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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · 5d

A group of ppl with experience of life in asylum hotels across GM have come together to share their perspective.

A message of openness, understanding & hope from people want to be part of their new communities, to contribute, and live safely alongside their neighbours.

Please share far and wide!

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 8d

Recently, we have seen an increase in protests and demonstrations outside asylum hotels, driven by misinformation and fear.

Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.

Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group: Our response to the protests outside hotels - GMIAU

Statement from a group in Manchester who have lived experience of living in asylum accommodation responding to the racist far-right protests

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 15d

This is what hostility looks like. Arjeta endured trafficking and trauma and she's finally been able to rebuild her life. Now she's been locked up, torn away from the community that loves her and faces being sent back to danger.
#FreeArjeta
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

They are saying they're sending me home, but Liverpool is my home

Arteja loves Liverpool, supports Everton and has become a key member of the community - but now faces being sent back into the hands of those who exploited her

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 19d

Urgent call to action: help free Arjeta — a survivor of trafficking being deported righttoremain.org.uk/urgent-call-... #TheseWallsMustFall #Nooneisillegal #MigrationisLife

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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Sep 9

"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.”

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · Sep 9

Uche, care worker & Praxis campaigner, chats to @theguardian.com about the govt.'s plans to make more people wait longer and pay more in visa fees for settlement.

"People say migrants take but we have no recourse to public funds. We are paying for things twice.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Paying twice’: workers face NHS bills of thousands in immigration crackdown

Campaigners fear plans to make people wait longer for leave to remain could cost tax-paying skilled workers dearly

www.theguardian.com

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

"The Government treats us like we're temporary"

YouTube video by Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees

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Boaz Trust @boaztrust.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · Jul 31

❗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.

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Boaz Trust @boaztrust.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · Jul 21

📢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.

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 18

The more informed & prepared we all are, the more we can keep each other safe!

Please join if you can. Let's equip ourselves with knowledge to resist enforcement & protect ourselves, our friends, families, neighbours, colleagues, communities, from the harm, fear & pain this inflicts upon our lives.

Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 18

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/

22 July - Manchester Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement

Join us on 22 July in Manchester for our Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement. We'll be partnering with our friends at GMIAU for the workshop.

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · Jul 15

‼️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

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨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.

New Report - “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office - GMIAU

Our new report on children who have been wrongly sent to adult asylum hotels by the UK Home Office.

gmiau.org

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 7

migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/

If you'd like to get in touch to find out more about MDF, our values and vision, we'd love to hear from you! 🧡

Donate – Migrant Destitution Fund GM

migrantdestitution.co.uk

Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 7

📣 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

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Manchester City of Sanctuary @manchestercos.bsky.social · Jul 7

💬 “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. 🧵

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 7

“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

Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · Jul 7

A massive 46% of migrant children live in poverty - that's nearly double the rate for other children.

Head of Advocacy at Praxis @josephinewy.bsky.social, Praxis community member Favour & @oliviablakemp.bsky.social speak to the @bigissue.com on what can be done 👇
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Lauren Crosby Medlicott @laurenmedlicott.bsky.social · Jul 7

Nearly half of the children in the UK who have migrant parents are living in poverty – that’s an estimated 1.5 million children. For @bigissue.com I spoke with @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @oliviablakemp.bsky.social
about what can be done to fix it.

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 4

The MDF is currently on pause because we do not have the funds to stay open all year round.

📣 PLEASE DONATE AND HELP US REOPEN: migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/

Every donation is an act of solidarity with people made destitute by the immigration system. Dignity not destitution!

#EndDestitution

Donate – Migrant Destitution Fund GM

migrantdestitution.co.uk

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚎 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.”

RuthRose visits MDF partner Equal Education Chances – Migrant Destitution Fund GM

migrantdestitution.co.uk

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jun 25

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.

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · Jun 20

A brilliant and powerful reflection.

Featuring GMIAU's wonderful community organiser, Fatou!

Please take some time to listen👏

Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · Jun 20

📢Today we’re dropping our final part of the #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders film series.

'Radical Listening' is a beautiful reflection on what it means to listen & build connection in organising spaces. A thought provoking 4 minute resource for changemakers ⬇️

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Radical Listening! Solidarity Knows No Borders !

What brought you to organising? Who or what shaped your values? What change do you want to see in the world? What spaces do you have in your organising for c...

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · Jun 15

✨️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

More in Common: WAST exhibition — WAST

Women in our network will be exhibiting new work in an exhibition at HOME gallery as part of Horizon’s Festival. Taking place during Refugee Week Horizon’s 2025 responds to the theme ‘More in Common,...

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

Email your MP and tell them to attend child poverty debate next week!

On the 11th June, MPs will have the chance to speak up on the immigration restriction No Recourse to Public Funds and how this cruel policy is pushing children into poverty. We see the devastating imp...

act.praxis.org.uk

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

Refugee Action present; Asylum Justice is Racial Justice panel discussion — Presented by Refugee Action

Join Refugee Action and advocacy group RAS Voice for a panel discussion on Refugee Action’s briefing, ‘Asylum in the UK: A Frontline for Racial Justice’.

homemcr.org

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