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At our vibrant community centre in Halifax, we support refugees and people seeking asylum.
🧡 We also run a befriending and integration service.

We are a specialist charity working with people seeking asylum, and new refugees, who are rebuilding their lives in Calderdale. We give people the practical support they need to rebuild their lives with dignity, and offer a range of activities that help people feel happier and more connected. We help with advice on immigration and asylum, and offer one-to-one support with welfare, housing, health, and access to wider services. Renowned for our holistic and person-centred approach, we provide a welcoming, safe and inclusive space. We offer English language classes, training, creative, social, sports and wellbeing activities, trips and volunteering opportunities. Our centre has a free shop, salon, chill out room and garden, and we also refurbish bikes and second-hand tech. On Mondays and Thursdays, we provide a cooked lunch at our Welcome Cafe, which is free and open to everyone. Come and join us sometime! Together we are building a diverse community which challenges injustice and puts the needs and voices of our Centre Members at the heart of our work.

15/10/2026

Healthy food for people and planet!🌍

Fancy a delicious, seasonal meal made with locally produced ingredients, where you can pay what you can? Head to The CELT Kitchen at Wadsworth Community Centre for good food and a warm welcome!

There’s one more event coming up this month:

🍽️ Friday 30 October, 5.30–7pm – Join The CELT Kitchen for a special supper club with Antonia from Antonia's Supper Club! 🧡

With sliding-scale prices, everyone can enjoy a meal at a price that works for them:
🥕 Supported: £4
🌿 Standard: £12
💜 Solidarity: £18

📍 Wadsworth Community Centre

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14/10/2026

“What I love most about Walk & Talk is that it connects people. It’s a wonderful chance to make new friends. Walking and talking with others in nature is so good for my physical and mental health. It leaves me feeling calmer and refreshed.” - Zin, Centre Member

Our Walk and Talk group took on the hills of at the end of September. 🍁🍂

It was a lovely day getting out into the countryside and spending much-needed time together. 🧡

We often see people grow in confidence as they come along regularly - they get to know others and start joining in with more activities at the Centre.

A big thank you to our brilliant Walk and Talk volunteers and Active Calderdale The National Lottery and Sport England who make these days happen.

Where shall we head to next? 👀🥾

To help us continue providing support to people seeking sanctuary, including activities like Walk and Talk, please consider donating. You can make a one-off or monthly donation using the link in our bio. 🧡🔗

13/10/2026

A whopper of a thank you to !

The amazing pupils at Warley Road Academy have raised £190 for St Augustine’s Centre by selling their gorgeous handmade bracelets! 📿

So, what can £190 do?

It could help provide a warm, home-cooked meal for over 160 people at our Welcome Café! 🍲

A huge well done to everyone involved! Thank you for your creativity, kindness and for looking out for our community. You’ve absolutely smashed it! 🥰👏🧡

Want to fundraise for St Augustine’s? Your support helps us continue our vital work with people seeking sanctuary in Calderdale. We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch to find out how you can get involved. 📣

12/10/2026

Starting a new life in another country can be extremely challenging, especially when building friendships and finding a sense of belonging in a new community.

At St Augustine’s, our team meets every Wednesday to get active, unwind and build connections. Football brings people together, whatever language you speak!

We welcomed Acorn FC, alongside Maureen and Judy from Welcome House to St Augustine’s Centre for a special day of football.

After a tour of Huddersfield Town Football Stadium and lunch together at the Centre, everyone headed to the pitch for a friendly match.

Arsalan, our Activities Coordinator, described the day beautifully:

"Football is the most popular language in the world, and it always brings people together. Having the Welcome House team here for a stadium tour and a football match was a real pleasure. It felt like having a cup of tea after a long day, comforting, enjoyable, and something that genuinely made my day. It’s always lovely to have them here and spend time playing football with their amazing team."

A huge thank you to Acorn FC, Maureen, Judy and everyone involved in making the day so special. A big thanks to Sport England for supporting our football group. And congratulations to both teams for a brilliant match, and for showing such great sportsmanship on and off the pitch! ⚽🧡

To help us continue providing support to people seeking sanctuary, including activities like our football club, please consider donating. You can make a one-off or monthly donation using the link in our bio. 🧡🔗

08/10/2026

It's !🧡

This year's theme, "Honouring Our Communities," feels especially meaningful to us at St Augustine's Centre.

To mark the month, we're sharing snippet from We Refugees, a powerful poem by Professor Benjamin Zephaniah.

Benjamin Zephaniah was a Black British writer, poet, musician, actor and activist whose work spoke powerfully about identity, migration, racism, justice and belonging. His words continues to inspire people and communities around the world.

At St Augustine's, we are proud to be part of a diverse community shaped by people from many different backgrounds and experiences.

This month is an opportunity to celebrate the rich cultures, stories, achievements and contributions of Black people within our Centre and across the wider communities around us.

It's also a time to reflect on the reality that racism and inequality continue to affect many people's lives. Honouring our communities means listening, learning, standing alongside one another and working towards a society where everyone feels valued, respected and able to belong.

As a Centre supporting people seeking sanctuary, We Refugees reminds us of something deeply human: every person has a story, every journey matters, and many of us have connections to migration, movement and the search for safety.

We hope you'll take a moment to read the poem and reflect on its message with us - the full poem is linked in our bio 🔗 🧡

07/10/2026

After a short break while we welcomed our new Volunteer Co-ordinator, Antonia, we're excited to bring back our Volunteer of the Month award! ⭐

Our first award has been presented to the Welcome Café team - recognising the incredible work they do week in, week out to cook hundreds of free meals for our local community.

The team brings so much passion, skill and laughter to the kitchen, as well as some seriously delicious food! 🍲

So far this year, they've cooked over 6,000 free meals for our community - an incredible achievement.

A huge thank you to the whole Welcome Café team for keeping things going, filling bellies and creating such a warm and welcoming space every week. We couldn't do it without you! 🥰

06/10/2026

For Waleed, discovering St Augustine’s Bike Kitchen reignited his love for cycling and gave him “skills, confidence and a real sense of belonging.” 🚲

Cycling has become a way for him to explore Calderdale, stay active and connect with his new community.

Originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, Waleed arrived in Halifax in 2024. He discovered St Augustine’s Bike Kitchen, where he became the proud owner of a special bike donated by Ruth Bowen. The bike had already travelled thousands of miles, and now it has a new rider in Waleed.

Today, it gives him affordable transport, greater independence and the freedom to explore his surroundings, while helping him stay connected to the community he now calls home.

👉 Read the full case study on our website - link in bio.

A huge thank you to We are Cycling UK’s Big Bike Revival, Active Calderdale, British Cycling and Lloyds Bank Foundation Recycle Hub, and Active Travel England, as well as everyone who donates bikes and all the volunteers who give their time to support St Augustine’s Bike Kitchen. 🚲🧡

And a big shoutout to Blazing Saddles for helping us get Ruth’s bike back on the road and ready for its next chapter! 🚲

Want to support us in continuing our vital work?
Please consider donating - the link is also in our bio. 🔗

30/09/2026

We’ve upgraded! 🥳

There’s a new addition to our kitchen - and it’s already making a big difference!

Our Welcome Café provides free hot lunches every Monday and Thursday for Centre Members and the wider community. Since the start of the year, we’ve served an incredible 6242 free meals! That’s a lot of plates, pots, pans and, of course, mugs - we drink A LOT of tea here! ☕

Until now, our amazing volunteers have washed it all by hand. But thanks to a grant from the EN:Communities CIO Community Foundation Fund, we now have a commercial grade dishwasher! 🎉

Our new dishwasher can do a load in just 2 minutes! 😲 That means our volunteers can spend less time washing up and more time doing what they do best - supporting our community.

A huge thank you to Efficiency North for supporting community-led projects like ours, and to our brilliant volunteers for everything they do.

Here’s to more lunches, more tea and more time spent together! 🧡

29/09/2026

For people seeking asylum and refugees, developing English language skills supports participation in everyday life and helps people access services, employment and social opportunities.

At St Augustine’s, we offer beginner and intermediate English classes for Centre Members, delivered by volunteer teachers four times a week. Evidence shows that higher English proficiency is associated with better employment and social connection outcomes (Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO) Insights – GOV.UK)

Since May, MESHesol's project has brought together Centre Members who attend our English classes to develop their English further through learning more about food, history and the local area.

Through a mix of classroom learning, conversations, visits and trips, participants have been able to practise their English in real-life settings.

The project recently came together at the Calderdale Food Gathering at Borough Market, where Centre Members shared food, spoke with visitors and celebrated everything they had learned along the way. It was a brilliant opportunity to put their English into practice.

Here’s what participants reflected on about the project:

“I am very happy to be participating in this project and to have met such kind friends. Today I was great at conversation, and that's thanks to your help.” - Wajiha

“I feel so grateful to enjoy this together. I feel so proud of all the advances in our English.” - D

“It was wonderful to see so many people from different countries, united by love and friendship.” - Waleed

Thank you to Marie and Ethel at MeSH, Calderdale Food Network, The National Lottery Heritage Fund and to all the Centre Members who have taken part and contributed to such a positive project. 🧡

To support us in continuing vital activities like our English Classes, please consider donating. Link in bio 🔗.

22/09/2026

“They never looked down on me.” 🧡

When Thu Hà* arrived in Halifax, she was navigating a new country while trying to build a better future for her family. Through the support of our Centre, she received practical help with things like English classes, clothing, paperwork, and accessing free school meals for her child.

More than that, she found kindness, respect, and a welcoming community.

In her testimony, Thu Hà shares how the support of staff, volunteers, teachers, and people from many different backgrounds helped her family through a difficult time.

Please take a few minutes to listen to her story.

Thank you to Cath, Ffion and for helping us gather and record these testimonies, to everyone who supported with translation and voice recordings, and most importantly, to the Centre Members who generously shared their experiences.

📸 Matt Radcliffe Photography

If you’d like to support St Augustine’s Centre and the people we work alongside, you can donate via the link in our bio.

*Name changed to protect privacy and safety.

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Hanson Lane
Halifax
HX15PG

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Monday	9am - 3pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 1pm

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