Today, 20th June, is World Refugee Day, with the theme being “Imagine” this year. We wanted to imagine a better world for everyone, a kinder, more supportive, fairer world. These four wonderful accounts from Zak, Zac, Rahaf and Dayani are demonstrative of different the ways that supporting their own community can enrich and better people’s […]

This week has been Refugee Week 2020 and it has the theme of ‘Imagine’ – many of our volunteers have shared their thoughts on this theme. When we entered lockdown three months ago, I could only imagine the thought of Refugee Action – Colchester being a properly funded organisation. At the time, we didn’t even […]

Hate incidents driven by racism are on the increase – up by a projected increase of 400% this year based on those that we get involved reporting in our capacity as a Hate Crimes Reporting Centre. Racism is very much in the news right now too, following George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis […]

As the Highwoods Forest School site was unavailable due to lockdown, we approached some friends who own a small wood and they were very happy for us to use it. It was decided to invite just one household to each session in order to limit numbers and to maintain social distancing rules. We enjoyed warm, […]

Zak Alhalak and his wife Ghaliya came to the UK three years ago from Syria with their three young children. Zak was an aluminium window maker. He has worked here in the UK doing a similar job but has started a wonderful business ‘White Gardenia’ which does catering and take away. As soon as the […]

As part of marking Refugee Week 2020 we asked some of the people involved in Refugee Action – Colchester to make a short video of themselves expressing something that they imagine would make a positive difference to the lives of others. Here are their thoughts…

To mark annual Volunteers’ Week we asked volunteers with a range of roles within Refugee Action – Colchester to share a little bit of information about themselves, their roles and their experiences of volunteering with RA-C. Izzy Lockwood I have volunteered with RA-C for a few years, beginning in my time at college as part […]

We are very happy to announce that the wonderful artist and friend of Refugee Action – Colchester, Gee Vaucher, has designed some T-shirts exclusively for our organisation. Carrying the words “kindness is the only way forward”, something all of us at RA-C firmly believe in.  Our dedicated Caseworkers work tirelessly to support the most vulnerable clients […]