City of Sanctuary Blog

By Julie Page Julie is a member of the Doncaster Conversation Club – a regular session with Doncaster City of Sanctuary. This article appeared in the Doncaster Conversation Club newsletter “View from the Edge”. What does a bowl of soup suggest to you?  It’s a simple meal, but wholesome, and while you cradle your bowl, […]

Larysa Agbaso, a Sanctuary graduate of MA TESOL from Cardiff Metropolitan University, shares a heartfelt piece about the positive impact the Sanctuary scholarship has had on her life, and highlights the support that shaped her positive experience. Reflection on personal experience of finding a light in the darkness. If a university were a person, I […]

Views of people seeking asylum on the COVID vaccines. By Dr. Julia Burne of Doncaster Conversation Club If I’m offered the vaccine, I will say ‘Yes’. However, from informal remarks and comments, I know that my view is not shared universally. To get a broader idea of how the vaccine is viewed by people seeking […]

Timothy Kayigamba, an Eritrean asylum seeker explains his struggles after claiming asylum in the UK. The culture of disbelief within the Home Office asylum system has left me feeling I have been ‘robbed’ of my dignity and denied the right to asylum. For the past 15 years since I arrived in the UK for safety, […]

By Jeff Morgan, CoS UK Trustee and support groups in a voluntary capacity as Regional Coordinator in the North West of England I recently heard from a surgeon, forcibly removed from UK to his homeland 10 months ago. I came to know him when tutoring a programme that supports refugee doctors to prepare for exams […]

By Nigel Guy, Windrush Generations UK &Lead designer of the Windrush Flag At Bradford Community Broadcasting we celebrate many cultures with a vast diversification of programmes for all to take part in, be it programme scheduling, presenting, researching, technical support or even as encouragers of positive steps through inclusivity and belonging in the BCB family. […]

Ahmed (not his real name to protect his identity) shares his daily life experiences as a person seeking sanctuary in the UK in the current COVID-19 crisis. I arrived by aeroplane I escaped from Somalia I am a victim of Torture and Slavery. I lost my loved ones, my family members. The Al-Shabaab extremist terrorist […]

By Anne East. Anne is a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service, an organisation of immigration solicitors/attorneys . Fear, anxiety, loneliness – these are just some of the emotions that many of us will be feeling at the moment. But what if that was simply the norm – our everyday existence rather than something […]