Speaking Out, Staying Safe. Stand With Communities

Aim

Refugees, migrants and the communities supporting them are facing rising hostility and hate. Help us make sure they can keep speaking out.

Speaking Out, Staying Safe

Help us equip communities to stand up to hostility and hate

We're raising £30,000 to train, resource and connect the communities on the frontline of rising hostility, so they can keep speaking out, safely.

We currently have a very generous donor who is match funding so every pound you donate will be doubled!

The problem

Refugees, migrants and the communities standing with them are facing rising hostility and hate, online, in the press, and on their doorsteps.

Two thirds of the community groups and organisations we work with have been targeted. We mean emails threatening staff. Social media pile-ons designed to silence and exhaust. False stories planted in local press. Protests outside their doors.

The hostile climate does not exist in a vacuum. Inaccurate and sensationalised media coverage creates the conditions for it and many of the communities we work with have no way to challenge it. We are changing that, by building relationships with journalists, developing rapid rebuttal capacity, and making sure the people with the most important stories to tell are equipped and ready to tell them.

The people we are working with are people running English classes, befriending schemes, food banks and legal advice services. They are doing some of the most important community work in the country. And they are being targeted precisely because they speak up for some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

Most have no support when it happens. No plan. No one to call.

That is what we are here to change.

What just happened

On 13 April 2026, over 100 people from every corner of the UK came together in London for a day unlike any other.

“This is not a battle in which we must retaliate against those who attack us, but rather a way to present ourselves in an optimistic and positive light.” Forum Participant

Grassroots leaders, people with lived experience of migration, journalists and funders spent the day sharing stories, building skills and finding solidarity. They practised responding to crises in real time. They heard from journalists about responsible reporting. They learned how to counter misinformation, reach new audiences, and protect the people they serve.

And they left knowing they were not alone.

That day was just the beginning. Your donation will help us make it the start of something much bigger.

“I left the day with a feeling of hope – we don’t have to be silenced by the far-right, and can be proactive in taking up space online”

Our vision

We want to live in a country where every community, whatever their background, wherever they came from, can speak freely and safely about their lives and their work, without fear of attack.

We believe that when refugees and migrants can tell their own stories, on their own terms, and when the communities standing with them have the confidence and tools to speak out, things change. Minds shift. Support grows. And the hostility that thrives on silence begins to lose its grip.

We want every grassroots community group working with refugees and migrants in the UK to have access to practical support when they need it most  whether that is a crisis hitting on a Friday afternoon, a social media pile-on, or simply the day-to-day challenge of communicating well in a hostile climate.

This crowdfunder is how we start getting there.

What your money will do

£30,000 will allow us to:

Train communities across the UK Hands-on workshops for grassroots groups, particularly those in areas with little access to professional support, covering crisis response, storytelling, and staying safe online and offline.

Build free resources anyone can use. Digital toolkits so that any community group facing hostility has a clear, practical guide to hand whenever they need it, wherever they are.

Take the work beyond London Regional events in Scotland, Wales and across England, bringing the learning and solidarity from our April forum to communities that need it most.

Build an ongoing peer network so communities are not left to face hostility alone. A network where people can share what is working, support each other through difficult moments, and build collective strength.

Challenge the headlines, not just the hate Bad reporting does not just reflect hostility it fuels it. We will work directly with journalists to improve how migration stories are told, offering training, trusted spokespeople and rapid rebuttal capacity so that when a false story breaks, someone is ready to respond. And when journalists want to get it right, we will be there to help them do that.

Who we are

IMIX is a small charity with a big belief: that when refugees and migrants can tell their own stories, things change.

Our team is small but mighty, and everything we do is shaped by the people we work with. Our trustees, co-producers and facilitators include people with direct lived experience of migration, journalists, academics and community organisers. We do not design programmes for communities. We design them with them.

In the past year alone we have delivered training to dozens of grassroots groups, convened peer spaces for over 200 sector professionals, and supported organisations through some of the most frightening moments they have faced.

Join us

Every contribution, however small, helps us reach one more community that needs support.

If you believe that refugees and migrants deserve to be heard, and that the people standing with them deserve to be protected, please donate today.

Thank you for standing with us.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 2nd July 2026 at 10:30am