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Swansea Brings Home Sanctuary Games Trophy

On Sunday 6th August, a team of asylum seekers and refugees from Swansea competed in the first Sanctuary Games. The…
Interpreters in the Community Discussion Forum

INVITATION TO “INTERPRETERS IN THE COMMUNITY” DISCUSSION FORUM SWANSEA UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO JOIN US FOR…
Summer Holiday Activities

Attached is a compilation of free activities for August . Please note that the list is not exhaustive but hopefully…
Destitution Working Group Re-launched

For several years Swansea City of Sanctuary has had a subgroup about destitution, in partnership with Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers…
Summer Holiday Activities

SUMMER HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES IN SWANSEA – JULY 2017
The experiences of our volunteers

To celebrate Refugee Week we’re sharing the experiences of some of our volunteers. Today, we’re sharing the experience of Saba,…
From Volunteer to Staff Member

To celebrate Refugee Week, we are collecting articles and pieces of writing from our volunteers. Today’s piece, comes from Stepheni,…
Wales Nation of Sanctuary Summary Report.

We are delighted to bring you the Nation of Sanctuary Event Summary on World Refugee Day.
The experiences of our volunteers

To celebrate Refugee Week we’re sharing the experiences of some of our volunteers. Today we share our Co-Chair Amber’s experiences.
The experiences of our volunteers

To celebrate Refugee Week, we have asked several of our volunteers to write a blog piece for us. We asked…
Want to support volunteers who are seeking sanctuary?

Refugee Week takes place every year across the world in the week around World Refugee Day on the 20 June. In…
Job Opportunity- Volunteer Development Worker, with SBASSG.

JOB ADVERTISEMENT– Volunteer Development Worker, Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group
Swansea City of Sanctuary Wins Prestigious Queen’s Award
Swansea Refugee and Asylum Seeker Advocacy Forum

We are excited to announce that thanks to funding from the Welsh Government, an Advocacy Forum for asylum seekers and…
Wanted: your experience of welcome

We are working hard to enable Wales to become the first ever Nation of Sanctuary. To help us in doing…
AGM & Celebration Event

This week we held our AGM and celebration event. We elected our new Management Committee and celebrated the steps taken…
Free awareness-raising training available through Swansea CVS.

We are pleased to be delivering a free awareness-raising training session, about issues affecting asylum seekers and refugees, through the…
VolcanoFridays – World Voices in Swansea!

Multilingual World Literature in Swansea: over 30 authors, artists and musicians and more than 17 languages in a unique event series. Meet…