Volunteering

Befriending is always one of our key needs. We can also use volunteers to help with our programmes of Men’s social activities, Women’s social activities, and family activities in the school holidays.

If you would like to put on a fundraising event, please let us know.

If you have a talent to offer, then we will try and find a place where it can be used effectively.

 Being Better Informed

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 info@restore-uk.org

Sample newsletter

 Praying

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 and refugees seeking employment.

A Prayer for Refugees: Almighty and merciful God, whose Son became a refugee and had no place to call his own; look with mercy on those who today are fleeing from danger, homeless and hungry. Bless those who work to bring them relief; inspire generosity and compassion in all our hearts; and guide the nations of the world towards that day when all will rejoice in your Kingdom of justice and of peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 Donating

Donate Food

Restore keeps a supply of food to give to those in need. Food items can be donated to the Red Cross, or to St Chad’s Sanctuary to be given to destitute asylum seekers.

ALL ITEMS MUST BE DATED AND WITHIN THEIR USE BY DATE OR BEST BEFORE DATE, PLEASE.

• Rice
• Mealie meal (corn meal - a staple food for many Africans)
• Powdered semolina (not tinned semolina pudding)
• Noodles and spaghetti (but rice, mealie meal and powdered semolina are more popular)
• Tea, coffee, sugar
• Tinned tomatoes, chick peas, kidney beans, sweet corn
• Tomato sauce/pasta sauce
• Tinned tuna, beef, chicken, other fish, curry, stewed steak, chicken casserole etc (no pork or ham please)
• Cartons of long life milk and long life fruit juice
• Jam and other spreads
• Tins of fruit, rice pudding and custard
• Biscuits, cereal bars, packaged cakes and dried fruit

(N.B Baked Beans and tinned soup, are not favourites of our client group)

Please take food to:

British Red Cross
Bradbury House
7 Lowe Street
Camp Hill
Birmingham
B12 0ER

Telephone: 0121 766 5444

St Chad’s Sanctuary
72-74 Shadwell Street
Birmingham B4 6HA
Telephone 0121 233 3127

Or donate food to the Restore office — please phone us first to check on our supply levels!  0121 236 0069.

Donate Furniture (and transportation)

From time to time both Karis Neighbour Scheme and RESTORE know of clients who need furniture and other household goods. This is often when an individual or family is given refugee status and then needs to equip their new accommodation from scratch. If you have items to donate please contact Karis Neighbour Scheme http://www.karisneighbourscheme.org/, (0121 456 3212) or RESTORE.

When furniture is offered one constraint is transport. If you have a large vehicle or van (and a good back!) and could help on an occasional basis please contact Karis Neighbour Scheme or RESTORE.

Donate money

Should you wish to make a donation towards the work of RESTORE, please make your cheque payable to:

“Birmingham Churches Together - RESTORE”

Please post to:
RESTORE
St Georges Community Hub
Great Hampton Row
Newtown
Birmingham
B19 3JG

Gift Aid - If you are a tax payer then please consider increasing your gift in this way which enables us to claim back the tax you have already paid, at no additional cost to you. But it means Restore receives an extra 25p for every £1 you donate.

Standing Order - a way to give regularly.

 Campaigning

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 >>

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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.

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