Coercion and Control: The treatment of women seeking asylum in hotel accommodation
Our new research, Coercion and Control: The treatment of women seeking asylum in hotel accommodation, 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 shocking findings include that women in hotels are:
- Routinely monitored and surveilled
- Subjected to humiliating, degrading and dehumanising behaviour by hotel staff, including sexual harassment, room intrusions and voyeurism
- Punished and threatened with eviction
- Isolated from social networks and sources of support
The impact of hotel accommodation on women's mental health is extremely damaging. Of women surveyed:
- 91% felt anxious or depressed
- 75% felt hopeless
- 67% felt like less of a human being
- 46% were suicidal
As it enmeshes women in layers of controlling, restrictive and threatening practices, hotel accommodation perpetuates the patterns of coercion and domination that women seeking asylum thought they had escaped. Consequently, women who come to the UK in search of safety are not being supported to heal and rebuild their lives; instead, they are being further harmed and retraumatised.
But there is now a clear opportunity for change.
The Labour Government has promised to prioritise survivors of gender-based violence and ensure they receive the support they need, which we very much welcome. It is essential that that the Government includes asylum-seeking survivors within this promise – otherwise a two-tier approach will develop, with women seeking asylum, who are predominantly from racialised groups, treated as less deserving and left behind.
To address the harms of hotel accommodation and ensure that asylum-seeking women receive the support they need, we recommend the following changes:
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End the use of hotel accommodation
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Take immediate action to mitigate the harms of hotel accommodation
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Provide safe and supportive accommodation for women seeking asylum, where they heal and begin to rebuild their lives
This report is particularly important because it is the first of its kind to focus specifically on the treatment of women seeking asylum in hotels, and it was designed and carried out by a team of seven women with personal experience of the UK's asylum system.
The research team share:
The treatment of women in hotels can be likened to putting a bird in a cage. The bird is deprived of flying wherever it wants and living the life that it chooses.
Hotel accommodation has a lasting impact on women's self-esteem and mental health. It tells women they are not worthy of dignity and respect and prevents them from recovering from their previous trauma.
This ill treatment of women seeking asylum must stop now. Women deserve safe, supportive and healing accommodation, where they can start rebuilding their lives on their own terms. We urge the new Government to take decisive action immediately.
Andrea Vukovic, Deputy Director of Women for Refugee Women, says:
The new Government has inherited a crumbling asylum system which is actively putting women at risk. Nearly half of the women we spoke to said that hotel accommodation made them suicidal.
The Government needs to urgently get a grip on what’s happening in asylum hotels to prevent further harm. We urge the Government to end policies which have put women in harm’s way and ensure proper oversight of the private providers who are running hotels. Ultimately, the use of hotels for accommodating people seeking safety needs to end now.
Failing to do so will undermine the Government’s ambition to tackle the national emergency of violence against women. It will create a two-tier approach to supporting survivors of gender-based violence, with those seeking safety in the UK left behind.
For media enquiries, please contact our Communications Manager, Carenza Arnold on carenza@refugeewomen.co.uk or +44 (0)7518 397761. See our press release here.
Our statement on the tragic attack in Southport and the following racist, far-right violence
We are horrified and sickened by the recent violent attack in Southport and the senseless loss of lives. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Dasilva Aguiar.
Violence against women and girls is endemic. Tackling violence against women and girls must be a top priority for the Government.
We are extremely concerned and appalled by the subsequent riot in Southport and many other communities across the UK since. Fuelled by the spread of racist disinformation online – propped up by tech platforms who financially gain from the virality of extremist content - the riots are Islamophobic and racist.
Words matter. The effects are now visible in the violence we have seen this week.
Dehumanising, divisive and racist language has become normalised. This anti-Muslim, anti-asylum-seeker and anti-migrant hostility has not emerged from a vacuum: it has been shaped and fuelled by successive draconian asylum policies and laws and stoked by some politicians and elements of the media.
This harms us all.
The communities that are being targeted by the racist far-right must be protected, and all those responsible for the deplorable violence held accountable.
We urge all politicians to immediately reject the dangerous tactics of dog-whistle politics and the scapegoating of marginalised communities, such as those seeking safety in the UK.
As always, we stand with all those affected by violence against women and girls.
The Labour Party has won the UK General Election
Today, 5 July 2024, the Labour Party has won the United Kingdom’s General Election and will now form a majority Government in the House of Commons.
We would like to welcome the new Government and the new MPs who have just been elected to Parliament and call on them to join us to Welcome Every Woman who has come to the UK in search of safety.
We hope that this marks an end to the hostility, cruelty and increasingly punitive laws that we have seen over recent years. Under the previous Government, successive laws (1) have punished people seeking safety, inflicted immense harm, and undermined the very right to claim asylum in the UK. In that time, the public and political debate on asylum and migration has become increasingly toxic and hateful. The women we support have been on the sharp end of these harmful policies and have felt the impact of the dehumanising rhetoric first-hand.
But today is the beginning of a new chapter.
While the new Government is inheriting an asylum system which has been purposely broken, it can be rebuilt. We are pleased that Labour has already committed to: scrapping the Rwanda plan; halving violence against women and girls; clearing the asylum backlog by processing claims swiftly and fairly; and putting an end to the use of unsuitable hotels as asylum accommodation.
But we can and should go further.
We urge the Government to focus on building a fair and compassionate asylum system here in the UK that recognises the particular experiences and needs of women seeking safety. All women fleeing persecution, war and gender-based violence should be treated with compassion and respect and supported to heal and to thrive as they rebuild their lives in the UK.
So as we welcome a new Government with all the promise and hope that it brings, we call on all of our new political leaders to join us to welcome every woman.
Refugee and asylum-seeking women from our network share a message to the new Government:
Sign our pledge to Welcome Every Woman to become part of our movement for refugee women's rights.
(1) Nationality and Borders Act 2022; Illegal Migration Act 2023; and the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024
Volunteers Week 2024: Reflections from Eesha, our Literacy Volunteer
To celebrate Volunteers Week 2024, we're shining a spotlight on our brilliant and dedicated volunteers throughout the week.
Eesha, our Literacy Volunteer, has shared some reflections on her time volunteering at Women for Refugee Women.
Our Literacy class meets weekly to support women to develop their English skills, build their confidence, and to connect with one another. As Eesha reflects, "I feel lucky!"
Thank you for sharing your reflections Eesha, and for all that you do for Women for Refugee Women! We're so grateful for your support and dedication.
🌟 It has been 7 months since I started volunteering as an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Literacy teacher for beginners and intermediate English for Women for Refugee Women. Women for Refugee Women is an amazing charity that supports a network of over 350 refugee and asylum-seeking women who have fled persecution to build their confidence and skills, and develop friendships in a welcoming and supportive space!
🙋♀️ Feminism and refugees’ rights are both causes I’m incredibly passionate about; I chanced upon this role of teaching English literacy in October and was initially hesitant on applying as it seemed very out of my comfort zone - I had no experience in teaching or tutoring, definitely not in teaching English as a foreign language! However, after talking to Isabel Young, Head of Grassroots Programmes at the charity, I was reassured and ready to have a go at it. I started out in October, teaching beginners’ literacy to one small class and was asked to extend it to intermediate learners the following month (to my delight).
👩🏫 I feel lucky to have the weekly opportunity of independently designing and delivering an extensive and engaging English literacy curriculum to both of these classes of amazing women! I’ve learnt how to use an empathy-centred approach to successfully support refugee women and asylum-seeking women from a wide variety of different backgrounds. I’ve also gained improved communication skills and am much more at ease in terms of working independently!
💡 Moreover, volunteering with this charity has given me a more nuanced perspective on immigration in the UK and the experiences of refugee and asylum-seeking women in general, something I really appreciate as an incoming history and politics student. Their campaigns made me think about a lot of things I’ve never considered before, such as the fact that there is no statutory time limit on immigration detention in the UK (the only country in Europe to lock people up in immigration detention centres without release dates). This means that women are often locked up for weeks and months at a time, not knowing when they will be released, which can be especially traumatic given that the majority of female detainees are survivors of gender-based violence.
❤️ Finally, I want to give a shout-out to the WRW staff and volunteers - the charity is such a welcoming, warm and supportive volunteering environment because of them! In particular, I want to thank Isabel Young, my supervisor, and Dina Aragaw, Grassroots Program Coordinator, at Women for Refugee Women, who have provided me with constant support, whether that be about literacy lessons or giving general advice on things like working in the charity sector!
Check out our other Volunteers Week blogs: an interview with our Drama volunteers; Reflections on English by Henrietta.
Volunteers Week 2024: Reflections on English, by Henrietta
To celebrate Volunteers Week 2024, we're shining a spotlight on our brilliant and dedicated volunteers throughout the week.
Henrietta has penned this thought-provoking piece on her experience volunteering with our Intermediate English class.
Our Intermediate English class meets weekly to support women to develop their English skills, build their confidence, and to connect with one another. As Henrietta says in her wonderful writing: "A dozen women meet to listen and talk... In addition, there is plenty of non-verbal communication: making tea, sharing fruit, putting on and off layers of clothes, sitting down and standing up, in a circle or not, looking for a pen, arriving late or early."
Thank you for sharing your piece Henrietta, and for all that you do for Women for Refugee Women! We're so grateful for your support and dedication.
"There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus to speak a true word is to transform the world." - Paulo Freire, the Brazilian writer and teacher, author of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
When I was training to become a teacher for adults, I was asked to choose a pedagogy to study in detail and put into practice. I chose Paulo Freire. I never wanted to be the so-called charismatic teacher who could hold their students transfixed. I was curious about what the students had to offer. Freire’s pedagogy is about being transformative, and about problem solving. To learn to describe a problem, to write a problem is to transform it and oneself. To name the world is to change it. There was to be no teacher narrative or ‘banking’ of knowledge. I took this to mean, in my work, that all language, words and topics must come from the students.
There’s a huge tension between this kind of teaching and a traditional ESOL course in which there is a ‘target’ language, in which students are empty vessels to be filled with correct grammar and syntax, in which later they’ll be tested.
They, the ones who present themselves, are grown adults who already have English. Their English comes from their years of living in London, moving around a city in which this many people speak this many languages, interacting with people in their own and other established communities. So what is it they are asking for, looking for? What am I providing?
In this weekly class, the class I’m talking about, there is no exam or curriculum. A dozen women meet to listen and talk. English is possibly a ‘target’ language as advertised but it is also a shared language, a language in common that we are all practising. We’re really developing a means of mutual understanding for dialogue.
In addition, there is plenty of non-verbal communication: making tea, sharing fruit, putting on and off layers of clothes, sitting down and standing up, in a circle or not, looking for a pen, arriving late or early.
On this occasion, I bring newspapers. We choose photos of humans, famous or not, and describe them to each other.
Kate Middleton has her hair in a bun at the nape of her neck. The words for her hairstyle pass around the table: bun, chignon, pony tail, up do.
Words briefly appear and disappear. A few I write on the board, others float by like so many scraps in the current, as the river rises up to one metre above its normal level, what with all the rain we’ve been having.
The women laugh at the idea that one ‘wears lipstick’. Then I laugh, the volunteers laugh, we all laugh. Is it really ‘we’? How far is it possible to be ‘we’?
The words in the room disappear into some patch at the back of my mind. Words detach themselves from their meanings. Queries go unresolved. Statements can be both positive or negative at the same time, ‘can’ and ‘can’t’ sound the same. It’s common to hear ‘too’ for ‘very’ or ‘too much’ for ‘a lot of’.
If I introduce some words no one has ever heard of, straight out of the unused lexicon (‘I despise’ for ‘I don’t like’) there is only more confusion. The unusual words become a distraction for me and create distance. The women start talking in their own languages or the other languages that they share. Arabic works for most, French or Kurdish for others. These are also languages that cross borders.
After a good class, they come up to me smiling, joyful. Something has happened. I don’t know what, as a teacher, I might have provided. There’s been dialogue and communication, some hilarity and laughter. My job is to make sure everyone is included, is warm enough, can hear and see. I’m a sort of micro party planner.
In an episode of the radio programme Word of Mouth, Michael Rosen talks to Ruanni Tupas, a professor of linguistics. There is, we learn, the concept of English as a global language, and then there are all the other ‘Englishes’ that people use everyday. In linguistic terms all englishes are equal. As examples, Tupas talks about local influences on American English in the Philippines, his country of birth and Singlish, spoken in Singapore. In my own experience, I hear my grandchildren switch from one ‘English’ at home to another ‘English’, that is Geordie, with their schoolfriends. We all become competent in a ‘repertoire of Englishes’.
In terms of everyday life, my English is just one in a number of Englishes spoken in London. Hence the discussion over what to call Kate Middleton’s hair do. My word is as good as anyone’s.
There is a pervasive ideology, Tupas goes on to say, that one kind of English is better than another, but studies show that communication is not lost without standard UK English. Communication is helped by competency in many ‘englishes’.
The women in the group have to cope with concepts from officialdom and have to account for themselves in a way I have never had to. More than anyone they will have to be careful what they say, at the same time as learn how to say it.
What ‘English’ is it that the students want? Following Freire, I spend weeks on this question: what shall we practice, what shall we study? While the immediate answer is just ‘English’, after discussion and enquiry we can come up with a few of what Freire calls ‘generative themes.’ One theme might be to be able to speak confidently to the doctor or with a child’s teacher or to immigration lawyers.
In the tension between desire for real dialogue and desire to teach, I am left with big questions that I can ponder for the rest of my teaching life. Here I am with something to offer, the skills with which to teach a language I didn’t do much to learn. How can I teach correct English without teaching western culture? In my resistance to teaching ‘correct’ English am I gate keeping myself? I could give a few answers but for now I’ll hold the tension. It’s not correct English that’s needed for justice and equality, but true communication and dialogue.
Written by Henrietta Cullinan
Check out our other Volunteers Week blogs: an interview with our Drama volunteers; Eesha's reflections on volunteering at WRW.
Volunteers Week 2024: Drama
To celebrate Volunteers Week 2024, we're shining a spotlight on our brilliant and dedicated volunteers throughout the week.
Today we are celebrating Adele, Arati, Cyan, Hana and Nada - our wonderful Drama volunteers!
Our weekly Drama programme, held at the Southbank Centre in London, wouldn't be possible without our volunteers! From the first small beginners' sessions in 2016, to the packed and lively series of classes across all levels of experiences we now run, our volunteers bring their wealth of experience, joy and humour to each session.
The below interviews were conducted by members of our Drama group who asked thoughtful and fun questions to Adele, Arati, Cyan, Hana and Nada about what it is like to volunteer with Women for Refugee Women.
What motivates you to volunteer with us?
I love the social element - it's fun, lively and there's so many different women meeting each week. I came as part of my MA placement [at Goldsmiths] but here I am two years later! I wanted to show empathy with those far from their home country - I'm far from home too, but in very different circumstances.
You have such a good heart and you are so lovely with us - are you like that all the time?
That depends who you ask! Yes, in my professional life with colleagues and fellow students. But my partner might disagree!
What do you get from volunteering?
I've always tended to overthink things in my life, so spending time with you all helps me relax and see how I can deal with relatively simple problems in my life, when I see how resilient and positive you all are. I love learning facilitation techniques, games and the creative tools you all use to develop your performances and writing: seeing these beautiful creations emerge. I learn so much about your experiences in the UK, what's really going on.
We relax too much sometimes and leave a mess with our coffee cups - does this annoy you?
Not at all! In fact we usually have to insist that you leave the 'housekeeping' to us and focus on enjoying the drama workshops! You are all very considerate and tidy compared to working in youth theatre... it's part of the work of supporting the group, we're happy to make the room nice.
What makes you happy about being with us?
I love seeing the creative things you make - performance poems, short scenes, funny or sad speeches, the costumes. And joining in with your amazing singing! It's lots of fun. I think we're all making each other happy when there's so much horrible stuff going on in the world. I love the unusual and unexpected friendships and connections, feeling close and belonging to so many different women from all over the world, of different ages and backgrounds.
Have you ever laughed at the silly things we do?
Oh my goodness, yes all the time - so much laughing! The sense of humour is so important, we are all able to relax.
Is this the first time you have done this sort of work?
For two of us, yes, we're studying to work in this way. One of us is experienced as a Drama teacher/facilitator, one of us is an ESOL teacher, and one of us is a professional writer and theatre director.
What are the top 3 skills for working with us?
Active listening, respect, being trustworthy.
Good communication skills and openness.
Humour and calmness, flexibility, but also keeping a structure and ethos in the sessions.
What keeps you cheerful?
You lot!
Coffee.
Being in the group and seeing everyone joining in and creating things, and having fun, or sharing stories that feel really helpful for our wellbeing.
Do you feel at home here with us?
Yes. I was nervous on the first day because I didn't know if I would settle in. But I did, and you are all so welcoming.
Is your volunteer role stressful? How do you feel at the end of the day?
The sessions are well-planned so it's not hard work in that sense. It does get busy though with the two long workshops back-to-back and so many women attending!
Sometimes the emotions are complicated when we have been sharing sad or painful stories, hearing all the lived experiences of forced migration and the UK hostile environment, but there is so much trust and support in the group. And we can use the creative skills to try and make sense of it and support each other.
And speak out publicly!
What have you learned from us?
So much!
You teach us about many things that many people don't ever see - the injustices of the immigration system.
Also, witnessing all the amazing approaches to finding yourself in a new situation, in a country and life you didn't choose.
Your talents, skills, amazing qualities, and working so hard to make a safe future.
Members of our Drama group (centre - pink jumper; centre black jumper) with our brilliant volunteers!
Read our other Volunteers Week blogs: Henrietta's reflections on ESOL, and Eesha's reflections on volunteering.
Open Letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the Rwanda Act
Dear Prime Minister,
We write to express our shared outrage at the passage of the misleadingly named ‘Safety of Rwanda Act’. This is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society.
We all want to be safe - and we want that safety for each other, too. As a country, we are proud to uphold our responsibility to support refugees. Given the chance, communities across our country go the extra mile to welcome those in need. The wider public do not support the Rwanda plan.[1]
But this law would enable the Government to forcibly expel people seeking asylum - including children and survivors of trafficking and modern slavery – despite concerns they could be put at grave risk of harm and human rights abuses. The Rwanda plan will first force people who have fled violence and persecution into detention centres where they may face abuse and mistreatment, with no time limit. They will then be removed to a country to which they have no connection, despite our country's Supreme Court ruling that it is unsafe for them. Through this law, the Government will put them at grave risk of mental and physical harm, and of being returned to danger in the countries they fled.
Despite the clear ruling from the Supreme Court, the Government is rewriting the facts so they can shirk our responsibilities to refugees. In doing so, the Government would break international law and further shatter the UK’s commitment to justice and the rule of law. While this is a targeted attack on refugees and migrants, an attack on one group's rights is an attack on all of us.
Outsourcing our asylum system to other countries is never acceptable. It abandons our duty to share in the global responsibility towards those forced to seek safety. Instead of continuing down this dangerous path, the Government must guarantee that asylum claims will be heard fairly on our shores, and open safe routes so that people are not forced to take dangerous journeys.
As organisations working towards a better future for all, we believe in kindness and compassion. The Government must listen to the people, abandon this deplorable deal with Rwanda and similar plans with other countries, and protect those who need sanctuary.
Reference:
[1] https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/03/18/less-than-a-quarter-of-the-public-back-rwanda-bill-in-current-form-poll-finds/
Signed:
Women for Refugee Women
ACAP (Ashton Churches Asylum Project)
Action for Refugees in Lewisham
African Rainbow Family
After Exploitation
Amnesty Mid Gloucestershire Group
Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU)
Apna Haq
Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID)
Asylum Link Merseyside
Asylum Matters
Asylum Seeker Housing Project
Asylum Support Appeals Project
Asylum Welcome
Bail for Immigration Detainees
Baptists Together
Barnsley Borough City of Sanctuary
BEACON
Best for Britain
Big Leaf Foundation
BIRCH Network
Birmingham City of Sanctuary
Boaz Trust
Bournville Amnesty
Bradford City of Sanctuary
Bradford Immigration & Asylum Support & Advice Network (BIASAN)
Bradford Rape Crisis
Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers Campaign
Bristol Law Centre
Bristol Refugee Rights
Bromsgrove and Redditch Welcome Refugees
Bromsgrove Justice and Peace Group
Calais Light
Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary
Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group
Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign
CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers)
Care4Calais
Central England Law Centre
Children's Rights Alliance for England, part of Just for Kids Law
Choose Love (CIO)
Christian Concern for One World
Church of Scotland
Churches Together in Sandbach
Citizens of the World Choir
City of Sanctuary Sheffield
City of Sanctuary UK
Columbans Missionaries in Britain
Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ)
Community Policy Forum
Communityworks
Connected Routes CIC
Conversations From Calais
Coventry Against Racism
Coventry Refugee & Migrant Centre
Da'aro Youth Project
Darlington Assistance for Refugees
Detention Action
Disability Rights UK
Diverse Cymru
Doncaster Conversation Club
Durham City of Sanctuary
EachOther
Ecojustice Ireland
End Violence Against Women Coalition
Entraide UK
Equally Ours
Fair Vote UK
Fair Way Scotland
Faith Network for Manchester
Fatima House
Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX)
FODI
forRefugees
Freedom from Torture
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
Global Link
Good Chance Theatre
Govan Community Project
Gower College Swansea
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit
Hackney Stand Up to Racism
Haringey Migrant Support Centre
Haringey Welcome
Hastings Community of Sanctuary
Hastings Supports Refugees
HBTSR (Hay Brecon amd Talgarth Sanctuary for Refugees)
Heanor Baptist Church
Helen Bamber Foundation
Herts for Refugees
Hexham Amnesty
HIAS+JCORE
Hope and Aid Direct
Hope Projects
House of Rainbow CIC
Human Rights Consortium Scotland
Human Rights Lawyer
Human Rights Watch
Humanists UK
Humans for Rights Network
Ice and Fire Theatre Company
IMIX
Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA)
Inclusion North CIC
INQUEST
Interfaith Scotland
Iraqi Association
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
Just Fair
Just Futures Research Centre, University of Huddersfield
JustRight Scotland
KRAN
Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS)
Law Centres Network
Leeds Anti Raids Action
Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network
Leeds Refugee Forum
Legal Aid Practitioners Group
Leicester City of Sanctuary
Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network (LRMN)
Liberty
Lifeline Options CIC
Louth Churches for Refugees
Mafwa Theatre CIC
Manchester City of Sanctuary
Manchester Migrant Solidarity
MAP Middlesbrough
Mary Thompson Fund
Medact
Medical Justice
Mermaids
Merseyside Solidarity Knows No Borders
METRO Charity
Metropolitan Community Church of North London (MCCNL)
Micro Rainbow
Migrant Champions Network
Migrant Voice
Migrants' Rights Network
Migration Policy and Practice
Music Action International
NACCOM
New Citizens' Gateway
New Europeans UK
NIARA
No To Hassockfield
North Wales Regional Equality Network
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum (NNRF)
Oasis Church
Oldham Unity Destitution Project
One Community Link
One Life To Live
One Roof Leicester
Open Rights Group
Our Second Home
Out In The City
Oxfam GB
PAFRAS
Peace of Mind CIO
Pendle New Neighbours
People & Planet
PERN (Penrith and Eden Refugee Network)
Plan International UK
POMOC
Positive Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS)
Praxis
Public Interest Litigation Support Project
Public Law Project
Quakers in Britain
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Home
Rainbow Migration
RAIS (Refugee Advocacy, Information, and Support)
Reach Group, Huddersfield
Reclaim the Agenda
Refugee Action
Refugee and Migrant Centre (West Midlands)
Refugee Council
Refugee Futures
Refugee Legal Support (RLS)
Refugee Support Group
Refugee Welcome Homes CIC
Refugee Women Connect
Refugee Youth Service
Refugees & Mentors CIC
Refugees at Home
Rene Cassin, the Jewish Voice for Human Rights
Restore, a project of Birmingham Churches Together
Right to Remain
Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton
Room to Heal
Safe Passage International
Scotswood Garden
Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees
Scottish Refugee Council
Settle Area Refugee Support group
Six Ways Baptist Church
Six Ways Erdington Baptist Church
Skipton Refugee Support Group
Social Equity Centre
South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)
South Yorkshire Refugee Law & Justice
Southall Black Sisters
Southampton and Winchester Visitors Group
Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC)
Southeast and east Asian Women's Association
St Paul's Church, Birmingham
St Vincent de Paul RC Church (Liverpool) Justice & Peace Group
St Vincent Newcastle (St Vincent de Paul Society England & Wales)
Stand and Be Counted Theatre
Stand For All
Stories of Hope and Home
Street Talk
Stroud District Together With Refugees
Student Action for Refugees (STAR)
Swansea Asylum Seeker Support (SASS)
Swansea Women's Asylum and Refugee Support Group
Tees Valley of Sanctuary
The Ark Synagogue
The Comfrey Project
The Gomes Brothers
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
The Launchpad Collective
The Methodist Church
The Pickwell Foundation
The Snowdrop Project
The United Reformed Church
The VOICES Network
The William Gomes Podcast
These Walls Must Fall
Together with Migrant Children
UK Must Act
Unicorn Theatre
Unite NW522
United Reformed Church, Wythenshawe
Vauxhall Law Centre
Voices in Exile
Voices Without Borders
Waging Peace
Walking With
We Are Survivors
We Belong
Welcome Group Halesowen
Welsh Centre for International Affairs
Welsh Refugee Council
West London Welcome
Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary
Women for Refugee Women
Women's International League of Peace and Freedom
Women's Support Project (Rights & Choices)
Young Roots