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  • The Vineyard and Richmond Foodbank Christmas Fair

    We’re looking forward to attending the Vineyard Community and Richmond Foodbank Christmas Fair from 1pm to 6pm on Saturday 30th November. Come to enjoy refreshments including mulled wine and festive treats at the indoor market, as well as a fashion show, face painting, kids craft activities and live performances! More details on the Vineyard’s new…

  • Grow your own food at Jubilee Meadow

    Update: Thanks very much to everyone who supported Grow Your Own over 2024, especially our project leader Olga. We’re pausing this activity for the winter and will review whether to renew it next year. Do you love gardening, plants or have a passion for growing food? We would like to invite you to our new…

  • Our impacts

    Nine years have flown by since we were founded on 1st November 2015. Here’s some of what we’ve achieved…

  • Thanks to Kew Fete

    We are delighted to receive a very generous donation of £2,000 from the organisers of Kew Fete 2024. Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR) supports people seeking sanctuary to live and thrive throughout this beautiful borough. From language interpretation at our advice sessions to catering and venue hire for social events, this grant will greatly improve the services…

  • Thanks to Jane Bradley, her family and friends

    Jane Bradley supported people seeking sanctuary in Richmond as an English teacher and a volunteer at the Vineyard Community Centre. We are very grateful to Jane’s family and friends who have raised over £1,000 in her memory for Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR). This tremendous contribution will go directly towards supporting various expenses for our clients. You can read…

  • Welcoming Boroughs of Sanctuary

    We’re delighted that both Richmond and Wandsworth Councils have become Boroughs of Sanctuary and have been recruiting new staff to work under a dedicated Head of Refugee Services. RWinR has also become the official group representing Richmond in the nationwide City of Sanctuary network. We’re now working more closely with our friends at Wandsworth Welcomes…

  • Let your property and give a refugee family a home

    In response to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames signed up to accept Afghan refugees under the Government’s and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Schemes. With thousands of Afghan refugees waiting in limbo in bridging hotels, more properties are urgently needed to give families the stability they…

  • The Night Before Christmas (Ніч перед Різдвом)

    Thanks to the Ukrainian Social Club and Orange Tree Theatre for hosting a wonderful live performance of The Night Before Christmas (Ніч перед Різдвом) on Sunday 11th February. Based on a 1932 short story by Mykola Hohol and set in an 18th century Ukrainian village, this classic fairy tale follows a poor blacksmith and the…

  • 23rd Feb, 7pm: Ukrainian music, poetry and dance at St Mary’s Church, Twickenham

    Richmond’s Ukrainian Social Club invites you to a charitable evening of classical music, poetry and dance at the “Ukrainian Evening of Invincibility” from 7pm on Friday 23rd February at St. Mary’s Church, Twickenham, TW1 3NJ. The programme features familiar pieces by Chopin and J. S. Bach, as well as Ukrainian composers, Lysenko, Barvinsky and Hulak-Artemovsky,…

  • Sleep workshops in Farsi for ten weeks

    Richmond and Hillcroft Community College is offering free support workshops for Farsi speakers starting from 10 January for ten weeks, every Wednesday between 3-4pm. Thanks to Refugee Action Kingston for organising. Book via SMS text message at 07754 856 932.

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