There’s still time to see your donation doubled. Winter is the hardest time for people seeking safety. Your support can provide warmth, advice and stability for those rebuilding their lives. https://donate.refugee-action.org.uk/page/180644/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=CC2526_Social

Each winter, we invite supporters to write messages of welcome on Christmas baubles to share with people navigating the asylum system. They are reminding people they are seen and not alone. We’re sharing a few today. ❤️ Donate to power our work this winter: https://bit.ly/44hMH5a

No one should face winter alone. As the weather gets colder, people seeking safety are forced to navigate the asylum system without support. Our Winter Appeal will double your donation. https://donate.refugee-action.org.uk/page/180644/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=CC2526_Social

Any donations made until the end of the year will be matched up to £18,000, meaning your impact is doubled. This Christmas, your kindness can help bring families back together. https://donate.refugee-action.org.uk/page/180644/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=CC2526_Social

Every donation you make will now be doubled. This winter is one of the toughest yet for people seeking safety. Give today and your support will go twice as far to help people rebuild their lives. 💛 https://donate.refugee-action.org.uk/page/180644/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=CC2526_Social

This year was hard, but you chose welcome. When fear got louder, you showed up and turned care into action. You stood beside people rebuilding their lives. People like you are the much-needed hope in the road ahead. We keep going together. Share this and tell us what “welcome” means to you.

The level of taxpayer-funded violence at the UK-France border revealed in this report is sickening. We support @humansforrights.bsky.social calls for an independent public inquiry into the UK government’s role in the increase in violence and deaths at the border in recent years.

We want to say one thing: thank you. Your kindness keeps our vital services running and helps people seeking safety rebuild their futures here in the UK. 💛 Take our short survey and help shape the emails we send. act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/181884/...

Cathy and Bsma describe how the government’s dehumanising plans for asylum make them feel. Families wait years, contribute locally, yet aren’t treated as human. These distractions won’t stop fatal Channel crossings. Choose dignity, fairness and belonging. Share their voices today.

Will you go live for refugees? Join our movement of gamers and streamers doing something amazing for people seeking safety. Whether you’re a gamer, a musician, an incredible knitter or an ace cook, live-stream it! Everything you raise will power our fight for a fairer future for refugees.

Right now public money fuels private profit while people live in poor conditions. It hurts all our communities. Our report sets out a council-run alternative. Email your MP and ask them to speak about it in Parliament: https://bit.ly/4pFEXly

This new law is anti-refugee. It’s another attack on rights, and further criminalises people seeking safety. Instead of lifting the ban on work and uniting communities, the government is doubling down on failed deterrence policies. It doesn’t have to be like this. http://bit.ly/3Kwpe9z

Great night at The Conduit Club bringing together companies, unions and charities to discuss why lifting the work ban for people seeking asylum benefits everyone. Thanks to our hosts and panel. Want to join the 300+ orgs backing the campaign? Drop us a message.

Do deterrence policies stop people from fleeing? The Rwanda policy, Bibby Stockholm, ban on work and countless others show they do not. People leave because they have no choice.

🧵: The Government’s dehumanising new asylum proposals – what are they, and why it matters. It's worth us saying, none of these plans are in force yet. They require new rules or legislation. And in many areas, the details are still unclear.

Migration is both wonderful and life-saving. Solidarity to everyone feeling dehumanised, tired and anxious about the future thanks to yet more racist measures that have been announced by the government today.

Our statement on the government’s abhorrent plans for people seeking safety. Politicians are dividing communities, when they could be building affordable homes and strengthening them.

We’re expecting a barrage of attacks on refugee rights today. Many as grim as this. A week before a budget. Snatching jewellery from refugees won't make housing affordable, reduce NHS waiting times or fix the UK's real problems. But it’s a great distraction 👀 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

While headlines focus on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that's not even officially counted: The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here. We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored. #KnowTheirNames

Leaving the ECHR would not fix the asylum backlog or stop dangerous Channel crossings. We've joined nearly 300 organisations, with the Save Our Human Rights Act (HRA) Coalition to defend the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).🤝

Hey Keir Starmer, get the memo? We’ve delivered thousands of messages to Number 10 from our supporters, with the help of some digi-vans! People are fed up with politicians choosing failed policies and scapegoating over investing in all communities. Time for real change.

Less than 24hrs after a damning Home Affairs report condemned military sites for asylum housing, Labour announces two more. Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open. People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.

This plan for housing is: - Better for people seeking asylum - Better for wider communities - Cheaper for the taxpayer Let’s use public money to buy quality homes for all people in our communities – not to fill the pockets of the mega wealthy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4rrrvg8do

In reality? We got a barrage of harmful rhetoric about people seeking safety, cruel policies about tearing families apart and discriminatory plans to make people "earn" safety. #ConferenceSeason2025

🚨 This is a message from over 100 charities, including @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social, @sheltercharity.bsky.social, , @oxfamgb.bsky.social @savechildrenuk.bsky.social and @friends-earth.bsky.social: Scapegoating refugees won’t fix anything. It's time for real change www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today feels like a good day to remember that most of us believe in welcome 💜 Here are some of the thousands of messages we've received from supporters recently. We'll be delivering them to Number 10, because it seems the government needs this reminder too.

People like you know that families fleeing war and persecution aren’t to blame for the cost-of-living crisis or overstretched services. Will you tell the government you welcome refugees? Send your message using our tool:

Another heartbreaking yet totally avoidable tragedy. Our thoughts are with their loved ones and refugee communities everywhere. Enough. Human beings will continue to die at the border until our government dismantles its hostile environment and creates safe routes. news.sky.com/story/two-ch...

Yesterday, Members of the House of Lords stood up for the right to work, thanks to the thousands of you who emailed them using our tool!

We’ve got so many real solutions for the new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to build an asylum system that works for refugees and communities. Instead of repeating the last Government’s mistakes, we’d love her to sit down with us and hear them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amidst a summer of racism and hatred from the far-right, we’ve been overwhelmed by the support of incredible people like you. People calling for unity. Join our community of people that believe in better - take on a personal challenge that makes a change this September in the Race for Refugees.

Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Vital conversations about violence against women and girls (VAWG) are being hijacked by a racist, anti-migrant agenda. We've joined 200 organisations to urge the Government to address this dangerous weaponisation. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past. Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate. Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

Our leaders could treat people with dignity, house them safely and let them rebuild. But they seem to be in a race to the bottom, competing over who can treat people seeking safety the most cruelly. This emboldens the far-right and leads to racist attacks. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We’re joining 200+ orgs to say enough. These racist actions do not have broad public support. Yet the government and the media are fuelling them with hateful and divisive rhetoric. It's time to take responsibility and change the tune. #TogetherWithRefugees www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

📢Dispatches from Calais today: As the UK government begins detaining people under its “one in, one out” policy, our Racial Justice researchers are on the ground, speaking with people who could be subject to this inhumane policy next. What we’re witnessing is fear, uncertainty and cruelty.

This morning, Home Office Minister Angela Eagle had the opportunity to promote inclusive communities and speak out against the racism happening outside asylum accommodation.

The voices of people seeking safety are missing from too much media coverage of this summer's racist attacks. Let's make sure Nabil is heard loud and clear.

"I did not come here seeking wealth or running from poverty. In fact, I had a stable life back in my country, Yemen. "What forced me to leave was not economic hardship, but persecution and fear for my safety and the safety of my family." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Banning people from work makes no sense. Some people who attended this event are still going through the asylum system. They all said that they are ready to work to contribute to the UK economy. What is the government waiting for? #LiftTheBan

Shockingly, the Prime Minister is bragging that his government will “share asylum accommodation locations” with food delivery companies. Instead of keeping people safe he is putting people at risk at a time when this sensitive information is being used by the far right to harass and attack refugees.

Our thoughts are with the people seeking safety, including children, who have been targeted with racist harassment, threats and violence outside the buildings in which they have been forced to live.

It’s time to invest in communities and social homes, not private pockets. The government is handing money to companies that make huge profits from housing people seeking safety in appalling conditions. But this could be used to fund a joined-up, local approach to housing people seeking safety.

The Home Office decision to resume processing asylum applications from Syria is welcomed, but this should never have been paused in the first place. Lives have hung in the balance for the last 6 months. No one should be left in limbo when safety is at stake. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Do you follow this brilliant group of campaigners yet? RAS Voice is a campaign group represented by refugees and people seeking asylum, supported by us. With their own lived experience of the asylum system, they're experts in how to change it. Watch them speak truth to power on the regular 🙌

This video was written by Catherine Lebadou, who has experienced the UK's hostile asylum system. She said: "It was strangers who helped me find my footing. The woman who pointed me in the right direction when I couldn't read the signs. Strangers had been my guides, my bridges, my first welcome."

This cruelty will cost lives. We're one of 65+ refugee groups on both sides of the Channel telling our Governments to work together to protect lives, not put them at risk.

- Safe routes save lives. They are the best way to stop people from dying in the Channel - Under the Refugee Convention, everyone who arrives in the UK has the right to seek asylum here