Our goal is to raise £40,000 by the end of 2019.
Since Sanctuary in Chichester launched in January 2016, we’ve achieved a lot.
Our services for refugees and asylum seekers now include support for Syrian refugee families, weekly drop in sessions, a dedicated football team, English language tuition, and emergency accommodation and finance.
In late 2017 we launched a campaign to raise £40,000 so we can do much more. With this funding we want to:
• Create more drop-in facilities
• Help other Syrian families arrive and settle in West Sussex
• Extend our language learning service
• Offer more friendship-building and mentoring opportunities, potentially using sport as a focus
• Provide shelter to destitute asylum-seekers, sometimes at short notice
• Increase awareness of, and access to, our services
• Boost understanding among local residents of the issues that refugees and asylum seekers face.
We’ve already collected more than £30,000 (75% of our £40,000 target). Please help us reach our goal.
A creative supporter designed the following graphic to help us track our progress. As we get nearer to our £40,000 target, the golden balls kicked by ‘Chich’ the footballer get nearer to the net. We chose a football scene, rather than the traditional fundraising thermometer, due to many of the young refugees we support being avid football fans – and to celebrate our very own team, Nations United.
How you can help:
• You can attend one of our fundraising events. Please check our forthcoming events page and keep an eye on our social media for details.
• You can hold your own fundraising event on our behalf, whether it’s a coffee morning or a sponsored bike ride. We’ve listed some of our ideas for fundraising here but would love to hear yours, and to help you with fundraising information and materials.
• You can join our friendly fundraising group, which meets every month in Chichester and is doing great things.
• Share our fundraising leaflet with friends and family or help us hand them out in public.
• Donate. No amount is too small (or large!)
– £15 could pay for an English language textbook.
– £25 could cover the monthly cost of broadband internet so a refugee family is able to contact loved ones.
– £100 would provide a destitute asylum seeker with meals for a month.
Visit our Donations page to find out more about giving.
• Share our campaign on social media.
For more information about fundraising for Sanctuary in Chichester please contact rebecca.dowman@cantab.net.
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