Scotland's national refugee charity. Celebrating diversity & raising awareness about issues faced by refugees. Co-ordinators of #RefugeeFestScot.
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2009
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A special parliamentary reception marked 40 years of our work, and showcased a specially commissioned exhibition of portraits celebrating people who have rebuilt their lives in Scotland. Thank you to @HumzaYousaf for sponsoring the event.
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Passionate about #SocialJustice and a more compassionate asylum system? @scotrefcouncil are recruiting!
➡️Policy and Public Affairs Manager, £41,526
➡️Communications Officer, £35,542
📍Glasgow/hybrid
More info tinyurl.com/2mdkzzcj
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Last year we helped more than 10,700 people rebuild their lives in safety. Thanks for helping us build a better future with refugees in Scotland.
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together ow.ly/xBGU50Xezof
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Everyone has the right to live free from poverty and the chance to thrive.
Every efforts must be made to eradicate poverty so all people, everywhere, can live with dignity and prosperity.
Friday is #EndPoverty Day.
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Another fantastic line-up for our Nae Borders Comedy Night at @GleeClubGlasgow next month! Tickets on sale from Monday 13th October
🏴 NEW SHOW: @scotrefcouncil are excited to announce Nae Borders Comedy Night, on Thu 13th Nov at The Glee Club Glasgow
Featuring @marknelsoncomic, @kbfilms92, @MrSidSingh, Paul Black, @MarjoleinR, @macarthurboyd, @MhairiBlack & Susie McCabe
🎟 On general sale 10am Mon 13th Oct
The real story behind asylum hotels. Private companies are lining their pockets with huge profits while people seeking safety are forced to live in sub-standard conditions
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"Working in the asylum system for nearly 20 years, most people I’ve met want just two things. To work, and be with their families," writes @LouCalvey of @AsylumMatters
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Whatever language you speak this #internationaltranslationday2025, our message is the same - refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
Happy Friday! Good luck to the Afghan women's refugee team who will make their international debut next month 🧡
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It doesn't matter where we're from: we all deserve dignity and a decent quality of life. The TUC is absolutely right to say that building a better system for all of us would mean building a better, fairer system for people seeking safety.
independent.co.uk/voices/pau…
This #PeaceDay our hearts go out to everyone living in the shadow of fear and intimidation.
We all deserve to be safe and to feel like we belong, no matter where we’re from or how we arrived.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
“To live in fear is not a choice. It is a condition forced upon people seeking protection. And when we allow fear to shape our response, we do not become safer. We become smaller.” - Our CEO, Sabir Zazai
We all deserve to feel safe 🧡
Words matter. Thank you to @S_A_Somerville for rejecting divisive and dehumanising rhetoric 🚫
Here she quotes our CEO @sabir_zazai: "When we allow fear to shape our response, we do not become safer. We become smaller." 🧡
We stand in solidarity with people seeking safety and against acts of violence and intimidation taking place in parts of the country.
People fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for Scotland’s problems. Everyone deserves to be safe and feel like they belong.
"In Glasgow, where I live, I volunteer as a birth companion, which involves spending time in [asylum] hotels. I have accompanied new mothers, often recovering from major abdominal surgery when they leave hospital with their babies...
"... to return to small, hot rooms that haven’t been cleaned, windows that can’t be fully opened, with no fridge, no kettle, no microwave, no capacity to sterilise bottles, nowhere to unpack, nowhere to put the baby bath" lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/septembe…
Great to meet so many MPs at our Celebration of Refugee Integration reception with @refugeecouncil and Welsh Refugee Council at Westminster this week.
Thanks to @PeteWishart for sponsoring the event and @LordWajidKhan for joining us.
As our CEO @sabir_zazai said: "Words matter. We have to challenge misinformation, engage with communities, speak to those with concerns, but at the same time, engage with those seeking sanctuary. We need to work for a society where all of us feel safe and no one lives in fear."
Some politicians are using lies about asylum hotels to stir up fear and division in our communities.
The truth is, we all deserve to be safe and to feel like we belong.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 retweeted
.@scotrefcouncil seek a confident, compassionate, and capable HR Manager to join them on a fixed-term basis covering maternity leave
📍Glasgow/hybrid
🗓️36 hpw. Fixed term until 31 January 2027
💷£41,526
tinyurl.com/3n63z6yu #CharityJobs
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