A Sudanese mother of three, shares her experience of volunteering in the UK and finding part-time work....
Read about how Zahra and her four children were welcomed to Belfast. Zahra, who is from Afghanistan, moved to Belfast from Iran in the summer of 2023. Zahra is a single parent and has four children wh...
Read about how Mohammad and Roba’s family were welcomed by a market town community in Cumbria. Mohammad and Roba sat down with us to share their experience of being welcomed by a Community Sponsorsh...
Read an inspirational story about a Community Sponsorship group’s journey of welcome. Born out of a work shed in the winter of 2020, a group shares their journey of welcoming a family, with the ...
The Importance & impact of Community Sponsorship As part of our Experts by Experience platform, we interviewed Ghazala and her family who were resettled to the UK through Community Sponsorshi...
As part of our Experts by Experience platform, we interviewed Ghazala and her family who were resettled to the UK through Community Sponsorship. Watch the below video to hear them talk about thei...
Read about Kadar’s experience studying for his driving test and how having a car has impacted his family’s life. Having a car can be integral to a family’s independence, especially in areas wher...
Read our interview with Mirvat, who speaks openly about her experience of having a child in the UK and how this differed from having children in Syria and Lebanon. Giving birth in a country where you ...
A video developed by IOM about the value of seeking mental health / wellbeing support....
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 ...
Learn how Community Sponsorship group, Family Matters, were able to gather together a group of investors and purchase a home for a refugee family! As we see more Community Sponsorship groups investing...
Essential information for groups when considering property investment When it comes to finding a property for a refugee family, it can feel like an insurmountable obstacle to overcome given the lack o...
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...
Learn from Abdullah, an Expert by Experience, about how he benefited from volunteering soon after arriving in the UK For the refugees you support, volunteering can present an opportunity for them to b...
Learn from Experts by Experience about their resettlement experiences and what they expected of resettled life in the UK One question that we’re often asked in Reset’s Community Sponsorship traini...
Learn from Khadeja, an Expert by Experience, about her advice to help parents understand the English education system As part of our Experts by Experience project, we interviewed Khadeja who was ...