~1 in 3
refugees and asylum seekers live with PTSD or depression — roughly ten times general-population rates. Left unaddressed, it doesn’t stay still.
Blackmore et al., PLOS Medicine, 2020
Every European government now agrees that new arrivals must understand the values, laws and everyday norms of life here — and that a leaflet was never the way. Settle is the multilingual course, the live workshops in people’s own language, and the research that makes it work. This is what the solution actually looks like.
A printed booklet can state the law. It cannot teach it, in a language someone reads, in a way that lasts. We built the answer — and the evidence to prove it works.
The course, the workshops and the research work as one system — each making the others stronger, all built on the same peer-reviewed evidence.
An app that teaches new arrivals how life works here — the law, etiquette, rights and responsibilities — in their own language, with audio, on any phone. No download; reached by a link or QR code.
Launch the course →Delivered in the community’s own languages — interactive activities, presentations, speeches and take-home literature on UK etiquette, behaviour and law. Plus trauma-informed training for the staff around them.
Explore workshops →Between Worlds — our evidence-first writing on displacement, trauma and belonging. It’s why commissioners trust us: we understand the problem before we sell the solution.
Read the research →The course and workshops reach people at scale. This is the human layer that catches the individual — for those who need more than a lesson.
We pair each new arrival with a trained mentor who walks alongside them — navigating systems, building confidence, and opening doors to work, learning and community.
Trauma-informed one-to-one support from qualified practitioners — a safe space to process what’s been carried, with clear routes on to specialist care where it’s needed.
Plain-language help with the practical, legal, social and integration questions of life here — housing, health, work, school, rights and belonging — with trusted signposting to specialist services whenever something needs an expert.
Not a lecture and not a leaflet — sessions people take part in, delivered natively, on the subjects that matter most.
How life works here — space, calm, fairness, honesty, respect.
UK law made plain, framed as protection — for everyone.
Rights, protections and where to get help, in confidence.
The law that protects children, and every adult’s duty within it.
The right to work, protecting your account, spotting fraud.
For the council, housing and frontline teams who meet new arrivals.
This is the case for intervention, in three numbers. The injuries are real; the costs are preventable. Which path a community takes is a choice — and doing nothing is the expensive, higher-risk one.
Untreated — and left without language, work or an understanding of how life here works — these injuries deepen, and the costs move outward: crisis admissions, tenancy breakdown, pressure on services, community tension, and the rise in offending the evidence records among the conflict-exposed. Address it early, in people’s own language, and that trajectory reverses. The gap between acting and waiting is exactly what Settle closes — which is why early intervention isn’t optional, it’s essential. Read the full research →
Settle is built to be adopted at scale — enrolled as standard across refugee and migrant centres, with consistent content in 15+ languages and central reporting to prove it’s working. One programme. Every centre. Every language.
Our cinematic five-minute film on how public life works across Europe — subtitled and dubbed into the languages your community speaks, and built into the course.
PTSD, displacement, and why “just settle in” is the wrong thing to ask — and the right thing to build. A fully-sourced look at what war does to the mind, what the crime evidence really shows, and why the injuries are treatable.
“A nervous system still fighting a war the rest of us can see is over.”
≈ 15 min read · 24 cited sources · evidence-first
Between 2015 and 2020, our founder and delivery team gained hands-on experience delivering workshop-based integration education across seven European cities. That experience — grounded in the realities of integration, not just the theory — informs everything Settle builds today.
From our base in London, we deliver across the UK and throughout Europe — on-site and online, in 15+ languages. Explore the portfolio →
Government doesn’t need promises; it needs outcomes. Every Settle deployment is measured from day one, and we’re now opening a small number of founding pilots with councils and centres across the UK and Europe.
Who enrolled, in which languages, and how many finished — per site, in real time.
Before-and-after checks on the law, rights and norms — proof the content actually landed.
Tracked with partners: staff confidence, incidents, tenancy sustainment and cohesion.
We’re selecting a small number of councils and centres to deploy Settle first. You get the full programme and the live data; together we publish the results that define the category — and you lead it.
“Prove it in your area — then scale it to the nation.”
Measured outcomes · 15+ languages · built to roll out
Bring Settle to your centres, your staff and your community. Tell us who you support and where you are — we’ll show you exactly how it works.
Book a workshop or demoOr email us at hello@helpsettle.org