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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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The Walk of 2021 3/4 July
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...
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GDWG Factsheet on the New Plan for Immigration consultation
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...
read moreOffering Welcome in the Hostile Environment: A Morning with Anna and Pious
Our Trustee Pious and Director Anna are hosting an event on Saturday 24th April 2021 from 10:30am-12pm, Offering Welcome in the Hostile Environment. It is free to attend! If you're interested in our work but not quite sure what we do, join us to learn more about our...
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THE RT HON THE BARONESS WILLIAMS OF CROSBY
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...
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In memory of Mohammed
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...
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