Want to hear the stories? For the best listening experience, please download the report to your machine. Audio files may not work correctly when viewing the report in a browser or on a mobile device. Bath Welcomes Refugees has just published its Impact Report 2026, marking a year in which the charity supported 484 refugees […]
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Refugee Week 2026 Impact Report
Refugee Week 2026: what we did, and what we learned Refugee Week ran from 14-20 June this year, and Bath Welcomes Refugees put together nine events across the city to mark it. This year’s international theme was Courage, and rather than treat that as one big gesture, the programme looked at the many smaller forms […]
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In this moving interview, Lord Alf Dubs draws on his personal experience as a child refugee to make the case for a more compassionate and cooperative approach to asylum seekers and asks why Britain, which led the way in 1939, struggles to do the same today.
Read moreA Collective Mosaic of Courage
Written by Mir Abdullah Miri For this year’s Refugee Week, I created an anonymous online form asking Afghans in the diaspora to respond to four sentence starters: Courage sounds like…, Courage looks like…, Courage feels like…, and Courage needs… The form was shared among friends, families, colleagues and community groups in different countries. Fifty-three (53!) people […]
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