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Welcome to our Campaigns, Events & Community stories
”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...
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...
Haringey Welcome Statement on Immigration raid in Wood Green – Tuesday 16 June
Haringey Welcome statement - Immigration raid in Wood Green Tuesday 16 June On the morning of 16 June Haringey Welcome was told by local people that an immigration raid in Wood Green was targeting delivery drivers. The raid appears to have been a joint...
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...
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...
Joint letter to the Home Secretary about planned immigration and asylum reforms (November 2025)
HARINGEY WELCOME’S 10TH Birthday Party – October 24th 2025
2025 is a very special year for Haringey Welcome because we are 10 years old! To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we had a party hosted by Karamel in Wood Green. We have held several events at Karamel over the years - we love them and we love their food. Guests had to...
Haringey Welcome Statement – 7th October 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...
Community letter to the Home Secretary about dispersal of families from a Haringey hotel (June 2025).
In June 2025 Haringey Welcome learned that Clearsprings Ready Homes had announced the closure of the last remaining asylum hotel in Haringey to commence on Monday 9 June. Whilst we are not in favour of the use of hotels as long-term accommodation for asylum seekers,...
Joint statement to the Home Secretary about the immigration White Paper announcement (May 2025)
Haringey Welcome was pleased to be invited by Haringey Council to sign this joint statement to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, in response to the recently announced immigration White Paper. The Government’s framing of the announcement, and in particular the Prime...
May 2025 Celebrating seasons 1 & 2 of the No Small Victories podcast
On 17 May, Tanya and Lucy, No Small Victories’ producer and presenter, hosted a party to celebrate the success of our first two seasons and the contributions of all our guests. We were delighted to host some of the incredibly brave and generous people we’ve had the...
Haringey Welcome Statement on the violence across the UK (August 2024)
As local residents and people working in the London Borough of Haringey we express our heartfelt solidarity with the families and community who lost loved ones in Southport. We also stand in solidarity with all people affected by the...
2024 GLA/Mayoral Election Hustings
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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