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 Welcome to Barnsley!

Welcome to Barnsley, we hope you have an enjoyable and fruitful stay in our town.

As a new arrival, you must have many questions concerning the fundamentals of life such as how to organise housing, education, employment and leisure activities. You may be here as a Migrant Worker from the EU, a Refugee, a foreign national working here on a fixed contract, a student or maybe even foreign national who has married a person from Barnsley. Whoever you are, we welcome you to our town and hope you can contribute to the successful development of the area, socially, culturally and economically.

This website is dedicated to you and offers all the advice and assistance you could need for first arriving into the borough of Barnsley.

We know from experience that when new residents manage to organise the fundamentals of life early and effectively, you stand a much better chance of having a successful stay. We hope this site will explain a how to open a bank account, pay your taxes, abide by laws, get your children into school, contact social services should you need them, access health care and probably most important of all, find suitable employment.

If you have a question or would like to tell us the story of your stay, please contact us using the link opposite. You can also contact us if you are an organization, department or agency wishing to add information to this web service. We will try to answer your question as soon as possible however we are only a very small team with limited funds so it make take a few days before you get a reply.