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Pete Widlinski
Pete Widlinski Area Manager of the North of England Refugee Service, Secretary of the North East Coalition for Asylum Rights and a Trustee of the Mary Thompson Fund that seeks [...]
Catherine Ramos
Catherine Ramos Catherine Ramos is a language teacher and interpreter, with a special interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Catherine currently active as the Hon. Secretary of Justice [...]
Mike Tomlin
Mike Tomlin Mike is also Treasurer of Stockton Unitarian Church and Teesside One World Centre. He has many years experience of the voluntary sector and is a founder member of [...]
Barbara Hungin
Barbara Hungin Our Chair, Barbara Hungin is a trained counsellor and she works in a voluntary capacity to support people seeking asylum. Barbara is also the chair of the Diocesan Justice [...]
Fiona Cuthill
Fiona Cuthill A Nurse lecturing at Sunderland University, much of Fiona’s work involves enabling people who have been refused asylum to access health and support services.
Bill Broad
Bill Broad Bill Broad has recently retired as a Parish priest in the Diocese of Durham after 19 years, following earlier service in Essex. In the 1970s and 80s he [...]
- Upper Tribunal reaffirms Tanveer Ahmed as AI makes forged documents easier to produce
- Iraqi national successfully challenges visit visa refusal in SIAC
- Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #141
- Proposed trafficking credibility rules risk punishing victims for being victims
- Is Part Suitability being applied lawfully to Hong Kong BN(O) applications?
- Home Office must reconsider applications by Palestinian families failed by unsafe journeys policy
- Reminder: judges should not go behind concessions without notice
- High Court decides asylum hotel closure challenge is academic
- Missing evidence in immigration applications: how evidential flexibility works
- New Home Office policy on expanded scope of conditional cautions against foreign nationals
- Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #140
- Upper Tribunal provides further guidance on higher standard of proof in asylum claims
- Government legal team blasted with both barrels (and indemnity costs)
- Immigration roundup podcast: September 2026
- Trafficking referrals increase while government targets ‘misuse’
- RAS Voice: building power together
- In Westminster: Our housewarming card to Andy Burnham
- Asylum Housing Alliance’s open letter to the Prime Minister
- To Britain’s next Prime Minister: Listen to people seeking safety
- You are not alone: Messages of hope from the Refugee Action community
- We are your neighbours – a statement
- Newsletter Guest Editor Yagoub interviews Mary, Communications Officer
- A message of thanks and a new chapter for Refugee Action
- National Storytelling Week: Holding Space for Refugee Voices
- Recipe ideas for your Potluck event
- How to build stronger communities through a fairer housing system
- A mother, a teacher, a dreamer: My name is Shelly
- I am more than a refugee – Chinonso’s story: A father, pharmacist and volunteer
- More than a refugee – Edgar
- Holding Space in Hostile Times


