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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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.
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19 December 2019
Welcome to Reset's new Chair of Trustees, Chris Clements
Russell Rook, having taken on a new role as interim director of a new international charity working in the Holy Land, has recently stepped down as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Reset. He has Chaired Reset since we were established in 2018 and we thank him for his dedication and expertise.
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31 October 2019
Local Authorities recognised at the Community Sponsorship Awards 2019
Reset was proud to fund the new Local Authority category at the Community Sponsorship Awards that took place on 8th October 2019 at Canada House.
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17 June 2019
Reset welcomes Home Office plans for Community Sponsorship in the UK after 2020
At Reset we welcome the Home Office’s post-2020 announcement, the continued commitment to resettlement, and in particular the move to make the numbers of refugees resettled via Community Sponsorship above and beyond those resettled through the government's new global scheme. The implications of the announcement for the Community Sponsorship scheme are outlined in more detail below.
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23 October 2018
Reset Appoints Co-Directors
Dr Kate Brown and Dr Monika Kruesmann have joined the Reset team as co-Directors (a job share), and introduce themselves here.
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18 June 2018
The Home Office Awards £1m to help communities support refugees
The Home Office has awarded £1million to the new civil society organisation Reset Communities and Refugees to enable them to provide support to groups across the UK looking to sponsor families fleeing the war in Syria as part of the Community Sponsorship scheme.