GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP

GDWG works to improve the welfare and well-being of people being held in the Gatwick Immigration Detention Centres, and in the community upon release. They also call for positive change and campaign for an end to indefinite detention. This is a ....more

GDWG works to improve the welfare and well-being of people being held in the Gatwick Immigration Detention Centres, and in the community upon release. They also call for positive change and campaign for an end to indefinite detention. This is a three year unrestricted main programme grant towards their work.

Funding for an organisation supporting refugees and ex-detainees in Surrey.

An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aim to support the welfare and wellbeing of individuals held in immigration detainee centres at Tinsley House and ....more

An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aim to support the welfare and wellbeing of individuals held in immigration detainee centres at Tinsley House and Brook House.

Funding was provided for supermarket vouchers.

Grant over 3 years to support influencing change at the national level

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) supports people during and after immigration detention through practical and emotional support by volunteer visitors and advocacy by the staff team. This grant will allow GDWG to build on its 'Walking Inquiry' ....more

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) supports people during and after immigration detention through practical and emotional support by volunteer visitors and advocacy by the staff team. This grant will allow GDWG to build on its 'Walking Inquiry' model and will enable them to collect evidence for their policy advocacy and influencing work towards ending detention. This work will include an exhibition, local walks and events, led by their Self-Advocacy Group of people with lived experience of immigration detention.

An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aim to support the welfare and wellbeing of individuals held in immigration detainee centres at Tinsley House and ....more

An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aim to support the welfare and wellbeing of individuals held in immigration detainee centres at Tinsley House and Brook House.

Funding was provided towards the salary for a frontline worker supporting activity driven by the cost of living crisis.

One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis

towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing emotional and practical support for people held in immigration detention at Gatwick Airport, West Sussex.

Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group

Direct Services Project

Funding was provided to contribute towards the costs of giving £10 monthly mobile phone top-ups to people detained at Gatwick airport.

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provides practical and emotional support to detainees at Immigration Removal Centres near Gatwick Airport.

We are an advice, befriending and influencing organisation working for the past 25 years with people detained in Brook House and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport. We offer advice, casework on health and legal issues and ....more

We are an advice, befriending and influencing organisation working for the past 25 years with people detained in Brook House and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport. We offer advice, casework on health and legal issues and give emotionally-intelligent volunteer befriending. We provide practical help with clothes and phone costs for people in detention and emergency food and accommodation for those released to destitution. We are a registered charity governed by a Board of ten people with a staff team of seven with 70 visiting volunteers. People with lived experience of detention are engaged with us in improving wellbeing and influencing to create systemic change. We are officially engaged as Core Participants in the current Public Inquiry over verbal and physical abuse at Brook House as exposed by Panorama in 2017. The Inquiry includes an examination of health provision. We are also working with Warwick University producing evidence of the lack of access to health care, and the lack of belief in mental distress shown by those working in the detention centres. The Step Change project, our Walking Inquiry, centres on those with lived experience of detention. It is our response to the Public Inquiry and aims to look at the damaging effects of detention on mental health as a whole rather than the narrower terms of reference of the official inquiry. The UK?s migration system creates marginalisation, most obviously by locking people up after they have sought asylum or, when on their regular reporting visits. They are hidden from mainstream society in centres tucked away, as is the case at Gatwick. The centres are run by private companies, such as Serco which runs Brook House. Our caseworkers ensure that those who are in many ways invisible, get access to justice and health care and, on release, help to work for change. The effect of being marginalised is to feel of no account and unworthy. Our volunteer befriending counters this through respectful, non-judgemental, friendly contact. Mental health is a serious concern for those in immigration detention. Of those we supported in 2020, 46% of the people held in Brook House had some vulnerability. Even for those who have not previously had poor mental health, detention is an isolating and anxiety-inducing experience. For example, in August and September 2020 there were 80 incidents of self-harm requiring medical attention and 161 hunger strikes compared to 5 in and 9 in the same period in the previous year. For 20 years we worked for legal change and for the past 5 years we have experimented with different, people-centred ways to bring humanity into the UK?s migrant detention system. This work is of the utmost importance. We must call for change in a new way in order to mitigate the assault on the mental health of the asylum seekers and migrants caught up in our detention system. We will use and take further our experiences of influencing change through walking and talking.

The funding will be used as a contribution to purchase supermarket vouchers to support detainees to purchase essentials. A monthly allowance will be provided to those facing destitution and with no access to other funds due to ongoing asylum cases. ....more

The funding will be used as a contribution to purchase supermarket vouchers to support detainees to purchase essentials. A monthly allowance will be provided to those facing destitution and with no access to other funds due to ongoing asylum cases. The project aims to provide human dignity and improve wellbeing.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provide; i)emotional and practical support to men when held in two Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport and after release, ii)work to promote fair treatment, iii)raise awareness of their situation. Funding ....more

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provide; i)emotional and practical support to men when held in two Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport and after release, ii)work to promote fair treatment, iii)raise awareness of their situation. Funding was provided for food vouchers to support 51 recipients.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) will use the funding to support services for people in detention and on release and to manage Refugee Tales Walk With Us and their newly established Self-Advocacy Project.

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provides practical and emotional support to those detainees at Brook House and Tinsley House at Gatwick airport. Support ....more

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provides practical and emotional support to those detainees at Brook House and Tinsley House at Gatwick airport. Support include volunteer visits, information, practical support such as clothes and mobile phone top ups, and policy work.

Funding was provided towards core staff costs enabling support of people experiencing detention and on release when destitute.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Groups provide; i) emotional and practical support to 700 men whilst held in two Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport and after release, ii) work to promote fair treatment, iii) raise awareness of their situation. ....more

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Groups provide; i) emotional and practical support to 700 men whilst held in two Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport and after release, ii) work to promote fair treatment, iii) raise awareness of their situation. Funding is for intern costs of working two extra days on their destitution fund and other administrative duties and £1,260 for supermarket vouchers for released detainees, to be spent between September 2020 and February 2021.

Grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.

Funding is to assist 25 people with food vouchers and a contribution towards rent for three months.

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years, subject to annual trustee approval). The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provides practical and emotional support to those detainees at Brook House and Tinsley ....more

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years, subject to annual trustee approval). The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provides practical and emotional support to those detainees at Brook House and Tinsley House at Gatwick airport. Support include volunteer visits, information, practical support such as clothes and mobile phone top ups, and policy work.

towards three years' running costs of a project providing emotional and practical support to people held in immigration detention at Gatwick Airport

Funding was provided to help support a visiting scheme delivered by volunteers.

The organisation will use the funding to continue to run their walking and storytelling project to help refugees and new arrivals overcome issues during detainment and improve mental health.

£10,000 towards core costs. Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aims to provide emotional and practical support for people being detained. This is delivered through a volunteer visiting programme to reduce isolation, prcatical support (e.g. mobile ....more

£10,000 towards core costs. Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aims to provide emotional and practical support for people being detained. This is delivered through a volunteer visiting programme to reduce isolation, prcatical support (e.g. mobile phone top ups) and referrals for legal advice.

This project will support refugees who have been detained by engaging them in community walking activities to improve their wellbeing, support integration and raise awareness of issues faced by refugees who have been detained.

salaries and expenses for the programme of support, advocacy and visits to migrants who are held in detention at Gatwick - to improve their current circumstances and assist with the transition into the community for those who are permitted to stay.

£5,000 towards core costs. Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aims to provide emotional and practical support for people being detained. This is delivered through a volunteer visiting programme to reduce isolation, prcatical support (e.g. mobile phone ....more

£5,000 towards core costs. Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group aims to provide emotional and practical support for people being detained. This is delivered through a volunteer visiting programme to reduce isolation, prcatical support (e.g. mobile phone top ups) and referrals for legal advice.

This is the development of a project providing emotional and practical support to asylum seekers detained at Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport. It aims to help people improve their mental health and wellbeing, initially through ....more

This is the development of a project providing emotional and practical support to asylum seekers detained at Immigration Removal Centres at Gatwick Airport. It aims to help people improve their mental health and wellbeing, initially through telephone and drop-in services, then through weekly visits from specially trained volunteers. Practical support includes helping families keep in touch via telephone, providing quality second-hand clothes and signposting to community services for released detainees.

£10,000 towards core costs

£7,500 towards core costs

salaries and expenses for the programme of support, advocacy and visits to migrants who are held in detention at Gatwick - to improve their current circumstances and assist with the transition into the community for those who are permitted to stay.

£7,500 towards core costs

The project is supporting volunteer work with detainees meeting initial needs such as providing phone cards, second hand clothes and contacting family on their behalf._x000B_