Manchester City of Sanctuary
@manchestercos.bsky.social
manchester.cityofsanctuary.org
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Our little team is cooking up big ideas🥄
We support and coordinate 100+ local groups whilst working with hundreds of schools, universities, councils and more to ensure theyre places of welcome, understanding and opportunity.
Last week we had a rare team day...
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We support and coordinate 100+ local groups whilst working with hundreds of schools, universities, councils and more to ensure theyre places of welcome, understanding and opportunity.
Last week we had a rare team day...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Our little team is cooking up big ideas🥄
We support and coordinate 100+ local groups whilst working with hundreds of schools, universities, councils and more to ensure theyre places of welcome, understanding and opportunity.
Last week we had a rare team day...
🧵
We support and coordinate 100+ local groups whilst working with hundreds of schools, universities, councils and more to ensure theyre places of welcome, understanding and opportunity.
Last week we had a rare team day...
🧵
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At HMSC, we work tirelessly to provide holistic casework and advocacy to migrants in London, and we campaign alongside our visitors for an end to the hostile environment. We need your help to continue this vital work - support us by donating to our fundraiser!
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November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
At HMSC, we work tirelessly to provide holistic casework and advocacy to migrants in London, and we campaign alongside our visitors for an end to the hostile environment. We need your help to continue this vital work - support us by donating to our fundraiser!
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
We're proud to partner with the wider sector in challenging this madness.
Volunteering must remain VOLUNTARY.
Read about our open letter to the Home Secretary 👉 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Volunteering must remain VOLUNTARY.
Read about our open letter to the Home Secretary 👉 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We're proud to partner with the wider sector in challenging this madness.
Volunteering must remain VOLUNTARY.
Read about our open letter to the Home Secretary 👉 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Volunteering must remain VOLUNTARY.
Read about our open letter to the Home Secretary 👉 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mandatory volunteering? This policy is a paradox.
Forcing people to volunteer would:
❌ Undermine everything that makes volunteering so valuable
❌ Harm survivors of trafficking & modern slavery
❌ Discriminate against those who can't volunteer
Forcing people to volunteer would:
❌ Undermine everything that makes volunteering so valuable
❌ Harm survivors of trafficking & modern slavery
❌ Discriminate against those who can't volunteer
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Mandatory volunteering? This policy is a paradox.
Forcing people to volunteer would:
❌ Undermine everything that makes volunteering so valuable
❌ Harm survivors of trafficking & modern slavery
❌ Discriminate against those who can't volunteer
Forcing people to volunteer would:
❌ Undermine everything that makes volunteering so valuable
❌ Harm survivors of trafficking & modern slavery
❌ Discriminate against those who can't volunteer
🔔 A reminder.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🔔 A reminder.
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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:
Refugee status isn’t a ‘golden ticket’, nor is it time sensitive. It is a human right.
Today, the Home Secretary will roll out drastic changes to refugee protections. Here is our reaction.
Today, the Home Secretary will roll out drastic changes to refugee protections. Here is our reaction.
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Refugee status isn’t a ‘golden ticket’, nor is it time sensitive. It is a human right.
Today, the Home Secretary will roll out drastic changes to refugee protections. Here is our reaction.
Today, the Home Secretary will roll out drastic changes to refugee protections. Here is our reaction.
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Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Asylum Hotels Report
Our new report, Profiting from People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels , exposes the true horrors that refugees face whilst housed for years on end in asylum hotels. We’ve long known this, and now...
www.ramfel.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
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"The answers are obvious. End the long-term use of hotels. Fund councils to provide proper housing. Let people seeking asylum work & support themselves. Bring asylum housing back into public hands."
RAMFEL's Layla Hussain on our hotels report in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/opinion/asyl...
"The answers are obvious. End the long-term use of hotels. Fund councils to provide proper housing. Let people seeking asylum work & support themselves. Bring asylum housing back into public hands."
RAMFEL's Layla Hussain on our hotels report in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/opinion/asyl...
People are finally talking about asylum hotels – so why stop now?
As more evidence exposes the reality of asylum hotels, it’s clear they were never about protection, writes RAMFEL's Layla Hussain.
www.bigissue.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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"The answers are obvious. End the long-term use of hotels. Fund councils to provide proper housing. Let people seeking asylum work & support themselves. Bring asylum housing back into public hands."
RAMFEL's Layla Hussain on our hotels report in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/opinion/asyl...
"The answers are obvious. End the long-term use of hotels. Fund councils to provide proper housing. Let people seeking asylum work & support themselves. Bring asylum housing back into public hands."
RAMFEL's Layla Hussain on our hotels report in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/opinion/asyl...
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Honoured to play a role in ensuring Manchester and Sanctuary are forever interlinked.
A history that goes right back to Viraj Mendis at @hulmeascension.bsky.social.
(Would recommend reading up on this chapter of Manchester’s history if you’re unfamiliar! ✊)
A history that goes right back to Viraj Mendis at @hulmeascension.bsky.social.
(Would recommend reading up on this chapter of Manchester’s history if you’re unfamiliar! ✊)
An appreciation post on #TrusteesWeek! 🧡
We're super grateful for the work our trustees do to guide MCoS' strategic vision; ensuring we embed sanctuary in every last corner of the city.
Futureproofing our movement of welcome, one meeting at a time. 📈
We're super grateful for the work our trustees do to guide MCoS' strategic vision; ensuring we embed sanctuary in every last corner of the city.
Futureproofing our movement of welcome, one meeting at a time. 📈
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Honoured to play a role in ensuring Manchester and Sanctuary are forever interlinked.
A history that goes right back to Viraj Mendis at @hulmeascension.bsky.social.
(Would recommend reading up on this chapter of Manchester’s history if you’re unfamiliar! ✊)
A history that goes right back to Viraj Mendis at @hulmeascension.bsky.social.
(Would recommend reading up on this chapter of Manchester’s history if you’re unfamiliar! ✊)
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Tomorrow @houseoflords.parliament.uk will have the chance to vote on amendment 76 tabled by @greenjennyjones.bsky.social that would require Government to record and report on fatalities in the asylum system so no death is ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/s...
#KnowTheirNames
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/s...
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tomorrow @houseoflords.parliament.uk will have the chance to vote on amendment 76 tabled by @greenjennyjones.bsky.social that would require Government to record and report on fatalities in the asylum system so no death is ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/s...
#KnowTheirNames
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/s...
An appreciation post on #TrusteesWeek! 🧡
We're super grateful for the work our trustees do to guide MCoS' strategic vision; ensuring we embed sanctuary in every last corner of the city.
Futureproofing our movement of welcome, one meeting at a time. 📈
We're super grateful for the work our trustees do to guide MCoS' strategic vision; ensuring we embed sanctuary in every last corner of the city.
Futureproofing our movement of welcome, one meeting at a time. 📈
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
An appreciation post on #TrusteesWeek! 🧡
We're super grateful for the work our trustees do to guide MCoS' strategic vision; ensuring we embed sanctuary in every last corner of the city.
Futureproofing our movement of welcome, one meeting at a time. 📈
We're super grateful for the work our trustees do to guide MCoS' strategic vision; ensuring we embed sanctuary in every last corner of the city.
Futureproofing our movement of welcome, one meeting at a time. 📈
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Join us
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Join us
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
What better way to mark the end of #BlackHistoryMonth than to commemorate one of the finest chapters in our city's history - #PanAfricanCongress.
We honour not only the delegates' decolonial, anti-racist vision, but also the role of Mancunians in making the Congress happen.
We honour not only the delegates' decolonial, anti-racist vision, but also the role of Mancunians in making the Congress happen.
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What better way to mark the end of #BlackHistoryMonth than to commemorate one of the finest chapters in our city's history - #PanAfricanCongress.
We honour not only the delegates' decolonial, anti-racist vision, but also the role of Mancunians in making the Congress happen.
We honour not only the delegates' decolonial, anti-racist vision, but also the role of Mancunians in making the Congress happen.
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What would you do to keep your family safe? You'd do anything, right?
Thats why more men cross the Channel. They don't want to put their wives or children in danger. They come first to find safety & to try to bring their families the right way.
No one risks it all unless they have no other choice🧵
Thats why more men cross the Channel. They don't want to put their wives or children in danger. They come first to find safety & to try to bring their families the right way.
No one risks it all unless they have no other choice🧵
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What would you do to keep your family safe? You'd do anything, right?
Thats why more men cross the Channel. They don't want to put their wives or children in danger. They come first to find safety & to try to bring their families the right way.
No one risks it all unless they have no other choice🧵
Thats why more men cross the Channel. They don't want to put their wives or children in danger. They come first to find safety & to try to bring their families the right way.
No one risks it all unless they have no other choice🧵
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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You’ve got £9.95 to last you the whole week… what’s your plan?
This impossible choice is played out in asylum hotels. Whilst people await a decision on their claim, they are banned from working & receive just £9.95 for clothes, travel, data & more.
This is not luxury. This is a hellish limbo.
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This impossible choice is played out in asylum hotels. Whilst people await a decision on their claim, they are banned from working & receive just £9.95 for clothes, travel, data & more.
This is not luxury. This is a hellish limbo.
🧵
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You’ve got £9.95 to last you the whole week… what’s your plan?
This impossible choice is played out in asylum hotels. Whilst people await a decision on their claim, they are banned from working & receive just £9.95 for clothes, travel, data & more.
This is not luxury. This is a hellish limbo.
🧵
This impossible choice is played out in asylum hotels. Whilst people await a decision on their claim, they are banned from working & receive just £9.95 for clothes, travel, data & more.
This is not luxury. This is a hellish limbo.
🧵
From our family to yours, may the festival of lights bring you peace, prosperity and happiness. 🪔
#HappyDiwali ✨
#HappyDiwali ✨
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
From our family to yours, may the festival of lights bring you peace, prosperity and happiness. 🪔
#HappyDiwali ✨
#HappyDiwali ✨
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Fifth Pan-African Congress ended on this day 1945 at former Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, Manchester. Sought independence for African countries, including future leaders such as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta. Kenyatta lived in Manchester.
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Fifth Pan-African Congress ended on this day 1945 at former Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, Manchester. Sought independence for African countries, including future leaders such as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta. Kenyatta lived in Manchester.
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As part of #BlackHistoryMonth, Loraine shares her poem, I Raise My Fist, reflecting on courage, identity, and strength.
Loraine is a Sanctuary Ambassador - she uses her own experiences of seeking sanctuary to campaign for a fairer and more compassionate asylum system.
Loraine is a Sanctuary Ambassador - she uses her own experiences of seeking sanctuary to campaign for a fairer and more compassionate asylum system.
October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
As part of #BlackHistoryMonth, Loraine shares her poem, I Raise My Fist, reflecting on courage, identity, and strength.
Loraine is a Sanctuary Ambassador - she uses her own experiences of seeking sanctuary to campaign for a fairer and more compassionate asylum system.
Loraine is a Sanctuary Ambassador - she uses her own experiences of seeking sanctuary to campaign for a fairer and more compassionate asylum system.
Neglect. Self-harm. Prison-like conditions.
Detention is an affront to human dignity.
On the National Day of Solidarity and every day, we stand with all those subjected to this abuse, and call for a new approach - one rooted in justice, care and humanity.
#TheseWallsMustFall
Detention is an affront to human dignity.
On the National Day of Solidarity and every day, we stand with all those subjected to this abuse, and call for a new approach - one rooted in justice, care and humanity.
#TheseWallsMustFall
October 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Neglect. Self-harm. Prison-like conditions.
Detention is an affront to human dignity.
On the National Day of Solidarity and every day, we stand with all those subjected to this abuse, and call for a new approach - one rooted in justice, care and humanity.
#TheseWallsMustFall
Detention is an affront to human dignity.
On the National Day of Solidarity and every day, we stand with all those subjected to this abuse, and call for a new approach - one rooted in justice, care and humanity.
#TheseWallsMustFall
After another turbulent summer, this number is now likely higher.
On #WorldMentalHealthDay and every day, we stand against hostility, against scapegoating, against scaremongering.
Join us in standing FOR welcome and compassion. 🧡
On #WorldMentalHealthDay and every day, we stand against hostility, against scapegoating, against scaremongering.
Join us in standing FOR welcome and compassion. 🧡
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
After another turbulent summer, this number is now likely higher.
On #WorldMentalHealthDay and every day, we stand against hostility, against scapegoating, against scaremongering.
Join us in standing FOR welcome and compassion. 🧡
On #WorldMentalHealthDay and every day, we stand against hostility, against scapegoating, against scaremongering.
Join us in standing FOR welcome and compassion. 🧡
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On Friday 7th Nov, there will be an event on at The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre on the history of Sanctuary and anti-deportation campaigns.
🎫Free tickets and more information available here: www.racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
🎫Free tickets and more information available here: www.racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
Sanctuary, now and then: asylum, migrant rights and anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s – Race Archive
www.racearchive.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
On Friday 7th Nov, there will be an event on at The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre on the history of Sanctuary and anti-deportation campaigns.
🎫Free tickets and more information available here: www.racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
🎫Free tickets and more information available here: www.racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
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Too early for Christmas jumpers? Never 👀
Meet our two limited-edition designs — SOLIDARITY HAS SNOW BORDERS and HO HO HOpe — available on jumpers, hoodies and tote bags.
🎁https://everpress.com/solidarity-has-snow-borders
🎁https://everpress.com/hohohope
Meet our two limited-edition designs — SOLIDARITY HAS SNOW BORDERS and HO HO HOpe — available on jumpers, hoodies and tote bags.
🎁https://everpress.com/solidarity-has-snow-borders
🎁https://everpress.com/hohohope
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Too early for Christmas jumpers? Never 👀
Meet our two limited-edition designs — SOLIDARITY HAS SNOW BORDERS and HO HO HOpe — available on jumpers, hoodies and tote bags.
🎁https://everpress.com/solidarity-has-snow-borders
🎁https://everpress.com/hohohope
Meet our two limited-edition designs — SOLIDARITY HAS SNOW BORDERS and HO HO HOpe — available on jumpers, hoodies and tote bags.
🎁https://everpress.com/solidarity-has-snow-borders
🎁https://everpress.com/hohohope
A message from MCoS in the wake of yesterday’s attack.
October 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A message from MCoS in the wake of yesterday’s attack.