By gathering friends, family, or colleagues around a shared meal, you can spark meaningful conversations about the experiences of refugees and migrants while raising vital funds for the Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants.

For many in our community, food is more than just nourishment—it’s a connection to home, a reminder of family traditions, and a source of comfort in difficult times. Sharing a meal brings people together, creating moments of joy, belonging, and understanding. With every bite, you will be helping us provide essential support to refugees and migrants who are destitute and face hunger daily.

Whether you raise £20, £200 or £2,000, you could help sustain our vital services for those with nowhere else to turn. Every pound raised will ensure that those in our community receive the food, care, and assistance they desperately need—helping them rebuild their lives with dignity and hope.

Rebecca grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she trained to be a nurse:

She married and had two children and life was good, except that she could see around her inequality and injustice. ‘In Congo there is not freedom. You have no right to express yourself or claim your rights,’ she explains. Wanting a better country for her children to grow up in, she began going to political meetings and became involved with opposition activity.

The government became aware of her opposition and she was taken from her home and imprisoned. Eventually, she found a way to escape and left the country, travelling through Angola, to Portugal and France and eventually to England.

We helped Rebecca contact an agency which put her in touch with her 14-year-old son who had become separated from the family on the journey and was still in France. Meanwhile we supported Rebecca as she went through the difficult process of finding legal representation, applying for accommodation, applying for college and making an asylum claim.