# Asylum Seeker Integration Programme

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council](/buyers/blackburn-with-darwen-borough-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Asylum and Refugee Community Blackburn
- Award value: £40,000
- Tender value: £40,000
- Award date: 26 March 2025
- Published: 26 March 2025
- Contract start: 1 April 2025
- Contract end: 31 March 2026
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 9652ba40-20d7-4b59-bbdb-b660eedc4606-836203
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6fb34809-0b32-43b5-9e07-27b48d276c0b

## Description

Blackburn with Darwen has been a supporter of asylum and refugee communities for many years and is a pro-active member of both the regional strategic migration partnership \(RSMP\) and the RSMP Executive Board along with the Lancashire Refugee and Asylum Strategic partnership\. \\r We have a collaborative approach to the support of asylum seekers and refugee's locally and sub-regionally\. Including through the Lancashire Refugee and Asylum Strategic Partnership and BwD Asylum Seeker Multi Agency Forum\.\\r Our approach applies across all asylum and refugee programme's as we look to maintain as higher degree of consistency as possible to all communities\. \\r \\r Blackburn with Darwen would like to implement an asylum seeker integration programme offer at local refugee and asylum seeker hubs in the borough and to have a role in supporting asylum seekers to participate in wider civic society, progress on to further volunteering, learning and employment\.\\r

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9652ba40-20d7-4b59-bbdb-b660eedc4606-836203)