Islington Refugee Integration Service (IRIS)

Islington Refugee Integration Service (IRIS) was set up in 2004 to help Islington Council in its commitment to provide high-quality services for refugees.

If you are a refugee looking for a service or organisation please contact the IRIS team. Click on the link for Contact IRIS on the left.

IRIS is committed to the council’s theme of “One Islington”. Through its work IRIS is working to create a community where everyone respects and understands each other and feels safe. IRIS aims to help refugees have more control over their lives.

To help achieve this, the IRIS team works with partner organisations to highlight the needs, and facilitate the integration, of refugees in Islington. This includes working with service providers, both inside and outside the council, to help ensure that refugees know about, understand, and can use services just like everyone else in Islington.

To support this IRIS, in partnership, has completed the Islington Refugee Integration Strategy (2005-2008), and Mapping Research on the numbers and nationalities of refugees in the borough. 

IRIS has developed an electronic directory of services for refugees. Information about all of these can be found on the IRIS webpages. See the menu to the left or direct links to the right. 

If you would like to get in touch with IRIS about a project or an issue, please use the Contact IRIS section to the left of this page.