Tuesday 3 March

Our next organising meeting

We hold virtual meetings on the first Tuesday of each month.

Our next organising meeting will be on Tuesday 3rd March at 6pm.

It is an open meeting.

Join via Zoom. 

sATURday 28 March

Together Against the Far Right

Together Alliance national march, central London, 28 March

Our coalition of organisations and individuals acts in solidarity with asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants and other people visiting or entering the UK. We campaign to close Campsfield House and other immigration removal centres, and for an end to policies of detention.

We campaign for tolerance, diversity and inclusion. We reject policies of division and exclusion. We reject vigilante actions fuelled by bigotry and intolerance.

We will march in solidarity with the Together Alliance on 28 March – in hope, love and unity. Join us!

More information: https://www.togetheralliance.org.uk/

Getting there

• Different ways to get to the Together Alliance rally.
• Book your seat on a trade union subsidised coach, taking you from Oxford to the Together Alliance 28 March rally in central London – and back!
• Oxfordshire transport link: https://bit.ly/4kWerTV

ACCESSIBILITY

• Accessibility information, including online participation: https://www.togetheralliance.org.uk/access

sunday 8 March 2026

International Women’s Day protest: Feminism Knows No Borders

The Coalition to Close Campsfield supported the Feminism Knows No Borders protest at the Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford city centre on 8 March, International Women’s Day 2026.

On International Women’s Day 2026, we stood in solidarity with women and girls in every country, across and against divisive national borders, against racism, fascism, transphobia, war, patriarchal violence, state violence and exploitation.

Liz Peretz delivered the following speech for the Coalition:

“A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all” (Arundhati Roy)

And there is no doubt this is a key moment of political struggle; the world fragmented, the controlling powers both immoral and out of hand. There are signs of this everywhere. Key issues – from Palestine to the rise of the far right across the world, from Iran to Sudan – are eating into our communities’ principles, our sense of right and wrong, our very beings. It is a world where private profit is more important than people’s lives (look at our own water companies poisoning our water for profit)
One sinister sign – not eight miles from where we stand today – is a building with prison walls and barbed wire fences called Campsfield House  – where ordinary people are looked up, without trial, without time limit – in our name. Arbitrarily cruel to individuals, this is seen by our Home Ministry (the home office) as the necessary sharp point of an increasingly hostile immigration policy, designed to strike terror into anyone without papers. Have no doubt if it can be done for one part of our communities it can also be done for another – how long before that happens.

And have no doubt it is all done to divide us – we must be united strong work across barriers not build them. And as women we can lead the way – we not only hold up half the sky, but we at transcending boundaries, working with one voice.
So we need to stand up – stand up for all those families affected, anxious, with a man of the family locked up in Campsfield as we speak; for all those women across the world who have come here at enormous risk – of rape, trafficking, in constant fear on their hazardous journeys – only to be locked up, disbelieved, in other detention centres like Yarlswood or Derwentside; we, who are ourselves collectively, as women, so often subject to discrimination must raise our collective voice to stop this utterly immoral inhumane practice of immigration detention.

Fighting that sinister part of our successive governments’ barbarous activity  and winning – will begin to dismantle their regimes and start our own. We women have a sense of solidarity which transcends borders and transcends class and creed – a powerful sisterhood of belonging. a sisterhood of a huge oppressed half. Let us join the fight with the home office to reverse their policies and Close Campsfield Down.

Migrants are not criminals! Close Campsfield Down!

Saturday 31 January, 2026

Demonstration to Close Campsfield

Over 30 supporters of the Coalition to Close Campsfield gathered on Langford Lane, Kidlington, a few kilometres north of Oxford. We came to show our opposition to the re-opening and planned expansion of Campsfield House immigrant detention centre.

We used group chants and recorded music with powerful amplification to alert the men imprisoned inside that they are not forgotten, that outside the gates there is a strong support movement.

Again, we used banners and placards to help passing members of the public remember that detaining people is wrong.

Supporters of the Coalition to Close Campsfield gathered at Campsfield House, Langford Lane, in Kidlington, a village north of Oxford, at 4pm Wednesday 4 December, to protest as the first people were brought from other detention centres. They reached out to local people and to workers entering and leaving the detention centre with banners, signs, placards, and with chants. Most wore black, to in sorrow and solidarity.

At 6pm, the protest shifted to Oxford’s city centre. 50+ coalition supporters united to condemn this government’s needless performative cruelty.

Coalition supporter Bill MacKeith said:

“It is awful that now we’ll see suffering and abuse at this site again. It is truly shocking that this is being imposed on those who will be detained and on local people, all of whose elected representative bodies have long opposed it. Reopening Campsfield is a terrible step backwards. It ignores evidence, public opinion and basic humanity. We will be there tomorrow in solidarity with the first detainees as they arrive.”

Last year Cherwell District Council joined Kidlington Parish, Oxford City and Oxfordshire County Council, as well as local MP Calum Miller, in opposing the plans to reopen and expand Campsfield.

Campsfield has been ‘refurbished’ at a cost £70 million by Galliford Try. It will be run by MITIE, whose record at Harmondsworth elicited a scorching report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons only last year (‘the worst conditions [ever] seen in immigration detention’). The government has announced this 160-bed Phase 1 will be followed by a Phase 2 new-build to bring the number of beds up to 400 by 2030.

To get round the solid local opposition, the government plans to pursue a Crown Development (CDO) route that cuts out the local planning authority, Cherwell District Council. The CDO route effectively invites one government minister to agree with the wishes of another despite the clear wishes of local people.

Bail for Immigration Detainees also condemned the reopening of Campsfield.

22 november, 2025

National Demonstration to Keep Campsfield Closed

plus
organising discussion & refreshments

at Exeter Hall, Kidlington, to build the movement to end detention and deportations.

18 October, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm

Public Meeting for the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention

Fusion Arts Centre, 15 Park End St, Oxford OX1 1HH