Successful Bid for Bikes
Michael Tully has been successful in his bid to the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Community Fund Local Donors scheme and has secured £1000 towards providing bikes for asylum seekers.
Michael Tully has been successful in his bid to the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Community Fund Local Donors scheme and has secured £1000 towards providing bikes for asylum seekers.
A Regional Meeting of City of Sanctuary was held in the Booth Hall at St Martins House on Wednesday May 23rd. Regional meetings are a new initiative, replacing the old ‘group meetings’. The Leicester meeting was attended by delegates from Nottingham, Coventry, Leeds and London as well as by nine…
The Annual General Meeting of Leicester City of Sanctuary was held in the Wycliffe Room of St Martins House at 7.30pm on Monday, May 21st. The speaker was Tiffy Allen from National City of Sanctuary. Two people who regularly attend the drop-in centre – one asylum seeker and one new…
Our May Fair was held on Saturday May 5th, 2012 at the Friends’ Meeting House on Queens Road. Red Leicester choir, the Zimbabwean Association choir and a troupe of Indian dancers all gave performances in the afternoon. It was a cold windy day and all the stalls had to be…
Our most recent outing, on March 24th, was to Twinlakes theme park, near Melton Mowbray.
On March 8th, 2012, the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Cambridge came to Leicester as the first of the Queen’s Jubilee visits. They had lunch at St Martin’s House and a number of asylum seekers were allocated places in the building and outside the Cathedral to…
On Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 we had a cake stall on Leicester’s Market Corner to raise funds for Leicester City…
The Leicester City of Sanctuary Christmas party took place at the Drop-in Centre on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011. The Soroptimists…
Rory Palmer, Deputy Mayor, visited the Drop-in Centre on December 1st, 2011.
We have a team of speakers who will come and give a talk or workshop, free of charge (anything from half-an-hour to half a day), to your school, society, firm, church or other organisation. We provide facts and figures, case studies and try to tell your group what it is…