News
This is where you will find news and comment from Reset, including organisation updates, alerts about funding and job opportunities and our responses to government announcements.
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30 July 2021
Joint Reset-Refugee Council briefing presented to Immigration Minister Chris Philp
In June 2021 Reset and the Refugee Council held an online event to hear views from refugee-led community organisations about Community Sponsorship. We have presented a joint briefing to the Immigration Minister Chris Philp making 5 recommendations to enable participation in Community Sponsorship by refugee-led community organisations.
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4 May 2021
Reset's response to the New Plan for Immigration
On 24th March 2021, the UK Government published its New Plan for Immigration, outlining its proposals for reforming the asylum system in the UK. The consultation period for these proposals closes on the 6th May 2021. [a test change]
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10 March 2021
British Red Cross VOICES Network report into Community Sponsorship
At Reset, we support Community Sponsorship groups to welcome refugee families by providing training sessions, advice workshops, post-arrival support visits, and more. Although we’re the ones delivering the training and providing the advice, we’re actually learning from Community Sponsorship Groups in all of these situations.
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29 January 2021
Five things we want to see in the Home Office’s resettlement plans
The pandemic brought resettlement to a halt in March 2020. This had a huge impact on the lives of refugees left in limbo, as well as on the networks of support for refugees across Local Authorities and civil society.
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27 January 2021
How we're learning from Experts by Experience
One of Reset’s goals as the Community Sponsorship Learning Hub is to continuously improve our support to Community Sponsorship groups. The advice and resources on our training website don’t appear out of thin air. They are rooted in years of learning best practice from you: the people supporting refugee families directly.
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5 January 2021
Exploring new forms of community-led welcome: What else can the power of Community Sponsorship enable?
Community Sponsorship can transform the lives of refugees and volunteers.
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7 December 2020
Reset to administer new £1 million Community Sponsorship Backstop Fund
On Sunday, US philanthropist Ed Shapiro pledged £1 million to launch a special fund aimed at encouraging growth in the UK’s Community Sponsorship Scheme. The fund will reduce the financial exposure of Lead Sponsors by providing a backstop that they can access as a last resort if a local Community Sponsorship Group is unable to fulfil its resettlement plan for the refugee family they have welcomed.
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2 November 2020
Communities for Refugees: new campaign launched to demonstrate support for resettlement
We have launched Communities for Refugees: a campaign to demonstrate support for resettlement and get volunteers ready to welcome refugees when resettlement resumes. We’re hugely excited about the campaign and the networks and partners we’re working with to spread the word.
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3 August 2020
Research reveals what people gain from Community Sponsorship
We’re looking to understand more about the impact of Community Sponsorship on the sponsors themselves. What do you learn by becoming a sponsor? What do you gain?
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16 June 2020
Reset responds to the University of Birmingham's recommendations for Community Sponsorship training and support
It’s been just over 4 years since the first refugee family arrived in the UK through the Community Sponsorship scheme. The successful development of a new programme always depends upon independent and thorough evaluation, which is why we are so excited by the University of Birmingham’s research into Community Sponsorship.
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16 June 2020
Reset welcomes new research into the impact of Community Sponsorship
At Reset, we talk a lot about the transformative potential of Community Sponsorship. How it impacts the lives of refugees welcomed into communities in this country, but also how it transforms the lives of those doing the welcoming and brings change to communities.
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30 January 2020
How can Community Sponsorship groups source affordable accommodation in the current housing crisis?
Community Sponsorship groups are required to source accommodation that a refugee family can live in for 2 years. In many parts of the country, finding accommodation that the refugee family will be able to afford when receiving Universal Credit is a real challenge. At Reset, we’ve been looking at how groups source accommodation and what lessons other groups can learn from them.