Free Human Rights Workshops & Personalised Support for the Community

Starting a new life in the UK can be challenging. Understanding your rights, accessing public services and knowing where to get support shouldn’t be.

Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) is delivering a free programme designed to help refugees, asylum seekers and migrants feel informed, confident and connected within their communities.

Whether you have recently arrived in the UK or have been here for several years, our friendly team is here to support you.

 

What You’ll Receive

By joining the programme, you’ll have access to:

✅ Free Human Rights Workshops

✅ Weekly one-to-one advice and guidance

✅ Life in the UK Test preparation sessions

✅ Support with housing, healthcare and education

✅ Information about benefits and public services

✅ Employability and integration guidance

✅ Cost of living advice and practical support

✅ Friendly community events and networking opportunities

✅ Ongoing support through HRS community groups

 

Where Will Activities Take Place?

The project will be delivered across:

📍 London

📍 Birmingham

📍 Leicester

📍 Liverpool

Our team will announce workshop dates and venues throughout the year.

Why Join?

Our programme helps you to:

• Understand your rights in the UK
• Feel more confident when dealing with public services
• Learn where to access reliable support
• Prepare for the Life in the UK Test
• Build confidence and independence
• Meet people with similar experiences
• Reduce isolation and become part of your local community

More than 300 people are expected to benefit from the project.

Who Can Join?

This programme is open to:

• Refugees
• Asylum seekers
• Migrants
• Newly arrived families
• Anyone needing support to understand life in the UK

Participation is completely FREE.

 

Register Your Interest

Places are limited for workshops and one-to-one sessions.

To join the project:

📧 Email:

📞 Call: 07856 523670

🤝 Or contact your local HRS representative.

Once registered, our team will add you to the HRS Community WhatsApp Group, where you’ll receive:

• Workshop dates
• Venue updates
• Session reminders
• Important announcements
• Information about future HRS activities

We look forward to welcoming you!

 

Supported By

 

This project is proudly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, helping refugees, asylum seekers and migrants build confidence, understand their rights and successfully integrate into communities across England.

 

 

Letter from HRS to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on street riots across the UK.  Dear Prime Minister and Home Secretary,

We, the Human Rights Solidarity, a registered charity in England and Wales, commend your efforts to control the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim riots. As a human rights organization working mainly with immigrants of Muslim background, we wholeheartedly support the decision of the Home Secretary to strengthen the protection for Muslim communities across the UK. These measures will certainly ease the tensions, but there are systemic issues that need to be addressed urgently.

The far-right sentiments against the immigrants are byproducts of the decade-old Hostile Environment Policy of the previous governments. These policies created a pejorative vocabulary about immigrants, led to a culture of defamatory news coverage when it came to the immigrant communities, and paved the way to the current toxicity of disinformation in social media.

The fact that the austerity regime left behind vulnerable communities is well-understood and addressed by your government. But the equally important and even more destructive hostile environment policies are yet to be addressed in full.

We hereby invite the Home Secretary to publicly declare the end of the hostile environment and establish mechanisms to cleanse the vestiges of that policy in the civil service.

We invite your government to replace the existing immigration detention centres which proved too costly to run and secure, and too inhuman to experience, even before the riots, with modern compounds where detention is not meant to act as a deterrent.

We invite the Home Secretary to review the existing policy of not letting the asylum seekers work and adopt the German model where the asylum seekers will be able to work as soon as they find a job and attain a certain level of language fluency. This will ease the economic burden of the asylum mechanism on the public purse.

We invite the Home Secretary to review the current policy of starting the five-year residence requirement before applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain from the day the refugee statuses of the asylum seekers are recognized by the Home Office. That period starts, all over Europe, from the day the asylum application is made and both the social fabric and the economic system benefit from the elimination of uncertainty from the lives of the refugees as early as possible.

Former Labour Party governments have been architects of devolution and human rights regulations. With more control in the Parliament, and with more urgency at the societal level, we are expecting the current Labour Government to continue the good work of the previous Labour eras.

 

Sincerely Yours,

 

Mehmet Ozdemir

President of the Board of Trustees

Human Rights Solidarity