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...
Empowering refugees to understand their housing obligations This resource will help your group support refugees to understand their housing obligations, to foster independence and empowerment as rent...
Tips for supporting a newly arrived family to access volunteer or employment opportunities As part of the application process, you will have thought about how you could assist adults to access volun...
An empowerment approach to loaning money Many Community Sponsorship Groups have established a process by which they will make an interest-free loan of funds to the family they are supporting. Ha...
We have worked with TERN to help you support refugees who want to start their own business Many refugees arriving to the UK have previous experience of some form of entrepreneurship in their life befo...
A guide to help your group navigate awkward conversations When the resettled family you support arrives there are some key conversations you’ll need to have, and some topics will arise that may feel...
We’ve partnered with Refugee Education UK to help you support refugees to access higher education. Many refugees arriving to the UK may have had plans to study at University before their lives w...
Over the time you support a family, your relationship will change as they become independent. Explore how you can prepare for this. When we train Community Sponsorship groups prior to the arrival of a...
Learn about Basel’s journey to starting his business in the UK Setting up their own business is the ambition of many refugees welcomed to the UK. While route to entrepreneurship isn’t easy or...