Young people as cultural critics of the monocultural landscapes that fail them

The role of small voluntary sector organisations in tackling complex social challenges: lessons from a charity serving asylum seekers and refugees

“…Poppy is based in a post-industrial, relatively poor city in the North-East of England which is a dispersal centre. Hostility to ASRs is an issue and the response of the city council to the needs of ASRs in recent years can be described as minimalist (Darling, 2016;Bowler and Razak, 2020). Poppy is a registered charity, which started in 2002 as a weekly volunteer run drop-in for ASRs and which remained an entirely volunteer-run organisation until 2016, when it took on the sole employee who is now the manager.…”