🎉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...

'I was a refugee and Channel 4's Go Back to Where You Came From is not reality'

The Mirror set up its own version of Gogglebox – with five people who sought sanctuary in Britain watching controversial Channel 4 series Go Back to Where You Came From

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

Ros Wynne-Jones@roswynnejones.bsky.social · 2y ago

A yr ago, I met Wissam, a child refugee with complex disabilities living in a rubbish dump in Calais. His Syrian family were trying to reach UK specialists. There are no longer any safe routes for children like him. A few days ago, he died after crossing the channel. mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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...

'Move on' period for refugees doubled to 56 days in victory for the Standard

The Standard has secured a major victory in its A Place to Call Home winter appeal

standard.co.uk

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

City of Sanctuary UK@cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social · 2y ago

This Library of Sanctuary has main character energy 💁

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 🧡

Ros Wynne-Jones@roswynnejones.bsky.social · 2y ago

“I hope telling my story can help people understand why someone who can’t swim could find himself in the middle of the English Channel.” So much political noise today about migration. Here's what it's like to cross the channel in a dinghy. #RealBritain www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...