Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit Social Evening – this Friday 8 October

Article published: Wednesday, October 6th 2010

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) will be holding a social event this Friday at Chorlton Irish Club. Acts will include Afro-European dance music star Freddy Wanga, Monkey Poet Matt Panesh and a performance from Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST).

The aim of the night is to raise funds for vulnerable asylum seekers and those who rely on the services of the Unit. Funding is now of acute importance for the organisation following the news that it is to see 70% slashed from its legal aid funding as previously reported by MULE.

GMIAU is a not-for-profit legal advice organisation which specialises in advising and representing people in their immigration and asylum cases. They also raise funds to represent people who are not eligible for legal aid for a number of reasons but who are very vulnerable, including destituted people and women subject to violence.

Ticket prices are £9 / £6 unwaged and this includes food.

The address of Chorlton Irish Club is: 17 High Lane, Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester M21 9DJ

For more information about the Unit or to help support its campaign to restore full legal aid funding, you can contact them by email: info (at) gmiau.org

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