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...

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...

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....

On 3rd and 4th of July Refugee Tales walkers will be gathering in Canterbury and across the world. We will walk and share tales, we will celebrate our world wide community and we will continue to take steps towards our collective destination: a future without...

The Government’s proposed New Plan for Immigration claims to be ‘fair but firm’. Whilst we agree that improvements are urgently needed in the immigration system, we believe this plan is anything but fair. Instead, it creates a 2-tier system which discriminates against...

It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Shirley Williams.  Shirley was the Patron of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group from the early 2000s until 2016.  She cared passionately about asylum seekers, she hated their mistreatment and she appreciated  the...

Last week we attended the funeral of Mohammed, a young man in his twenties who we supported while he was detained. Mohammed sadly passed away in a hotel in November 2020, shortly after his release from detention. We are deeply saddened by the loss of Mohammed and...

Our wonderful supporter and former Intern, Izzy, is running the Lee Valley Velopark Half Marathon in London on 29th May to raise money for GDWG. Thank you Izzy for your support and helping us keep going at such a challenging time. We are so grateful for our wonderful...