Joint Letter to the Home Secretary – Syrian asylum claims
Today (13th December), over 730 organisations and individuals on the frontline of providing support to people seeking asylum in our communities across the UK, wrote jointly to the Home...
Further letter to the Prime Minister
On 8th July, as covered in The Guardian, over 300 organisations and 500 individuals on the frontline of providing support to people seeking asylum within our communities, wrote to...
Follow-up Letter to the Prime Minister
Six weeks after over 800 organisations and individuals supporting people seeking asylum in our communities wrote to the Prime Minister with a blueprint for a compassionate refugee protection system,...
Sending a message directly to No.10 Downing Street
In the run-up to the 2024 General Election, we asked people to write a postcard to the next Prime Minister which we promised we would deliver to No.10. Hundreds...
Joint Public Letter to the Incoming Prime Minister
Today, 300 organisations and over 500 individuals have written to the incoming Prime Minister urging him to fix our broken asylum system and to protect, rather than punish, people...
Refugee Week Guest Blog: Our Home
Dr. Martha Ako, a trustee of Swansea Asylum Seekers’ Support and a management committee member of Swansea City of Sanctuary, has shared a guest blog outlining what the theme...
New #CommunitiesNotCamps Resources – Jan 2024
As we enter a General Election year in 2024, calling on decision-makers to ensure that people seeking asylum are housed in communities, not camps, barracks and barges, is more...
Open Letter to Jill Mortimer MP
Following a recent tragic incident in Hartlepool, Jill Mortimer MP has made a series of harmful comments about people seeking safety in the House of Commons and in the...
Fighting the Anti-Refugee Laws in our communities
In July 2023, the passing into law of the Illegal Migration Act created a near-total ban on seeking safety in the UK. But against huge odds and in the...
Calling on local businesses: will you give your support to the Lift the Ban campaign?
What is Lift the Ban? Right now, people seeking asylum in the UK are banned from working. Instead of allowing people – builders, chefs, shop workers, barbers, engineers,...