Pandering to the far right won’t bring unity, belonging, care & community will. This weekend’s march was built on years of racist policies & scapegoating. We stand in solidarity: join local justice groups & support our fight to end detention. Donate now: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

🚨 Raise the alarm: While the Rwanda policy drew outrage, a new wave of harmful immigration policies is going under the radar. Detention + deportation changes are deeply damaging, and we’re urgently fundraising to provide free legal support. Read more & donate: www.biduk.org/articles/rai...

🚨Deadline this Friday!

🚨 New Legal Guide for people detained under the UK–France deal 🚨 Includes: What to do if you get a Notice of Intent, key deadlines, template letters, bail info & more. The Home Office are moving fast to detain under the policy, so please read and share widely: www.biduk.org/articles/new...

The gov scrapped the Rwanda plan but is replicating its harms—rushing deportations, expanding detention & tearing families apart. Help fight back. We need to raise £10K for urgent legal support for people detained under cruel new policies like the UK-France deal: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

📢 We’re expanding our legal team! We're hiring a Legal Manager to help get people out of detention, mentor future justice lawyers & help shape national policy through strategic legal advocacy. 📍 London | £40,643 🗓 Apply by 5 Sept 🔗 www.biduk.org/articles/we-...

📢 We spoke to @freemovement.bsky.social about Clause 144 of the Crime and Policing Bill. This clause would allow people with lawful immigration status to be deported for accepting a caution, risking due process & widening discriminatory policing. freemovement.org.uk/concern-over...

We're still so energised from the SMK Campaigners Awards ⚡ We won Best Use of Law for our work getting asylum seekers detained for Rwanda removal out of detention. 100% of our clients were granted bail, many of whom have now been granted asylum. 🔗 smk.org.uk/awards_nominations/rwanda-project/

📢 We're hiring a Head of Legal Services to lead our legal strategy & casework teams in the fight against immigration detention. 📍 Finsbury Park 🕒 Full time 💰 £46,500 + 5% pension 📅 Apply by 13 July www.biduk.org/articles/we-...

📢 JOB ALERT: We're hiring a Participation Officer to lead the delivery of our lived experience strategy. 💼 21 hrs/week | £22,375.80 📍 Finsbury Park | 1-yr fixed 🗓️ Apply by 13 July 📣 Info webinar: 2 July, 1PM Email [email protected] to join www.biduk.org/articles/we-...

No child should have to endure the trauma of a parent being detained or deported. #EndDetention

📢 We’re hiring! Join BID’s fight for justice. We're looking for a Head of Legal Services & a Participation Officer to help challenge immigration detention. 🗓️ Apply by Sun 13 July 📍 London 🔗 www.biduk.org/articles/we-...

📣 Urgent, please share 📣 We urgently need a pro bono barrister or IAA Level 3 Advisor to represent our Family team client at a remote bail review hearing tomorrow at 11.30 am. If you can help, please email [email protected].

✨Our Legal Manager updates our bail board after a grant of bail! Despite cruel immigration policies, communities across the UK continue to welcome people seeking refuge. This #RefugeeWeek, we affirm everyone's right to live safely in our communities!⁠

Our research shows that the majority of people we survey in detention don’t have a lawyer. That’s why our Advice Line is vital, we take 8,000+ calls a year for free legal advice. Tomorrow we’re walking 10km to keep it going. Can you help? 👉 londonlegalsupporttrust.enthuse.com/pf/bail-for-...

📢 Tomorrow at midday: Join us for this free online webinar about children's rights when a parent faces deportation. Part of a brilliant event programme resisting the Hostile Environment @migrantsorganise.bsky.social. Register now: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

👋 Hello from our #VolunteersWeek Lunch! 💥 This year alone, volunteers have spent 5,812 hours helping people apply for bail! ⚖️ Every year, 150+ casework volunteers and pro bono barristers join us in the fight for justice. To all volunteers, past & present, THANK YOU! 💜🎊👏

Our Rwanda Project has been shortlisted for Best Use of Law @smkcampaigners.bsky.social Awards 2025! 🎉 ⁠ We secured bail for every client facing removal to Rwanda, many of whom have now been granted asylum. Thanks to all who crowdfunded & to pro bono partners. More: smk.org.uk/awards_nomin...

💛 Help us out – sponsor our team for the Legal Walk! We're walking 10km to raise money for our 📞 advice line, answering 8,000+ calls a year from people in detention. Every penny raised will help people get out of detention. Donate now: londonlegalsupporttrust.enthuse.com/pf/bail-for-...

Make some noise for our Hackney Half Heroes! 🏅💙👏 Thank you & congratulations to our incredible team of 25 runners who smashed the #HackneyHalf yesterday — raising over £11,000 for our work. Read more & sponsor here: www.biduk.org/articles/hac...

Our Hackney Half heroes run this Sunday! 🏃💙 They’ve raised £8K to fund legal advice for people in detention — can you help them hit £10K? Donate here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/hac...

To warn of an ‘island of strangers’ while fuelling division is hypocritical & dangerous. Yet, across the UK, people are coming together to resist and stand up for justice and welcome. That’s the future we believe in. Read our statement on the Govt’s immigration plans: www.biduk.org/articles/dou...

Powerful email from a family we reunited after securing bail for their father. No child should have to grow up without a parent because of detention or deportation. Every bail grant at BID shows that when we come together, justice can win.

🚨 Urgent call out please share 🚨 We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on Friday 25 April. If you are able to help please email [email protected].

In order to create a fair and humane immigration system, the Government still needs to make some key amendments to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. Read a new joint briefing from the Coalition for Asylum Rights and Justice: publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/ne...

🗣️ 🗣️ Human rights are NOT a loophole! We're appalled that PM Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, called vital human rights a "loophole." Article 8 of the Human Rights Act protects family life and is under attack as the government pushes deportations. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨 BID is looking for a Finance & Office Administrator to support our vital work challenging immigration detention. 📍 Finsbury Park, London ⏳ Apply by 30th March! Find out more & apply: app.dover.com/apply/Bail%2...

We have shared our evidence - co-written with @medicaljustice.org.uk and @biddetention.bsky.social - with the Public Bill Committee for the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill (2025), laying out for MPs the numerous failings and harm caused by the UK's immigration detention system.

For #InternationalWomensDay, we watched Ghosts of Yarl’s Wood 🎬 A powerful film showing the inhumanity of detention, racist laws & the power of women fighting for justice. In 2008 Cecilia & her son were unlawfully detained. Now she's telling her story: drive.google.com/file/d/1cwL1...

Automatic deportation is heartless 💔 For #ValentinesDay, we asked people about the policy removing people from the UK without automatic legal advice, including those born/raised here, survivors of torture & more. How would you feel if this happened to someone you love? youtube.com/shorts/CJNmL...

Bail for Immigration Detainees (@biddetention.bsky.social) & Medical Justice (@medicaljustice.org.uk) provided evidence in support of the claim.

📣 High Court rules Home Office systemically failing to provide safe & suitable accommodation to disabled applicants and gives guidance on interaction between Schedule 10 accommodation and Care Act 2014 📣 Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/high-court-r...

🚨 Urgent call out please share 🚨 We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on 14 Feb. If you are able to help please email [email protected].

Thank you to everyone who has applied to volunteer - we're feeling the love ❤️ Due to the amount of applications, we're closing this early. ⏰ If you are interested in volunteering with us, be sure to complete your application by 5 pm tomorrow: www.biduk.org/pages/volunt...

📣📣📣 Volunteer call out! ⁠ ⁠ We need volunteers to join our casework team helping to get people out of detention. ⁠ ⁠ Help us #EndDetention while gaining hands-on legal casework experience.⁠ ⁠ Find out more: www.biduk.org/pages/volunt...

👀 Looking for a challenge in 2025? ⁠ Join our Hackney Half Marathon Hall of Fame! 🏃‍♂️🏅 ⁠ Our team is gearing up to conquer 13 miles on May 18th, all to support our mission of helping people to out of detention. ⁠ Get involved - email [email protected] to sign up today! 💪

First bail grant of 2025!! 🎉 A full board refresh for 2025 - with last year’s track record we’ve made the refused boxes even smaller! 😏🤞

🥂 Here's to more justice & accountability in 2025!⁠ While the government continues to lock people up for immigration purposes, we’ll continue to fight for justice. ⁠

One more person granted bail 🎉 ⁠ Thanks to our incredible community, our team & clients defeated the Home Office 378 times this past year!⁠ ⁠ *Data from reporting year Aug-Jul.⁠

As the year ends, we want to say a HUGE thanks to all who made our work possible—dedicated staff, 150+ volunteers, probono lawyers, partners, supporters, & funders. As we enter 2025, we stand in solidarity with our clients, committed to justice. Thank you for standing with us! 💙

Bail granted 🎉⁠ ⁠ Client is happy to be going home in time for Christmas but should never have been detained in the first place.⁠ ⁠ Help us reunite more families separated by detention. Buy our Christmas cards raising funds for our Separated Families Project: www.biduk.org/articles/fes...

This was the front cover of BID's first ever annual report in 1999. ⁠ ⁠ Today, on #HumanRightsDay 2024, we can say we have assisted over 46,000 people in immigration detention by defending their right to liberty. As long as people continue to be detained, we will fight to get them out 💪

We did it! 🥳🎉 A huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated to our Bail Solidarity Fund & our match funders! 🙌💖 Together we smashed our £15,000 target! 💪 We'll spend every penny on securing justice for people in detention ⚖️👩‍⚖️

This year, we launched a new volunteer management platform, and can finally track the incredible hours our volunteers dedicate to fighting for our clients' freedom! 💪✨ We always knew it was a lot, but WOW—15,483 hours! 😲 A massive THANK YOU to every one of you! 🙌💖

We receive 7,000+ calls a year from people locked in immigration detention who need urgent free legal advice. If, like us, you're deeply concerned about the UK's expansion of immigration detention, please donate. Every pound given this week will be doubled: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We've resumed our legal advice surgeries at HMP Pentonville for the 1st time since before the pandemic, with the assistance of @detentionaction.bsky.social. No one should be detained under immigration powers at all, let alone in prisons where legal advice is so hard to obtain.

Donations doubled until 10th Dec! Give now to our Bail Solidarity Fund & your donation will be DOUBLED thanks to @biggive.bsky.social 💖 We're raising funds for our advice line, which answers 7,000+ calls/yr from people in need of legal advice on immigration bail: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Our award-winning film with @privacyint.bsky.social ‘He Looked at My Tag and Wrote Me Off’ has been selected for ANOTHER film festival 🥳 The film documents the experience of being forced to wear a GPS location monitoring ankle tag by the Home Office. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_B...

🚨 Pro Bono Barrister call out, please share 🚨 We are looking for Scotland-based barristers to represent clients detained at Dungavel House IRC in their bail hearings. If you can assist please email [email protected].

👋 Welcome to BID's page on Bluesky. We're a small charity providing free legal advice to people detained under immigration powers. We dream of a world without immigration detention, where people aren't deprived of their liberty or deported from home. If you do too, you're in the right place.