Jan Penrose, our beloved and longstanding volunteer at Asylum Welcome, recently stepped down to embark on a new adventure. Jan supported the organisation for over 25 years, making a truly remarkable contribution to improving the lives of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire. Volunteering at Asylum Welcome: “You will just find
What is it like to be forced to leave home because your house is being bombed, because there is a war in your country? Roughly half of the 80 million refugees in the world right now are children. How does it feel to have your life, dreams and aspirations shattered from a young
Featured photo: Ben, our previous Laptops and Digital Inclusion Volunteer Coordinator, and Saeed, our Office Manager, delighted to receive nearly 30 donated laptops and desktops from BlackRock last year. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated computers and/or their time, allowing us to provide more than 180 laptops to refugees and
Featured photo: American Photo Archive / Alamy Two events last week illustrated very different elements of our work. We supported a young woman, who had arrived in Oxford among the thousands flown out of Kabul last summer, to move into her own flat in the city. She was an outspoken activist, at extreme
Read this extract from an article written by Jenny Corbett, Policy Manager at Homeless Link. Everyone In represented the first time that England had attempted a local authority-led universal homelessness response. The results for non-UK national homelessness were remarkable, but the measures were temporary. Now, as winter provision continues and local
On 13 January 2022 Kat Orman, from BBC Radio Oxford, interviewed Aiham Al Aswadi, former client, volunteer and now member of staff at Asylum Welcome. In this interview, Aiham talks openly about the context and circumstances that led him and his family to leave Yemen, his home
Dear Friend, It’s often hard to believe that any of us can make a difference… but individuals, working together as a group, certainly can. I’ve seen it with my own eyes in recent months and I want to thank you for everything you do to help Asylum Welcome in our work.
Story Guide Trainees who have taken part in the story guide training programme, delivered in partnership by Asylum Welcome and the Story Museum, applied the key transferable skills they have learned so far to work with pupils from two schools during their trip to the Story Museum last week. The essential key story guiding
Oxford Human Rights Planning Committee member and CENDEP postgraduate student Victoria Greenwood shares her reflections on the UK Nationality and Borders Bill and Little Amal’s visit to the ‘dreaming spires’ of Oxford. Elizabeth Laskar, Festival Coordinator writes: The reflection below has been written by MA student Victoria Greenwood after the visit
Protestors assembled at 5:15pm on Wednesday 20th at Carfax Tower to chant and give speeches against the Nationalities and Borders Bill...
