‘This seems like a solvable problem’: Jude Law on helping Calais’s refugees As France prepares to dismantle part of the Calais refugee camp – evicting more than 3,000 people – British stars including Jude Law and Tom Stoppard visited to show their support. Can they make a difference? Click here to read the Guardian article.
Wednesday 17th February 7.30 for 8.00pm at the Parkside Suite, Bromsgrove Council House BRWR Integrating Refugees into our Communities flyer public meeting 17.2.16 docx
University of Worcester on Saturday 12 March 2016 Click here for details
At the Celebrating 2016 Together dinner event organised by our member Naeem Arif and his wife Shamim in early January, the owner of Shimla Peppers Chaudhry Julfiker is presenting £200 donation cheque to Mike Carrick and Naeem for Syrian refugees.
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Bromsgrove Council House, Parkside Market Street, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B61 8DA Our next public meeting on 17th February starts at 8pm, but people are invited from 7.30 for 8.00pm Free car parking after 7.00pm in Market Street public car park. Jenny Phillimore, Professor and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at Birmingham University, will […]
Refugee culture shock when settling in Europe: If we want Germans to accept Arabs, Arabs must also learn to accept them Also, MP calls to take in more child refugees: Lord Dubs: UK response to refugee children ‘could shame us for a generation’ MPs back calls for UK to take in 3,000 child refugees from […]
Council leaders across Worcestershire have agreed to go ahead with a formal bid to the Home Office to relocate Syrian refugees across the county. Negotiations will begin later this month with the Home Office and West Midlands Strategic Migration Partnership to host up to 50 people in Worcestershire by the end of 2016. It follows […]
For an update on the group’s activities, click here: Bromsgrove & Redditch Welcome Refugees January 2016
Public Meeting: Wednesday 17th February, 8pm Venue: Council Offices, Bromsgrove Jenny Phillimore, Professor and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at Birmingham University, will be speaking on refugee integration. All supporters and any interested people welcome. Further reading: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/where-is-integration-in-the-refugee-crisis/
The Government has kept its promise to relocate 1,000 Syrian refugees under the Vulnerable Person’s Relocation Scheme by Christmas. In our area, Birmingham received its first refugees under the scheme on 17th December. The family of four are settling in and Refugee Action staff and volunteers will be looking after them as they get used to […]
Seeking Sanctuary website About ‘Seeking Sanctuary’. There are currently well over 6000 migrants in Calais (November 2015) and more nearby. ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ aims to raise awareness about this situation and is organising basic humanitarian assistance through Faith Communities and Community Organisations in partnership with experienced aid agencies such as ‘Secours Catholique’. This is an appropriate […]