Anika Wadood

During a debate on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, the government announced that even people recognised as refugees may never be able to become a British citizen, just because they reached here by an irregular route. Here’s what you need to know about the citizenship ban On February 10th 2025, the Home Office

Anika Wadood, Advocacy and Campaigns Fellow (2024 – 2025) It has been a year since I joined the Together With Refugees team as an Advocacy and Campaigns Fellow. As a newly graduate fuelled by passion and purpose, I was ecstatic to begin my career in a space I had long aspired to be part of.

We are delighted to welcome Jehangir Malik OBE as Interim Director of the Asylum Reform Initiative, the alliance behind the Together With Refugees campaign coalition.  Jehangir has a deep understanding of the refugee and asylum system from his own lived experience as well as his role as commissioner on the Commission on the Integration of

A new report, Building Leadership From Experience, is published today to support the advancement of our goal to ‘foster a thriving, diverse and united refugee rights movement led and shaped by people with lived experience, so that it delivers strong, effective campaigning to secure a just, humane and effective asylum system’.  The report was commissioned

28 April 2025 For Valentine’s Day 2025 we came together and showed MPs that our love is greater. With the announcement of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, it was more important than ever that we showed our strength and pushed for a fair new plan for refugees. From Talgarth to Manchester, Glasgow to

7 April 2025 Today (7 April 2025) more than 100 refugee charities signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for united communities and an end to ‘hostile politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past’, which was published exclusively in The Guardian. The letter has been coordinated by campaign coalition Together With

Together With Refugees is pleased to announce our new Steering Group of senior representatives from across our member organisations. This group of sector leaders bring a rich mix of lived and learned experience of the asylum system, and are from across policy, communications, influencing and grassroots campaigning backgrounds. Together they will drive our campaign strategy

We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new chair, Eleanor Harrison OBE, at the Asylum Reform Initiative, the alliance of leading refugee charities that established and continues to support the Together With Refugees campaign coalition.  We spoke with Eleanor to find out more about why she wanted to take on this role and

The alliance of leading refugee charities, the Asylum Reform Initiative, today (Tuesday 1 April 2025) announces the appointment of its new chair, Eleanor Harrison OBE, as the recently tabled Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill makes its way through Parliament.  Eleanor will play an important role overseeing the Asylum Reform Initiative (ARI) at this crucial

With a new UK Government and 335 new MPs elected into Parliament, we have a real opportunity to have our voices heard and secure a fair new plan for refugees. The introduction of the Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill makes it even more crucial to engage with MPs. While there are positive reforms in