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Lloyds Bank Foundation has just published a blog by Mark Goldring, Asylum Welcome's Director, on Turning practice into policy: Getting a local refugee charity more involved in advocacy. Here is an extract: "Having worked at national charities well known for their advocacy and campaigning work and learned from some outstanding practitioners,

This year’s Refugee Week theme is We Cannot Walk Alone. One significant question here is who the “we” refers to. Listening to The Home Secretary and her colleagues, it would be easy to believe that asylum seekers are scroungers, arriving for a better or easier life and intending to live off our welfare state. My experience of working with

A personal reflection from Asylum Welcome’s Services Director, Almas Farzi (known as ‘Navid’). About thirty years ago, fearing for my life, I fled Iran. I certainly fitted the UN Refugee Convention description of having a well-founded fear of persecution – so immediate was it, that even though my wife was eight months pregnant we made the difficult and dangerous

A Letter to the People of the UK: Speaking from the Heart about Napier Barracks Taken from Hastings Community of Sanctuary, on 16 March 2021, at: https://hastings.cityofsanctuary.org/2021/03/16/a-letter-to-the-people-of-the-uk On 15th February, HCoS Campaigns Team and Hastings Supports Refugees co-hosted an online event to inform interested participants about the circumstances and conditions surrounding the use of Napier Barracks in Folkstone.

The people who visit Asylum Welcome’s offices in Oxford come from across the world and from all walks of life. A university professor fleeing persecution, a boy whose parents

Guest blog in AVID: Volunteering with “foreign” nationals in prison AVID is the network of voluntery organisations providing support for people in detention.  You can find the original blog here. For an extract, please click here. Asylum Welcome's Huntercombe Visiting Project is possible thanks to the support from The Bromley Trust.