Asylum Profiteers 'The Angel Group' sponsor Celebrating Sanctuary in Brum
Make Borders History! | 17.06.2005 14:47 | Migration | Social Struggles | Birmingham
The Angel Groups tent at Celebrating Sanctuary
Burst The Angel Group's bubble and expose the Asylum Profiteers
The Angel Group's far from angelic logo
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The Angel Group, according to a local newspaper in Leeds, has recently been investigated by the Home Office because it has housed Refugees in 'squalid conditions...without gas or electricity'.
Here are some sources that give a brief summary of an article in the local Yorkshire press - unfortunately the link to the Yorkshire Evening Post no-longer works.
Willis, P. (2004) ‘Asylum seekers’ ‘squalid’ housing to be investigated’, Yorkshire Evening Post, 2/08/04 available at
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> Leeds Evening Post 3 August 2004
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> Asylum Seekers Living in Squalid Conditions
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> The Home Office has begun an investigation into claims that housing
> provider, Angel Group, is letting homes to asylums seekers in Leeds
> without gas or hot water.
There have also been reports of The Angel Group evicting refugees and sub-contracting landlords who have appalling track records with refugees. Sub-letting sub-standard accommodation like this to refugees is a very lucrative business.
The Angel Groups funding of Celebrating Sanctuary is a crude and relatively cheap public relations stunt to absolve them from their role in profiteering from the plight of refugees in this country.
The plethora of 'Angel' branded balloons and t-shirts at the event make it clear that The Angel Group want as much exposure as possible. One could also argue that their sponsorship of the event effectively muzzles any dissent from refugees and ngos about their track record in terms of housing refugees.
Why are The Angel Group being allowed to sponsor this event and can the Celebrating Sanctuary organisers source funding from other groups that don't profit from asylum?
Make Borders History!
Homepage:
http://www.celebrating-sanctuary.org.uk
Additions
Do The Angel Group contradict Celebrating Sanctuary's aims?
18.06.2005 10:20
Are the aims of the event outlined below consistent with the profiteering by The Angel Group of destitute Asylum Seekers?
1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; 2) THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL HARMONY BETWEEN RESIDENTS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS AND REFUGEES LIVING IN THE WEST MIDLANDS AREA. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: A) FACILITATING CULTURAL EVENTS B) ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING THE CELEBRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PARTICULAR A PERSON'S RIGHT TO SEEK SANCTUARY FROM PERSECUTION.
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The Angel Group profits from housing asylum seekers in squalid conditions
19.06.2005 09:19
We have learnt from figures in 2000 that the company gets £120 a week per asylum seeker from the government.
Back in 2000 it was supposed to give £10 of that money a week to asylum seekers, to spend on everything beyond the meagre lodgings and food the Angel Group gives them. Angel was only passing on £7 to the refugees in this period, and wanted to cut that money back to £5!
What's the situation now, can anyone give us an update on how much The Angel Group receives from The Home Office's National Asylum Support Service (NASS) and how much it passes on to asylum seekers?
Celebrating Skanktuary
Whois The Angel Group?!
19.06.2005 11:01
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Registrant:
The Angel Group plc
Address:
Suite 4, Lion Court
435 The Highway
Wapping, London E1 9HT
UK
First Registered:
January 07, 2002
Last Updated:
November 25, 2004
Administrative Contact:
Group, Angel
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Suite 4, Lion Court
435 The Highway
Wapping, London E1 9HT
UK
0207 790 0111
Technical Contact:
Group, Angel
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Suite 4, Lion Court
435 The Highway
Wapping, London E1 9HT
UK
0207 790 0111
Name Servers:
NS.HOSTEUROPE.COM 212.67.202.2
NS2.HOSTEUROPE.COM 212.67.203.246
Information Source:
OpenSRS
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The following businesses also operate from the same address:
Dalarest Ltd:
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ANGEL POLAND CONSTRUCTION LIMITED:
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'Angel Poland is a joint venture of the Angel Group, a highly successful English Property Group, and Israeli Investors Ron Ben Shahar and Shachar Samuel, two very well regarded property and finance professionals. The venture has been undertaken to invest in, develop and manage properties, residential, retail, commercial, industrial and hotels in Poland.'
Angel Heights Development Ltd.
Student halls in Leeds:
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ANGEL GROUP
Leeds: 0113 262 9997
Bradford: 01274 724 700
South Yorkshire: 0114 244 9411
Head office: 0207 790 0000
Out of hours: (Leeds only) 07944 535873 or 07880 968974
More to follow...
Stop Corporations profiteering from Asylum Seekers!
The Angel Group's asylum profiteering is an 'Official Secret'!
19.06.2005 16:41
> What's the situation now, can anyone give us an update on how much The Angel Group receives from The
> Home Office's National Asylum Support Service (NASS) and how much it passes on to asylum seekers?
Well it seems that the financial details of The Angel Groups dealings with The Home Office's NASS are secret - gagged by the Offical Secrets Act.
(i) 'Details about the contracts that NASS has signed with various agencies which provide accommodation for asylum seekers is hard to access as agreements are covered by the Official Secrets Act.'
Peter Dwyer (2004) "Welfare Rights, governance and forced migration"
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(ii) From The House Of Commons Hansard Written Answers 30th April 2001 (pt25)
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'Mr. Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments per capita are made to private sector accommodation agents for each asylum seeker dispersed from the south-east; and if these payments vary by region. [158913]
Mrs. Roche: I am afraid that I am unable to give this information since it is commercial in confidence.'
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Updated details on the Angel Group
17.07.2005 11:34
Darren May has since resigned due to Julia's attitude.
I was told by one of her accountants that when an asylum seeker leaves, if the council doesn't update their own records and stops payment, she takes their money even though she knows the person or family has left her premises.
Someone should tell Leeds/Birmingham Council.
Whistleblower
Response from the West Midlands Consortium for Asylum and Refugee Support
14.12.2005 11:32
I wish to express my concern regarding the article entitled, ‘Asylum Profiteers 'The Angel Group' sponsor Celebrating Sanctuary in Brum’. As Regional Director of the West Midlands Consortium for Asylum and Refugee Support, I have overall responsibility for asylum seeker dispersal in the West Midlands and the development of integration/resettlement programmes for refugees. The executive group of the Consortium includes representatives from statutory, private and voluntary sector organisations alongside refugees themselves. As Director, I work in close partnership with the private sector, including The Angel Group. Your comments and criticisms are both misleading and unfounded. Angel Group's contribution to the effective and sensitive asylum seeker dispersal programme within this region, and in the raising of the awareness of host communities to the particular needs of vulnerable people such as asylum seekers and refugees through major events such as Refugee Week, has greatly assisted in the process of empowering refugee groups and in progressing wider issues of social cohesion.
Without the generosity of The Angel Group, Refugee Week in particular would not have been so effective and might not have been staged at all.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it was only recently that The Angel Group agreed to publicise their company during Refugee Week, their reluctance I believe, reflective of their genuine and sincere generosity and commitment to meeting the wide and varied needs of refugees.
Yours sincerely,
David Barnes,
Regional Director,
West Midlands Consortium for Asylum and Refugee Support
David Barnes
e-mail:
d.barnes@wmlga.gov.uk
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