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GDWG Statement on the Brook House Inquiry
A Public Inquiry into the dehumanising abuse of people detained at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre begins on 23rd November. The Inquiry, set up to investigate the mistreatment and abuse of detained people by G4S in Brook House, will begin public hearings at...
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GDWG Autumn Newsletter out now
Our newsletter comes to you with thanks for your support and we hope it brings a blast of energy and positivity your way as we celebrate our community and all we have achieved in recent months. We hope you enjoy reading reflections by a new trustee, a new visitor and...
read moreGDWG are recruiting for a full-time Advocacy Coordinator
GDWG has a full-time job opportunity to join our small and determined frontline team. We require blended working from home 3 days a week and from our office in Crawley 2 days a week. This is a one- year fixed term contract. In this role you will work with people in...
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GDWG Annual Review of 2020
We are delighted to share our Annual Review of 2020 with you. This Review entitled 'Creating Bridges' describes the breadth of our work in 2020 when we created new bridges through the development of post-detention support. Ali Smith pays tribute to our work bridging...
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Congratulations to Abdulrazak Gurnah
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) are delighted that one of our Refugee Tales patrons, Abdulrazak Gurnah, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021. The Nobel Committee awarded the prize for 'his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the...
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The Walk: Refugee Tales Welcomes Little Amal
Little Amal, a young refugee, embarks on a remarkable journey – an epic voyage that will take her across Turkey, across Europe. To find her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Will the world let her? Can she achieve what now seems more impossible than...
read moreWe are looking for a new Advocacy Coordinator!
GDWG has a full-time job opportunity to join our small and determined frontline team. We require blended working from home and from our office in Crawley. This is a one- year fixed term contract. In this role you will work with people in detention on casework, offer...
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Refugee Tales Canterbury 2021 Film
Film maker and writer Edward Lawrenson chronicled The Refugee Tales walk out of Canterbury on 3rd and 4th of July. He created a short film from his footage of the walk to mark the launch of Refugee Tales Volume IV today. Watch the film on Vimeo here. Thank you to Ed...
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Refugee Tales IV available to pre-order now – out 28 July!
Edited by David Herd & Anna Pincus Featuring Shami Chakrabarti, Kyon Ferril, Christy Lefteri, Robert Macfarlane, Khodadad Mohammadi, Dina Nayeri, Amy Sackville, Philippe Sands, Rachel Seiffert, Natalia Sierra, Bidisha SK Mamata, Simon Smith & Maurizio Veglio Seventy...
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Summer Newsletter out now
In our latest Newsletter we celebrate the one-to-one connections we build every day and the transformative power of our welcome. You will find poetry, news from our organisation and the sector, a book review, art work, memorials to people we have lost and much more....
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Greg Clough
In 2013 Greg heard that St John’s church in Watford were forming a choir. At his second service he met ‘Mahdi’, a 23-year old Iranian tailor, who had been visited in detention by GDWG. His parents had housed personal friends from Uganda, when they became refugees in 1971, and then a mother and young son from Sarajevo in 1992. Following their example, he offered Mahdi the spare room in his flat and transformed both their lives. Shocked by the tortuous six year wait, hopes, setbacks, re-detentions, adjournments and total lack of financial support for Mahdi, Greg wanted to be involved with GDWG.
A qualified Insolvency Practitioner he specialised in personal insolvency before switching to compliance and process technology roles. Mahdi is now Greg’s third God-child, has refugee status, and they share their flat in Hertfordshire with Tala their dog, enjoying off-the-beatentrack travel and learning to run a tailoring business.
Michael Berkeley
Michael started as a volunteer visitor with GDWG early in 2018 and continues to visit regularly.
He retired from full-time work in the City four years ago and now works part-time as an investor relations consultant and is a nonexecutive director of two companies - one a leading City PR firm and the other a stock exchange for growth companies. He worked in investment banking for 15 years followed by a further 18 years in communications consultancy. Before that he taught in Italy and in Japan.
Other experience includes 8 years as a Governor of an inner London state school where he chaired the Finance Committee and brief spells as a relief worker in Nepal and in India. He graduated from Cambridge in Classics and has an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan. He is married and has two more or less grown up sons.