Getting Involved

There are many ways in which individuals and churches can get involved through volunteering, being better informed, praying, donating items or money and campaigning.

  Volunteering

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Befriending is always one of our key needs. We can also use volunteers to help with our annual Summer Holiday Programme.

If you have a talent to offer, then will try and find a place where is can be used effectively. E.g. We have a male volunteer, a trained life guard, who helps teach beginners and improvers at swimming trips for men.

  Being Better Informed

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Find out more about asylum issues: Attend a training course, join us for RESTORE Open Meetings, and look at other web sites e.g. Refugee Council.

After each Open Meeting we send out a letter with further information to befrienders and supporters. If you would like to receive that letter by e-mail, then please contact Alison Thorne, Administrative Assistant, RESTORE.

pdf file Sample newsletter

  Praying

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Please pray: for asylum seekers and refugees, for justice, for responses to the problems of destitution, for changes to the system e.g. permission for asylum seekers to work whilst they await their decisions.

For more prayer topics please see: Enabling Christians in Serving Refugees

pdf file RESTORE Prayer Letter for more prayer topics and individuals to pray for.

If you would like to receive the RESTORE prayer letter via e-mail then please contact Alison Thorne, Administrative Assistant at RESTORE.

  Campaigning

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In addition to helping with immediate needs, RESTORE hopes that we can campaign to change the system, policies and attitudes which cause the problems.

See the full Campaigning page >>

  Join a Vigil

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Join the vigil (5-6pm) outside Birmingham Anglican Cathedral, Colmore Row, in support of asylum seekers and refugees. This event was initiated by Christians from the Quaker movement the autumn of 2006 and runs every other week on Mondays from 5-6pm. It provides a public witness to those passing by that some people in Birmingham care about the plight of asylum seekers and refugees. It is also an opportunity to meet people who care deeply about these issues. More people to make a greater presence would be welcome. Please dress warmly!

For more information please contact Barbara Forbes [forbesbarbarae@yahoo.co.uk]

 

  Feedback Form

Please use this form to register interest in the work of RESTORE, or to update the details we have.

If you receive news by E-mail this will save RESTORE the postage. However, if you have a slow or unreliable internet connection then the Postal option may be best.

We send out a mailing about 5 times each year.

All of your details will be confidential to RESTORE, and if we know your age we can best suggest how you can be involved.

The information you give will be copied back to you at the email address you supplied, so you can check the details.

Boxes marked with '*' are required to be filled in.

If you are interested in our training, please select one of the following possible dates: