Education and Empowerment Fund for Young Refugees

Aim: Help refugee children reclaim some of their childhood lost fleeing from safety by funding school equipment, bus passes and sports clubs.

This funding is crucial for young refugees and asylum seekers that are trying to resettle in their new community of safety.

When a young person flees for their safety, they lose parts of their childhood. Many witness tragedy. Most will lose ties to friends, family and connections to their identity. 

When they reach safety, they can still be hit with further disruption to their education. They must learn a new language and enter a completely different schooling system. Social interactions with people their own age continue to be limited, leaving young people isolated. If their parents are still in the asylum system, their family will be living on a highly restrictive Home Office allowance. If they are refugees, their parents may still be struggling to re-establish a career and a stable income in their new location. 

These beginnings are brutal. For many, it can take two years or longer to have their case heard and be granted asylum, delaying peoples security, sense of belonging and opportunity to make social connections.

Wycombe Refugee Partnership's (WRP’s) primary purpose is to rebuild lives and renew hope for refugees and asylum seekers in and around High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

By supporting the Young Refugee Fund, you will be helping school-aged children from refugee and asylum seeking families reach their full potential at school and make social connections through extra curricular activities. 

For example you can help young people with: 

• Laptops or tablets and broadband to use during their studies and exams. 
• Digital competency support, through WRP volunteers or vocational courses, so children can keep up with their peers at school. 
• Access to sports clubs to improve mental health and help children integrate with those their own age.
• School bus passes or bus tickets to be able to attend community activities. 
• School or sports uniforms.

This World Refugee Week 2025, the theme is ‘Community as a Superpower’. 

At WRP, we believe refugees can make a profound difference to our community by learning and integrating with those from different cultures and beginnings. Our community at WRP is made up of some incredible superheroes, from our selfless band of volunteers, to our leading community partners, and wonderful members of the general public that generously give to vital services - people like you!

Below is a testimony from a service user who has received life changing support from initiatives like the Young Refugee Fund:

“All WRP are so kind and helpful that I believe they were chosen. I would like to thank each and every one of them for food aid I received … my youngest daughter’s participation in swimming lessons, my eldest daughter’s help in taking an English lesson and my youngest daughter’s help with her mathematics. I am grateful to them for providing us with the convenience of being able to get help that I have not even thought of yet, no matter what, by just writing a message.”

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 27th July 2025 at 3:03pm