Paul Hutchings co-founded Refugee Support Europe 4 years ago after his experiences volunteering in Calais moved him to act. This year, Refugee Support Europe set up their first Community Sponsorship Group in Birmingham. Community Sponsorship is something a little bit different for us at Refugee Support Europe. The focus of…

Catherine Griffiths founder of Croeso Menai, the first Community Sponsorship Group in North Wales. In March 2020, a Syrian refugee family was supposed to arrive in Anglesey. We’d sponsored them to come here. We’d found them a home, stocked the fridge with fresh food, made the beds. One day before…

This article first appeared in the Oxford Mail. You can read it here. Two years ago I arrived at Gatwick airport with my wife and baby son having fled the conflict in Syria. We were met by our community sponsors who had volunteered to support my family as we rebuilt…

Community Sponsorship naturally attracts people who want to help others. You get involved in Community Sponsorship because you want to help refugees in a practical way. But sometimes helping people can disempower them. So how do you empower newly arrived refugees rather than simply help them? As someone who has…

Ellie is a member of 2 Community Sponsorship Groups in Cornwall and has more than 20 years’ experience in education. A few years ago I moved to Cornwall, where I became part of one of the first Community Sponsorship groups, in Bude. I got involved for a few reasons. First…

At Reset, we talk a lot about the transformative potential of Community Sponsorship. How it impacts the lives of refugees welcomed into communities in this country, but also how it transforms the lives of those doing the welcoming and brings change to communities. And we know there to be truth…

It’s been just over 4 years since the first refugee family arrived in the UK through the Community Sponsorship scheme. The successful development of a new programme always depends upon independent and thorough evaluation, which is why we are so excited by the University of Birmingham’s research into Community Sponsorship. …

Jackie McLoughlin, founder of the Sutton Deanery Community Sponsorship Group, has been recognised by the Queen for her work to bring a Syrian refugee family to the UK and support their resettlement. Jackie was awarded Maundy Money in an 800-year-old tradition which sees people doing outstanding work in their communities…

Abdullah arrived in the UK as a Syrian refugee in 2017 with only a few words of English. …