5 October 2019

Programme

09:30 Registration and refreshments

10:00 Panel and Questions: Perspectives on how the national landscape has changed recently and continues to change

• Clara Della Croce, Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, and Associate Lecturer and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at Oxford Brookes University School of Law

• Kathy Voss, Campaigns Manager, Refugee Council

11:15 Break – refreshments available

11:45 Panel and Questions: Perspectives on the local response to the changing landscape

• Hadi Al Nuri, founder of the Syrian Community in Oxford and Oxfordshire SYRCOX

• Naomi Winnifrith, Oxford City Council

• Sarah Wahby & Sara Baba, Sanctuary Hosting

13:00 Lunch

13:45 Focused networking

14:15 Workshops

• Working with volunteers     (Luci Ashbourne, Volunteer Coordinator, Asylum Welcome)

• Campaigning                      (Kathy Voss, Campaigns Manager, Refugee Council)

• Fundraising                         (Angela Cristofoli, Business Development        Officer, OCVA & Vanessa Faulkner, co-founder, Marlow Refugee Action)

• Welcoming                          (Leslie Topp, secretary, Blackfriars Refugee Aid

                                              & Nuha Abdo, founder, Syrian Sisters)

• Church action                     (CCOW team and partners)

15:30 Plenary

16:00 Close

Wesley Memorial Church
New Inn Hall Street, Oxford

Conference free. Lunch – suggested donation £5. Registration essential.
Organised by CCOW.

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