Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Acts 435 @acts435.bsky.social Acts 435 is a giving charity that connects those that want to help with those that have need through a network of churches and charities | http://acts435.org.uk
RAS Voice @rasvoice.bsky.social We are a group of refugees and asylum seekers who are campaigning to change the asylum system in the UK.
Diane Taylor @diane-writer10.bsky.social journalist @Guardian
Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social Migrants Organise is a grassroots platform where migrants and refugees organise for justice.
In 1993 we came to life in living rooms across West London, where migrant leaders would provide support to their communities.
www.migrantsorganise.org
Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social The IRR's online news service on anti-racism & social justice issues in UK & Europe.
Our journal is Race & Class ▶ https://bit.ly/raceandclass
Donate to the IRR ▶ http://irr.org.uk/donate
For more info ▶ https://linktr.ee/instituteracerelations
Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social Updates, commentary and analysis on UK immigration and asylum law. Sign up to our weekly email newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2yNDl3r.
Migrant Futures Institute @migrantfutures.bsky.social Reimagining our world through migrant justice. Follow for research insights, events, partnerships, funding calls and opportunities. Based at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
Jesuit Refugee Service UK @jrsuk.bsky.social JRS UK accompanies refugees and forced migrants, serving them as companions and advocating their cause.
www.jrsuk.net
The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social Manchester's quality newspaper. Sign up now - we only publish via email.
Send tips to our reporters @ophiraophira.bsky.social, @jackdulhanty.bsky.social, @lucymclaughlin.bsky.social and @alecherron.bsky.social
Coalition to Close Campsfield @closecampsfield.bsky.social We are a diverse group of organisations and individuals demanding the closure of Campsfield House detention centre and an end to Immigration Detention.
Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social Follow us for immigration updates, campaigns and stories!
Find all our other content here: https://linktr.ee/RMJustice
What do we do?
📍 Immigration advice & representation
⚖️ Take government to court
🎤 Centre lived experience in our advocacy
Hope Projects @hopeprojects.bsky.social 🌍 Hope Projects | Fighting Destitution & Homelessness
💙 Supporting asylum seekers in UK
🏠 Providing housing, legal advice & advocacy
#hopeforall
linktr.ee/hopeprojects
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Advicenow @advicenow.bsky.social Helping you with life's legal problems.
Formerly known as Law For Life, Advicenow.
Coffee4Craig @coffee4craig.bsky.social Manchester's most unique homelessness charity based in the North of the city. Account set up in progress...bear with us
The No To Hassockfield Campaign @notohassockfield.bsky.social A network of anti-detention campaigners working together to shut down Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre in County Durham #ShutItDown
https://www.notohassockfield.org.uk
Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is the professional body for people who work in housing, with members worldwide.
CharityComms @charitycomms.bsky.social CharityComms is the membership network for communications professionals working in and with UK charities. Find out more about us and our membership at www.charitycomms.org.uk
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
ASSIST Sheffield 🧡 @assistsheffield.bsky.social ASSIST is a Sheffield-based charity supporting destitute people seeking asylum. We provide accommodation, welfare payments and bespoke casework support. 🧡
Ella Sips @ellasips.bsky.social Manager in the North West for the Lloyds Bank Foundation. Passionate about the voluntary sector, family, felines and restoring old things.
Booth Centre @boothcentre.bsky.social The Booth Centre is a community run with people affected by homelessness and poverty in Greater Manchester.
www.boothcentre.org.uk
Kirith Entwistle @kirithentwistle.bsky.social 🌹Labour MP for Bolton North East
✉️ Kirith.entwistle.mp@parliament.uk
👩💻www.kirithentwistlemp.com
Manchester Homelessness Partnership @mcrhomelessness.bsky.social Manchester's cross-sector partnership, working together towards ending homelessness in Manchester.
Sign up to our monthly e-bulletin http://eepurl.com/h9uwxD
ECRE @theecre.bsky.social The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is an alliance of 126 NGOs protecting and advancing the rights of refugees, people seeking asylum and other forcibly displaced people in Europe.
https://ecre.org/
North West Regional Strategic Migration Partnership @nwrsmp.bsky.social Part of the UK SMP Network. Focused on supporting Councils, VCSE, Migrants, Refugees and People Seeking Asylum in the North West.
Website: https://northwestrsmp.org.uk/
Baca Charity @bacacharity.bsky.social Providing a safe place for every child refugee to heal and the freedom to build a better future.
linktr.ee/baca.org.uk
Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social We are open to members of our GM communities who are forced into destitution by the UK immigration & asylum system.
solidarity / cash grants / partnership / advocacy
migrantdestitution.co.uk
#EndDestitution
Administered by: @mcrcommcentral
Afzal Khan MP @afzalkhanmcr.bsky.social MP for Manchester Rusholme | Awarded Labour MP of the Year 2024
Fatou Jinadu @certifiedtm.bsky.social
Emmaus Bolton @emmausbolton.bsky.social Emmaus Bolton is a charity empowering people to overcome homelessness. Support us by visiting our charity shops and services.
Manchester Cathedral @mancathedral.bsky.social The mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. Inclusive and diverse, bearing witness to the Christian faith through worship, service and discipleship
www.manchestercathedral.org
Manchester City of Sanctuary @manchestercos.bsky.social manchester.cityofsanctuary.org
Media Trust @mediatrust.bsky.social Media Trust works in partnership with the media and creative industry to give charities and under-represented talent a stronger voice.
➡️ mediatrust.org
Manchester Community Central @mcrcommcentral.bsky.social A charity supporting Manchester's voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
Visit our website: manchestercommunitycentral.org
IMIX @imixuk.bsky.social https://imix.org.uk
NACCOM @naccomnetwork.bsky.social NACCOM is a UK-wide network of frontline organisations collectively working to #EndDestitution and homelessness in the asylum and immigration system.
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
Cameron @cameronboyle95.bsky.social Trustee at Manchester City of Sanctuary | Patients Not Passports Campaigner 🩺🍉
www.clippings.me/camboyle
Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social 🧡 Everyone has a right to safety. Join us to stand with refugees and people seeking asylum.
https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/
Refugee Week @refugeeweek.bsky.social World's largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees 🧡. 14-20 June 2027
Counterpoints Arts @counterpoints.org.uk Supporting the arts by & about refugees & migrants.
Producing
@RefugeeWeek #Platforma #PopxChange and lots more.
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social We provide high-quality legal representation, support and hope to people experiencing immigration injustice across the North-West of England.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gmiaunit/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/gmiaunit
IAA registered: N201000004
These Walls Must Fall @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social Network of migrant campaigners working with allies and supporters for radical change. Run by @Right_to_Remain #TheseWallsMustFall RT≠endorsement
https://wallsmustfall.org/
the other side of hope || lit mag @othersidelitmag.bsky.social journeys in refugee & immigrant literature, edited by immigrants & refugees 🧡 the UK's first lit mag of Sanctuary
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) @jrct.bsky.social A Quaker grant-making organisation supporting those who address the root causes of conflict and injustice.
https://linktr.ee/jrct_
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social Labour Peer, ex-MP for Battersea. Campaigner for refugees, especially children. Interested in human rights, asylum policy and Ireland. RTs are not endorsements.
Fences & Frontiers @fencesfrontiers.bsky.social Making London a welcoming, supportive and inspiring place for refugees and asylum seekers to rebuild their lives.
Reg Charity 1194720
https://localgiving.org/fundraising/Atlasascent
https://www.fencesandfrontiers.org/
Big Issue @bigissue.com The UK’s number one street paper and social enterprise. 📰
Follow us for news, culture, and to support our mission to dismantle poverty in the UK.
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Don't hate the media - change the media. We're engaging with advertisers to make media hate unprofitable.
💌Let's make hate cost more: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-hate
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social We partner with small and local charities, people, and communities working towards a more just and compassionate society.
Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social Digital Impact Consultant. Helps charities with digital comms, content strategy and other things that follow. One half of @RadioLento.
Ros Holland @rosholland.bsky.social
Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social Human rights charity on the frontline of immigration detention in the UK, providing direct support and campaigning for change.
detentionaction.org.uk
linkin.bio/detention_action
Asylum Aid @asylumaid.org.uk We're a refugee charity providing high-quality legal advice & representation to people seeking protection in the UK.
Now part of @helenbamber.org
Holly Bancroft @hollybancroft.bsky.social Home affairs correspondent at The Independent
📧 holly.bancroft@independent.co.uk
Public Law Project @publiclawproject.bsky.social Promoting access to justice, upholding the rule of law, ensuring fair systems
British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social The conversations we need on integration and migration, identity and race.Contact: info@britishfuture.org
Director: @sundersays.bsky.social
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social Journalist, writer, author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain.
https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites
Reclaim The Sea @reclaimthesea.bsky.social
Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social We are a migrant-led national organisation empowering migrants to speak out, challenge perceptions and change public debate, in the media and to policymakers. Offices in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.
European Network on Statelessness @enstatelessness.bsky.social Committed to ending #statelessness & ensuring that people living in Europe without a nationality are protected.
Visit www.statelessness.eu to find out more about our work.
African Rainbow Family @africanrainbowfam.bsky.social Leading UK Based Expert by Experience Grassroots Charity Campaigning for Racial Justice & Human Rights of LGBTIQ+ Refugees and People Seeking Asylum 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social We go where healthcare isn't. UK clinics. Refugee camps. Emergency zones. UK + 80 countries. Healthcare is a human right. We make sure people get it.
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk
HIAS+JCORE @hiasjcore.bsky.social Supporting refugees, led by Jewish values.
https://hiasjcore.org/signup
City of Sanctuary UK @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social City by city, community by community, we're building a more welcoming UK for people seeking sanctuary. Wherever you live or work there are ways to get involved.
https://linktr.ee/cityofsanctuaryuk
Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org We are a human rights charity.
We give survivors of trafficking and torture the strength to move on.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social Director of Research at British Future
Interested in migration, cohesion and countering the far-right
Aspen Institute Fellow
Heather Rolfe @heather-rolfe.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @britishfuture.bsky.social
Mostly interested in immigration, employment, migrants’ new lives in UK and public attitudes
Focus on Labour Exploitation @focusonlabour.bsky.social Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) is a research and policy organisation working towards an end to labour exploitation.
Social Equity Centre @socialequitycic.bsky.social The Social Equity Centre is a not-for-profit organisation committed to breaking down barriers for first-generation migrants in the UK.
Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis on UK migration.
Together With Refugees @refugeestogether.bsky.social Together With Refugees is the largest pro-refugee coalition in British history. We are dedicated to taking action for a fair, compassionate and well-managed plan for refugees. We believe that together we are stronger.
https://linktr.ee/togetherwithrefugee
Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social The Refugee Council is the nation’s refugee charity. We support refugees to rebuild their lives, integrate into communities and play a part in Britain.
Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social We campaign in solidarity with social movements to fight the causes of poverty and injustice. Join us: http://globaljustice.org.uk/stay-informed
One Life To Live @nicoladavid.bsky.social Founder of One Life To Live - collaboratively compaigning against large asylum-seeker containment sites in ex-RAF bases, former prisons & barges. Linton-on-Ouse, Bibby Stockholm. Ripon CoS 💪🏼 🇵🇸
RAMP (Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy) Project @rampproject.bsky.social RAMP works with political leaders across the political spectrum to re-imagine a world-class migration system for a successful and integrated Britain.
https://www.rampproject.org/
Migration Policy Scotland @migrationscotland.bsky.social Independent think tank in Scotland. Provides a home for informed responses to the opportunities and challenges of migration.
https://migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk
Bail for Immigration Detainees @biddetention.bsky.social A small charity providing free legal advice to people detained under immigration powers across the UK.
www.biduk.org
@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social Campaigning for a #welcome borough for migrant, refugee, and all residents
Web: haringeywelcome.org
Pod: nosmallvictories.buzzsprout.com
Linktree: linktr.ee/haringeywelcome
Emily Graham @emilyagraham.bsky.social Migration and asylum policy. Plus often human rights & democratic participation. Trustee of Care Rights UK.
Medical Justice @medicaljustice.org.uk Working to promote and defend the health rights of people detained under immigration powers, including by arranging independent medical assessments
https://medicaljustice.org.uk/
Asylos @asylos.bsky.social Research for asylum ⁞ we investigate human rights abuses to help asylum lawyers and NGOs defend refugees #proofnotprejudice
Help us defend asylum - https://asylos.org/
Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social We support women seeking safety in the UK to rebuild their lives on their own terms.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
#WelcomeEveryWoman #SetHerFree #SistersNotStrangers
Captain Support UK @captainsupportuk.bsky.social Resisting and documenting the criminalisation of movement
https://linktr.ee/captainsupportuk
Our Second Home // Refugees Welcome @oursecondhome.org.uk 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
Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social Boosting our community's right to remain in the UK with dignity & humanity. Fighting injustice of asylum/immigration system #TheseWallsMustFall #NoOneIsIllegal
https://righttoremain.org.uk/
@jamescwilson35.bsky.social @jamescwilson35.bsky.social
the3million @the3million.bsky.social Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK | This is our home | Campaigning to protect pre-Brexit rights | info@the3million.org.uk
Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
ECPAT UK @ecpatuk.bsky.social We campaign against child trafficking and transnational child exploitation so children everywhere can uphold their rights and live a life free from abuse.
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.