GDWG is overseen by a Board of Trustees who have the ultimate responsibility for the legal and efficient running of the charity for the benefit of people in detention.  The Board meets four times a year with occasional extra meetings. The Treasurer will be a qualified...

Earlier this month, Refugee Tales attended a literature festival in Zagreb in conjunction with Hay Fest Rijeka 2020. Refugee Tales Editors and co-founders Anna Pincus and David Herd were on the panel, alongside award-winning author Marina Lewycka discussing ways in...

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...

During the time of Covid-19, fear has felt corrosive. Loss of agency has been a defining characteristic of life. For those in detention, total loss of freedom is the norm underpinned by a terrible loss that is central to the dehumanising nature of detention. People in...

We joined with 32 other organisations to write to Chris Philps, the Immigration Minister, asking that we don't avoid a ‘return to normal’ after the pandemic. We called on the Home Office: To end the routine use of detention, to commit to continuing to reduce detention...