After facing liver problems, our friend Atef received a £30,700.25 NHS bill. The suggested payment plan would make Atef and his family destitute. 👉🏽 ACT NOW! Email the heads of @royalberkshospital.bsky.social to give Atef a payment plan within his means: patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...

"Financially we are being tortured. I start at 5am and come home at 9pm – I have to take all the hours I can get to keep paying for visas and healthcare... People say migrants take but we have no recourse to public funds. We are paying for things twice.” ‼️👇

Did you know that thousands of migrants are being forced to wait over ten years until they can permanently settle in the UK? And if this Government has their way, over a million more people will be trapped in this decade-long wait. Spread the word. Share this video now. youtube.com/shorts/WDuan...

Like so many other asylum and migration charities, we have become increasingly alarmed in recent months by the growth of the far right and their sentiments, and the ‘protests’ outside hotels housing people seeking asylum. 🧵1/3

❗We've added more FREE training sessions dates! Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation? Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for Aug-Dec 2025.

Could you become the newest member of our support team? ✨🏡 Find out more below ⬇️

📢Do you support people with no recourse to public funds or limited access to mainstream accommodation? Here are the details for our FREE upcoming training sessions for July-Sept 2025. 🔗Follow the link in our bio, then click the training listed under the ‘RESS’ heading to sign up via Eventbrite.

Important session in Manchester on Tuesday! 👇 tinyurl.com/bdesxzun @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social, @right-to-remain.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social are running this session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities. 1/

‼️The hostile environment is making people homeless.⁠ Frank*, Praxis community member, explains how hostile immigration rules pushed him into homelessness and made it harder to get out of it.⁠ *name changed

🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.

📣 PLEASE HELP US REOPEN AND STAY OPEN! Join us as a regular giver and help sustain the MDF all year long! Every monthly contribution makes a massive difference. Your donation is more than support - it's an act of solidarity with those facing destitution. Stand with us for #DignityNotDestitution

💬 “How can we reshape the collective memory to promote anti-racist justice?” Was a central question at @refugeeaction.bsky.social’s Asylum Justice is Racial Justice panel discussion. Racism isn’t a flaw in the UK’s asylum system—it’s woven into its very foundations. 🧵

“Everyone has the right to be free from poverty – this is not conditional on a person’s background or where they were born" #EndDestitution #StopEnforcingPoverty #ScrapNRPF #DignityNotDestitution

🚎 Rosé has been out and about spending time with our referral partners. Read about her visit to Equal Education Chances (EEC) tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu 🗣 A member of EEC shared: “Please continue the support we rely on. The money from MDF is often all we have to make it through each month.”

We signed @asylummatters.bsky.social solidarity statement featured here: tinyurl.com/4bvfsbj8 Read & hear from GM groups, including MDF, standing together and speaking out against the politics of division. We know who we are - we look after each other. We are a community in solidarity.

A brilliant and powerful reflection. Featuring GMIAU's wonderful community organiser, Fatou! Please take some time to listen👏

✨️More in Common: WAST exhibition is beautiful, powerful and inspiring✨️ We have more in common than which divides us 🧡 You have until 31st August to see this displayed at HOME gallery. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/j9n3vvu9

1 in 3 children living in poverty are migrant children. This is not a coincidence. Hostile immigration rules drive child poverty. Tomorrow, MPs will debate child poverty and No Recourse to Public Funds. Make sure your MP is there - send them an email NOW! act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...

Manchester folks - this Friday (13th June), join our friends at @refugeeaction.bsky.social & advocacy group RAS Voice for a panel discussion on Refugee Action’s briefing, ‘Asylum in the UK: A Frontline for Racial Justice’, as part of 2025 Horizons Festival. Book ➡️ homemcr.org/whats-on/277...

Thank you to our brilliant network of referral partners across GM who provide welcome, community, and safety (tinyurl.com/nhcey69n) and to @mcrcommcentral.bsky.social who provide a home for the MDF and administer the fund with such care. 1/

🚀NEW! Relationships are the foundation of our movements. But as anti-migrant policies and rhetoric seek to divide us, how do we stay energised and connected? We're excited to share 'Communities of Solidarity'- a film resource for building solidarity, power & hope ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBeP...

How about some Friday positivity for your timeline? Look back at this wonderful display of skills from campaigners in Coventry, who took to the streets with one clear message: People seeking asylum are ready to work. Let them. #LiftTheBan

Fantastic meeting and great meeting everyone and learning new stuff.

Thank you @migrantfundgm.bsky.social for a much-needed space of solidarity and hope in Manchester yesterday. We came together to discuss shared advocacy with a clear goal: ending destitution. Destitution must not be used as a weapon of immigration control.

❤️‍🔥MDF Partnership in action❤️‍🔥 In what has been another painful week for so many of us, today's event was a time of unity, hope, and solidarity. We stand together. We refuse to be divided. We reject the lies and hostility that seek to dehumanise us all. 1/

✨Some of us came together recently to mark 5 years of the MDF. While we continue to stand firmly against the deep injustices that make this fund necessary, it's also important to pause - to take stock of and celebrate what we've achieved with our partners across GM over the past five years. 1/

Today was a chance to reset the conversation on migration and community after years of failed policies. We need solutions that foster resilience, belonging, and safety—especially after last summer’s racist riots—not a race to the bottom that throws our communities under the bus. rb.gy/rlorni

People who come to the UK to study and later need to ask for our protection are doing nothing wrong. We all see every day how rapidly global circumstances can change, as well as individual lives. Discriminating against specific nationalities to score political points is disgraceful. rb.gy/oocj6d

The type of update we LOVE to see! People power prevails. ✊⚡️ We’re currently awaiting more info. But in the meantime, let’s reflect on what can be achieved through community care and collective action.

#FreeFatou #NoOneIsIllegal #EndDetention #StopDeportations Sign & share 👇👇👇

'Angry', 'depressed', 'feeling numb'. One person being sent to an immigration detention centre affects the whole community. Today, our These Walls Must Fall campaigners met in Manchester to stand in solidarity with #FreeFatou campaign and to support each other during this very difficult time.

📣 #FreeFatou - UPDATE 📣 Our solidarity stopped Fatou’s initial deportation order. But the Home Office issued a new deportation order. Over 18,000 of you signed the petition. Our fight continues. We need solidarity more than ever. Keep on sharing the petition! www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

Over the last six months, GMIAU has been delivering weekly drop-in support sessions with Support and Action Women's Network (SAWN). SAWN have given us some lovely feedback, which really captures the amazing work of our destitution team and reminds us of the importance of partnerships like this ❤️ 🤝.

🔥UPDATE!🔥 Fatou’s removal has been suspended for now. There is no need to contact the airline today. But Fatou remains in detention, our fight is not over. Please continue to sign the petition and join us our online rally tomorrow. ⬇️ righttoremain.org.uk/online-solid...

PLEASE SHARE - THIS IS URGENT. The UK government plans to deport our friend, Fatou Tamba, on Tuesday 22 April 2025, on a Royal Air Maroc flight. We must act urgently to stop this.

URGENT: Our friend Fatou Tamba has been taken from Derwentside detention to Heathrow to be deported to Gambia, where she faces persecution. This gov’t is trying to deport a vulnerable, innocent woman. Royal Air Maroc AT801 + AT579 Tag & shame @RAM_Maroc — cancel this flight! #Stopdeportation

Thank you to @gmlawcentre.bsky.social who have created such a valuable guide to support people who are facing homelessness or are navigating rehousing upon being granted refugee status. We have also translated the Guide into Arabic and Tigrinya which can be downloaded! gmiau.org/homelessness...

Traumatising, dangerous and wasteful - housing people seeking asylum in prison-like Wethersfield is indefensible. The Government was right to shut Bibby Stockholm, now it's time to close all the camps. Our letter to the Home Secretary from 70+ refugee & human rights orgs in @the-independent.com👇

A crisis of justice faces all of us. We counter that with solidarity. One of us, Fatou, is now in immigration detention, facing deportation after 18 years in the UK. Stand with Fatou, and stand with us. Add your name now. ⬇️ www.change.org/p/stop-the-d... #NoOneIsIllegal

Following the UK Supreme Court ruling yesterday that the legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, we want to express our solidarity and extend our love with our Trans Community, today and every day. Trans Women are Women. Trans Men are Men. 🤍💗💙

Our friend, Fatou Tamba was detained after a routine reporting appointment in Liverpool. Her case shows the harsh reality of the Hostile Environment. Join us in demanding justice—sign the petition! ✏️ www.change.org/p/stop-the-d... Read more here: righttoremain.org.uk/solidarity-i...

Isla is raising money for the MDF 🏃‍♀️💛 localgiving.org/fundraising/... "The half marathon I am doing gives me an opportunity to reach out, make visible, and call for support of migrants facing destitution. Every run feels a little easier knowing who my energies are directed towards." 1/

FREE FATOU! Please sign & share: chng.it/kt58DcWG5g

🚨 URGENT 🚨 Help us stop the deportation of our sister Fatou — her life is in danger if she is deported. We must act NOW. ✊ Stand with us. 🫵 Please sign and share this petition. www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

Your weekend round up of the hostile environment and its impact on people's lives.🧵

🙌 We are 5️⃣ today! 🌱5 years ago, in the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, we were able to open the fund 🌿Today, we're reflecting on the connections and solidarity built, what we’ve achieved together, and the road ahead 💌 Our newsletter marking this: migrantdestitution.co.uk/mdf-turns-5-... 1/

Wonderful to welcome Martha Awojobi as our keynote speaker today! "Lived experience is not an exercise in diversity. It is an exercise in solidarity.... We need to develop an anti-oppression practice and politics rooted in the knowledge of people with this experience" #EndDestitution

🧵Today, visa fees are rising, AGAIN. This government is profiting from people in our communities during a cost of living crisis, pushing them into poverty and insecurity. Together with @praxisprojects.bsky.social we're calling on @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social to STOP increasing visa fees.

✨Meet our new MDF Project Worker, RuthRose 🥳 We are delighted to welcome Rose & grateful for the opportunity to work together! tinyurl.com/4h7p8zbz: "I am really looking forward to building trust and supporting people experiencing destitution to share their stories, and advocate for change" 1/

🔔 REMINDER! Our Solidarity Stall is this Wednesday (9/4/25), 9am-3pm. The more people who attend, the stronger our message will be: reporting must be abolished. Members of our community will not be intimidated.