RWinR

Category: Impact

  • Grow your own food at Jubilee Meadow

    Grow your own food at Jubilee Meadow

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    Update: Thanks very much to everyone who supported Grow Your Own over 2024, especially our project leader Olga. We’re pausing this activity for the winter and will review whether to renew it next year. Do you love gardening, plants or have a passion for growing food? We would like to invite you to our new…

  • Thanks to Kew Fete

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    We are delighted to receive a very generous donation of £2,000 from the organisers of Kew Fete 2024. Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR) supports people seeking sanctuary to live and thrive throughout this beautiful borough. From language interpretation at our advice sessions to catering and venue hire for social events, this grant will greatly improve the services…

  • Thanks to Jane Bradley, her family and friends

    Thanks to Jane Bradley, her family and friends

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    Jane Bradley supported people seeking sanctuary in Richmond as an English teacher and a volunteer at the Vineyard Community Centre. We are very grateful to Jane’s family and friends who have raised over £1,000 in her memory for Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR). This tremendous contribution will go directly towards supporting various expenses for our clients. You can read…

  • Welcoming Boroughs of Sanctuary

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    We’re delighted that both Richmond and Wandsworth Councils have become Boroughs of Sanctuary and have been recruiting new staff to work under a dedicated Head of Refugee Services. RWinR has also become the official group representing Richmond in the nationwide City of Sanctuary network. We’re now working more closely with our friends at Wandsworth Welcomes…

  • Let your property and give a refugee family a home

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    In response to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames signed up to accept Afghan refugees under the Government’s and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Schemes. With thousands of Afghan refugees waiting in limbo in bridging hotels, more properties are urgently needed to give families the stability they…

  • Celebrating eight years of Refugees Welcome in Richmond

    Celebrating eight years of Refugees Welcome in Richmond

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    Thanks very much to everyone who joined us to celebrate eight years of Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR) at The Vineyard Community Centre on Thursday 9 November.

  • Weekly social hub at The Vineyard

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    Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR) and the Vineyard Community Centre are hosting a weekly social hub in the Vineyard Café at 2a The Vineyard, Richmond TW10 6AQ. From October the hub will run every Tuesday 12.30-2.30pm. We provide specific support to clients from Ukraine, but people from all backgrounds are welcome to join us. Connect…

  • Ukraine crisis

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    For the latest guidance and updates on support for refugees from Ukraine, visit our Ukraine page.

  • Finding homes for Ukraine: report from our meeting

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    Our secretary, Valerie Booth, reports back from a meeting on 31st March to discuss our support for refugees and asylum seekers from Ukraine arriving in Richmond. In response to the current crisis, we invited existing and new contacts to join us at the Vineyard Community Centre. We had approximately 20 attendees, most having signed up…

  • Responding to the crisis in Ukraine

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    Volunteers from Refugees Welcome in Richmond met with Sarah Olney, MP for Richmond Park, today on Friday 11th March at her constituency office. We discussed setting up a database collating offers of local sponsorship and accommodation to facilitate resettlement of Ukrainian refugees as soon as the proposed government sponsorship scheme is announced. Other issues we raised…