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Evelyn Oldfield Unit (inc. Refugee Communities History Project)

Evelyn Oldfield Unit, London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA, England

The Evelyn Oldfield unit provides professional support and training for refugee organisations. It also runs the Refugee Communities History Project. The RCHP is run in partnership with 15 Refugee Community Organisations, the Museum of London and London Metropolitan University. The project aims to highlight the economic, cultural and social contribution that refugees have made to London since 1951. It runs exhibitions on the experiences and history of those communities.

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Tel : 0207 700 0100
Fax : 0207 700 8136
E-mail : administrator@evelynoldfield.co.uk

URL : www.evelynoldfield.co.uk

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The Evelyn Oldfield Unit works with refugees in London, providing professional support and help. They also run a history project, and have to date collected over 150 oral histories of the experience of refugees in London. You can read many of these in touring exhibitions provided by the Unit: they also publish many of the experiences on their new website.

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