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Windrush Assistance ProjectUnited Legal Access
United Legal Access provide low-cost legal support in the community. They focus on providing legal assistance, legal education and advocating on behalf of migrant and ethnic minority groups, individuals and communities that are often marginalised, discriminated against and facing injustice. This grant supports United Legal Access to deliver advice and casework to Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants, with the support of lawyers at two international legal firms working pro bono. Two ULA solicitors will provide supervision of the volunteers’ advice and casework.
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Settled and Fettled: Supporting Europeans in the UK post BrexitSettled
Settled is a new charity whose mission is to guide, inform and assist EU citizens to gain settled status in the UK and to respond to the difficulties that they face – now and in the future. This grant supports the employment of a Service Coordinator based in Manchester who will oversee activities throughout the North of England, the region with least provision at present. The Coordinator will map unmet need, manage multi-lingual volunteer-run services, monitor impact and build mutually beneficial connections with diverse partners in the area.
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Post Dublin evidence gathering for collaborative campaigning and strategic litigationRefugee Legal Support (RLS)
Refugee Legal Support (RLS) are a group of UK and EU asylum lawyers acting in solidarity with refugees in Greece. They provide free legal support to those seeking sanctuary in Greece or reunification with their family members elsewhere in Europe. This grant supports RLS to influence the post-Brexit replacement of the Dublin family reunion procedures in 2021 by contributing to advocacy and strategic litigation using their casework evidence base around accessible, safe, legal routes to family reunification.
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The Windrush Justice Clinic
North Kensington Law Centre
North Kensington Law Centre (NKLC) is the oldest law centre in England. NKLC has maintained their focus on communities most in need of legal support and services. This grant supports the collaboration of community groups, university law clinics and law centres to provide free legal representation for people who were affected by the Windrush scandal. This will provide victims with a single point of contact and will ensure that they can access high quality pro bono legal advice.
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Incorporating lived experiences of migration into policy work
Migration Policy Scotland
Migration Policy Scotland (MPS) is an independent think tank in Scotland working to promote and sustain a constructive approach to migration. They foster dialogue on migration policy supported by evidence and inclusive engagement and aim to offer principled and effective solutions to the challenges migration may pose while actively championing its benefits. This grant supports MPS to incorporate lived experiences of migration across their work including governance and decision-making, deepening insight, and accessing learning and leadership development opportunities.
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Organising and movement building for Fair Immigration Reform
Migrants Organise
Migration Fund £375,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2021Migrants Organise is a shared organising platform for refugees and migrants acting together for justice. This grant supports the employment of core staff to organise migrants and refugees, building the campaign for Fair Immigration Reform; an ambitious movement for systemic change to end the hostile environment and overhaul immigration policy.
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The Strategic Legal Fund for vulnerable migrants
Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA)
The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is a professional association and registered charity, the majority of whose members are barristers, solicitors, advocates and OISC-regulated advisers practising in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. This grant supports the expansion of the Strategic Legal Fund that advances justice for people disadvantaged and discriminated against because of their migration status.
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Asylum Justice – Making the Case(Work) for Change
Asylum Justice
Asylum Justice is a charitable organisation in Wales that offers free specialist legal advice, assistance and representation to asylum seekers, refugees, and other vulnerable migrants. This grant supports Asylum Justice to scale their service delivery model while making greater use of the findings from their casework to demonstrate how the current legal aid and immigration system is failing people who migrate to the UK. By expanding capacity, they will continue to provide quality advice and casework services whilst generating the evidence base needed for advocacy.
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Working together for change
Project 17
Project 17 works to reduce destitution among families with no access to mainstream welfare because of their immigration status. This project will expand and develop Project 17’s policy and campaigns work, led by people with lived experience of no recourse to public funds. Working in partnership with Praxis Community Projects, Project 17 will recruit a new role to develop this work.
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Protecting migrant communities by future-proofing the immigration data systems
Privacy International
Privacy International aims to protect people’s privacy and human rights from abuses of governments and companies using invasive surveillance technologies and data-driven systems. Working in partnership with the migration sector, Privacy International will work towards protecting the digital rights of people who migrate to the UK, exposing, scrutinising and challenging abuses in the immigration enforcement system.
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Building capacity to work with migrants in grassroots organisations
Praxis Community Projects
Praxis Community Projects is an East London charity working with people who have migrated and are negatively affected by UK immigration policy. Praxis will draw on their expertise of working with non-immigration accredited and grassroots organisations to build their knowledge and capacity to better identify people with immigration issues, and improve their ability to respond and make better referrals to appropriate immigration providers by developing infrastructure that supports collaboration.
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Ending destitution in the immigration system
NACCOM
NACCOM is the UK-wide ‘No Accommodation Network’ which seeks to prevent destitution among people who have migrated to the UK by increasing accommodation provision, and by fostering systemic change. This grant will provide core support to NACCOM to deliver their strategic vision across key areas including: members’ sustainability, experience-led support, and positive policy changes.