intended to serve.
Thriving Families in action
Thriving Families was developed in response to the home-learning inequalities identified through URP’s research. The project combined digital access with personalised online tuition, helping young people from refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant backgrounds stay connected to education and continue their learning.
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From learning to action
Across our projects, practical support is also a source of learning. We listen for recurring barriers, connect individual experiences to wider patterns, and use research and community insight to shape what we do next.
Could we build something useful together?
We welcome collaboration with community organisations, funders, education providers, employers and wider networks to develop practical, community-informed responses.