This year has been our biggest year yet, and we’re going even bigger in 2025. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to reflect on everything we’ve achieved this year with our small team of seven. Here’s just a tiny snapshot of everything we achieved in 2024:
Expanded our unique intersectional, anti-oppression campaigns
- Published 11 reports and resources: our Hostile Office report, Immigration Raids report, International Students report, Disability and Migration Zine, Diaspora Dyke Manifesto, Bisexuality, Biphobia and Migration zine, Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Frontline Migrant Support Services (co-created with academics and frontline caseworkers), Words Matter Compilation, Human Rights in Asylum Accommodation resource with the British Institute of Human Rights, and Know Your Rights Guide for International Students, and Guide Private Renting for International Students with London Renters Union
- Published 10 Words Matter explainers, and our Words Matter Toolkit
- Shared 18 personal stories from members of our community (across Migration Week, LGBT+ History month, Women’s History Month, Lesbian Visibility Week, Europe Day, Black Inclusion Week, Disability Pride Month, Disability History Month)
- Collaborations with the Decolonial Centre, Black Lives Matter UK, Inclusive Mosque Initiative, Gendered Intelligence, Centre for Migration, Gender and Justice, People’s Economy, National Survivor User Network, Climate Justice Coalition, People and Planet, 350.org, Islamophobia Response Unit, Nisaba, Black Europeans, Friends of the Congo, CAGE International, Sea-Watch and Migrants at Work
- Launched our podcast ‘Because You Were There’ which has included guests from Black Lives Matter UK and community campaigners
- Kicked-off our Who is Welcome: Islamophobia and Migration sub-campaign, and supported migrant workers in launching their own Justice for Sponsored Workers campaign
- Launched our Abolition and Decolonisation campaign, bringing together our existing work on the importance of decolonisation and border abolition for migrant justice
Hosted some incredible and important events and workshops
- Held events on decolonisation and migration with local partners and communities in Bristol, Leicester and Glasgow
- Co-hosted two pilot events with the Decolonial Centre in January and June where we invited communities to discuss colonialism’s influence on our migration journeys
- Held collective care workshops for migrant and racialised people in the wake of summer’s fascist riots
Grew our migrant community
- Launched our Solidarity Spaces aimed at fostering a safe and nurturing place for migrants, including refugees and people seeking asylum. These provide a safe place where people can come together to share experiences, celebrate their identities, shape their own journeys and build lasting friendships in a community that truly values them
- Joined some amazing organisations in co-creating the Abolition in Migration Collective. This Collective supports reflection, learning, and practical action to challenge and dismantle the border system, aiming to influence change at wider levels through collective imagination and strategic organising rooted in decolonial practices
All this work is just the beginning and has laid a strong foundation for 2025. We can’t wait to show you what we have planned for next year!
We also want to say a huge thanks to our funders: from trusts and foundations, to individual donors and those who have fundraised for us through challenge and community events. It’s because of you we’re able to stand in solidarity with migrants in their fights for rights and justice.