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Building a better future for refugees & migrants in the UK

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Accommodation and training

Are you a refugee or migrant in the UK looking for support?

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Partnership opportunities

From renting your property to collaborating on projects enhancing the design of integration.

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Our impact

We helped 20,000+ refugees and migrants to lead fulfilling lives over 15 years.

Established 2008

Our offices

Bristol
Birmingham
Wolverhampton
Coventry

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Key points we want to highlight:

  • Small boat crossings make up only a small proportion of overall net migration.
  • Arrivals via this route have increased due to previous government restrictions on safe and legal pathways.
  • Organised immigration crime is a response to demand - trafficking gangs are a symptom, not the cause, of global displacement.

We welcome the commitment to improving asylum application processing, but real reform must go further. We strongly advocate for:

On November 28, 2024, we launched the From Sanctuary to Opportunity 2024 Full Report, sharing our research which aims to improve training and employment outcomes for refugees and migrants. This event, hosted at The Foundation, Triodos Bank, in Bristol, marks the third report in our series funded by Comic Relief's Change Makers programme.

After spending over two decades working for Nike in Hong Kong, moving to the UK was a significant transition. With a background in IT and data, Wylie had high hopes of continuing his career in a similar field. However, the reality of the UK job market proved daunting. Over two years, he applied for more than 300 positions and secured just a handful of interviews, an exhausting and disheartening experience that left them questioning what he was doing wrong.