Michael Sheen and Shaparak Khorsandi back our A Place to Call Home winter appeal

Hollywood prima Michael Sheen and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi person backed our wintertime entreaty with Comic Relief to enactment refugees and the homeless, hailing the “courage, resilience and strength” of those “forced to flee” their homes and reminding america of the harsh wintertime months they look “without the necessities we instrumentality for granted”.

Khorsandi was calved successful Iran and came to London with her parents initially for a twelvemonth oregon 2 but ended up staying due to the fact that it was excessively unsafe for her father, a poet, to instrumentality aft the Islamic Revolution. It followed a gag helium composed that was seen arsenic captious of the regime.

Drawing connected her ain lived experience, Khorsandi who is known for her crisp wit and stand-up comedy, stuck a superior enactment erstwhile she said: “Being forced to fly from the spot you erstwhile called location and left, and trying to commencement again determination caller that is truthful antithetic from everything you’ve ever known, fills you with truthful overmuch anxiousness and uncertainty.”

She added: “It takes truthful overmuch courage, resilience and spot to archer yourself things volition get better. Having supported Comic Relief for truthful galore years, I cognize they and The Standard money unthinkable projects that are helping to springiness those successful urgent request of enactment the lukewarm invited and information they desperately need. If you tin enactment this appeal, you’ll beryllium helping springiness idiosyncratic the comfortableness of knowing that they matter, that idiosyncratic cares, and they’re not alone.”

Sheen, the versatile prima of Frost/Nixon and The Damned United arsenic good arsenic West End hits similar Amadeus and Hamlet, said: “There are acold excessively galore radical successful the UK who volition look the wintertime months without the necessities that we tin truthful often instrumentality for granted, but we tin alteration that. This winter, I’m supporting Comic Relief and The Standard to assistance rise funds for those successful need. The funds volition supply indispensable support, similar a lukewarm meal, a extortion implicit their heads, and the enactment radical request to flourish and thrive. Please articulation maine and donate today.”  

Their pleas travel days aft vocalist Rita Ora, who besides has lived acquisition of fleeing information to travel to the UK arsenic a child, backed our appeal, saying that “as a refugee, this is an entreaty that is particularly adjacent to my bosom and 1 that I’m truthful arrogant to beryllium supporting”.

We person already announced £500,000 from Comic Relief to footwear disconnected our entreaty last week. Money raised volition enactment organisations successful London and crossed the state that enactment the sustenance and amended integration of refugees and radical experiencing homelessness.

We person partnered with Comic Relief to motorboat our wintertime appeal, A Place to Call Home. The wealth we rise volition assistance money organisations successful London and crossed the state helping asylum seekers and radical experiencing homelessness.

How your wealth could help

£10 could supply a young idiosyncratic question to conscionable a wellbeing mentor and person a blistery meal

£50 could supply question to enactment oregon schoolhouse for a period for an at-risk youth

£150 could refurbish a motorcycle for an big exile giving them state to question independently

£500 could bid 10 radical with acquisition of homelessness to go stateless wellness advocates£1,000 could alteration 1 of our partners to afloat enactment a young idiosyncratic passim the year