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Manchester has a long history of welcoming refugees from all parts of the world throughout the centuries and has become a second home to more than 20,000 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 improving the circumstances and life-chances of refugees and their children across Greater Manchester. It began as a Network made up of eight already established refugee community organisations including the Chilean, Bosnian, Sudanese and Kurdish communities.

MRSN is now a well-estabished and highly respected grass-roots, refugee-led organisation which employs a small staff group and is managed by a voluntary committee of representatives from refugee member communities.

MRSN was registered as a charity in June 2005.