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Report launch: Building Leadership From Experience 

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…

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Valentine’s Day Action 2025

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…

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The Guardian: Refugee charities call for an end to ‘hostile politics’ in open letter to PM

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…

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Introducing our Steering Group

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…

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Q&A with our new Chair: Eleanor Harrison OBE

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…

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Press release: New chair, as asylum bill set for parliamentary battles

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…

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Top 10 tips to build a strong relationship with your MP

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…

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Let’s show them love is greater this Valentine’s Day

Over the years, the Together With Refugees coalition has come together to show the love on Valentine’s Day. The Government has just introduced new legislation on asylum. That’s why this Valentine’s Day is an important moment for us to show our strength and support for refugees. There’s three ways your organisation or group can be…

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Reflecting on 2024: A message from Leila Zadeh

As I reflect on 2024, I am grateful that so many people and groups up and down the country continue to stand together with refugees and are willing to take action for change.  I was especially heartened by the acts of  kindness and care we saw in response to the far right attacks this summer….

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Announcing our new Campaign Organising Network

Together With Refugees is launching a new initiative – the Campaign Organising Network – a network of passionate people working with others in their communities to unlock the energy, commitment and power of local people to take action to win a fair new plan for refugees. This way we can show our politicians that people…

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