Setting up a new group
If you are interested in setting up your own community sponsorship group, take a look through the wealth of information and advice at
Start a group - Sponsor Refugees
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The main things needed to get started are a core team of committed, local people and a group of willing volunteers. You then need to raise £9,000, find a local house and identify and assign roles for your volunteers.
If you’re interested in doing this, please get in touch by filling in the form on our contact page or emailing westburywelcome@gmail.com – we’d love to meet you and chat about what our experience has been in setting up a group. It’s challenging, but also hugely rewarding!
“It has been wonderful spending time with this special family and the Westbury Welcome team – learning together and making connections, celebrating our differences and cherishing our shared humanity. Individually we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
Sarah, a Westbury Welcome volunteer.