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,...
Government warned of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ if asylum camps on military bases and barges go ahead
171 organisations have written to the Prime Minister to urge him to ‘listen to common sense’ and scrap plans for asylum camps at Wethersfield, Catterick, Bexhill and Scampton, as...
New Briefing: Asylum Accommodation and Quasi-Detention
The current ‘crisis’ in the asylum accommodation system is a result of the failure of the Home Office to make timely decisions, recent reforms in the Nationality and Borders...
Guest Blog: The #AntiRefugeeLaws throw people back to war and persecution
Kidist Teklemariam, the Director of Unleashing Refugee Potential C.I.C, has shared a guest blog outlining why we must fight the UK Government’s cruel #Anti-RefugeeLaws. “I was recently asked, ‘What...
What would the #AntiRefugeeLaws have meant for you?
In April 2022, the Nationality and Borders Bill – known as the #AntiRefugeeBill – completed its passage through Parliament, becoming the Nationality and Borders Act. These cruel #AntiRefugeeLaws fundamentally...