This Refugee Week, we are standing up for healthcare as a human right. Not for some of us. For all of us.
Refugee Week runs from 16 to 22 June 2026 in the UK. This year’s theme is Courage. We see it every day in the people we serve, people seeking safety and refugee status and others who have been excluded from the healthcare system, but who keep showing up, advocating for themselves and their families, and rebuilding their lives.
Right now, the far right is gathering strength, and global anti-immigration marches and hostile rhetoric are making people afraid to seek the healthcare they are legally entitled to. We are here to tell them the loudest voices in the room are not the only voices. With your voice, your solidarity, and if you can, your financial support, we are pushing back.
Courage to Care is our response. It is a call to everyone who believes that healthcare belongs to all of us, to say so.
What courage means to us
Our National Health Advisors are people with lived experience of displacement and backgrounds in healthcare. They shape how we work, what we know, and who we are as an organisation.
We asked them what courage means to them, and how they support others in navigating a complex healthcare system. Watch their stories.
Courage in action
Look after your mental health
Refugee Week can bring up powerful emotions. For people with lived experience of displacement, it can be a moment of recognition, pride, and solidarity, but also of grief, anxiety, and exhaustion.
Co-produced with our NHAs, this guide offers practical wellbeing support and signposts to specialist services.
Find a Refugee Week event
Across the UK, hundreds of events are taking place, from community celebrations and film screenings to workshops, exhibitions and panel discussions.
Find an event near you and show your solidarity in person.
Take our Refugee Week quiz
Fancy testing your knowledge? Our Refugee Week quiz is designed to challenge what people think they know about people seeking safety, and the barriers they face, including to healthcare.
It takes about five minutes. The courage to care starts with what you know.
Healthcare is a human right. Help us protect it.
The people we serve are navigating a healthcare system that too often turns them away. Our advice lines, outreach support, and advocacy work are what stand between them and no care at all.
This Refugee Week, your donation will help fund the services that reach people excluded from healthcare. Every contribution, however small, makes a difference.
You have spoken. Our heart was warmed. Here is some of what you said.
We asked people across the UK to send messages of solidarity to the people we serve. Hundreds responded. These are just three of the voices we received.
I believe in unity and caring for one another as human beings irrespective of colour or religion. We need to stand up against division and hatred and embrace multiculturalism. People that arrive on boats have often risked their lives and left atrocities behind them in the hope they can find a new and safe life. We need to find a way to welcome everyone into our hearts and not get caught up in the hateful and damaging rhetoric of mainstream and social media.”
Healthcare is a human right and should be freely available to all who need it. You are welcome here and I send you my warmest wishes.”
You’re my friend even though I don’t know you. I offer you my voice, my hand, and my time.
