Conference News

People representing groups from over 20 towns and cities, from Glasgow to Portsmouth, came to our first City of Sanctuary national conference on 4th June to share ideas about how to build their own local Cities (Towns or Villages) of Sanctuary.

Want to Become a City of Sanctuary?

Book your free place at the City of Sanctuary National Conference
Wednesday 4th June 2008, 11am - 4.30pm,
Sheffield

Find out how Sheffield has become the UK's first official ‘City of Sanctuary' for asylum-seekers and refugees.
Share information and ideas with other new City of Sanctuary groups around the country.
Explore how you can build a grassroots City of Sanctuary movement in your own town or city.
To book a free place or for more information please contact us.

Norwich City of Refuge

In 2007 Norwich became the first UK city to join the International Cities of Refuge Network (www.icorn.org). Through this scheme, Norwich offers residency to politically exiled writers who have been denied freedom of speech in their home countries.
Norwich City of Refuge has now joined the national City of Sanctuary movement, in order to share their experience of building community programmes on issues of human rights and asylum more widely throughout the UK.

Website News

See our national website at www.cityofsanctuary.org for news of City of Sanctuary groups around the country. To see local news for each city just choose the relevant link on the left sidebar. Recent articles include ‘action ideas' for City of Sanctuary groups, sharing ideas which have been successful in other cities.
You can also read our ‘blogs' written by asylum-seekers, refugees, and their friends and supporters. If you would like to write your own blog on the website please get in touch - it is easy to publish direct to the site, and support is available from our Web-guru Mark Gibbens.

New Worker at City of Sanctuary

Nicola Freeman is our new Communications and Administration Worker, who started work at the City of Sanctuary office this month. You can contact her with enquiries, suggestions, news and events for publicising, or just for a chat by contacting: nicola@cityofsanctuary.org