Toay is #worldmentalhealthday and Solace is stressing the word "world". Whoever you are and whatever your background we stand alongside you today with warm wishes and welcome.
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03.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
There is so much focus on division so today it is great to come together with other charities, services and local authorities to discuss how we can provide welcome and safety. @migrationyorkshire.bsky.social
03.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic poster featuring a quote by Steven, Manchester. It reads, "Pitting the public against people fleeing war and persecution is only hindering community cohesion." The design includes abstract shapes in black and pastel colors on a green background.
Graphic poster featuring a quote bubble with a message wishing for Keir Starmer to recognize refugees as equals, signed by Emmanuel, MCR. The background includes abstract shapes in various colors.
Today feels like a good day to remember that most of us believe in welcome 💜
Here are some of the thousands of messages we've received from supporters recently. We'll be delivering them to Number 10, because it seems the government needs this reminder too.
13.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
No refugee lives an easy life
UK has stripped £5bn in aid including funds that work to prevent conflicts by 45%
Slashing support in refugee hotspots and wanting there to be fewer refugees is comical
Immigration is blamed when no country's research has come close to proving that immigration is bad
19.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
www.rescue.org/uk/article/m...
05.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maryam, an architect, left Afghanistan but it was art that freed her from her mental battle
For a long time, she felt she couldn’t do anything useful
She was able to express her feelings and take a break from her harsh reality
We take this and combine it with proven therapeutic techniques
05.09.2025 15:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
graphic saying "send positive messages of asylum seekers to number 10" with a picture showing a balcony with a sign saying "refugees welcome"
Asylum Seekers are easily blamed for problems they have no part in
You can send a quick positive message or story about asylum seekers with this link and it will be delivered directly to 10 Downing Street!
act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/175622/...
All thanks to @refugeeaction.bsky.social
27.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A court just gave these violent demonstrators what they wanted. After weeks of disorder, the Epping hotel won't house people seeking asylum.
No one should have to live in hotels. But this sets a terrifying precedent. Government must step up to protect people from more violent demos.
20.08.2025 09:02 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warning
In a letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge called on ministers to stand up to the 'danger...
🚨 Vital conversations about violence against women are being hijacked by an anti-migrant agenda.
We're one of 200 organisations working to end violence against women urging the government to address the harmful and dangerous weaponisation of VAWG #NotInOurName
19.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 3
Today there is a lot of attention on the hotels where families fleeing violence and war temporarily live. This is their home. Whilst there are calls for protests which spread fear, the need to be kind and demonstrate basic compassion is needed more than ever.
20.08.2025 06:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our clinical director Anne, explains how the Solace Child and Family Well Being Support Service
Prevented the separation of children from their parents
To learn the specifics on how you can also prevent similar cases, please have a look at our new webinars
www.solace-uk.org.uk/training/cfw...
19.08.2025 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you work with refugees, our new webinars are some of the best free resources
Understand refugee mental health, be trauma informed and help navigate the UK's complex systems
With specific webinars each for education, health & social care professionals
www.solace-uk.org.uk/training/cfw...
08.08.2025 15:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
10,000s stood up to restore peace last year August 7th and it's happening again this year 7-10 August!
We’re showing our neighbours, our MPs and the country just how much support for refugees there is!
Get involved togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/welcome-weekend-2025/
#WelcomeWeekend @RefugeeTogether
04.08.2025 15:57 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Deborah Grossman our wonderful volunteer yoga teacher who delivered classes for over 2 years is moving on to new areas!
We’re so incredibly grateful for how she was able to consistently lower stress, enhance well-being and build community for so many!
30.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Syria’s new regime still has 10000s missing, torture and executions are still happening
People are detained for their ethnicity and for simple coincidences
Conflict has killed over 2800 civilians indiscriminately, just in 2025
The government is still planning on deporting some Syrians
17.07.2025 18:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Community is the lifeline of asylum seekers & refugees
Making an enormous difference in navigating trauma, isolation, language barriers & all the numerous systems in the asylum process
We provide various types of therapy groups & day trips along with motivation & access to attend other events!
12.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How small boat crossings shift public opinion - UK in a changing Europe
Apurav Bhatiya and Shanta Kadam analyse the impact of small boat crossings on public opinion towards migration in the UK.
This excellent blog post highlights the power of language and how public opinion is shaped by how a story is told. Understanding this is essential for building evidence-based and politically sustainable policies.
Hurrah for calm and thoughtful narratives!
ukandeu.ac.uk/how-small-bo...
10.07.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
beautfiul picture of the sea, graphic saying "“No One Puts Their Children In a Boat Unless The Water Is Safer Than The Land” Nearly 99% of small boat arrivals claim asylum, 68% were granted asylum despite how unforgiving the system is"
Even the home office understands how at risk individuals who travel in small boats are
Despite how rigid and unbending the asylum process is
The normal acceptance rate is 49%
#KeirStarmer #SmallBoats
05.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Solace is one of 300 hundred organisations who signed this letter highlighting the impact of language and choice of words as well as the worrying aspects of the immigration white paper. #wordsmatter
04.07.2025 08:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
81% in the UK - support asylum seekers working if they're waiting longer than 6 months for their claim
Most wait longer & many much longer
From YouGov docs.cdn.yougov.com/ihe1pmjsxm/Y...
#LiftTheBan #Keir #Refugee
02.07.2025 12:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thankyou @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social for making this so simple. "The opposite of last summer's division isn't the absence of hostility, its the presence of active, intentional welcome". We will try and play our part
01.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our Play House performance was beautiful and ended with this amazing solo!
Thanks to everyone who took part
#OC #Art #Singing #Song #RefugeeWeek
27.06.2025 18:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our CEO Kathryn in Birmingham today being the proud representative of Solace and collecting our Weston Charity Award. #westoncharityawards @westonfdn.bsky.social well done to all the recipients
25.06.2025 14:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Thankyou for a wonderful day today receiving our award. We are very much looking forward to working with @westonfdn.bsky.social and pilotlight over the coming year.
25.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It’s #RefugeeWeek!
Our music group's performance at the Leeds Play House is at 1.30-2.00 tomorrow!
Our clients' art is also displayed alongside others in the exhibition!
It's all completely free on level 2 by the bar/kitchen stage!
#Art #OC #Creativity #Theater
18.06.2025 18:20 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re so delighted to tell you our therapist Rose has won the “going the extra mile” award from the City of Bradford!
For outstanding practice in improving the lives of refugee children!
We will be posting photos from the ceremony soon!
16.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are a network of scholars, teachers, students and activists standing in active solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere.
Researcher #FamilyFinances @uofglasgow.bsky.social & #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Lover of strangers & islands https://linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
journeys in refugee & immigrant literature, edited by immigrants & refugees 🧡 the UK's first lit mag of Sanctuary || funded by Arts Council England
We use art and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of people who are displaced and seeking refuge - UK, France and international www.artrefuge.org.uk
Community Development Worker for #LGBTQ+ #HIV prevention, #PrEP info, social support & more for MESMAC
Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move and resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield.
A family founded grant-maker supporting a wide range of charities across the UK, with grants totalling over £129 million last year.
www.garfieldweston.org
Number 1 ranked barristers' specialising in civil liberties, education, human rights, immigration, crime, family, housing & public law. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Step 2 is a Bradford based charity whose vision is to improve the health & wellbeing of children & young people. We provide relevant information and services to them, their families and the professionals who work with them.
https://linktr.ee/step2yph
Welcoming, valuing and integrating refugees and asylum seekers in Birmingham.
https://linktr.ee/restore_birmingham?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=174905c4-183c-4894-a40f-28297535a085
Leeds-based national touring theatre company.
We give a platform to the voices that are rarely heard and stories that are overlooked, often working-class.
redladder.co.uk
Labour councillor for Burmantofts and Richmond Hill. Unite the union workplace rep. Socialist. Trustee Thackray Museum and Leeds Refugee Forum. 📧luke.farley@leeds.gov.uk
Voluntary Action Leeds (VAL) is a charity that supports communities by helping people and organisations that do good in Leeds.
The UK's youth movement for people with refugee backgrounds. We build communities, create leaders, and enable refugees and people seeking asylum to flourish into adulthood the place they call home.
linktr.ee/oursecondhome
🌹 Leeds City Councillor and Cabinet Member for Housing - views my own
✷Socialist, modernist, rambler, occasional DJ✷ Talks policy, equality, poverty, access, arts, pop and folk culture, cities, new wave, knitting, DIY culture
An arts festival celebrating sanctuary in Sheffield and beyond 🧡
Tenth edition: June 20-28, 2025.
Tickets now on sale ⬇️ https://www.migrationmattersfestival.co.uk/programme
Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
