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Vision, values & aims

Refugee Action exists to enable refugees to build new lives, through advice and information, community development, enhancing opportunity, and campaigning for refugee rights.

Our vision

We want a society in which refugees are welcome, respected and safe, and in which they can achieve their full potential.

Our values

• All our work must be guided by the aspirations and needs of refugees, and their empowerment.
• We believe that successful settlement is best achieved via organised refugee communities in creative partnerships with the wider society
• We must facilitate partnerships with refugees and with wider groups in carrying out our work, and we will do this in a creative and non-competitive way.
• We must seek to advance refugee rights through innovation and leadership, and through delivering high quality service and evaluation.
• Our role must be to provide additional services, which refugee communities, or   other voluntary or statutory services, cannot provide as well as or better than ourselves.
• We must enjoy the diversity of our staff and stakeholders, and promote a culture in which everyone can express their potential.

Our aims

• To ensure that refugees and asylum seekers know their rights, their responsibilities and the opportunities and choices available to them
• To increase and enhance opportunities and choice for refugees and asylum seekers
• To promote the development of refugee communities enabling them to be active participants in wider society
• To raise awareness of refugee issues, influence policy and campaign for refugee rights
• To ensure the highest quality organisational policies and practices, as befits a refugee agency.

Read more about our vision, purpose, values and aims:
2010–2015

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