A suite of open-source resources designed and co-produced by experts by experience.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Asylum Process
A flyer with basic, accessible information about the UK asylum process, including info on current Asylum Support amounts. Without a basic understanding of the asylum system, many barriers are 
unintentionally created for people in the asylum process and myths are able to thrive. This flyer provides the basic information we think is useful for people to understand, in order for the dignity of people seeking asylum to be enhanced. (Last updated January 2024).
Everyday Challenges of the Asylum Process
An activity guide that uses an image and a series of prompting questions to support a group of people to consider the everyday challenges of navigating life as an asylum seeker. Developing a shared understanding of the context and consequences of these challenges can help participants think of meaningful actions that can be taken to enhance dignity and create meaningful change, from a place of empathy.
A Guide to Culturally Valued Food
A resource with information, tips and best practices examples of providing culturally valued food. Community food providers support people from many different cultures and backgrounds.
Understanding the cultural preferences and religious needs of one’s community members is crucial to inclusion and promoting the dignity of everyone.
A resource with information on basic religious dietary restrictions in the major religions. This is
presented as an accessible format in a table to support community food providers to have a general understanding of the common religious practices and serve people from different faith groups in their local community.
Workshop Plan: Dignity & the Asylum System
This workshop plan brings a number of Dignity in Practice activities and resources together in a 2 hour
workshop that provides staff and volunteers with a space for reflection and a practical understanding of the steps that can be taken to enhance dignity for people in the asylum process. This workshop plan formed the basis of the workshops delivered by the Food for All Group between 2022-25 and can be used in-house by community food providers to develop a more dignified and inclusive practice.
About the resources
The resources here were co-produced by experts by experience from Govan Community Project’s Food for All Group, made up of peer researchers with lived experience of the asylum process, in collaboration with Nourish Scotland’s Dignity in Practice project.
The Dignity in Practice project was established by Nourish Scotland and the Poverty Truth Community in 2016 to help people who design, deliver, and take part in responses to food insecurity to reflect on and improve current practice. It aims to promote dignity and embed the right to food, and it is delivered as a partnership between people with lived experience of food insecurity and people working on addressing food insecurity.
In 2022, The Dignity Project partnered with Govan Community Project’s Food for All Group in a project titled ‘Dignity in Practice: Involving & Learning from the Asylum Community’ funded by the Scottish Government’s Fair Food Fund.
Any questions or enquiries, please contact foodforall@govancommunityproject.org.uk.