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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...
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...
Resources developed by Reset and Action for Child Trauma (ACT) International. It’s easy to assume that a refugee’s trauma has ended once they have been resettled in a new country. However, this is...
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...
Advice and guidance for groups on pre-arrival contact with families The UK may be very different to the countries that refugee families arrive from, and so, as much as families are relieved and happy ...
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...
Learn what to include on the fact sheet about your group and the local area Once you’ve been allocated a family, and you and your Local Authority have accepted them, you will need to prepare a ...
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...
Community Sponsorship groups have welcomed families under the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) since early 2021. This new resettlement scheme replaced the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme (V...
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 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...