If you would like to donate to us please contact us for more information about the best way and so that we can provide our bank details in a secure way.
Winchester City of Sanctuary is a CIO registered with the Charity Commission. Our charity number is Our charity number is 1210485. We are entirely voluntary run and led. We are not currently registered for Gift Aid but are planning to be in the future.
Donations are key to enabling us to support people seeking sanctuary locally. Our projects, activities and events would not be possible without the generosity of volunteers, partners and the local community! Just because we are voluntary led and run doesn’t mean we don’t need funding to be sustainable, expand our reach and to cover day to day running costs and good governance responsibilities. Help us to help more people.
Your donations can help us to cover basic core costs that enable us to concentrate our efforts on more sustainable funding streams to help sustain our streams of sanctuary work. They can also help us to grow and support more people seeking sanctuary locally, especially those with Lived Experience of sanctuary that may have more limited means. Every bit counts so please consider making a regular donation or running a local event or activity for us as a fundraiser. A cake sale, a car boot, a coffee morning can all make a difference. Please get in touch for more information.
Fundraise for us
If you would like to fundraise for us at an event you are running, please get in touch so we can support you and promote what you are doing: [email protected]
Donate to City of Sanctuary UK
You can also support organisations that support refugees locally, regionally and nationally, including our umbrella organisation City of Sanctuary UK.
Please note that if you donate to City of Sanctuary UK then they cannot redistribute funds to us. Your donation would be to City of Sanctuary UK only not to Winchester City of Sanctuary.
Donating items
Unfortunately, we do not have storage capacity to accept many donations so we are signposting any offers of donations to local charities and organisations like Basics Bank and Vineyard Storehouse.
If you have practical items to donate like stationary supplies, arts and crafts materials, tablets or computers, (refurbished and wiped only please so please do not donate items containing sensitive data or materials as we don’t currently have the resources to get them wiped) then please email us at [email protected] to discuss and arrange collection or to provide you with details for a drop off location in Winchester. We are currently seeking donated laptops or tablets for us to use as an organisation (to support our volunteers, admin and for using at Advice First Aid triage sessions when doing outreach work in our community) and for us to donate to people seeking sanctuary locally, to enable them to find work more easily and to facilitate their access to english language classes.