Yearly Archives: 2017

Donate your train tickets to Hope Projects

Are you one of the 15,000 people cycling Velo Birmingham? Are you going to use your 4 free London midland day tickets? Why not donate them to Hope Projects? Destitute asylum seekers have to go to Liverpool in person to make further representations. Essential if they are to overturn flawed refusals of asylum. The Home [...]

By |2017-09-29T13:27:44+01:0023rd September 2017|News|0 Comments

Journey

Friday was always going to be a challenge. It started with Hope trustees meeting at 9.30 in the morning, in our new offices on the far side of Birmingham. I gave myself an extra half hour to drive and, what with Birmingham rush hour traffic, arrived frazzled just in the nick of time. An afternoon [...]

By |2017-08-29T16:13:29+01:009th July 2017|News|0 Comments

Hard choices

This blog post came out of a workshop I ran for the excellent NACCOM network. My day job is coordinator of Hope project in Birmingham, providing housing, financial support and legal advice to asylum seekers left homeless and destitute by flawed asylum refusals. One of the things that makes Hope distinctive is our focus on the [...]

By |2017-08-29T16:13:40+01:0019th February 2017|News|3 Comments