Ready TogetherCelebrating Small Charities Week 2022: Restore Birmingham
News and blogsThis Small Charities Week, we celebrate charities supported by the Local Action Fund, like Restore Birmingham who help refugees and asylum seekers.
This Small Charities Week, we’re celebrating brilliant grassroots charities around the UK who have used our Local Action Fund with Crowdfunder UK to make a meaningful difference in their communities.
Today we are spotlighting Restore Birmingham (opens in a new tab), who offer a befriending service and run social activities for refugees and asylum seekers to help combat loneliness and isolation and foster integration.
Restore is a project of Birmingham Churches Together that supports refugees and asylum seekers from any faith or none and welcomes volunteers from any faith or none. They have 108 befriending volunteers matched to 129 refugees and asylum seekers from 23 different countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Sudan and Eritrea.
One sanctuary seeker wrote, ‘Restore paired me up with a befriender who actually changed my life. Having someone to talk to was a big problem to me until I met my befriender who came and took that burden away. She is very kind-hearted, is always ready to listen to me and has helped me to regain my self-confidence.’
If you are a small charity making a big difference to your community, find out more about the Local Action Fund and how to apply on Crowdfunder (opens in a new tab).
