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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21 April 2022
Homes for Ukraine – what we are learning: Refugees
Over the coming days our CEO, Kate, will be sharing our learning to date through our website and meetings with allies. We have learned a lot, far too much for one article, so we want to start with what Ukrainian refugees need from the Homes for Ukraine programme.
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1 April 2022
Reset launches Homes for Ukraine matching and training service
Reset launches a matching and training service to pair sponsors and refugees under the UK Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme. It has mobilised experts in safeguarding to assess sponsors and refugees to make sure that the matching is suitable.It will scale the matching service in response to refugee demand. Reset will also provide a training service, drawing on the expertise of Refugees at Home, for sponsors, local authorities, and community groups.
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28 March 2022
Homes for Ukraine Sponsor Toolkit
Reset have released a sponsor toolkit for those wishing to welcome through the Homes for Ukraine programme.
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14 March 2022
Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme
We welcome the recognition that individuals and communities in the UK can play in a key role in opening their doors to those urgently in need of safety having fled from the conflict in Ukraine.
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13 March 2022
Updates on new measures to welcome Ukrainians to the UK
We're receiving hundreds of offers to help Ukrainians arrive to the UK.
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7 March 2022
Analysis of Community Sponsorship volunteer experiences published
15 Community Sponsorship groups told us about their highs and lows as they reached the end of their 2 year Community Sponsorship journey. We have published a short analysis of their reflections.
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28 February 2022
Reset receives funding from Home Office
We’re delighted to share that we have been awarded the contract by the Home Office to continue as the UK’s Community Sponsorship support organisation.
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18 February 2022
Reset’s response to the Northern Ireland Executive Office’s draft Refugee Integration Strategy
Reset has responded to the draft Refugee Integration Strategy 2022-2027 urging the Executive Office to include within the strategy its ambition to grow Community Sponsorship in Northern Ireland.
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16 February 2022
British Red Cross VOICES Network report: hearing the voices of sponsored families
We were delighted to fund the VOICES Network to carry out a second phase of research with refugees resettled through Community Sponsorship into their experience of arriving in the UK. We believe this will offer Community Sponsorship groups a great deal of food for thought as they prepare to welcome families to the UK.
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15 February 2022
Reset launches new Training Website
We are delighted to announce that our new Training Website is now live. The website’s new design and features make it easier for Community Sponsorship groups to access vital resources and track their progress.
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14 February 2022
Reset's volunteers welcome refugee nurses arriving to work for the NHS
Local volunteers in 7 locations across England have welcomed refugee nurses arriving to work for the NHS through the Neighbours for Newcomers programme.
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26 January 2022
Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme formally opens
Community Sponsorship groups will now be able to welcome Afghan refugees through the new Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme. We are adapting our training and support so that groups will be prepared to welcome refugees who have spent time in temporary accommodation.