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Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

⚠️BREAKING: A powerful result in Gorton & Denton.

Voters rejected the divisive policies of Reform and Labour that have been designed to target migrant communities.

Manchester chose hope over fear and made it clear: this is not who we are.

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Joint report on destitution in Greater Manchester | Boaz Trust

In 2024, in our Slow Violence report, we mapped a timeline of national migration and asylum policy developments back to 1905 ⬇️

'A Slow Violence: How immigration control forces people in Greater Manchester into destitution' 🔗 www.boaztrust.org.uk/pages/new-re...

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

For decades, hostile language has been seeping into policy. In recent years, we've seen it fuelling hostility on our streets and tension in our communities.

Grateful for the Guardian spotlighting this increased hostility in rhetoric in their recent analysis:

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If you are someone who is comfortable facilitating training, enjoys meeting people in a range of settings and is keen to help others feel confident in offering housing‑related guidance, we’d love to hear from you! 😊

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Too often, people face this period with little support, or relying on friends, volunteers and organisations who want to help but aren't always sure how, especially in such a rapidly changing environment. This role exists to change that.

Over many years of working alongside people recently granted refugee status, we have seen how the moment of transition, when someone leaves asylum accommodation and tries to find a home of their own, can significantly impact the opportunity to build a stable life.

📣 New opportunity | Housing Access Training & Development Officer

➡️ Download the recruitment pack and apply at boaztrust.org.uk/jobs

UK suspension of refugee family reunion scheme to be challenged in high court Judge allows Safe Passage International to launch judicial review of halting of right to bring in children and partners

Stopping families separated by war and persecution from reuniting is beyond cruel.

Our Government must not be allowed to abandon its duty to safeguard children.

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Migration stats are out today, so here's a reminder that fewer people moving to this country, and fewer people being given sanctuary, is nothing to celebrate or strive for.
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Our statement on the incident at Manchester Central Mosque.

If you’d like to give to support this work (which also includes our outreach services for people newly granted refugee status and people with restricted eligibility), you can find out more about giving at boaztrust.org.uk/give

It was great to see someone new move into a Boaz house recently! 🏡 Thank you for your support in making move ins like this possible 🧡

Volunteer | Boaz Trust Our volunteers have led activities, served as trustees, helped in the office, fundraised and so much more!

If you have housing experience and want to use your skills to make a real difference for people seeking safety in the UK, we’d love to hear from you. The closing date is Tuesday 31st March.

➡️ Find out more and apply: 🔗 boaztrust.org.uk/volunteer

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You’ll act as a champion for housing and be a constructive, supportive point of contact for our Head of Accommodation, helping to ensure our housing work remains strong, safe, and sustainable.

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📢 Deadline extended!

We’re looking for someone with a background in housing to provide board-level leadership and oversight of our housing work, helping Boaz to sustain and grow our accommodation provision.

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Job Opportunities We're on a mission to end destitution among people seeking safety in Greater Manchester. Find out about opportunities to join our team.

✅ An empathetic and patient approach when working with people

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you 😊 Download the recruitment pack (including the Job Description and Person Specification) from our website at boaztrust.org.uk/jobs

We're looking for 2 candidates with:

✅ Experience supporting marginalised people from diverse backgrounds in a casework role in a housing or homelessness context

✅ Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills, including communicating with those whose first language is not English

📢 We're hiring 2 new support workers! Apply at boaztrust.org.uk/jobs ✨

These new roles will add capacity to our Outreach Support work, joining 2 colleagues who are currently supporting people to access private rented accommodation as part of the Refugee Homelessness Prevention Project across GM.

We're grateful for this statement from Cllr Bev Craig ahead of the Britain First march taking place in Manchester this Saturday. Those coming to our city to take part in this racist protest do not represent us and hate has no place here ⬇️

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If you can recommend anyone, we’d really appreciate it 😊 You can pass on their details via engage@boaztrust.org.uk

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Do you know any reliable contractors? 🛠️ At the moment we’re particularly in need of a kitchen fitter, but are also on the lookout for other contractors (e.g. builders, plumbers) who work across Manchester and Greater Manchester.

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Shoutout to the Hygiene Bank Manchester for a generous recent donation of toiletries and essential items for people we support! Thank you 🧡

These words were absolutely appalling, and the Government was right to criticise them. But there’s an astonishing hypocrisy in condemning racist sentiments like these while building policy that actively reflects and encourages them.
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Don't change rules for migrants already in UK, Labour MPs tell Mahmood Some 35 Labour MPs are among those who have written to the home secretary to raise concerns about the plans.

We've signed this letter raising serious concerns about the govt’s planned changes to earned settlement.

These changes will punish people already building a life in the UK, force families into further hardship, and solve nothing while creating new problems that hit the most vulnerable hardest.

Ratcliffe owes migrants more than a half-hearted apology but so does Starmer – his policies created this environment | LBC Blaming migrants for today’s economic problems is a convenient way to dodge responsibility for that failure, writes Minnie Rahman

📢"Powerful men are quick to inflame division, but slow to accept accountability for the consequences.

Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."

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Labour's earned settlement proposals: destroying a British success story The proposals confuse immigration policy with citizenship policy. They will harm not help integration.

On the day the government consultation on ‘earned settlement’ closes, this piece from Colin Yeo provides a helpful summary of how the proposals will harm integration and needlessly punish people from migrant backgrounds who are already here ⬇️

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“Immigration policy is about the conditions for entry. Citizenship policy is about the conditions for staying permanently and becoming part of the host society. One of the many problems with the Labour government’s approach to citizenship and immigration is that it has confused one with the other.”

Earned settlement government consultation – take action The Government plans to make it harder for people to gain indefinite leave to remain (ILR). Here's how you can take action.

This moving of the goalposts is completely unfair and would be devastating for many people we support. We have an opportunity to speak out about this, and the ‘earned settlement’ proposals more broadly - find guidance and the link to the consultation form here 🔗 www.boaztrust.org.uk/articles/ear...

⚠️ If implemented, these proposals could impact over a million people in our communities. They could see some people’s routes to settlement increase to 15, 20 or even 30 years. And they could apply retrospectively to people who have already been in the UK for years working towards ILR.

📣 Looking for something tangible you can do to oppose the government’s ‘earned settlement’ proposals? Take the time (likely around an hour) to fill out the consultation form before the deadline on 12th February ⏰