What is this all about?
We are a group of parishioners associated with Clifton Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bristol (UK) who have spent the last year or so working towards obtaining sponsorship status within the Home Office’s Community Sponsorship Scheme (CSS - see Links page) in order to be able to sponsor a family of refugees from the wars in the Middle East.
The family chosen by the Home Office to come to Bristol will be a Syrian family, and the families who come to the UK under the CSS are chosen by the UNHCR from among the most needy cases.
Having now (end-July 2019) successfully obtained sponsorship status through a rigorous appraisal system, we are in the process of being allocated a refugee family by the Home Office (see the STOP PRESS page). The Home Office/UNHCR will be responsible for all e.g. medical and security checks and travel arrangements. For our part in Bristol we at the CRSS shall be responsible for welcoming, housing, making friends with and integrating the family into the local community.
We hope to be able to welcome a family to Bristol in by late summer or early autumn of 2019.
Please do watch the short YouTube video below to explain all about it.
Having now (end-July 2019) successfully obtained sponsorship status through a rigorous appraisal system, we are in the process of being allocated a refugee family by the Home Office (see the STOP PRESS page). The Home Office/UNHCR will be responsible for all e.g. medical and security checks and travel arrangements. For our part in Bristol we at the CRSS shall be responsible for welcoming, housing, making friends with and integrating the family into the local community.
We hope to be able to welcome a family to Bristol in by late summer or early autumn of 2019.
Please do watch the short YouTube video below to explain all about it.
