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About us

What do we do?

Get to know us!

How we came to be

Our support group

We are a group of people who care. There are about 60 active volunteers, Muslims, Christians and others, working together to put at least some refugee families back on their feet after their nightmare experiences.
Our Mission

Our mission

Rebuilding lives and renewing hope for refugees and asylum-seekers
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Helping rebuild lives

We have helped hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers. They came from Algeria, Syria, Iran, Iraq, India, Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, Cameroun, Palestine, Sudan, Albania, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China.  The people we help are asylum seekers who are housed in Wycombe by the Home Office. We also support refugees who are housed here temporarily by other councils. And we support refugees who are living in High Wycombe and making this their home.

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Our Halfway House

We also run a halfway house provided by Chilterns Area Quaker Meeting, which we use for temporary accommodation, giving a person or family who have refugee status time to settle, look at study and employment options and eventually move into private rented accommodation. We offer support with integration into the High Wycombe community, accessing training, CV writing, job applications and understanding private property rental in the UK. We are also able to provide the deposit and first month’s rental as they move on to more independent living.  All of this is done by our teams of volunteers who bring different skills and support to each beneficiary as needed. 

The Team

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Sue Butler

Chair of Trustees

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Dr Tanveer Choudhary

Befriending Lead and Trustee

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Razwan Baig

Treasurer and Trustee

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Dr Nasheeda Mariyam

Trustee and Volunteer Co-ordinator

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Dave Jones

Trustee

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Lucy Beales

Administrator

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Sandy Mitcheson

Befriending Deputy Lead

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Liz Sheppard

Education Trustee and School Admissions Lead

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Dr Stephanie Rybak

Communications Trustee

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Trina Richards

Donated Goods Lead and Activities Lead

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Liz Fillingham

Safeguarding Officer

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Veronika Adam Svarcova

Administrator 

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How it all began

History

Need for Action

In the autumn of 2015, a petition and then a motion were presented to Wycombe District Council, asking for them to agree to accept some of the 20,000 refugees whom the Government had pledged to resettle under the Vulnerable Persons’ Resettlement Scheme. The Council was not minded to take any. Those of us who wanted to help refugees therefore sought another way to do so.

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Acting together with loving kindness

Following bombings in Paris and elsewhere, interfaith vigils were organised. It became apparent that there was a groundswell of support among people of goodwill in High Wycombe, and a movement called Acting Together with Loving Kindness was born. When we registered as a charity in July 2016, the name was changed to Wycombe Refugee Partnership.

Extending our reach

When the pandemic started, we became aware that there were more refugees and asylum- seekers in High Wycombe who were in dire need. Some were not even receiving the Home Office allowance of £49.18 pp pw, because they had opted out of a system which could whisk the family off to another town at minimal notice. These people had been relying on friends for financial support – and then the friends were hit financially by Covid, so life had become very difficult indeed.

 

At the height of the pandemic, we were delivering halal food to 91 people twice a week, as well as responding to requests for furniture, clothes, school uniforms, school-books, bus fares and access to sports. During lockdown, we provided laptops and tablets so that children could do their schoolwork online, as well as paying for broadband in some cases.

We continue to provide supermarket vouchers on a short-term basis to some people when they have problems accessing state funding.

Most important of all, we are showing them that there are people in their adopted country who care about them.

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Awarded:

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Our Partners & Funders

 
and a good number of generous individuals...
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Partners

We Need Your Support Today!

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