Community Sponsorship is a UK government programme which lets a group of local people - whether a faith group, charity, friends or a business - get together and plan to receive a refugee family in their village, town or city. This is being done as a sub-group of Ripon City of Sanctuary. It offers hope to a refugee family currently stuck in the Middle East or North Africa and which has no other hope of resettlement to the UK. Before we can receive the family, we need to show the Home Office that we have raised £9,000 to cover our costs.

~ We CAN'T collect Gift Aid via this page. If you can GiftAid, please use our other page, https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising-edit/rcos-community-sponsorship

~ The total on this page only shows donations via JustGiving, and not our total to date. As of 1 June 2021, we've raised donations/pledges of £4,883.17.

Somewhere out there, right now, is the family we will bring to Ripon.