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GDWG Covid-19 update
The GDWG Team are currently working from home in accordance with Government guidance around Covid-19. If you are in detention, or know anyone in detention, please call our office: 01293 657070 and although we are working from home all calls are diverted to us and our...
read moreGDWG calls for urgent release of people from detention during Covid-19 pandemic
Our trustees have written a letter to the Home Office and Priti Patel, the Home Secretary calling for people in immigration detention to be released. Detention centres are utterly inappropriate places for people to be held during a pandemic. There is little prospect...
read moreThe Pruner’s Tale from Refugee Tales: Volume III published in the Boston Review
'The Pruner's Tale' from Refugee Tales: Volume III has been published in the Boston Review. It is the true story of an undocumented Mexican migrant who has lived in the United States since he was fourteen years old. He was held in detention and lives under the...
read moreOur 25th birthday online auction is now live!
This year GDWG is marking 25 years of visiting people in detention. We have lots of exciting events planned throughout 2020 and today we have launched an online silent auction on Jumblebee.co.uk! We have experience days, signed books from a range of authors, unique...
read moreGDWG latest Newsletter out now
Our latest GDWG newsletter is available now! In this newsletter we share news of what our birthday means to us, artistic responses to our work, updates on our school talks, our July walk, our research and we celebrate 25 years of our visitors supporting people in...
read moreRefugee Tales Walk 2020 tickets out now!
A Walk In Solidarity with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Detainees Tickets for Refugee Tales Walk 2020 are available on the University of Kent website now. Buy your tickets here. We advise you not to delay as last year our walk sold out extremely quickly! This year's...
read moreWe are recruiting a new post for an Advocacy and Administration Support Officer
GDWG is expanding its capacity for frontline work and if you would like to work with us in Crawley for three days a week, we’d love to hear from you. We have a one year contract for a part time Advocacy and Administration Support Officer. In this role you will work...
read moreOur December Newsletter is out now
The second GDWG 25th birthday edition is out now. We are delighted that this edition features contributions from our friends who have lived experience of detention and we hope you enjoy their articles, poems, photographs and original artwork. A special thank you to...
read moreDonate to GDWG as you shop
At GDWG, we’ve just joined #easyfundraising. It’s a great site where you can raise money for our charity when you shop online. All you have to do is create a free account and choose to support Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group. Then 4,000 shops and sites (including all...
read moreGDWG needs your help!
Next year will mark our 25th birthday and we will be holding an online auction through Jumblebee to raise funds and awareness of our work. Could you help us secure lots for the auction? We want to cover as wide an area as possible in terms of lots, both geographically...
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Freephone number for people in detention:
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