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ASAN was established with the aim of sharing knowledge and experience about legal rights to food and shelter for asylum seekers, refused asylum seekers and irregular migrants. Read more about our Purpose and Principals.
Members are from voluntary sector organisations, funding bodies, law firms and government bodies, such as the NHS. Staff from the Home Office and local authorities are excluded from membership. ASAN is coordinated by the Asylum Support Appeals Project.
Please click on this link and fill out the short form to be added to ASAN: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RWNWML2
Before filling in the form please create a googlegroups account with the email address you wish to receive your emails to. You can do this here .
When creating your google groups account please select google groups for personal use. On the 'Choose your Gmail address' page you will then have the option to use your own email address rather than creating a new gmail address (at the bottom of the page). It is best to use your organisational email address here. If you have not created a googlegroup account before being added this will mean you cannot acsess the group.
Please note, if you request to join ASAN via a personal email address, you will be asked to provide an email address from someone who works at the organisation you are joining from. For example, if you are a volunteer that does not have an organisational email address you can provide an email of a manager/colleague who can confirm you work or volunteer for the organisation. If you are unable to do this, please disclose this on the survey monkey form and we will be in touch with you directly. This is for security reasons.
Once you have been added to ASAN you can log in to the group here: https://groups.google.com/g/asylum-support-advice-network
ASAP mainly shares information about asylum support law, since this is our area of expertise. However, members are encouraged to share any information that affects ASAN’s beneficiary group, described above. This might include any statutory or charitable support available to asylum seekers and refused asylum seekers, such as support provided by the Social Services. In some cases it also applies to support available to irregular migrants who have never claimed asylum, such as visa overstayers. ASAP communicates with members, and members communicate with each other, in the following ways:
If you would like to join ASAN, please follow the survey link on this page. If you have any problems using the link, please contact Holly@asaproject.org.uk.
If you would prefer to receive emails from the ASAN googlegroup less frequently you can change your settings so that you do not receive every email to the group as it is sent. You can change your settings to either the Digest or Abridged option:
Abridged means that you will receive a maximum of one email a day containing summaries of all emails sent to the group on that day. If no messages are sent that day, you will not receive an email. To read the full email you click on the summary and will be re-directed to the googlegroup webpage. If you are not signed up to the googlegroup using a gmail account you will need to register your email address with google to access the full emails.
Digest means that you will receive daily emails containing up to 25 full messages (as opposed to summaries) that are sent to the group. Again, if no emails are sent that day, you will not receive any.
How to change your settings: