Newcastle University are celebrating Refugee Week 2024 with a special episode featuring our guest Ross Bennett, a Newcastle University student and Community Project Worker at North East Solidarity and Teaching (N.E.S.T).

N.E.S.T is a student-led volunteer project designed to educate, empower and integrate the forced migration community in the North East of England. Discover how Ross and the team support roughly 700 refugees and asylum seekers each year by teaching English, promoting sport, organising trips in the region, and ensuring our local asylum-seeking and refugee community feels at home in Newcastle.

Search for ‘From Newcastle’ wherever you find your podcasts and listen to the new Refugee Week episode from Monday 17 June.