WHO WE ARE

No to the hostile environment!

Haringey Welcome is a grassroots campaigning organisation working to bring about positive change for migrants, refugees, diaspora communities and all residents of the London Borough of Haringey. Our mission is to create an inclusive, nurturing environment in which rights are upheld and the voices and experiences of migrants and asylum seekers are heard. Informed by these voices and experiences we act to make Haringey a welcoming borough for all and campaign to ensure equal access to services like housing, healthcare, education and employment.

HARINGEY SOLIDARITY FUND

Preventing Refugee Homelessness

In 2023 we launched a crowdfunder in partnership with the Museum of Homelessness to help prevent refugees in Haringey becoming homeless. Since the campaign started, on average, every month we have helped one person living in our community to find and secure their first private accommodation. Sadly, as the political discourse moves further and further away from our shared values of dignity, equality and justice for all, we know more refugees in Haringey will be facing homelessness and destitution. So we have created the Haringey Solidarity Fund – a dedicated and ongoing platform to continue this vital work. For more information, or to donate, please click the button below.

PODCAST – NO SMALL VICTORIES:

Community Tales of Resistance

“In migrant justice work there are No Small Victories” (Kamila Shamsie).

Lucy Nabijou from Haringey Welcome talks to guests surviving and resisting the UK’s Hostile Environment immigration policy and explores what a kinder and more hopeful society could look like.

OUR CAMPAIGNS

We have led numerous successful campaigns aimed at improving conditions for migrants in Haringey, and influencing pivotal policy changes that enhance community cohesion. This includes establishing the Welcome Advisory Board, an ongoing forum for community members, strategic partners and the local authority; extending free school meal provision to children from families with no recourse to public funds; initiating a survey of access to primary healthcare that was subsequently replicated nationwide; and our ongoing campaign to prevent refugee homelessness. During Covid we organised and raised £10k to support The Voice of Domestic Workers’ emergency appeal. 

COMMUNITY STORIES

Haringey Welcomes’ involvement within the community developed organically from its campaign work, giving rise to different creative and social projects. In 2018 and 2019 we designed and ran a schools poetry competition on the theme of ‘Welcome’ with the winning poem in 2018 read out in Parliament. We facilitated  Explore Your Story in 2020 with a group of five migrant and refugee women writers just as Covid lockdown began and this produced a beautiful book called Write On! Our next community project Covid Chronicles was a series of five, audio-visual shorts exploring the theme of ‘missing’ amongst migrant residents of Haringey during Covid.

OUR EVENTS

We have held annual All Welcome! Events since 2019 and had a joyous 10th anniversary event in 2025. We celebrate our diverse communities with food, film, music, readings, theatre, stalls, exhibitions, speeches, and debates. These events bring together our community networks, our committed supporters and councillors, and those who share lived experience of displacement.  We organise election hustings events focusing on key themes affecting migrants in the UK, and invite all the electoral candidates to attend. Our 2026 hustings committed over 169 prospective councillors to a welcome pledge. In 2022, our panel focused on our access to healthcare campaign, and in the 2024 GLA/Mayoral election our focus was access to housing which dovetailed with our campaign on homelessness.