Launch of Sanctuary seeker poems “Riding on Solomon’s carpet” at Derby Poetry festival
Derby Poetry Festival Sanctuary Creative Writing Event
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Derby Museums report praises Asylum Seeker volunteer contributions
See this link Derby Museums 2017 report for an extract from their Annual Report for 2017
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City of Sanctuary Jobs now available in Derby!
Please click Jobs with City of Sanctuary for details.
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Derby City of Sanctuary member volunteers at Museum
E, a member living in Derby is providing valuable help to Derby Museum using his expertise to identify and provide historical context for a number of items of colonial African origin formerly unidentified but kept in the museum vault. He is also being trained in conservation work and helps there…
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“Host Derby” scheme launched to offer short term home for destitute asylum seekers
See previous post - this scheme is now operational and open for donations, offers of accommodation and support
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Some photos of the events from Refugee Week 2017 in Derby
Councillor joins the Great Get Together to remember Jo Cox
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Well dressing in Wirksworth supports refugees
This year's well dressing by Wellspring church in Wirksworth is dedicated to and collecting for Derby Refugee Advice Centre. Well dressing in Derbyshire, using fresh leaves, petals and seeds is a very old tradition to give thanks for water. The well shows a bridge being built to provide the foundations for a…
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Refugee week events in Derby 2017
Click on Refugee Week 2017 programme for the latest information of what's happening in Derby during Refugee week (19th - 25th June). Keep checking here - there are still more events to be confirmed!
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New play for refugee week 22 June 2017
Come to Derby Theatre at 7.30pm on 22 June 2017 to see a powerful new play by Ava Hunt "A Story to Tell" recounts stories of refugees and their journeys through poetry, drama and readings. It's free but donations to Derby Refugee Advice Centre welcome. See flyer below for more details. Full Refugee…
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Derby Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 celebrates the theme “Life Must Go on”
This year Derby marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 26 January 2017 with a full week of events, including an evening of…
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Six Derby representatives at Sanctuary in Parliament event
Derby representatives with Margaret Beckett MP
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Our Life, Our Transition – a Bosnian history project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund
For the last year or so the Derby based Bosnia-Herzegovina Association has conducted a project funded by the National Lottery to research and record the stories of 26 Bosnian people who had to flee from war and genocide in their country and settle in the UK during the Bosnian war in…
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Q&A panel on Conflicts, Refugees and resettlement held with local and national politicians
On 14th October a panel was convened by the Derby War and Refugees Forum comprising: the Rt Hon Pauline Latham, MP for mid-Derbyshire; Imti Choonara, Emeritus Professor of Child Health University of Nottingham and representative of Amnesty International; Colleen Molloy for City of Sanctuary; Cllr Asaf Afzal, DCC Cabinet member for Cohesion and Integration; and Janet Fuller…
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Remembrance Day : 11 hour challenge to support Red Cross and Royal British Legion
Derby City of Sanctuary member Joseph Chivayo is once again challenging himself to raise funds for refugee work at Red Cross - please see this link for details from last year's efforts and support him if you can.
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Derby Refugee Advice Centre Annual report published
Here is a link to the latest Annual report from the Advice Centre, with pictures and highlights of a very busy but inspiring year at DRAC - Read and enjoy! 2016-annual-report
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Derby Refugee Advice Centre to host Creative Writing Project
Derby City of Sanctuary and Writing East Midlands are running this project for refugees and asylum seekers in Derby. Poet and playwright Kevin Fegan will be the lead writer and spoken word poet Jamie Thrasivoulou shadow writer on this exciting new project, running on Tuesdays from October 4th until Christmas.…
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Panel discussion “Conflict, Refugees and Resettlement” on 14th October 2016
A public meeting organised jointly by Derby City of Sanctuary and Amnesty International will take place in Derby Council House on Friday 14th October 7-9pm to put questions to local politicians and refugee agencies. See flyer-conflictrefugees-and-resettlement-debate-oct-14th-2016 for more details and panel members
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A full Refugee week in Derby – pictures of some of our events
We had a great refugee week in Derby and started off with a public event in the City Centre. A group…