Can we find a home for another refugee family?

A message from Churches Together in Sevenoaks and District

You may have heard that the first refugee family received by Sevenoaks District Council recently moved into their home.  Particularly impressive was the way that so many from different communities came together to make this happen. Out of this shared concern has grown the group, Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees.  

Now we need to get working on housing more refugee families and CTSD is pleased to be in partnership with SWR to achieve this ambition.  The most pressing and difficult problem is finding a suitable family home to rent.  A three or four bedroomed house anywhere within the Sevenoaks District Council area is urgently required.  Please, would you talk with your church family and other contacts to see if there is a suitable house out there which could be rented for a minimum of two years.

If you hear of anything that might just work, please either contact CTSD or go direct to Graham Roper, grahamroper@lineone.net  telephone 01732 460786.

Please help us to make a significant contribution to this appalling humanitarian problem.

An Update from the "Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees" group

You may have been aware that Sevenoaks Council has found a house for a Syrian Refugee family, A lot of work has been done on this house and garden to make it ready by the "Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees" group. There is a meeting on Thursday - details below - where you can hear more and see what you can do to help.

From: Humphrey Pring

Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 7:37 AM

To: Humphrey Pring

Subject: Our lovely Syrian family have arrived

An update from SWR co-chair Nina:

"Our lovely Syrian family have arrived In Eynsford. They are busy getting settled in - they are very keen to integrate into village life, to get to know their neighbours and be part of our welcoming community. Their support worker is busy helping them to do all necessary to get set up, but understandably there is a lot to do and much for them to get their heads around. For this reason, we are giving them plenty of space and ask that anybody wishing to meet them, wait until they are ready - contact will initially need to go through their support worker. 

The family are extremely grateful for all of the work SWR and others have done to make their home welcoming and homely and asked me to pass on their thanks to you all. Do watch this space - we will post on here and by e-mail any support or donations requested by the family. Thank you again - it is wonderful to finally welcome our Syrian friends."

Please do come along to our meeting next Thursday, June 29 at 7:30 PM - 9 PM. It's at the Vine Evangelical Church  Vineevangelical Church Hitchen Hatch Lane, Sevenoaks, TN13 3AT. See our e-mail dated 22 June for the agenda. If you would like to join the core group of Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees, please contact us before the meeting. There are 7 of us in the core group at present but there is plenty to do. Hope to see you there!

If you are on Facebook, you can join our group there - search in Facebook for Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees. There is an open/public page and more detailed information is shared in the closed group, which people need to request to join as a member. We have 185 members on there currently. All our communication messages are put out there (in the closed group) and also to this e-mail list. We are keeping the e-mail list bcc for personal confidentiality so if you want to engage directly with other members in the group and chat about what's happening, the Facebook group might be for you. But if you prefer e-mail, you'll continue to get all the news and announcements this way. Please do share this e-mail with your friends, and ask them to contact us if they would like to go onto our e-mail distribution. 

Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees