The story so far...

Manchester has a long history of welcoming refugees from all parts of the world throughout the centuries. More recently, Manchester has become a second home to more than 10,000 refugees over the last three decades. People of all ages and backgrounds have settled here and made their home in the North West.

Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN) emerged as an idea during the early 1990s with the aim of better serving the refugee communities in Manchester.

It began as a Network made up of more established refugee communities such as Chilean, Bosnian, Sudanese and Kurdish Communities.

MRSN is now an established refugee-led organisation with paid staff, managed by a voluntary committee of representatives from refugee communities.

It became a charity in June 2005.