🎉Welcoming Eleanor Harrison OBE as the new Chair of the Asylum Reform Initiative (ARI)!

ARI set up the Together With Refugees coalition & Eleanor will help champion collective action.

Read more about how we’re run - including our new Steering Group:
togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/how-were-run/

'I was a refugee and Channel 4's Go Back to Where You Came From is not reality'
@mirror.co.uk set up its own Gogglebox with 5 people who sought sanctuary in Britain watching controversial Channel 4 series Go Back to Where You Came From.
@roswynnejones.bsky.social

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Very important but utterly devastating story about the cruel realities of refugee policies on a family and a little boy's life.

Some positive news! The Home Office are piloting giving newly recogised refugees 56 days before they lose their asylum support instead of the current 28 days. Some concerns about the details, but 28 days isn’t long enough to find somewhere to live & another income
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home...

'Very demure' 😄
Congrats on becoming a Library of Sanctuary 🧡

This is why we need to take action now.

Download the Fair Begins Here toolkit here: togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/fair-begins-...

Sunday Part 2: A lovely afternoon of partner dancing.

Sunday Part 1. Footstool upholstery project. Yes I did get involved with the staple gun, thank you very much. Blisters and everything.

V pleased to share this story I worked on for @refugeestogether.bsky.social as my 1st post! This powerful piece about Karim's experience of the horrors he has endured is especially timely given the negative narrative on these issues this week. It's time for a fair new plan for refugees 🧡