How we create change
Power
Through our creative and educational activities such as English lessons, drama, yoga, radical knitting and more, we support women to build their confidence and skills. Our warm and welcoming space helps to combat the isolation faced by women seeking safety and creates pathways for women to rebuild their lives on their own terms.
Influence
When women tell their own stories, they can change minds and build understanding about what it means to seek safety in the UK. We support refugee and asylum-seeking women to speak to the media, to parliamentarians, at events and through the arts.
Change
Working alongside refugee and asylum-seeking women in our network, we publish robust research on the experiences of refugee women; work with policy makers to make the case for a fairer asylum process; and creatively campaign to make change.
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Latest news
Our response to the Prime Minister’s ‘island of strangers’ speech
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister made some extremely disturbing comments whilst announcing his Government's white paper on immigration. Such dangerous comments included that the UK risks becoming an 'island of strangers' as a result of migration.
We have seen time and time again the consequences of the hostile rhetoric and dangerous 'othering' of people seeking asylum and migrants. Read our full response.
Safety and Survival: How the Work Ban Fuels Violence Against Women Seeking Asylum
Our new research, Safety and Survival released today, 7 May 2025, shows that women who have fled gender-based violence, including rape, domestic violence, forced marriage and sexual exploitation, are forced into exploitative and harmful situations where they are vulnerable to violence and abuse, as a consequence of the work ban.
The research, carried out by a team of seven women with personal experience of the UK's asylum system, including the work ban, uncovers shocking findings, including that women are retraumatised and exposed to further harm as a result of the work ban, including sexual assault and abuse, being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive relationships or situations, and being forced into sex work.
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