 A number of English language courses are available for those Ukrainians that wish to develop their English language skills. These include:
- Learning | East Sussex Libraries
-
Pre-entry ESOL programme – 11 week courses through East Sussex College Group in Hastings and Eastbourne
-
Babbel - the language app, is offering free courses in English for Ukrainian refugees:
-
Busuu language app is also offering it’s premium service free to Ukrainians for 3 months.
-
Sanctuary Cafe
🕓 Fridays between 10am and midday (12pm).
📍 All Souls Church Hall, Wellesley Road, Eastbourne
-
Ukrainian Café Hub
🕓 Tuesday afternoon 1-4 pm
📍 Robertson Street, Hastings – conversational English groups
-
Education Training Consortium Sussex - based in Hastings and St Leonards. Currently offering Beginner-Elementary and Pre-Intermediate English lessons as well as IT lessons. Currently offering 8 classes per week. Looking to set up coffee mornings for conversational English.
-
Refugee Buddy Project - based in Hastings and Rother - provide informal English conversation workshops, 1hr per week, helping with understanding bills, council tax, housing, driving theory.
For more information on education and training opportunities for Ukrainians in East Sussex, they can now visit the East Sussex College Ukraine Support website here.
Recruitment days are being held in the coming weeks to support Ukrainian guests in finding work. Local employers will be attending and actively recruiting for jobs. These events will take place at the following:
💼 Eastbourne Jobcentre 🗓️ 24th June
💼 Hastings Jobcentre 🗓️ 29th June
Your Ukrainian guest can contact their Jobcentre Plus Work Coach for more information.
 Freedom Leisure Centres across the south east of England are currently offering Ukrainian guests free access to their facilities for the next 3 months, including use of the swimming pool, gym and fitness classes.
Participating centres are located across Hastings, Rother, Wealden, Brighton, Woking, Guildford and Arun.
To redeem this offer, visit your local Freedom Leisure Centre where you will be able to sign up on arrival.
Your local borough or district council is now contacting hosts to advise you how to claim your optional £350 monthly ‘thank you’ payment, funded by the national government.
East Sussex County Council and our partners want to say an additional ‘thank you’ so we’ll be topping up the first month’s payment to £500 (for those who wish to claim) in recognition of the incredible support and commitment you have provided and the costs that can come with this.
You are invited to attend a workshop designed to help you in your role of hosting families displaced from their homeland by war in Ukraine.
The workshop is organised by the 3VA and the Association for Family Therapy.
The workshop will aim to help participants feel more confident about what to expect, how to negotiate and manage difficult areas and how to recognise when more help is needed. We recognise the kindness and generosity of those of you offering to host and we hope, through this workshop, to help make your experience a successful one for all concerned.
The workshops are free and available at the following:
📍 Eastbourne 🗓️ 25th June 🕓 12:30-3pm 🔗 Register here
📍 Wealden 🗓️ 23rd June 🕓 12 – 2.30pm 🔗 Register here
📍 Lewes 🗓️ 26th June 🕓 12:30 -3pm 🔗 Register here
Please remember that we ask all hosts to update our online form twice only.
First - When you give us details of everyone aged 16 or over in your household so we can carry out safety checks
Second - please use the form to tell us when your guests arrive. This will help us speed up payments and services that are due.
You only need to do each of these steps once. If you've already updated the form, you do not need to do it again - thank you.
This newsletter is sent to every host (sponsor) in East Sussex who is part of Homes for Ukraine to keep you updated. You can unsubscribe at any time.
We expect to send you a further update next week. Until then, we'd like to wish you all an enjoyable weekend.
|
