St Nick at Yarl's Wood Sanctuary Pledge News

DECEMBER

St Nicholas and Canon Professor Nicholas Sagovsky of Westminster Abbey are prevented from delivering gifts to Yarl's Wood, where children are detained. Coverage on Radio 4, and in the Observer, a Henry Porter opinion piece, the Telegraph and Independent.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England & Wales backs the Sanctuary Pledge through its Office of Refugee and Migration Policy.

The Chief Rabbi backs the Sanctuary Pledge.

NOVEMBER

The first 20 Sanctuary Champions are trained and commissioned in London.

Jewish Council for Racial Equality and Church Action on Poverty back the Sanctuary Pledge.

OCTOBER

BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a story on the Sanctuary Pledge. Listen here.

Elizabeth Berridge, Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, signs the Saving Sanctuary Covenant and agrees to work with us at the 2010 election, at the Conservative Party Conference.

Premier Christian Radio features the Sanctuary Pledge on its Sunday breakfast show.

Muslim Council of Britain backs the Sanctuary Pledge.

SEPTEMBER

Sarah Teather MP signs the Saving Sanctuary Covenant, and agrees to work with us at the 2010 election, at Lib Dem Party Conference

Jon Cruddas MP signs the Saving Sanctuary Covenant, and agrees to work with us at the 2010 election, at Labour Party Conference

AUGUST

Sanctuary Pledge launched by CITIZENS for Sanctuary, London Citizens, the CITIZEN Organising Foundation, the Church of England, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the United Reformed Church, the Vincentian Millennium Partnership, and the Methodist Church.