Annual General Meeting 1st December
It’s our AGM on Thursday 1st December at Huddersfield Town Hall 6.30 – 8.30pm – all welcome!
It’s our AGM on Thursday 1st December at Huddersfield Town Hall 6.30 – 8.30pm – all welcome!
We had another fantastic World Party again this year - huge thanks to all who came and who took part!
Kirklees Council has become the 8th Council to pass a motion against destitution and joins Oxford, Bristol, Liverpool and Bradford as members of the Still Human Still Here coalition!
Three people travelled from Huddersfield to Manchester for the National Conference on Saturday 19th January. Fatou Sallah, an asylum seeker herself, described her work to support pregnant asylum seekers and new mums with children up to the age of two. She has been training for six months to become a…
The Third Winter Warmer will be happening on Christmas Day, December 25th, at the Quaker Meeting House, Church Street, Paddock 12 to 3pm food and all-age games Details: Jan Walters [email protected]
This week saw the premiere of the Kirklees ‘Come Dine with Us film’ at Huddersfield Methodist Mission. This project brought together asylum seekers, community organisations and individuals over a series of pop up dining experiences in 2011. Many volunteers were involved in this project including Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary, Huddersfield…
The Autumn Gathering and AGM was a great opportunity to look back at a busy year for us at Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary and to look forward to the next year. There have been a number of new organisations joining over the past year so that now we have a…
Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary Second Annual INTERNATIONAL CEILIDH.
ASSURE HUDDERSFIELD
‘Huddersfield is an enriched community, a more vibrant, and a better place because of the sanctuary seekers and refugees who live here’said Bill Dennis manager of Kirklees Asylum Support Service at the Autumn Gathering and AGM of Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary, held on 8th October.
We are very pleased that Greenhead College has become our 60th supporting organisation. This follows on from the hugely successful ‘International Ceilidh’ held there recently.
Huddersfield Pakistani Community Alliance in Thornton Lodge has signed up as the 50th member of the dynamic local initiative known as ‘Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary’. Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary, which is run by local volunteers, helps to make the town a welcoming place for people seeking sanctuary from war and…
Huddersfield Pakistani Community Alliance (HPCA) recently became the 50th organisation to sign a Resolution of Support for Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary. For information on how to become a supporting organisation please visit https://www.cityofsanctuary.org/node/475 where you can download and sign a Resolution.
It is less than a year since the first meeting at the Methodist Mission to see if there was enough support to set up Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary. We have done a great deal in that time. We have a very good steering group, with people bringing their skills and…
The launch of Huddersfield Town of Sanctuary was an amazing event with a sense of energy and enthusiasm for the idea of welcoming and including people seeking sanctuary in our everyday activities.
Radio Leeds broadcast a live interview on Sunday 20 June with Ann Bettys, Richard Byrne and Mani Dana, a sanctuary…
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