Migrant Destitution Fund GM
@migrantfundgm.bsky.social
We are open to members of our GM communities who are forced into destitution by the UK immigration & asylum system.
solidarity / cash grants / partnership / advocacy
migrantdestitution.co.uk
#EndDestitution
Administered by: @mcrcommcentral
solidarity / cash grants / partnership / advocacy
migrantdestitution.co.uk
#EndDestitution
Administered by: @mcrcommcentral
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Donate – Migrant Destitution Fund GM
migrantdestitution.co.uk
While enforced destitution still exists, let's keep this fund open!
💛 Every donation you make to the MDF is an act of care & solidarity
💛 Every regular gift helps keep the fund open and sustained
Please share MDF & if you can, set up a regular donation today.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/ 3/
💛 Every donation you make to the MDF is an act of care & solidarity
💛 Every regular gift helps keep the fund open and sustained
Please share MDF & if you can, set up a regular donation today.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/ 3/
Solidarity with care workers!
We are piloting a new MDF programme for care workers facing destitution.
Find out more - and why this support is urgently needed - here: migrantdestitution.co.uk/new-mdf-prog... 1/
We are piloting a new MDF programme for care workers facing destitution.
Find out more - and why this support is urgently needed - here: migrantdestitution.co.uk/new-mdf-prog... 1/
New MDF programme for care workers facing destitution – Migrant Destitution Fund GM
migrantdestitution.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Solidarity with care workers!
We are piloting a new MDF programme for care workers facing destitution.
Find out more - and why this support is urgently needed - here: migrantdestitution.co.uk/new-mdf-prog... 1/
We are piloting a new MDF programme for care workers facing destitution.
Find out more - and why this support is urgently needed - here: migrantdestitution.co.uk/new-mdf-prog... 1/
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Our statement on the government's policy announcements on asylum yesterday
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our statement on the government's policy announcements on asylum yesterday
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This Govt has yet again failed to learn that performative cruelty neither reduces the number of people who need protection nor appeases those driven by hate. People fleeing for their lives need stability and security to rebuild, especially after being forced to leave behind everything they know.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This Govt has yet again failed to learn that performative cruelty neither reduces the number of people who need protection nor appeases those driven by hate. People fleeing for their lives need stability and security to rebuild, especially after being forced to leave behind everything they know.
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Today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood prepares to announce the latest attack on refugee rights in the UK.
A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.
⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:
A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.
⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:
Starmer braced for backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live
Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood prepares to announce the latest attack on refugee rights in the UK.
A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.
⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:
A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.
⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:
In October, we reopened the MDF after a pause. We don’t yet have the funds to stay open year round - but thanks to your support, we gave cash grants to 169 people made destitute by the immigration & asylum system. 1/
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In October, we reopened the MDF after a pause. We don’t yet have the funds to stay open year round - but thanks to your support, we gave cash grants to 169 people made destitute by the immigration & asylum system. 1/
Last week's MDF partnership event was energising!✊🏽⚡️
We heard from...
Connect Talent, our new Salford based referral partner, who shared their great work in GM.
@gmiau.bsky.social shared what's known so far about changes to routes to settlement & what's being done to fight back.
We heard from...
Connect Talent, our new Salford based referral partner, who shared their great work in GM.
@gmiau.bsky.social shared what's known so far about changes to routes to settlement & what's being done to fight back.
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Last week's MDF partnership event was energising!✊🏽⚡️
We heard from...
Connect Talent, our new Salford based referral partner, who shared their great work in GM.
@gmiau.bsky.social shared what's known so far about changes to routes to settlement & what's being done to fight back.
We heard from...
Connect Talent, our new Salford based referral partner, who shared their great work in GM.
@gmiau.bsky.social shared what's known so far about changes to routes to settlement & what's being done to fight back.
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📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
Passionate about centering lived experience to advocate for change?
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
Passionate about centering lived experience to advocate for change?
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Passionate about centering lived experience to advocate for change?
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
A group of ppl with experience of life in asylum hotels across GM have come together to share their perspective.
A message of openness, understanding & hope from people want to be part of their new communities, to contribute, and live safely alongside their neighbours.
Please share far and wide!
A message of openness, understanding & hope from people want to be part of their new communities, to contribute, and live safely alongside their neighbours.
Please share far and wide!
Recently, we have seen an increase in protests and demonstrations outside asylum hotels, driven by misinformation and fear.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group: Our response to the protests outside hotels - GMIAU
Statement from a group in Manchester who have lived experience of living in asylum accommodation responding to the racist far-right protests
gmiau.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A group of ppl with experience of life in asylum hotels across GM have come together to share their perspective.
A message of openness, understanding & hope from people want to be part of their new communities, to contribute, and live safely alongside their neighbours.
Please share far and wide!
A message of openness, understanding & hope from people want to be part of their new communities, to contribute, and live safely alongside their neighbours.
Please share far and wide!
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This is what hostility looks like. Arjeta endured trafficking and trauma and she's finally been able to rebuild her life. Now she's been locked up, torn away from the community that loves her and faces being sent back to danger.
#FreeArjeta
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
#FreeArjeta
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
They are saying they're sending me home, but Liverpool is my home
Arteja loves Liverpool, supports Everton and has become a key member of the community - but now faces being sent back into the hands of those who exploited her
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is what hostility looks like. Arjeta endured trafficking and trauma and she's finally been able to rebuild her life. Now she's been locked up, torn away from the community that loves her and faces being sent back to danger.
#FreeArjeta
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
#FreeArjeta
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Urgent call to action: help free Arjeta — a survivor of trafficking being deported righttoremain.org.uk/urgent-call-... #TheseWallsMustFall #Nooneisillegal #MigrationisLife
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Urgent call to action: help free Arjeta — a survivor of trafficking being deported righttoremain.org.uk/urgent-call-... #TheseWallsMustFall #Nooneisillegal #MigrationisLife
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After facing liver problems, our friend Atef received a £30,700.25 NHS bill. The suggested payment plan would make Atef and his family destitute.
👉🏽 ACT NOW! Email the heads of @royalberkshospital.bsky.social to give Atef a payment plan within his means: patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...
👉🏽 ACT NOW! Email the heads of @royalberkshospital.bsky.social to give Atef a payment plan within his means: patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
After facing liver problems, our friend Atef received a £30,700.25 NHS bill. The suggested payment plan would make Atef and his family destitute.
👉🏽 ACT NOW! Email the heads of @royalberkshospital.bsky.social to give Atef a payment plan within his means: patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...
👉🏽 ACT NOW! Email the heads of @royalberkshospital.bsky.social to give Atef a payment plan within his means: patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...
"Financially we are being tortured. I start at 5am and come home at 9pm – I have to take all the hours I can get to keep paying for visas and healthcare... People say migrants take but we have no recourse to public funds. We are paying for things twice.”
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Uche, care worker & Praxis campaigner, chats to @theguardian.com about the govt.'s plans to make more people wait longer and pay more in visa fees for settlement.
"People say migrants take but we have no recourse to public funds. We are paying for things twice.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"People say migrants take but we have no recourse to public funds. We are paying for things twice.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Paying twice’: workers face NHS bills of thousands in immigration crackdown
Campaigners fear plans to make people wait longer for leave to remain could cost tax-paying skilled workers dearly
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Financially we are being tortured. I start at 5am and come home at 9pm – I have to take all the hours I can get to keep paying for visas and healthcare... People say migrants take but we have no recourse to public funds. We are paying for things twice.”
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Did you know that thousands of migrants are being forced to wait over ten years until they can permanently settle in the UK? And if this Government has their way, over a million more people will be trapped in this decade-long wait.
Spread the word. Share this video now.
youtube.com/shorts/WDuan...
Spread the word. Share this video now.
youtube.com/shorts/WDuan...
"The Government treats us like we're temporary"
YouTube video by Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees
youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Did you know that thousands of migrants are being forced to wait over ten years until they can permanently settle in the UK? And if this Government has their way, over a million more people will be trapped in this decade-long wait.
Spread the word. Share this video now.
youtube.com/shorts/WDuan...
Spread the word. Share this video now.
youtube.com/shorts/WDuan...
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Like so many other asylum and migration charities, we have become increasingly alarmed in recent months by the growth of the far right and their sentiments, and the ‘protests’ outside hotels housing people seeking asylum.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Like so many other asylum and migration charities, we have become increasingly alarmed in recent months by the growth of the far right and their sentiments, and the ‘protests’ outside hotels housing people seeking asylum.
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❗We've added more FREE training sessions dates!
Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation? Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for Aug-Dec 2025.
Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation? Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for Aug-Dec 2025.
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
❗We've added more FREE training sessions dates!
Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation? Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for Aug-Dec 2025.
Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation? Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for Aug-Dec 2025.
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Could you become the newest member of our support team? ✨🏡 Find out more below ⬇️
July 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Could you become the newest member of our support team? ✨🏡 Find out more below ⬇️
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📢Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation?
Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for July-Sept 2025.
🔗Follow the link in our bio, then click the training listed under the ‘RESS’ heading to sign up via Eventbrite.
Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for July-Sept 2025.
🔗Follow the link in our bio, then click the training listed under the ‘RESS’ heading to sign up via Eventbrite.
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📢Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation?
Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for July-Sept 2025.
🔗Follow the link in our bio, then click the training listed under the ‘RESS’ heading to sign up via Eventbrite.
Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for July-Sept 2025.
🔗Follow the link in our bio, then click the training listed under the ‘RESS’ heading to sign up via Eventbrite.
Important session in Manchester on Tuesday! 👇 tinyurl.com/bdesxzun
@thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social, @right-to-remain.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social are running this session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities. 1/
@thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social, @right-to-remain.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social are running this session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities. 1/
22 July - Manchester Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
Join us on 22 July in Manchester for our Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement. We'll be partnering with our friends at GMIAU for the workshop.
righttoremain.org.uk
July 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Important session in Manchester on Tuesday! 👇 tinyurl.com/bdesxzun
@thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social, @right-to-remain.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social are running this session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities. 1/
@thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social, @right-to-remain.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social are running this session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities. 1/
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‼️The hostile environment is making people homeless.
Frank*, Praxis community member, explains how hostile immigration rules pushed him into homelessness and made it harder to get out of it.
*name changed
Frank*, Praxis community member, explains how hostile immigration rules pushed him into homelessness and made it harder to get out of it.
*name changed
July 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
‼️The hostile environment is making people homeless.
Frank*, Praxis community member, explains how hostile immigration rules pushed him into homelessness and made it harder to get out of it.
*name changed
Frank*, Praxis community member, explains how hostile immigration rules pushed him into homelessness and made it harder to get out of it.
*name changed
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🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
New Report - “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office - GMIAU
Our new report on children who have been wrongly sent to adult asylum hotels by the UK Home Office.
gmiau.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.
📣 PLEASE HELP US REOPEN AND STAY OPEN!
Join us as a regular giver and help sustain the MDF all year long! Every monthly contribution makes a massive difference. Your donation is more than support - it's an act of solidarity with those facing destitution.
Stand with us for #DignityNotDestitution
Join us as a regular giver and help sustain the MDF all year long! Every monthly contribution makes a massive difference. Your donation is more than support - it's an act of solidarity with those facing destitution.
Stand with us for #DignityNotDestitution
July 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
📣 PLEASE HELP US REOPEN AND STAY OPEN!
Join us as a regular giver and help sustain the MDF all year long! Every monthly contribution makes a massive difference. Your donation is more than support - it's an act of solidarity with those facing destitution.
Stand with us for #DignityNotDestitution
Join us as a regular giver and help sustain the MDF all year long! Every monthly contribution makes a massive difference. Your donation is more than support - it's an act of solidarity with those facing destitution.
Stand with us for #DignityNotDestitution
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💬 “How can we reshape the collective memory to promote anti-racist justice?”
Was a central question at @refugeeaction.bsky.social’s Asylum Justice is Racial Justice panel discussion. Racism isn’t a flaw in the UK’s asylum system—it’s woven into its very foundations. 🧵
Was a central question at @refugeeaction.bsky.social’s Asylum Justice is Racial Justice panel discussion. Racism isn’t a flaw in the UK’s asylum system—it’s woven into its very foundations. 🧵
July 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
💬 “How can we reshape the collective memory to promote anti-racist justice?”
Was a central question at @refugeeaction.bsky.social’s Asylum Justice is Racial Justice panel discussion. Racism isn’t a flaw in the UK’s asylum system—it’s woven into its very foundations. 🧵
Was a central question at @refugeeaction.bsky.social’s Asylum Justice is Racial Justice panel discussion. Racism isn’t a flaw in the UK’s asylum system—it’s woven into its very foundations. 🧵
“Everyone has the right to be free from poverty – this is not conditional on a person’s background or where they were born"
#EndDestitution
#StopEnforcingPoverty
#ScrapNRPF
#DignityNotDestitution
#EndDestitution
#StopEnforcingPoverty
#ScrapNRPF
#DignityNotDestitution
A massive 46% of migrant children live in poverty - that's nearly double the rate for other children.
Head of Advocacy at Praxis @josephinewy.bsky.social, Praxis community member Favour & @oliviablakemp.bsky.social speak to the @bigissue.com on what can be done 👇
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Head of Advocacy at Praxis @josephinewy.bsky.social, Praxis community member Favour & @oliviablakemp.bsky.social speak to the @bigissue.com on what can be done 👇
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Nearly half of the children in the UK who have migrant parents are living in poverty – that’s an estimated 1.5 million children. For @bigissue.com I spoke with @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @oliviablakemp.bsky.social
about what can be done to fix it.
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
about what can be done to fix it.
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Everyone has the right to be free from poverty – this is not conditional on a person’s background or where they were born"
#EndDestitution
#StopEnforcingPoverty
#ScrapNRPF
#DignityNotDestitution
#EndDestitution
#StopEnforcingPoverty
#ScrapNRPF
#DignityNotDestitution
🚎 Rosé has been out and about spending time with our referral partners. Read about her visit to Equal Education Chances (EEC)
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
🗣 A member of EEC shared:
“Please continue the support we rely on. The money from MDF is often all we have to make it through each month.”
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
🗣 A member of EEC shared:
“Please continue the support we rely on. The money from MDF is often all we have to make it through each month.”
RuthRose visits MDF partner Equal Education Chances – Migrant Destitution Fund GM
migrantdestitution.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🚎 Rosé has been out and about spending time with our referral partners. Read about her visit to Equal Education Chances (EEC)
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
🗣 A member of EEC shared:
“Please continue the support we rely on. The money from MDF is often all we have to make it through each month.”
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
🗣 A member of EEC shared:
“Please continue the support we rely on. The money from MDF is often all we have to make it through each month.”