Today’s the day of the Birmingham Legal Walk, and a team from ASIRT will be joining hundreds of other walkers to raise funds for justice. As recent events, including the Windrush scandal, have demonstrated, the UK’s immigration system is broken. Lives are being wasted and put on hold as… Read More
Fund Raising
Access to justice: a right, not a privilege.
March has arrived and with it, finally, the promise of longer, warmer days. But if the winter seems to have been interminably long for those of us with secure immigration status, access to a regular income, and safe, warm homes, I’m struggling to imagine how it might have been experienced… Read More
ASIRT receives new £72,206 funding boost from Lloyds Bank Foundation to support the West Midland’s vulnerable migrants
ASIRT is delighted to have been awarded a grant of £72,206 over the next three years from Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, to help strengthen our support for asylum seekers and undocumented migrants across the West Midlands. The funding will allow ASIRT to recruit a part-time Manager (3… Read More
When destitution is for life, not just for Christmas.
Almost unbelievably, we’ve almost reached the end of another year, one in which the impacts of the hostile environment is seeking to create for some of the most vulnerable people in the UK have become ever more entrenched. Over the past couple of weeks, by way of illustation we’ve been… Read More
Support ASIRT’s Paddington Children’s Project with Tesco’s ‘Bags of Help’.
Many thanks to Tesco Supermarkets for entering ASIRT into the ‘Bags of Help’ initiative. To help us win a grant of up to four thousand pounds, which will go directly to support children in the West Midlands disadvantaged because of precarious immigration statuses, visit one of the participating branches and… Read More
