BCoS AGM 16th May 2018
We warmly welcome you to our AGM on 16th May 2018, 4.30 PM at Touchstone. It will be an opportunity to meet members and also new trustees. All welcome!
We warmly welcome you to our AGM on 16th May 2018, 4.30 PM at Touchstone. It will be an opportunity to meet members and also new trustees. All welcome!
We are delighted to launch our first Newsletter! Please send us your stories and feedback!BCoS Newsletter Jan-Mar 2018
We are delighted to welcome Sarli Nana who took up post as part-time Coordinator for Bradford City of Sanctuary on 1st November.
FAITHS IN ACTION IN BRADFORD
In the post waiting for us after Christmas was a cheque + the following very moving letter:
The University of Sanctuary Working Group will be hosting a lunchtime event to celebrate what has already been achieved at…
This event, taking place in the Banqueting Suite at Bradford's City Hall, is particularly timely in view of the current media and political attention on the refugee crisis - one that of course has not just developed but has existed for many years.
Global Sanctuary Education Network and Bradford City of Sanctuary teamed up to host a summer school. Young people from different backgrounds…
Refugee Blues
In a 2010 UK-wide Lloyds TSB Insurance survey, Bradford came out top as the most ‘neighbourly’ destination in terms of consideration and tolerance.
More than 60 asylum seekers and refugees from around the world gathered in Bradford city centre on 31st August to…
With 90 councillors in attendance, Bradford’s Lord Mayor received a certificate from Tiffy Allen, the National CoS Coordinator, in the…
For a report on this really excellent conference that took place in Sept 2013, see:
About 70 people attended a Destitution Day of Action in Bradford on Saturday 29th June 2013 ,part of a national…
Over 130 people from across the world gathered at the Kala Sangam Arts Centre to celebrate the fact over 150…
An exciting initiative we are currently developing in collaboration with the Zephaniah Trust is the Refugee Voices schools drama project. Whilst Bradford Action for Families workers do awareness-raising and myth-busting teaching, the children also work on a powerful performance in which they act out true stories of local refugees –…
Bradford City of Sanctuary group wholeheartedly supports Positive Bradford.
Asylum seekers, refugees and supporters came together to celebrate Bradford’s recent award of official ‘City of Sanctuary’ status and to…