We are proud to be part of a global Multistakeholder Pledge to aim to help at least 1 million refugees reunite with their families by 2030.
More details on this initiative and how to pledge can be found here.
Our pledge
Together Now believe all families should be able to live together if they choose. We want to see all refugees in the UK having access to support, if they need it, to be reunited with family members from when they first seek asylum to when their family has arrived and are settled into life in the UK.Together Now believe all families should be able to live together if they choose. We want to see all refugees in the UK having access to support, if they need it, to be reunited with family members from when they first seek asylum to when their family has arrived and are settled into life in the UK.
We provide support with the practical aspects of visa applications, travel assistance and post arrival support and have supported over 3000 people to be reunited with loved ones.
This is why Together Now is joining the Multistakeholder Pledge on Supporting Refugee Family Reunification to see at least 1 million people with a refugee background reunite with their families by 2030.
Together Now will contribute to this overarching goal by:
Under Pillar 6:
1. Funding the costs of incidentals and providing travel for 300 people per year between 2023 and 2027, a total of 1200.
Under Pillar 8:
2. Amplifying the voices of people with lived experience of refugee family reunion by joining them to advocate and campaign on the effects of refugee family separation and subsequent family reunion in the UK, prioritising especially the voices of women and girls, who represent the highest number of family members arriving through the family reunion route to the UK.
We will work alongside 40 advocates and campaigners with lived experience of refugee family reunion to organise engagement opportunities, such as peer mentorship, trainings and research. Additionally, we will commit to partnering also with researchers, trainers and other stakeholders to achieve this goal.
Alongside people whose refugee family reunion experiences are being represented in our work as a community, we will deliver the research outcomes, training and resources to organisations supporting refugees in the UK to ensure a better understanding of the family reunion process.
This will strengthen the voices of people we work with and inform our campaigning efforts to advocate for more family reunion rights and more families reunited in the UK.
3. Standardising current service delivery to ensure every reunited family is able to achieve the best possible outcomes on arrival to the UK; expanding and developing gaps in our service provision to offer a trauma informed, person-centred approach to addressing every request for advice or support; anticipating the need and responding appropriately and in an agile way to the challenging socio-political context that affects the people we seek to support – refugees in the UK and their family members in their country of origin or host country.
We aim to achieve this by developing our capacity and service provision through recruiting and onboarding 12 volunteers and 2 staff members.
4. Enhancing our outreach capacity by community engagement through our social media channels to campaign on refugee family reunion issues and to raise funds. We aim to boost donations from the public for our direct and unrestricted service delivery and raise £20,000. As much as possible, we will continue prioritising cash grants to refugees facing barriers at any stage of the family reunion to empower them in the process and to promote dignified solution-focused support.
We will reach at least 1000 refugees when responding to the family reunion queries directly. We will enhance our data capture systems to provide relevant monitoring of the responsive support that is required by people accessing our service. We aim to enhance our existing partnerships and develop at least five new civil society organisation partnerships in the UK to ensure refugees feel better supported and empowered in the process of family reunion. For example, we aim to provide 40 refugees with access to mainstream necessities on arrival to the UK, such as access to sim cards and data.
5. Placing value on the lived experience of those who have direct experience of family reunion and achieving our aim to have Together Now led by those with lived experience by 2025. This will mean having over 75% of staff and board members having experienced the UK asylum system or refugee family reunion.
Under Pillar 10
6. Working with our beneficiaries and UK refugees seeking to reunite with family to collect feedback to understand their needs and the accessibility and efficiency of procedures and structures to allow us to advocate with and for them.
We pledge to work with and for the people with refugee background on these prospective goals for 4 years – until the next Global Refugee Forum in 2027.
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