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Support the LASSN team at the Run For All Leeds 10K
In June 2026, ten runners will take on the Run For All Leeds 10K to raise funds for Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network (LASSN).
We’re running through the city because this is where the work happens: in homes, GP surgeries, community centres, buses, and back streets across Leeds. The miles are public. The impact is local.
About the run: https://www.runforall.com/events/10k/leeds-10k/
About LASSN: https://lassn.org.uk/
What LASSN does (and why it matters)
Practical support. Real integration. Dignity in the everyday.
People arriving in Leeds as refugees or people seeking asylum often arrive with very little: no stable housing, limited English, and no local support network. LASSN works alongside people at the practical end of life in a new city:
- Hosting & Housing – short-term hosting and longer-term housing when someone has nowhere safe to go
- English at Home – volunteer tutors supporting people to learn English in their own homes
- Welcome & Connect – small group activities that reduce isolation and help people build local connections
- Hardship Fund – emergency support for food, travel and essentials
This is what “integration” looks like on the ground: not slogans, but small, solid things that make life manageable. A safe place to sleep. Being able to speak to a GP without fear of not being understood. A few familiar faces in a new city when everything else still feels uncertain.
“When I first arrived, I didn’t know anyone. Having someone visit me at home and help me practise English changed everything. It made Leeds feel possible.” (English at Home participant)
Why Leeds? Why now?
Because welcome only works if it’s practical.
Leeds has a long history of welcoming people seeking sanctuary. But welcome only becomes real when there is housing to move into, language support to access services, and people around you who know your name.
LASSN exists to sit in the gap between how systems are meant to work and how life actually feels when you arrive with very little and a lot of uncertainty.
“It wasn’t just about help with forms. It was about someone treating me like I mattered.” (Hosting & Housing participant)
Your support helps keep that everyday, unglamorous, human work going.
Why we’re running
Chosen discomfort, for something that matters
None of our runners are pretending a 10K compares to being forced to leave your home. But it is a small, chosen discomfort in service of something that matters.
Every mile run helps fund:
a night where someone has a safe place to sleep
a journey to a vital appointment
a few hours of English practice that unlocks confidence and independence
a community space where people aren’t alone
“Before, I stayed in my room all day. Now I have people to talk to. I don’t feel invisible anymore.” Welcome & Connect participant)
What your donation does
Small amounts. Real change.
Whether it’s £5 or £50, your donation goes straight into frontline support in Leeds. It helps people move from survival to stability — and from isolation towards belonging.
If you can, please support one of our runners (or the team as a whole) and help keep this work going.
Thank you for backing the LASSN Leeds 10K team — and for helping make Leeds a place where people starting again aren’t left to do it alone.