The Government has released statistics on COVID-19 and the immigration system, highlighting some of the key trends into April on passenger arrivals, visas, extensions, asylum, resettlement and detention, as well as the EU Settlement Scheme. Key asylum related developments are:
Latest update from Detention Forum. This action is still important.
Campaign group, These Walls Must Fall has written an open letter to the Home Secretary Priti Patel urging the government…
Doctors of the World has launched a report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excluded people in England.
Last year internationally acclaimed pianist Margaret Fingerhut raised an incredible £82,000 for City of Sanctuary, visiting 32 cities across the…
Club Doncaster Foundation has been running sport activities to make people seeking sanctuary feel welcome, develop their skills and connect…
Collaborative film-making during lockdown
CoS are mobilising behind the call for the Home Office to urgently increase financial support to people seeking sanctuary to…
Bristol’s refugee sector has joined forces to find practical ways to support people seeking sanctuary in the city amidst the…
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration has set up a new short inquiry to identify best practice for reaching isolated groups and how to overcome some of the challenges during the current COVID-19 pandemic. To keep within the guidelines of social distancing groups are requested to submit their written…
Please see message below from Interfaith Glasgow about their upcoming event:
In the face of the challenges of organising life with the outbreak of Covid-19, City of Sanctuary’s North East Sanctuary…
Our Zoom Business account allows calls that are longer than the 40 mins allowed on a free account (the maximum…
From 25 March 2020, our address will be:
The City of Sanctuary vision of welcome and sanctuary for all underpins our thinking as we respond to the new…
COVID-19 poses a great threat to the lives of most vulnerable within our society and among them are people seeking sanctuary from war, violence and persecution. Below are some of the advocacy works by leading UK charities calling Government to take practical steps to protect people seeking sanctuary from COVID-19.…