Afghan Guests
All the Afghan refugees we have contact with are accommodated in Hertfordshire.
We organise and run various activities for both adults and children, including park trips, day outings, indoor activities such as cookery, and sports sessions.
Ukrainian Guests
Our weekly peer-to-peer groups for Ukrainian guests and their hosts proved so popular, they have been renamed as Ukrainian Community Cafés. These sessions are open to all, both on Homes for Ukraine and Family Visa schemes. The cafés are welcoming spaces for meeting, connecting, chatting and making friends, while enjoying refreshments.
For more information about these cafés, please email community.help@communities1st.org.uk or call 01727 649970 (our phone lines are open on weekdays from 9.30am - 5pm).
Radlett
Radlett Ukrainian Community Café:
Day and time: every Tuesday from 12-2pm.
Location: Phillimore Community Centre, Phillimore Place, Radlett, WD7 8NN.
St Albans
St Albans and Harpenden Ukrainian Community Café:
Day and time: every Sunday from 3-5pm.
Location: SS Alban and Stephen Catholic Church, 14 Beaconsfield Road, AL1 3RB.
Hertfordshire with Ukraine
Community Help Hertfordshire, has produced the Hertfordshire With Ukraine website.
It provides information and resources to help if:
- You are planning on becoming a sponsor for a Ukranian refugee
- Having someone stay in a property you own.
- You are a member of a Ukrainan refugee support group
- The wrap-around care for the sponsor and individual/family.
The website outlines the main areas of support that those that are resettling are likely to need. It also provides questions to consider, advice from other volunteers with experience, and signposts to useful resources.
Communities 1st and WHCVS Ukraine District Webinar - 14th September 2022
On Wednesday 14th September, Communities 1st and Welwyn Hatfield Community & Voluntary Service (WHCVS) hosted a joint webinar to outline the local district and county wide response of the voluntary, community and public sectors to the Ukraine crisis, highlighting the wraparound community support available.
The webinar was aimed mostly at hosts of Ukrainian guests living in St Albans, Hertsmere, Welwyn and Hatfield.
Speakers and presentations included:
- Communities 1st
- WHCVS
- Hertfordshire County Council (Children Services, School Admissions)
- Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (Housing Options)
- Department of Works and Pensions
- Hertfordshire Mind Network
- Mind in Mid Herts
- Citizens Advice Hertfordshire
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