#WeCannotWalkAlone: Your guide to Refugee Week 2021
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Read about the events and activities taking place here.
From Celine Dion to Darbouka: conversations from an English class
For Volunteers’ Week 2021, we are celebrating STAR leaders and their contribution to STAR volunteering projects across the UK. Millie shares her volunteering experience here.
The change you can make: my volunteering experience
For Volunteers’ Week 2021, we are celebrating STAR leaders and their contribution to STAR volunteering projects across the UK. Kate shares her volunteering experience here.
Forming new bonds with Glasgow’s refugee community
For Volunteers’ Week 2021, we are celebrating STAR leaders and their contribution to STAR volunteering projects across the UK. Ahlen shares her volunteering experience here.
The New Plan for Immigration: the road ahead
In case you missed it, in March the government proposed a series of unfair changes to the UK’s asylum system entitled the New Plan for Immigration. Read more here.
Action Week 2021: students unite to close the barracks
In September 2020, the Home Office started using ‘impoverished, run-down, and unsuitable’ ex-military barracks as accommodation for people seeking asylum.
My marathon year: running for refugees
Jake is the previous President and Campaign Coordinator at Reading STAR. Read about why he and his brother Sam are running a half-marathon each month in 2021 to raise money for STAR.
STAR’s response to the New Immigration Plan
On Wednesday 24 March, the Home Office proposed a series of unfair and unjust changes to the UK’s asylum system. Read STAR’s response here.
STAR is calling on the government to #CloseTheBarracks
For STAR Action Week 2021, take action to #CloseTheBarracks and put an end to detaining people in barracks and prison-like conditions.
Student Volunteering Week: Glasgow STAR’s conversation club
Across the country, STARs have adapted, collaborated and persevered during this global pandemic. Ella Mayne tells us about Glasgow STAR’s conversation club.