About
- End Child Detention Now is a citizens’ initiative which sprang from a successful campaign to release a Barnsley born toddler and his parents from Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre where he had been held for more than three weeks in July 2009.
Ali is one of the more than 2,000 asylum seeking children that are held in immigration detention centres in the United Kingdom each year.
We believe that holding children in detention centres such as Yarl’s Wood is cruel and unnecessary and must end immediately.
End Child Detention Now is run entirely by volunteers, we have no paid staff, and no income. There is a good reason for this – we want our campaign to be one of the shortest in British political history. Sadly though we suspect we might be here after Christmas still thinking of ways in which we can stop children being locked up. Some of the things we would like to do we can’t because it costs money. Such as producing publicity materials, buying postage stamps for our handprints campaign and so on…
Our friends at Shpresa have offered to help us by accepting donations in the form of old fashioned cheques. They will then help us to buy things for the campaign. If you would like to help us by making a donation, please address your cheque to “Shpresa Programme” and send it to Shpresa Programme, Mansfield House, 30 Avenons Road, Plaistow, E13 8HT.
With our votes, our voices and our determination we all have the power to end child detention now together.
Please join us by signing the No.10 petition and by going to the Take Action part of this website.
To offer your support or to find out more please email us at ecdn
Esme Madill, Simon Parker, Clare Sambrook, Alexa Kellow, Mary McCormack
Campaign coordinators
