UK-based couple rent entire Polish hotel to create hub for Ukrainian refugees

Jakub Golata found a 180-bed hotel, which had closed because of the Covid pandemic, that was happy to be involved, and then used his own money to help them get running again and prepare for the arrival of the refugees.

Volunteers and refugees pictured outside the Park Hotel. Picture: Jakub Golata/PA Wire

A UK-based couple have hired out an entire hotel in Poland to create a hub for refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Jakub and Gosia Golata, who immigrated to the UK in 2004, have teamed up with the Polish arm of the Sue Ryder charity to take over the Park Hotel Tryszczyn near Bydgoszcz, where Ukrainians can come to stay while they are placed with local host families.