How Can I Help?

Also check the LINKS section

Donations in kind

We deliver donations to organisations in Skipton, Bradford, Nelson and Lancaster for refugees and asylum seekers.

Contact your nearest group for information about what is needed and for arrangements for delivery or collection.

Donating money

For International and National Organisations please look at LINKS on this site

Skipton Group

raises money each year for Abigail Housing, a West-Yorkshire based charitable company dedicated to providing support and homes to refugees and asylum seekers who find themselves destitute on our streets. This includes those who have been refused asylum but cannot reasonably return to their country of origin and those given refugee status who have to leave their NASS (National Asylum Support Service) housing.

To donate to this work, please visit the Just Giving page below. All funds received via this route will be allocated to Abigail Housing, to other regional refugee organisations, or to the support of our “Skipton families”.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/skiptonrefugeesupport

Donations are also welcome for the work of the Settle Area Refugee Support group and for Bentham Area Refugee Support group.

Please contact them through the individual pages on this site or through their Facebook pages

Holiday breaks in the Yorkshire Dales

Working with Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (People and the Dales), members have hosted refugees from Bradford and Leeds, including from Biasan and DARE (Darwen Asylum and Refugee Enterprise), in their homes for weekend breaks and events in Skipton, Malham and the Yorkshire Dales

Bentham holds hosting weekends with Red Cross, Bradford which have included whole village events in the local hall

Settle and Upper Wharfedale also arrange days out and weekend breaks.

We expect to have future outdoor and walking days and weekends in the spring and summer.

If you are interested in hosting a refugee or family over a weekend, or would like to join us in welcoming refugees on days out, contact us at cravenrefugeesn@gmail.com

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Locally

Anchor Project Bradford

Supporting people in the BD3 postcode area.

Two English classes a week which are run by a paid member of staff and a team of volunteers. Anyone interested in volunteering could contact info@anchorproject.org.uk

Plus a lunch club for older people, a drop in for asylum seekers and refugees & a parents and toddlers group

BEACON Bradford Ecumenical Asylum Concern

McKenzie Friends are trained volunteers who provide moral support and informed help for those without access to legal representation
The Hosting Project provides short, medium and longer-term accommodation for destitute asylum seekers within the homes of volunteer hosts. beacon@yahoo.com (07505 053149)
CHAT for weekly English Club

BEACON office: 32 Merton Road, BD7 1RE 01274 727525

Katy Armitstead BEACON Team Leader 07419 990578

https://www.learningenglish.org.uk/providers/beacon-bradford-ecumenical-asylum-concern/

www.beaconbradford.org

BIASAN: Bradford Immigration and Asylum Advice and Support Network

Help is needed for English conversation in the Bradford hotels. For information contact Kate Sutcliffe bradfordbiasan@gmail.com

There is a shop https://welcomebradford.org/servicesmap/biasan-clothing-and-household-goods-store/

There is a storage unit for donations such as clothing. Please ring to see what is currently needed. For Storage Unit: contact Paola: 07896619041

Bradford City of Sanctuary

Umbrella organisation for organisations supporting refugees. Includes projects in schools. Active links with university, places of worship and community organisations. Volunteers and new committee members welcome. Meets monthly to plan events and support services. Website lists opportunities for volunteers and donations.

www.bradford.cityofsanctuary.org Email: chair@bradford.cityofsanctuary.org