Stand Up! Speak Out!
Solidarity Knows No Borders Training Series
We won’t let our public services become a tool of hostile immigration enforcement. It’s time to stand up and speak out!
Stand Up! Speak Out! is an annual series of free, online trainings to resist the Hostile Environment in public services.
We will be opening the 2025 series on March 18, World Social Work Day, with an exciting online panel event exploring this year’s theme: The Power of Words.
Whether you are working in public sector services like social care, health care, housing, schools, or in charities and community settings, we all have a part to play in building a better world.
Over the last two years, we have trained over 2200 people. Sessions have included topics like asylum system 101; everyday borders; rights information to access healthcare; skills to fight for housing justice; ideas for collective care; climate justice and migrant justice. For more details, check out our 2024 Impact Report here.
Session Leaders: Stand Up, Speak Out is led by an incredible community of people directly impacted by the hostile environment, frontline staff from migrant rights organisations, specialists, academics, community leaders and national organising networks.
Why should I attend?
“This seminar series could change someone’s life.
As an asylum seeker, I always wondered what could’ve happened if I wasn’t failed by the system. What could’ve happened if I was asked the right questions by my social worker, and an action was taken to help me before I turned 18 with my status.
This seminar series is very personal to me as it gives me the opportunity to let people in power gain more understanding on how to help young asylum seekers. Our voices, our stories deserve to be heard and understood by those with the ability to enact change. In the hopes that our needs are met with compassion and action and my hope for a world where the right actions lead to brighter outcomes for all.” -Fatima, Young Migrants Matter
About the Organisers
Stand Up! Speak Out! has predominantly been organised and facilitated by Social Workers Without Borders, Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) and Migrants Organise who all became connected through Solidarity Knows No Borders—a community of migrant organisations, groups and individuals, organising in solidarity to end hostility and racism against migrants and refugees.
Download a one-page overview of SUSO 2025 here. Please send any questions to either brian@migrantsorganise.org; ally@pafras.org.uk or naomi@socialworkerswithoutborders.org