We are pleased to share with you our Impact Report for 2023/24! (We are currently working on our 2024/25 Impact Report – stay tuned!)

2023/24 was another busy year for Right to Remain. We are proud that did so much more than the previous year, 2022/23. The main highlight of the year was that we refreshed our Theory of Change, bringing clearer focus and a stronger sense of purpose to everything we do.

Our new framework of building knowledge (public legal education), building radical solidarity (strategic convening) and builidng power (campaigning and organising) helped us to work more coherently and meaningfully with our communities.

Building Knowldge – Through our public legal education work, we helped more people to understand the asylum and
immigration system better, increasing their confidence to take appropriate steps for themselves
and help people they are supporting to do so.

• Our Toolkit remains as relevant as ever, being used online by at least 60,000 users a month in 2023/24.
• We maintained and updated the toolkit (16 sections) and added 6 new sections.
• We ran a total of four flagship Knowledge is Power sessions, increasing the knowledge of
  113 individuals from 62 organisations.
• We published 36 legal updates (doubled from 2022/23) responding to our community’s
  immediate queries.

Building Radical Solidarity – Through our strategic convening work, we connected and brought more individuals and groups
into the migration justice movement so that they can work together to protect our communities
from the harm of the asylum and immigration system.

• in 2023/24, we organised a total of 37 events, compared to 24 events in 2022/23. We reached 1,160 people from 660 groups in 2023/24: 322 groups connected directly with us for the first time. Each event combined public legal education with solidarity development.
• In September 2023, we successfully concluded our Toolkit festivals which began in
  February 2023. Through the festivals, we (re)introduced our Toolkit to 306 people from
  177 organisations, increasing their ability to provide legal support to people who are going
  through the asylum and immigration process.
• We held a number of ‘Preparing our community for the impact of the Illegal Migration Act’
  workshops, for our community who were fearful of its introduction.
• We launched our Directory, listing groups that we know are using the Toolkit.

Building Power – Through our campaigning and organising work under These Walls Must Fall, we continued to
support people with lived experience of the asylum and immigration system to raise their voices
and campaign together.

• With allies in Liverpool, Manchester, Halifax, Sheffield and surrounding areas, we organised a nubmer of vigils, demonstrations and events to challenge the Hostile Environment.
• strengthened our relationships with our allies. At the sessions, community groups and
  organisations get together to discuss and collaborate; to build knowledge, radica
  solidarity, and the power to make change.
• These Walls Must Fall campaigners co-delivered many of our workshops and events,
  enabling the participants to learn from their experiences and also start centering people’s
  lived-experience of the system when challenging the injustice of the asylum and
  immigration system.
• These Walls Must Fall was nominated for the Amplifying Voices Award by the Sheila
  McKechnie Foundation.

You can read our full 2023/24 Impact Report here.

If you are interested in reading our Impact Report 2022/23, have a look at our blog here.

And to everyone who has supported our work, thank you for your continuing solidarity with us.

Right to Remain team