Resources to help you understand mental health problems and available support options. Expectations of Community Sponsorship groups and the refugees arriving in the UK under the Community Sponsorship ...
Learn how you can support a family experiencing bullying in school. This resource has been produced for community sponsorship groups who may need to support refugee families who are experiencing bully...
Read our interview with Zahir and Lena, as they share with us their experience of resettlement in a friendly rural market town. Having now lived in the UK for over two years, Zahir and Lena sat down t...
Read our interview with Nour, as he shares his experience of coming to the UK at the age of 16 and learning to navigate the UK school system. We sat down to speak with Nour, a student who was resettle...
We are on the lookout for individuals who have been welcomed through Community Sponsorship or Neighbours for Newcomers to help build our Experts by Experience platform. We know that the true experts i...
Read about Ghazala and Nidal’s first 6 months of resettlement in the UK. Families can be waiting for resettlement for many years, so it’s understandable to hear that Ghazala and Nidal could not be...
Read our interview with Rawasia – an amazing teenager who shares with us how she found family in a Community Sponsorship group. Navigating resettlement as a teenager can be full of extremely difficu...
Read our interview with Rana, who speaks candidly about the hardship of leaving Syria, and navigating this journey as a single parent with her two daughters. Making the journey firstly from your home ...
The Home Office has announced that refugees who arrive through the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) will now have Indefinite Leave to Remain. Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILtR) means that there is no time...
As you welcome and support families into your communities, one of the key areas of focus will be the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes. Adult members of the family are required to...
A guide to explain how Community Sponsorship groups will work with the family to help them access services in the UK Before arriving in the UK, resettled refugees receive cultural orientation training...
The Home Office requires all Community Sponsorship groups to keep records during their support of a family throughout the Sponsor Agreement period. Not only is this essential for managing bo...
Learn how a Community Sponsored refugee was able to pass his driving tests after less than one year in the UK Abdullah arrived in the UK as a Syrian refugee in 2017 with only a few words of English an...
It’s worth planning how you’ll be working with interpreters for appointments. Providing an opportunity for briefing and debriefing will be really helpful. Preparing interpreters for the li...
Learn how adapting an empowerment approach to working with resettled children is essential in helping them to adjust to their new environment When Community Sponsorship Groups begin supporting resettl...
Guidance on how to support families that are considering moving to a different area in the UK After arrival, some families might express an interest in moving elsewhere in the UK. There could be many ...
Practical approaches to integration and independence Feeling integrated is a deeply personal process, and there’s not a certain amount of time it will take to achieve this, but there’s ways in whi...
Suggestions on how to support the refugee family to manage their utility bills independently Part of your role as Community Sponsor will be supporting the refugee family to manage and budget for their...
Understand how to support refugees to access healthcare in Scotland In Scotland the legislation and entitlements around Healthcare are different from the rest of the UK. More information on rights and...
The refugees you support are likely to require immigration advice. We provide a general introduction to this in order for you to help refugees access local services. The most important thing we can te...
Learn how you can empower families to navigate maternity care and birth registration in the UK Community Sponsorship groups have supported many families that continue to grow after being resettled to ...