The Friends Without Borders Annual Report is now available online.

Last year in Portsmouth

• 236 people were advised by FWB (sometimes many times) – many more helped indirectly;
• £22,036 given in destitution funding by FWB (up from £16,000 the year before);
• £26,784 spent in total (including destitution) on running the drop-in by FWB;
• Journeys Arts Festival was financed with a grant of £9,800 from the Big Lottery obtained by Friends Without Borders;
• Children’s Corner was run by us;
• Access to Justice free legal advice service was run by us (one of only two free immigration legal advice services in the city).​

Click here to read the full report

One of our own volunteers, Bob Thomas, will be taking part in a sponsored 75 mile walk in June for Friends without Borders and the Iona Abbey Capital Appeal.

Bob will be walking from St Columba Church in Fareham to St Columba Church in central London between the 3rd and 10th June. 

You can sponsor Bob's excellent effort via JustGiving, here (Friends Without Borders) and here (the Iona Abbey Capital Appeal).

Our own Chairman, Michael Woolley, has already sponsored Bob and says: "I'm delighted to support Bob and help a very worthy cause, asylum seekers in Britain today are the poorest people in this country, many now completely excluded from the Welfare State. Thank you Bob.