RuthPrice@asylum-reform-initiative.org.uk

Since it launched during Refugee Week 2024, hundreds of organisations have joined the Fair Begins Here Promise. Across the country organisations are standing together to reject hostility and demonstrate solidarity with refugees. From faith groups and schools to trade unions and businesses organisations are committing to taking action to win a fair new plan for

Today (6th August 2024) over 240 charities who work with refugee and asylum seekers, including those who represent faith communities, have signed a statement condemning the violent anti-migrant attacks that have been taking place around the country.  The signatories are from national, local and grass roots organisations across the UK including Asylum Matters, City of

With Refugee Week/Refugee Festival Scotland taking place in the middle of the general election campaign, the Together With Refugees coalition came together to show politicians that the majority of people in the UK want a kinder, fairer and more effective approach. To kick things off we launched the Fair Begins Here Promise and saw hundreds

Big Zuu, Brian Cox, Hayley Attwell, Joanna Lumley, Juliet Stevenson and Martins Imhangbe are just some of the famous faces joining refugee sector leaders and other lived experience campaigners as part of ‘Team Fair Begins Here’ revealed on World Refugee Day today (20th June 2024) and organised by coalition campaign Together With Refugees. Ahead of the

On Valentine’s Day 2024, people across the country shared their love and solidarity for refugees. From Brecon to Folkestone, Aberdeen to Birmingham, people from all walks of life across the country took part of our #FairBeginsHere Valentine’s Day action. They filled their towns, schools and social media feeds with welcoming cards and orange hearts –

From Brecon to Folkestone, Aberdeen to Birmingham, people from all walks of life across the country shared the love for refugees as part of our #FairBeginsHere Valentine’s Day action. They filled their towns, schools and social media feeds with welcoming cards and orange hearts – the symbol for refugee solidarity – and joined the call

7 February 2024 This Valentine’s Day (14th February) the House of Lords will be debating the Rwanda legislation, which means we have an important opportunity to come together to show that communities up and down the country welcome refugees. With our Valentine’s Day action, we are making clear to our political leaders we need a

15 January 2024 With the government pushing its inhumane Rwanda scheme back through Parliament, our new campaign Fair Begins Here couldn’t be more urgent or important. Fair Begins Here puts the theme of fairness at its heart – because now is the moment for a fairer and more compassionate approach towards refugees in the UK.

The UK’s top children’s charities have joined refugee charities, faith leaders, medical bodies and others to call on the government to scrap plans to lock up refugee children as part of the Illegal Migration Bill. The 152 signatories to an open letter to the Prime Minister, coordinated by Together With Refugees, include NSPCC, Save the

The UK’s top children’s charities are today (Tuesday 11 July 2023) joining refugee charities, faith leaders, medical bodies and others to call on the government to scrap plans to lock up refugee children as part of the Illegal Migration Bill . They have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, published today, when MPs