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
Building on our learning and success in 2021. Despite all the challenges that Covid threw at Asylum Welcome and our clients in 2020, we were actually able to support more clients with more services between April and March than in the year before. The profile of our work certainly changed to help refugees and
Joshua Low and Yan Chen report from Asylum Welcome's alternative tour of Oxford for Cherwell. On the drizzly Friday afternoon of 18th June, six local Oxford residents who are also refugees or asylum seekers doubled as tour guides and took local community and political leaders around organisations and locations that were vital to them
Joshua Low and Yan Chen report on a new tour set up by the charity Asylum Welcome for Cherwell. Asylum Welcome, an Oxford-based charity for refugees and asylum seekers, is planning to take local councillors and community leaders on an alternative walking tour of Oxford on Friday 18th June. The tour is one of a series
Hello, The theme of this year’s Refugee Week is inspired by the remarkable ‘I have a dream’ speech, in which Martin Luther King said “We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back.” Here at Asylum Welcome, we are absolutely committed to
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Founded in 1998, it is held every year around World Refugee Day on the 20 June. This year’s theme is ‘We Cannot Walk Alone,’ inspired by Martin Luther King’s
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.
There are less than 30 days left before the EU Settlement Scheme deadline! Do you need help to apply? Not sure if you or anyone you know may need to? Contact us today for support and advice: WhatsApp/text/phone: 07719128054; Email: europawelcome@asylum-welcome.org. Asylum Welcome’s Europa Welcome team is happy to let you know that our
We are deeply concerned about the government’s New Plan for Immigration. Please see here for more information. The consultation on the paper closes at 11.45pm on 6th May. You can respond to the paper and contribute to the consultation here. You may find Asylum Welcome's guidance on responding to the consultation useful here.
Yan Chen describes the actions taken by Oxford Charity Asylum Welcome to combat the Home Office’s proposed New Plan for Immigration for Cherwell. To challenge the Home Office’s proposed New Plan for Immigration, Oxford-based charity Asylum Welcome is providing Zoom consultation sessions, encouraging people to write to MPs, and soliciting ideas for collaborative action against the
