How we create change

Empower

Through our creative and educational activities such as English lessons, drama, yoga, radical knitting and more, we support women to build their confidence and skills. Our warm and welcoming space helps to combat the isolation faced by women seeking safety and creates pathways for women to rebuild their lives on their own terms.

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Influence

When women tell their own stories, they can change minds and build understanding about what it means to seek safety in the UK. We support refugee and asylum-seeking women to speak to the media, to parliamentarians, at events and through the arts.

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Change

Working alongside refugee and asylum-seeking women in our network, we publish robust research on the experiences of refugee women; work with policy makers to make the case for a fairer asylum process; and creatively campaign to make change.

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Today is #BiVisibilityDay - a day to recognise and celebrate bisexual people, the bisexual community, and the history of bisexuality.

To mark the day we're celebrating Rainbow Sisters, our solidarity group for LGBTQ+ women seeking asylum in the UK.

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ICYMI!

We’re looking for new volunteers to support our activities.

From English to yoga, there’s something for everyone!

Please share and help us find some fabulous new volunteers! 🫶

Great to see @_OliviaBlake speak out on the harms of immigration detention, particularly for pregnant women, survivors of trafficking and people who are LGBTQI+.

We agree with Olivia, we urgently need community-based alternatives to detention.

#WelcomeEveryWoman

"I had nothing: no money, no belongings, and nowhere to live."

Whilst living in hotel accommodation Mercy was: ⁣

❌Subjected to daily sexual harassment from the manager of the hotel;⁣
❌Thrown out without warning; ⁣
❌Told all her belongings had been given away.⁣

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Latest news

After four wonderful years, our Director, Alphonsine Kabagabo, is moving on

After four wonderful years, our Director, Alphonsine Kabagabo, is stepping down from her role. We extend our deep gratitude to Alphonsine for her strong leadership, warmth and kindness, and wish her all the best in her future.

We're delighted to announce that from January 2025, our Deputy Director, Andrea Vukovic, and our Head of Grassroots, Isabel Young, will lead WRW as Co-Directors on an interim basis.

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Coercion and Control: The treatment of women seeking asylum in hotel accommodation

Our new research, Coercion and Control, released today, 3 September 2024, shows that women who have fled gender-based violence are subjected to coercion and control in hotel accommodation akin to patterns they have experienced in previous abusive relationships and situations.

The research is the first of its kind to focus specifically on the treatment of women seeking asylum in hotels and was designed and carried out by a team of seven women with personal experience of the UK's asylum system.

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