Community Programme: 2022-2025

BRIL is a community group run by and for disabled people, neurodivergent people, people living with chronic illness and people who experience mental distress. It campaigns for equality and inclusion for all disabled people, promotes independent living, and provides peer support.

Supported Loving is a human rights-based campaign and network, hosted by Choice Support. It believes that people with a learning disability and autistic people should be able to enjoy love, romance and sexual relationships, and offers help to make this happen.

Louisa D B St Bartholomew-Brown Morgan is a volunteer Human Rights Ambassador for Age Cymru and activist in her local community and beyond. Louisa is coordinating a human rights awareness-raising workshop for staff, volunteers and attendees at her local community centre focusing on issues affecting older people in Mid Wales.

Awesta Charity, a registered UK organisation, initially focused its efforts on aiding Afghanistan. Recently, it expanded its mission to embrace all communities in the UK facing similar challenges and sharing the same values, particularly refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants. BIHR are supporting Awesta to use human rights law to advocate for better education, housing and mental health services.

Dudley Voices for Choice are a user led charitable organisation that supports people with learning disabilities and autism to speak up for themselves.

Established in 1999, the Traveller Movement has an award-winning track record in innovative and ground-breaking work using a collective community assets-based approach for addressing ethnic Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Traveller inequality, exclusion and discrimination and promoting their rights.

Aberdeen in Recovery is an organization that aims to help those experiencing active addiction and recovery by highlighting services in their community, offering complementary therapies, on-line recovery groups and a conversation café.

Allies for Justice is a campaign group for people with lived experience of navigating the UK’s asylum system, immigration detention and deportation system. They are committed to campaigning and using their lived experience as a form of expertise, together with their other knowledge and skills, to challenge the cruelty of immigration detention, the broken asylum system and the injustice of deportation policies.

Families for Justice is a group of mothers, wives, partners and daughters living at the sharp end of the UK’s immigration policies. In 2020 they united as part of the Detention Action network. Over the last two years, Families for Justice has become a source of strength and solidarity for all its members, a space where they can talk about what they’re going through and know they won’t be judged; a space where they can unite and fight, together.

Bristol Refugee and Asylum Seeker Partnership was set up in 2019 in response to a desire for greater strategic leadership within the refugee and asylum seeker (RAS) support sector, and for greater voice in the city, particularly for people from refugee backgrounds themselves.

Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support’s vision is to have a fair, humane and safe asylum experience for all in an attempt to bridge the gap by providing specialist asylum casework support and immigration advice to any asylum seeker or refugee across Devon and Cornwall. They also provide wellbeing activities and support to access the NHS through our services. 

People First Dorset was set up in 2004 as a user led charity. They are led and run by people with learning disabilities, with support from staff as needed. People First Dorset believe that people with learning disabilities have a right to be assured of their independence, their ability to choose, and their inclusion in community life. This requires confidence, communication skills and the ability to challenge. People First Dorset achieves this for them.

ATD FOURTH WORLD is a human rights based anti-poverty organisation, with more than sixty years experience of tackling inequality and promoting social justice in the UK.

Rochdale Women’s Welfare Association serves a diverse community of women, many of whom come from minority backgrounds and face intersecting challenges related to domestic abuse, cultural sensitivity, and immigration status.