Welcome to Bristol Refugee Rights website
Bristol Refugee Rights
PLEASE SHOP AT WAITROSE IN FEBRUARY AND PUT LOTS OF GREEN TOKENS IN OUR BOX!
We are very grateful to Phil Rowlands of Waitrose, The Pavilion, 85 Queens Road Clifton, Bristol, because Bristol Refugee Rights has been nominated as one of Waitrose’s 3 local charities, which they support under their Community Matters scheme, for the month of February.
They have a budget of £500 per month, which is split between the 3 charities according to how many shopping tokens they receive.
Each customer who shops with them gets a token as they leave the shop. Please shop there and put your tokens in our box!
We are fund-raising to provide, amongst other things, a hot meal once a week for people who are seeking sanctuary in UK, while they wait for a decision on their claim. A number of those who benefit are homeless and destitute because their claim for asylum is refused, but they cannot return to war zones.
Bristol Refugee Rights was set up as a voluntary organisation in 2005
to uphold and champion the human rights of asylum seekers and
refugees. We provide a place of welcome in Bristol where asylum
seekers and refugees can meet and be supported to play a full part in
the life of the wider community and also campaign for the human
rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Bristol Refugee Rights aims to
deliver a ‘user-led’ service that addresses the practical, psychological
and human rights needs of refugees and asylum seekers by:
- Welcoming people into a safe place
- Empowering people to achieve an independent and productive life
- Enabling social inclusion
- Bringing public attention to human rights aspects of asylum law and
practice based on information collected in the welcome centre.
The key values that underpin the work of Bristol Refugee Rights are
inclusion, partnership working, commitment to provision of a quality
service, empowerment and accountability. We work to sustain these
values both in the Welcome Centre and in our human rights
campaigning.
