Sheffield was the first UK city to become a City of Sanctuary. The organisation involves dozens of groups working to build a culture of hospitality and welcome for asylum-seekers and refugees.

Sheffield City of Sanctuary provides and facilitates:

• Information
• Activities from offering friendship, advocacy and language exchanges, to organised walks
• Solidarity protests
• Emergency accommodation
• The Sanctuary centre
• Multi-Agency Drop-In
• SPRING (Sheffield Project for Refugee INtegration and Growth, a collaboration of six organisations helping refugees settle into the local community, open Monday to Thursday; 10am- 4pm)
• Advocacy and System Change
• Citywide Collaboration and Coordination
• Volunteering opportunities – Willing helpers required, to become “Experts By Experience”