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”All Welcome!” annual events

”All Welcome!” annual events

Since 2019 Haringey Welcome has been holding annual ‘All Welcome!’ events. We come together and celebrate our diverse communities with food, film, live music, readings, and theatrical performance; and with stalls, photography exhibitions, speeches, and debates about...

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The ”Welcoming Borough’’ project

The ”Welcoming Borough’’ project

Since 2017, our core strategic campaign work has been focused on making Haringey a more welcoming borough.  What does this mean? In large part, this means working alongside residents and the voluntary and community sector to ensure that our local authority opposes and...

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Local Election Hustings April 2026

Local Election Hustings April 2026

On Thursday 30 April, Haringey Welcome hosted a local election hustings at the Engine Room in Tottenham Hale. Prior to the event we invited all candidates to sign our HW election pledge:Our pledge has now received 169 signatures. The evening began with a special...

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Haringey Welcome Election Pledge – April 2026

Haringey Welcome Election Pledge – April 2026

Haringey Welcome 2026 local election pledge We invited candidates standing in the 2026 Haringey local election to adopt the following principles for a welcoming borough for all. Should I be successfully elected, I pledge to: work with communities and organisations to...

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Haringey Welcome at Blue House Yard (July 2025)

Haringey Welcome at Blue House Yard (July 2025)

On Saturday July 26th Haringey Welcome organised an arts and crafts market at Blue House Yard in Wood Green. Selling hand made jewellery, books, bookmarks and bags donated by supporters and friends, along with Haringey Welcome mugs, badges and our writing project...

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OUR IMPACT

– We campaigned to make Haringey the first Welcome’ borough in the UK, and continue our ongoing campaign with local partners to make the ambition of welcome and inclusion for all a reality.

– With Haringey Migrant Justice Coalition partners we have mobilised demonstrations in support of local residents at an asylum hotel who were threatened with being moved to Napier Barracks and Bibby Stockholm barge.

– We have led calls for a Haringey-wide working group convened by the Council to tackle the Home Office-made problem of refugee homelessness, and have partnered with The Museum of Homelessness to raise funds to help refugees move on into secure housing.

– We partnered with Waging Peace to hold a picnic commemoration in Alexandra Park for Sharif Barko, a Haringey Welcome member from Darfur, and for Sudanese communities across the UK dealing with the ongoing conflict and genocide in their country. Over 100 people attended.

– We led a mystery shopper survey and produced a report demonstrating serious barriers to access primary healthcare at GP surgeries in the borough for undocumented migrants and people with no fixed address. Our report led to a further nationwide investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalists, and to a later partnership in an in-depth project with Healthwatch Haringey.

– We hold annual ‘All Welcome’ community events that showcase the amazing range of community and arts projects, campaigns, and activities across Haringey and bring our diverse community together for amazing food and entertainment.

– We have facilitated and run writing and poetry projects in schools and with a group of migrant women, producing two poetry anthologies and a book, ‘Write On!’

– We organised and raised £10k for a music fundraiser to support The Voice of Domestic Workers’ emergency appeal during lockdown.

– We campaigned for Haringey Council to resettle ten Syrian families in Haringey via the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.

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