Manchester City of Sanctuary: Building a Network of Welcome
About us
Our mission in Manchester is to help spread the City of Sanctuary network to Manchester making it united in being a welcoming city, open and fair for all. After all, we are a city built my migrants. We want to create a more inclusive and welcoming city to those seeking sanctuary who bring skills, enterprise, music, food and hard work to enrich our city. We run monthly conversation clubs and meals as well as offering practical projects and signposting services. You can find more about us here.
Manchester City of Sanctuary has charity status: Ref number 1168839. If you would like to donate to us you can donate here or you can pledge your support or sign up to our newsletter here.
The aims of our charity are as so:
- To advance the education of the public about issues relating to refugees and people seeking asylum or sanctuary.
- To promote health and well-being in Manchester among sanctuary seekers.
- To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupations in the interests of social welfare to improve the conditions of life of people in need.
- To provide training to those people who have need of it for their benefit including refugees, people seeking sanctuary, and people refused asylum in the UK.
- The promotion of equality and diversity by promoting activities to create understanding and engagement between people from diverse backgrounds
Follow us on Twitter: @ManchesterCoS or like our Facebook page for the latest news.
How can you get involved?
Do you have an idea about how you can make Manchester a more welcoming place? You can make a pledge of support as an individual or an organisation. If you’re in need of a bit of inspiration about how you can help visit our pledges page here.
Click here to tell us your pledge or to find out how other people and businesses are supporting us.
Come to one of our events
If you work with refugees or asylum seekers you can help promote our conversation club. This is a great opportunity for sanctuary seekers to get out and see some friendly faces. If you’re interested in finding out more about what City of Sanctuary are doing in Manchester you can come along to our conversation club to meet everyone and find out more. If you can help promote our events join our mailing list here
To see what events are coming up you can visit our events page here.
This is what our members have to say about our regular conversation club:
“I come to conversation club to make friends and because of the solidarity”
“I want to meet new friends and improve my English”
“I get information and advice from other people in my situation”
Donate
Having just received Charity Status we’re looking forward to expanding our welcome and ability to welcome others. Could you help us with a one off or monthly donation? A small amount goes a long way. Just £8 provides two social events and a food parcel for one Sanctuary Seeker a month. Click here to Donate.
Latest News
Have you seen our ‘Everything you need to know‘ guide for being a Sanctuary Seeker in Manchester, written for Sanctuary Seekers BY sanctuary seekers. We’re quite excited about it.
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Manchester City of Sanctuary complete Manchester 10k 2018
We had a team of runners take part in this years Manchester 10k for Manchester City of Sanctuary. We’re happy…
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Summer Paintings by Kids at MCoS
At this month months Community Meal we decided to get creative with the kids by asking them to create a…
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New Refugee, Isioma, gives back to Manchester City of Sanctuary from her first pay packet
In 2017, after several years of appealing and waiting, gathering fresh material to evidence her truth, Isioma was given her…
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Bridget’s Walk and Picnic
On Wednesday we went on our first of ‘Bridget’s Walks’. One of our new supporters Bridget Gates, a horticulturist of…
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Shopping Buddies
We recently have had the good fortune to have a student volunteering with us who has done a survey on our shopping buddy scheme. Asylum Seekers get £36.95 a week on a card (the Azure Card) which does not allow its users to get cash. Not having cash means not…
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Progress! Yes!
It’s awesome to think that, even since August last year (this image is from our annual report in August 2017) we’ve made some great progress. More partner organisations, 3 paid employees, over 1000 twitter followers and 610 facebook likes, it’s nice to see things moving in the right direction. It’s…
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Statement Regarding the Migration and Voluntary Returns Surgery at Transformation Community Resource Centre
Manchester City of Sanctuary (MCoS) and Transformation Community Resource Centre (TCRC) have worked in close partnership together over the past…
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Winter Twixmas Party 2017
It was an absolutely incredible Twixmas Party this year. So much generosity from so many people in Manchester and beyond…
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Our ambassador Barly Koyangbwa discussing the frightening situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Our ambassador Barly Koyangbwa discussing the frightening situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Please watch and share. For English subtitles click the subtitles/closed captions button on YouTube.
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Child in a Strange Place
Earlier this year City of Sanctuary in Manchester worked in collaboration with Theatre in the Quarter, (Chester) on a family-focused…
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A fantastic November Community Meal
Big shout out for Circus House who got so many of us tight rope walking, hanging from the trapeze, spinning plates, hoopla hooping and juggling devil sticks during our November Community Meal! Big thank you for Tony and Solenne’s Card making table. For Thelma and the 5 cooks, David and…
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MCoS chosen to receive share of the Coop Local Community Fund
We have very exciting news to share……!! Manchester City of Sanctuary has been chosen by the Coop to receive a percentage share of the Coop Local Community Fund during 2018.
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