Providing over 25 years of service in Sutton
Message to all our students, clients, volunteers and friends from Europe and around the world.   

We affirm that all our members will always stand for inclusiveness, equality, diversity and respect.
We are proud to work and live alongside you and you will always be welcome here.
RMNS is committed to the safeguarding of children, young people and adults who may be at risk.
We seek to establish a safe, caring environment where there is informed vigilance as to the dangers of abuse.
Click here to see our safeguarding policies.

What we offer


RMNS offers friendship, advice, counselling and English language classes to refugees, asylum seekers and newly settled migrants.  In normal times RMNS operates a Drop-In Centre every Wednesday from 10.00to 12.00 at Trinity Church Hall, Hill Road, Sutton.

New Plan for Immigration

​​On 24 March 2021 The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, launched the government’s New Plan for Immigration and a consultation process which was open until 6 May 2021. Various RMNS trustees and individual supporters responded to the consultation but there was insufficient time to organise a response from the organisation.
 
We have since produced a two-page paper and have sent it to our local MPs Paul Scully and Elliot Colburn for them to seek, on our behalf, a response on from the Home Secretary. You will not be surprised that we have major concerns about the proposed plan and the way the consultation was organised. Click here to access the paper. At the end of the Home Secretary’s speech launching the plan, she asks “if you don’t like our plan, where’s yours?”. It’s not for us to produce a plan but in our response we set out these overarching principles for immigration policy.

  • The Home Office and Border Force should seek to build the trust and respect of voters, asylum-seekers and organisations by being properly staffed and trained to work with asylum seekers in a fair, humane and efficient manner.
  • People seeking asylum should have their claims assessed fairly, humanely and efficiently
  • People refused asylum should be treated in a dignified and humane way and not detained unless there are very strong reasons for doing so.
  • Decisions on children should have the best interest of the child as their primary consideration, including on issues relating to citizenship.
  • Home Office staff dealing with asylum-seekers should have comprehensive training in managing cases and have available to them clear and practical guidance on dealing with complex asylum casework, including the limits of their decision-making capability and the impact of their decisions on applicants, and when to refer to others plus open access to further advice in arriving at competent decisions.
  • UK should play a significant role in providing sustainable solutions to forced migration including addressing the root causes of why people are so desperate that they are prepared to take incredible risks to reach the UK.
  • Some reasons for forced migration arise from the UK’s foreign and military policies and actions.  In this case the UK has a clear responsibility for developing detailed plans - in advance - for dealing with the populations affected by those policies and actions, both during and after they are enacted.
  • The Home Office’s extensive powers should be exercised with more comprehensive oversight and recourse to senior legal advice.  Under this consultation it is clearly the intention to extend existing powers.  This is not in the best interests of the UK or asylum-seekers.

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2020 Annual General Meeting

Trustee, Dr. Carlos de Sousa, was guest speaker at our AGM held via Zoom on Tuesday 8th December.  He told us about the work he was doing supporting refugee health professionals to gain recognition for their qualifications and to join the NHS.

Click below to hear his talk.
We also heard about a creative project that RMNS was involved in. This was "A Good Yarn" developed by Samia Tossio of SamiArts. We saw part of a really interesting video about the project showing RMNS's role right from the beginning.  The video runs for 8 minutes, click here to view.

You can see "A Good Yarn" Exhibition at Whitehall Historic House, Cheam from 3rd December 2020 to 27th January 2021.  It's open weekly on Thu, Fri, Sat 10am-5pm

Annual Report 2020

Our 2020 Annual Report was available for members and supporters joining us for the AGM.  Click here to view. 

EU Settlement Scheme

​The EU Settlement Scheme is part of the government’s arrangements for the UK to leave the European Union. EU citizens currently living and working in the UK are able to apply for “settled status” to enable them and their families to continue living in the UK after June 2021 with the same access to healthcare, benefits and pensions as currently enjoyed. EEA nationals who have been issued documents under the previous legislation will have to re-apply under the new scheme.
Applications for the EU Settlement Scheme opened on 30th March 2019. The process needs to be completed on-line. All the information needed to apply is available at:https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families
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Our advice service is continuing to operate by telephone. If you need advice on EU Settlement Scheme or other immigration issue please contact us on our new phone number:   07725 549411

Please leave a message with your name and telephone number so that we can get back to you. You can also email on:
office@rmns.org.uk  giving your name and telephone number. Please let us know if you will need help with interpretation.​