Time to #LiftTheBan now!

Boaz is #hiring for two new roles! We're looking for a Lead Support Worker and Support Worker to join our Refugee Homelessness Prevention Project. More details on our website: boaztrust.org.uk/jobs, and if you want to know why we've had to start this new project, read on...

Thank you Emma from Asylum Matters 🧡 who came to talk to our Y2-Y6 pupils all about the Lift the Ban coalition and how they are campaigning to allow asylum seekers to work in the UK 🧡 Birmingham Schools of Sanctuary 🧡 Birmingham Diocesan Education Service 🧡Catholic Primary Partnership🧡 #WelcomeaStranger #OneFamily 🧡

'Women are ready to talk about what they are going through. They are not hiding any more.'

Wonderful film by women in the asylum system in Greater Manchester.
The Elephants Trail Women Asylum Seekers Together 🧡 Support and Action For Women's Network-SAWN

'This is a place where things are happening'🌟👏
theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…

We support the call to introduce a Gaza Family Scheme, please sign the petition below.
We also call for similar reunification schemes for all family members sadly trapped in warzones across the globe...

After the great news last week that Middlesborough took a stand against the #AntiRefugeeLaws Matthew Storey one of their councillors is calling on Teesside to do the same in The Lead
thelead.uk/teesside-shoul…

Nathan our Wales Campaigns Manager writing in Nation.Cymru on asylum poverty 'Frontline charities in Wales say the lack of support makes buying food “almost impossible”.'
#SurvivingInPoverty
#LifttheBan
nation.cymru/opinion/how-wi…

Amazing day on Tuesday. We learnt so much in our annual @sheffieldMRG communtiy study day, which was on working rights for people in the asylum system with #lifttheban campaign. What are universities for if not making spaces for learning? City of Sanctuary Sheffield🧡

Great to see Middlesbrough Council taking action against the #AntiRefugeeLaws !

As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of a big milestone for the #LGBTQ community in the UK, it’s impossible to overlook the sad fact that many LGBTQI+ people no longer regard this country as a safe haven.

Big thank you to Peter for speaking up about the cruel #RwandaBill

On 26th March 2024 I attended the Migration Research Community Study Day: Working rights for people in the Asylum System at the University of Sheffield.
The day was a great success which provided a space for learning with amazing speakers.

🚨BREAKING: The UNHRC has called on the UK govt to withdraw its shameful Rwanda Bill.

The UN body has warned that the new Bill will lead to further discrimination, abuse and exploitation of migrants and refugees. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency ein.org.uk/news/un-human-…

Join us and the folks at @CoS to discuss our new #FighttheAntiRefugeeLaws General Election resources & share tactics for calling on parliamentary candidates to defend the right to seek safety in the UK 🙌

🗓️12:30pm 22nd April, online

💻Register here: cityofsanctuary.org/events/general…

Super excited to be hosting this with our amazing friends at City of Sanctuary UK 🧡 and their groups across the UK😀 Come and join us!

So Home Office approach to asylum has been discredited by the former ICIBI, the National Audit Office, the Migration Advisory Committee & now the Commission on the Integration of Refugees, who recommend immediate ESOL classes & to #LiftTheBan after 6 months.

Read our analysis here:
nlb.ie/investigations…

Excited for this today! :)

Thank you for the opportunity! I've been supported by IMIX 🧡 The VOICES Network 🧡 . I will be speaking alongside one of the Commissioners from the Commission on the Integration for Refugees .

Useful resources from Asylum Matters 🧡 for charities supporting asylum seekers and refugees ahead of a general election 👇