We were lucky to have two visitors today, invited by sister albertine. pat cole and eileen goudie, chair and treasurer of the aylesbury branch of the catholic women's league brought a cheque for £125, a splendid sum. it was collected at a tea party to the group after a talk last month by sisteralbertine who apparently made a passionate and very in

Karamba, who volunteers every week in the drop-in cafe, was looking extremely smart on monday and had brought in a very impressive certificate. he's worked over the years with ruth and fiona, our esol (english as a second language) co-ordinators here, and has also studied english at the mary ward centre. he's a keen learner - and his tutors at mary

Our wonderful volunteer jean murat has spotted news of an old friend of the centre - marie louise mbondo. marie louise, a receptionist in the audiology department of st mary's hospital, london, won an award at imperial college healthcare's prestigious outstanding service care and research awards at the waldorf hilton on 6 april 2011. marie, who wor

Pictures taken by chris - again, they speak for themselves! such a good evening and brilliant to raise much needed funds for our advice services. a huge thank you to everyone who walked - and everyone who donated. if you would like to sponsor us, there's still time if you visit the walk web page.

At home sweet home, a photography exhibition by organised by women asylum seekers together at portcullis house, westminster (led by natasha walter). so brilliant to see esther, herlinde and madeleine there - and their work on display. herlinde spoke about her experience. and here with her photos.... there were some star speakers - the actress julie

A team of us from ndrc walked ten kilometres last night - completing the 7th london legal sponsored walk to raise money for our advice services. the result so far: more than £3,000 of sponsorship. thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to such a brilliant effort... if you haven't yet sponsored us, there's still time if you visit the wal

At last! our new website is up and running. please do take a look and sign up to follow us on facebook and twitter, too. lots is happening....

The date is fast approaching: on monday 16th may, a team from ndrc will be walking the 10 km route, along with 5,000 other walkers all raising funds for much needed legal advice. please consider sponsoring us - it's quick and easy on this web page. encouragement from the legal profession: "as lawyers we all know the great benefits that can derive f

We've got our new website - and a new blog... we're moving away from canalblog to wordpress where (sorry - canalblog!) it'smuch easier to upload photos, videos etc. the new address is http://notredamerc.wordpress.com/ please follow us there....

A date for the diary: please do come along to lunch at our drop-in café on monday 20th june to mark the start of refugee week – we are delighted to be hosting home sweet home, a unique photography exhibition organised by women for refugee women. the photographs show the lives of women who have sought asylum in the uk and are taken by women refug