Events
We do not currently have any upcoming events.
Past events
Tuesday 13 May 2025
12 – 1pm
ONLINE
Register your free place here.
Join our research team and special guest, Carla Denyer MP, to hear more about the work ban, our key findings and recommendations, and what you can do to support our campaign to lift the ban on work. Our research team, made up of women with personal experience of the UK’s asylum system and the work ban, will also be sharing their experience of designing and conducting research.
Find out more and register for your free place here.
We hope to see you there!
International Women's Day: Accelerate Action
Monday 10 March
6:30 – 7:30pm
ONLINE
Register your free place here.
Our Spokesperson Facilitator, Agnes Tanoh, joins our friends from Rene Cassin, Freedom from Torture and Jesuit Refugee Service, for a lively panel discussion on the immigration detention of women seeking safety, and what we can all do to end it.
Find out more and secure your tickets here.
Thursdays – Sundays, 12pm – 6pm
10 – 30 January 2025
Netil House, 1 Westgate Street, London, E8 3RL
‘A Pocket Full Of Plenty’, is a group show curated by Papillon Projects, an exhibition platform set up by Scarlett Pochet and Moriah Ogunbiyi, to fundraise for and raise awareness of Women for Refugee Women.
‘A Pocket Full Of Plenty’ exhibits a series of artworks/objects reimagined and reinterpreted by artists, which attempt to shine light on themes of transmogrification, migration, agency, ritual, childhood, nature and personal intimacies.
For more information on the show and upcoming events, following Papillion Projects on Instagram @papillonprojects_.
Saturday 13 July
Our danceathon, 2:15 – 2:45pm
Activities throughout the day, 11am – 5pm
Horniman Museum and Gardens, SE23, London
Our Drama group are performing at the Horniman Museum and Gardens‘s Crossing Borders festival this Saturday! Join us for our danceathon from 2:15pm as we celebrate music and dancing from across the world
- Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London
- Activities throughout the day, 11am – 4pm
- Our danceathon 2:15 – 2:45pm
- FREE and family friendly!
We hope to see you there!
Thursday 20th June, from 10:30
National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
London SE1 8XX
Join us from 10:30 for coffee and cake at the National Poetry Library – 5th Floor at Southbank Centre, London.
To celebrate Refugee Week 2024, our Drama group are performing.
Our 40 minute poetry performance will begin at 11am. You will hear original poetry written and performed by refugee and asylum-seeking women from our Drama group. The poems are sure to make you smile!
We hope to see you there for what is sure to be a joyous and uplifting morning!
Lost and Found
Thursday 7th March at 12.30
Blue Room, Southbank Centre
London SE1 8XX

“…When I was younger there were things that were lost…
now I am older, there are things that I’ve found.”
Join us for a 45min performance from our drama group, followed by refreshments.
Tickets are free, but please email rebecca@refugeewomen.co.uk to book your place.




