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Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors: sponsor a Charity Worker

Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Charity Worker.

From:
UK Visas and Immigration
Published
9 December 2020
Last updated
12 April 2023 — See all updates

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Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors: sponsor a Charity Worker (accessible)

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Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors: sponsor a Charity Worker

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This document provides information for charitable organisations on how to sponsor a worker on the Charity Worker (Temporary Worker) route.

The Charity Worker route is for voluntary workers who wish to come to the UK to do unpaid work for a charitable organisation for a maximum period of 12 months.

Updates to this page

Published 9 December 2020
Last updated 12 April 2023 + show all updates

  1. The guidance has been updated to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules that came into force on 12 April 2023. A full list of the changes is in the document.

  2. Updated guidance for sponsoring a Charity Worker for use on or after 11 April 2022.

  3. Guidance updated to reflect the ending of the fee concession for CESC nationals.

  4. Updated to reflect the immigration rules changes on 11 October 2021. Read the full list of changes in the 'Changes from last version of this guidance' section of the document.

  5. Added HTML version.

  6. First published.

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