Table at Story Tree

Story Tree – reading together

Every week in a library community room, you’ll see a group of people sitting around a table reading a story together. You might notice intense discussion, bursts of laughter, occasionally tears. This is Story Tree, a safe, comfortable space where refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants gather to share reading and improve their English. Unlike

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Refugee Week 2023 poster with smiling children

Refugee Week visit to St Christopher’s Prep School, Hove

‘Thank you for coming in yesterday. The children really enjoyed your session and we’ve raised lots of awareness and money for Care4Calais which is wonderful.’ Rhona Sykens, Year 5 teacher, 23 June 2023   For the past two years, the children and parents at St Christopher’s Prep School have collected donations for Refugee Week and spent

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An illustration of Jewish migrants arriving from Russia and Poland in the late 19th or early 20th century (The History of London)

Carrying the past

When I’m talking to friends and acquaintances from war-torn countries, I don’t ask why or how they escaped. After many months, one friend shows me a video of their bombed home in Damascus. A young man I’ve just met alludes to a nightmarish journey through Libya. Others never say a word to me. Most refugees

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