Skylight is moving to charitable status & needs founding trustees to steer their governance, culture & long-term direction. Especially looking for skills in charity/non-profit compliance, inclusive finance and fundraising & partnerships Application pack bit.ly/4AcQkrn Apply bit.ly/46Yb0Wt

Skylight is moving to charitable status & needs founding trustees to steer their governance, culture & long-term direction. Especially looking for skills in charity/non-profit compliance, inclusive finance and fundraising & partnerships Application pack bit.ly/4AcQkrn Apply bit.ly/46Yb0Wt

🚨Really important new report out today🚨 The Cedar Review - From Displacement to Business: A Review of Refugee Entrepreneurship in the UK Huge potential needs to be unlocked - for the sake of refugee entrepreneurs and also the UK economy cedarreview.com/downloads/re...

Just left the Refugee Changemaker Forum 2026 conference, organised by TERN @wearetern.bsky.social It was absolutely brilliant, all about shifting the power to refugees instead of making it *about* them. Very slick, and a mind-blowing line-up of speakers! refugeechangemakersforum.com

Watch out for an opportunity to help a refugee entrepreneur get their business off the gound! Donate to TERN whenever you check out on eBay during June.

Inaugural Refugee Changemakers Forum 23 June 2026, 12:30-19:30 This conference is FOR & BY refugee social entrepreneurs, often excluded from mainstream funding & partnerships. Meet with stakeholders, funders and policymakers who are serious about backing refugee leadership Book: shorturl.at/4yelk

There's a REFUGEE street food fair happening at New Covent Garden Market, London, this coming bank holiday weekend - try their new food businesses and show them your support! bit.ly/Missionkitch...

Don't miss this unbelievably brilliant movie! "Everybody to Kenmure Street" - how a diverse community spent a whole day blocking an immigration raid in Glasgow, causing the Home Office to eventually free the men in the van (a humiliation for Priti Patel). Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOY5...

Everybody to Kenmure Street - official trailer

YouTube video by Conic

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A lovely piece about a lovely idea - do try and see the #Bibbystockholm "Bibby Boys" exhibition, in Brixton, if you can. By Diane Taylor at the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Friendships, fishing and community clean-ups: the unseen kindness of life on the Bibby Stockholm barge

Bibby Boys photo exhibition documents experiences of the men who lived on the former asylum seeker vessel in Dorset and the local community that rallied around them

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It would seem that refugees who came here on resettlement routes WILL get ILR/settled status. Resettled citizens apparently won't be getting "the letter".

The boss of Corporate Travel Management, an Australian company which inexplicably got the Home Office contract to manage the #BibbyStockholm, has resigned - after overcharging British taxpayers to the tune of £80million. archive.ph/PSPol www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Fabulous new partnership between Square and The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network @wearetern.bsky.social - for all kinds of support in helping refugees set up businesses in the UK (because they're twice as like to be unemployed). www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2026...

Square launches partnership with The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network

Square is launching a partnership with The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) to provide refugee entrepreneurs with tools, funding and long-term support.  Refugees offer a source of untapped poten...

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We had the honour of hosting these 2 guys overnight in Ripon as they walk Dover-John O'Groats to raise money to build a primary school for South Sudanese refugees in Chad. They're walking 12 hours a day in the freezing cold because they care so much. Are you able to donate? gofund.me/68bc429ab

Donate to The Long Walk of Freedom For Sudan, organized by Giel Malual

The Long Walk of Freedom for Sudan is a humanitarian fundraising initiative dedicated t… Giel Malual needs your support for The Long Walk of Freedom For Sudan

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I was only thinking yesterday that we all say what we don't want but how often do we actually have a coherent plan for what we DO want. Here it is!

Another Europe Is Possible@anothereurope.bsky.social · 11mo ago

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here! Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants? Want to see an alternative plan? Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all. Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...

Letters are going out to Syrians with paused applications for ILTR. Doesn't seem to be about employment/volunterring, only whether or not safe to go back. Letters written in typically complex English - even I as (native speaker) having to keep re-reading paras freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...

Home Office recommences processing of Syrian settlement applications - Free Movement

It appears that the Home Office has started writing out to Syrian refugees who have pending settlement protection (SET(P)) applications. I know this is

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Last month Iran deported 750,000 (!) Afghans & said it will deport 4 million remaining undocumented Afghans (many born in Iran and never even been to Afghanistan). The UN can only assist 10% of returnees. Dumped into poverty and female hopelessness. Observer: newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...

Horrifying story of arriving in the USA - having scrubbed his phone - but US officials had already viewed all his socials AHEAD of his flight. Detained and grilled for 12 hours due to his posts about the protests at Columbia University. Also quizzed re Gaza views. www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...

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I am utterly gripped not only by the Salt Path débacle, as brilliantly investigated by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, but by JUST HOW MUCH the path of the story wanders off the path of truth. Surely @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social MUST withdraw this fable?

The (abandoned) plan to use RAF Scampton as an asylum centre cost the taxpayer just under £50m. The cost to society was incalculable. www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

Home Office wrote off £48.5m after scrapping plan to use RAF base for asylum seekers

Ministers axed RAF Scampton project after Home Office review found it did not represent value for money

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The National Crime Agency report on serious and organised crime in 2024 points out the connection between gangs & crime and far-right ideologies and affiliations - essentially the dates given refer to riots after the Southport murders. Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...

So it has come to this: I just asked AI about the effects of AI on AI in the workplace. Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.

Absolutely hysterical piece on Greg Wallace from Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social in the Times. The best piece of life advice I can give you is to go read it. Right now. Here archive.ph/7iQMf

From Yoel Noorali at the @observeruk.bsky.social: beautifully written, laugh-out-loud existentialism - the art of not doing, but being. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

‘Monetised standing’: the art of being a film extra

What skill does it take to be a background actor? A journalist finds out

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Well, well, well. And I should think so too - it was always very sketchy where that money was being spent. #BibbyStockholm www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...

£100k to support barge asylum seekers 'to be returned to government'

AROUND £100,000, to help support asylum seekers, may have to be returned to the Home Office by Dorset Council.

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OUTSTANDING investigative work by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social of @observeruk.bsky.social blowing up the "ommissions & commissions" (deceptions) in the story of the books/movie of #TheSaltPath by Raynor Winn (Sally Walker). @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social may have some explaining to do...?

The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) is hiring a communications manager! Could that be you? www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...

We’re #hiring a Communications Manager! | TERN - The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network

We’re #hiring a Communications Manager! Could you lead on marketing and communications in our team? If you have the skills & experience below, we’d love to hear from you! 🎯 Experience of deve...

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