Refugee Tales comes to Sussex

On Friday 5th July this year around sixty walkers will be arriving in Brighton with their packs and walking boots, excited and a little anxious as they prepare to embark on a five-day walk from Brighton to Hastings.

Refugee Tales is subtitled ‘A Walk in Solidarity with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Detainees’. Walkers will hear stories of those seeking asylum in the UK who have found themselves indefinitely detained under immigration rules. The UK is the only country in Europe that detains people indefinitely. The purpose of the project is to end that policy.

 This year the walkers will start from Brighton and walk to Lewes, then on to Alfriston. The walk then continues to Eastbourne where the Bishop of ...