Help Kindred Secure Migration Rights

The principle that all are equal regardless of ethnicity, religion, race, gender, sexuality and other characteristics is the touchstone of the rule of law and modern democracy. This principle, and everything it supports, is threatened by fear, ignorance, walls, boundaries, protectionism, extremism. You can help change that.

About

Kindred is an organisation based on the principle there is no justification for discriminating between people because of some characteristic about them like race, gender, sexual orientation, religion.

The organisation promotes the values of equality and tolerance. We seek to transform our laws and our institutions to reflect these values.

We measure our success in both the individual lives we transform, and the policy change we drive from governments, businesses and international bodies.

The Dunkirk Project

Our current project is based in Calais and Dunkirk working with migrants there who are seeking to unite with UK family members. We are:

1) Offering legal help to families on either side of the channel.

This involves

  • finding advice and representation for refugees in France;
  • helping prepare a case working with the families in the UK;
  • taking the families to France to unite them;
  • supporting the costs of legal work;
  • funding interpreters

2) Coordinating with existing NGOs working there

  • supporting the work of Help Refugees and Safe Passage (part of Citizens UK)

3) Campaigning for a political resolution of the situation

Our goal is to make the existing system work, as set out in the Common European Asylum Policy or Dublin III regulation. This provides a detailed set of legal rights to those seeking asylum to unify with family members. But it is not functioning. The UK and France are presiding over a situation that denies rather than facilitates people exercising legal rights. There needs to be formal apparatus for helping people establish their right to come to the UK and for adjudicating on that right.

The focus of the Dunkirk work, beginning with a documentary about the current situation, will be to head towards achieving some form of systemic reform, offering help to establish a refugee’s claim and to family unification, and independent adjudication on it.

Please visit our fundraising page, watch our video, and donate here – www.crowdjustice.com/case/unitefamilies/

Donate

Kindred is helping children in Northern France exercise their rights to unite with family members in the UK and claim asylum.

You can help child migrants to unite with UK families and claim asylum by donating here:

Who we Are

Alex Goodman, Founder

Alex Goodman, Founder

Alex Goodman is a barrister whose practise includes immigration law. He formerly chaired Medical Justice, a charity working for immigration detainees and was a councillor at London Borough of Camden. He has been working with others to set up the Dunkirk project working with refugees in camps and hostels in northern France over the past year.

Sasha Blackmore

Sasha Blackmore

Sasha is an experienced barrister with a particular expertise in immigration and judicial review.

Click here for more information on Sasha.

Samantha Broadfoot QC

Samantha Broadfoot QC

Samantha is an experienced immigration lawyer, who can also speak French.

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Tim Buley

Tim Buley

Tim is a barrister specialising in human rights and public law with significant experience representing refugees.

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Annette Elder

Annette Elder

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Toby Fisher

Toby Fisher

Toby is a barrister specialising in public and human rights law. He has extensive experience representing refugees and asylum seekers.

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Anjoli Foster

Anjoli Foster

Anjoli is a barrister with experience of a wide variety of immigration matters.

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George Graham

George Graham

George is Director of Campaigns for a children’s NGO. He is supporting Kindred on policy, advocacy and campaigns.

Joe Harrod

Joe Harrod

Joe is Founder and COO of Signify, a data science company that aims to elevate the way politicians and media owners think about real people.
Joe is helping us use public data to understand changing attitudes towards issues and people around the world, as well as understanding the needs of those we want to help and measuring our own success with tangible metrics.
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Christopher Jacobs

Christopher Jacobs

Christopher is an experienced barrister, who has appeared in number of leading cases concerning refugees in the courts in England and Wales from Tribunal level to the Supreme Court.

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David Lock QC

David Lock QC

David is a barrister and QC specialising in public law with a particular emphasis on healthcare rights.

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Naomi Luhde-Thompson

Naomi Luhde-Thompson

Naomi is a campaigner for rights and justice and currently a PhD researcher, previously at Friends of the Earth.

Natasha Jackson

Natasha Jackson

Natasha is a barrister at 3 Hare Court and has a public, commercial and civil practice focusing on international and cross-border work.

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Kate Olley

Kate Olley

Kate is a judicial review and human rights specialist who has conducted many asylum and immigration cases for applicants.

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Carine Patry

Carine Patry

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Martin Tisné

Martin Tisné

Martin is an Investment Partner at Omidyar Network, where he runs grants and advocacy related to open data, privacy & surveillance reform, as well as AI ethics.

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Elizabeth Wilson

Elizabeth Wilson

Elizabeth is a writer and researcher.

Click here for more information on her work.

Maya Wolfe-Robinson

Maya Wolfe-Robinson

Maya is assistant opinion editor at The Guardian.

Follow Maya on twitter @mwolferobinson

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