Welcome to our Centre
We offer a warm welcome and safe space to people seeking support and sanctuary; together we share food, stories and build relationships.
We offer specialist advice on immigration and asylum support, and one to one support with welfare, housing, health and access to wider services. We provide hot meals, English language classes, training, cultural, social and wellbeing activities, trips and volunteering opportunities. We have a nursery, spaces for reflection and an integration service. As a core member of the Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary, we want to share stories and build awareness about human rights, advocating and campaigning locally and nationally.
We began in 1968 as a Church playgroup and in 2009 became an independent charity, continually evolving and welcoming all, regardless of faith, ethnicity or background. We have 12 staff, 140 volunteers and a community of 750 individuals and families from 57 different countries.
Latest News
Take Action – Borders Bill Update
We need your help! It takes a community to take action against the Nationality and Borders Bill The government is planning to introduce new rules to define how our country treats refugees [...]
Orange Hearts of Welcome
This October, it's more important than ever to show that Calderdale stands with refugees and those seeking asylum. We are coming together with the Orange Box young people’s centre and Project Challenge to [...]
Job Vacancy: Senior Caseworker (Housing)
St Augustine's Centre is looking for a Senior Caseworker (Housing) to start in November 2021, 22.5 hours per week Dealing with housing and destitution issues is approximately 25% of our casework, and finding solutions [...]
English for life in the U.K. is one of the ESOL classes here at the Centre, run by a team of our volunteers. There is a weekly podcast to support this class which is available here, which we hope will be of interest to anyone wanting to improve their English and learn more about life in the U.K. There are also transcripts of most of the episodes here, and there is additional material available through our twitter account here.