We’re holding an event on the evening of the 20th June, to celebrate World Refugee Day. It is named after this year’s Refugee Week theme, ‘Community as a Superpower’, which we feel reflects the strength and achievements of our own community along with the support we receive from the wider Chichester community.

Community as a Superpower
20th June 2025
6:30pm – 8:30pm

This is a ticketed event but tickets are FREE 🙂 Book your place here >>

Guests will be hearing from a number of refugees with diverse stories, along with volunteers about their experiences.

There will be refreshments available before the speakers and during an interval, with donations gratefully recieved on the evening to cover costs.

Trustee Gemma Driver said, “The volunteers and staff team at Sanctuary regularly hear the stories of those we support, and they really put our lives into perspective. We are in awe of how people are able to build new lives after what they have been through, often showing huge generosity of spirit to others along the way. It spurs us on to support their journeys and also to advocate for refugees and asylum seekers whose voices are rarely heard in the media. So we decided to give a proper platform to those wanting to share their stories, and also to gift the learning you get from such accounts to the people of Chichester.”

We held a similar event in 2022 which was a great success, and we received lots of requests for another. Our organisation has changed significantly since then, to keep pace with the rapid and continuous growth in number of beneficiaries, and the increase in complexity of the cases we support, so it will be interesting for anyone who came to the last event to see how things have changed.

Community as a Superpower
20th June 2025
6:30pm – 8:30pm
104 The Hornet, Chichester, PO19 7JR

This is a ticketed event but tickets are FREE 🙂 Book your place here >>

With thanks to One-O-Four for use of their beautiful venue.