Right to Remain, These Walls Must Fall, and the No To Hassockfield campaign are calling a National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on Saturday 18 October 2025.

The Labour government plans a new wave of immigration raids and the opening of two more detention centres, aiming to deport more people than ever before. We are saying no. 

On 18 October, many of us will gather outside Derwentside (formerly Hassockfield) Immigration Removal Centre in County Durham, one of the clearest symbols of the UK’s brutal detention system. Led by people with lived experience, this action will send a clear message: No to Hassockfield. No detention. No walls.

If you can’t join us in Durham, we encourage you to take action wherever you are on 18 October. Every action matters; whether it’s holding a vigil, creating banners, hosting a teach-in, or running a workshop. Gather your community and stand together against the cruelty and violence that detention fuels.

Below are some local actions already planned. If one resonates with you, we invite you to join in!

Or perhaps you are planning your own action? Get in touch with Esther – esther@righttoremain.org.uk to amplify it. 

Spread the word. Build solidarity. End detention.

• What? Panel, lunch and discussion, documentary screening and music
• Where? Oxford
• When? Saturday 18 October, 11am – 3pm
• Who? Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed

Join the Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed (CKCC) to learn about the urgent campaign against the reopening of a detention centre just outside Oxford, and how you can get involved! The day will include a panel with CKCC members, lunch, crafts, discussion and a documentary screening and musical piece.

• What? Crafting, information stall, food
• Where? Leeds City Centre
• When? Saturday 18 October
• Who? Leeds Anti-Raids & The David Oluwale Memorial Association

No booking required – just turn up! Address is on the leaflet.

• What? Letter writing and info-sharing session
• Where? Glasgow City Centre
• When? Saturday 18 October, 2pm – 3:30pm
• Who? Scottish Detainee Visitors, Justice and Peace Scotland, and Glasgow Solidarity Stall 

This in-person event will include talks, information-sharing on how to campaign against detention, and creative activities like badge-making and letter writing to people currently detained. The line-up of speakers includes people with with lived experience of detention, plus representatives from Scottish Detainee Visitors, Justice and Peace Scotland, and the Glasgow Solidarity Stall. Alongside the talks, there will be food and refreshments.

• What? Placard making and letter writing
• Where? London 
• When? Tuesday 14 October, 6pm – 8pm
• Who? Rainbow Migration & Beyond Detention

Rainbow Migration and Beyond Detention are collaborating on a free placard-making and letter-writing event (all materials provided!) in London on the 14 of October. They will be screening a short film about the experiences of LGBTQI+ people in detention, and talking about the experiences of the people Beyond Detention support in Yarls Wood IRC. This will be followed by a chance for attendees to write letters of solidarity to people in detention and/or to make placards for the demos taking place on the 18th. The letters will be translated and distributed after the event. Hope to see you there!

• What? Online workshop
• Where? Online
• When? Sunday 19 October, 7pm – 8.30pm
• Who? Boycott Bloody Insurance & Tipping point

Join this workshop to uncover the hidden world of insurers underpinning the UK’s abusive migrant detention and border violence industry. Learn about the web of connections between insurance, detention, the genocide in Gaza and fossil fuel expansion.

Plan how to mobilise for an organisational boycott against these insurers, lobbying UK institutions to pull the support from under abusive companies complicit in detention and border violence.

• What? Sing for Solidarity – singing practice
• Where? Consett town centre & online
• When? Thursday 9 October and Saturday 11 October
• Who? No to Hassockfield campaign

Join the No to Hassockfield campaign for their pop-up choir sessions, ‘Singing for Solidarity’. Together, you will learn songs to sing outside Derwentside on 18 October, so the women inside can hear us loud and clear and know they are not alone.

Join either online on 9 October, 8 – 9pm (Zoom link will be sent on the day), or in person in Consett on 11 October, 1pm – 3pm (venue will be confirmed via email).

• What? Banner making workshop
• Where? Consett town centre
• When? Saturday 11 October, 11am – 2pm
• Who? No to Hassockfield campaign

Join the No to Hassockfield campaign for a banner making workshop in Consett town centre. Please get in touch via email if you would like to attend, and venue details will be shared. Materials provided!

• What? Online workshop
• Where? Consett town centre
• When? Saturday 11 October, 11am – 2pm
• Who? No to Hassockfield campaign

Join the No to Hassockfield campaign for a banner making workshop in Consett town centre. Please get in touch via email if you would like to attend, and venue details will be shared. Materials provided!