Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum decided to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2012 with a special exhibition of refugee art. Under the banner of City of Sanctuary the display shows work from new communities, exploring the...
The launch took place Saturday 26th November 2011 and was hosted at University Campus Suffolk. There were 150 guests at the event which included not only Ipswich residents but guests from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Beccles...
Last night, Leeds City of Sanctuary was awarded the Special Initiative Award at the Hamara Community Awards.
The annual Hamara Community Awards are presented on six categories for people and organisations who have contributed to Leeds...
On Monday 31st October 2011 representatives from across the City of Sanctuary national network met in Nottingham and elected a board of trustees from Scotland to Wales, taking in many English towns and cities in between, with Inderjit...
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will highlight a business started by refugee couple in his new programme ‘Jamie’s Great Britain’ this November. Look out for the programme on Channel 4 at 9pm on Tuesday 1st November.
People...
Many City of Sanctuary supporters have been involved in campaigning for the Government to change the policy which would have excluded many of the most vulnerable people from English language classes. A recent and last-minute change in...
22nd June is a day that Bristol citizens, as well as visitors from all over the country and beyond, will remember for a long time. Endless sky blue balloons, umbrellas and streamers accompanied hundreds of revellers and well wishers of...
Swansea sanctuary-seeker Anna Mammedova won a national essay writing competition in which she nominated a Swansea City of Sanctuary committee member, Keith Ross, in The Peer Factor: Who Would You Put in the House of Lords and Why?
Anna and...
Initiatives in Scotland and York are adding to the amazing kaleidoscope of activities going on nationwide and beyond, all celebrating the contribution of refugees to our society. Scotland’s events are mainly Glasgow based though...
We are proud to be part of the National Refugee Week Coalition, and most of our groups are involved in hosting or supporting a wide range of events, testimony to the capacity our city and town groups have for creativity and celebration....
Ipswich City of Sanctuary group is involved with an initiative known simply as ‘It’s Tuesday’. The commitment, however, goes far beyond Tuesday, as this story of one of their young asylum seekers (known here as K to protect his identity)...
The voluntary and community sector in Coventry were asked by Coventry City Council to make a contribution to a local conference about ‘Community Cohesion’ and we decided to make part of our presentation in the form of a song....
Hackney’s own Arcola Theatre will be playing host to the launch of the campaign to have the Borough accredited as a Borough of Sanctuary on Saturday March 12th 2011 1pm-3.30pm. Local writer and poet and former Children’s Laureate Michael...
What is a School of Sanctuary?
It is a school that is committed to being a safe and welcoming place for people whose lives were in danger in their own country. This means it
is a school that helps its students, staff and wider community...
A National Network meeting attended by over 30 delegates from 12 city groups took place in Nottingham on March 2nd. The centrepiece of the meeting was presentations by two city groups, Coventry and Bristol. Both groups have been in...
Coventry is a multi cultural city of 310,000 which has been benefiting from migrants since the Huguenots fled from France in the 17th century and set up a ribbon weaving industry . Building on and working with with some excellent services...
Bristol has now become an official City of Sanctuary- a recognition of the value the city places on asylum seekers and refugees. A delegation of six Bristolians from diverse groups and walks of life presented a powerful and convicing...
Huddersfield Pakistani Community Alliance in Thornton Lodge has signed up as the 50th member of the dynamic local initiative known as ‘Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary’. Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary, which is run by local volunteers, helps...
We currently have active City of Sanctuary groups in Sheffield, Swansea, Oxford, Bristol, Coventry, Leicester, Hull, Huddersfield, Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Glasgow, Ipswich, Nottingham, Hackney, York, Derby and Lincoln, with plans...
Our third national conference in Birmingham on 13th September provided plenty of eye-opening insights into the City of Sanctuary movement around the country. Participants from City of Sanctuary groups, refugee communities, faith groups,...
