Contact the press team

For media enquiries and more information about our work, please contact our press inbox at press@citizensuk.org

Alternatively, you can contact our press team:

• Aanisah Khan, Press and Campaigns Manager at aanisah.khan@citizensuk.org, or 07958 235110
• Sophie Thomhave-Lee, Press and Campaigns Officer at sophie.thomhave-lee@citizensuk.org, or 07534 853 006

What we offer

Spokespeople and campaign areas

We have a diverse network of local leaders who are experts by lived experience alongside local community organisers available as spokespeople for TV, radio, print and online media interviews. These spokespeople are campaigning on a broad range of social justice issues, including:

• The real Living Wage campaign
• Making London a Living Wage City
• School-based counselling
• Refugee and migrant justice through community sponsorship and citizenship
• Making misogyny a hate crime
• Housing and homelessness
• Climate justice

Press highlights

Selected highlights of recent news stories, opinion pieces and coverage of Citizens UK's work.

December 2024

Evening Standard: "London night workers 40% likelier to be low paid than daytime workers, report reveals".

November 2024

Oxford Mail: "Oxford asylum seekers given bus passes in pilot scheme".

October 2024

The Big Issue: "Over 3,000 homeless children stuck in hotels longer than legal limit – a 600% rise in three years".

September 2024

The Big Issue: "Community leaders come together to prove city is a place of love, unity and welcomes asylum seekers”.

LoveBelfast: “Over 100 employers in NI now accredited as Real Living Wage employers”.

August 2024

The Guardian: "We need a national effort to rebuild communities after riots".

July 2024

Evening Standard: "Angela Rayner accuses Tories of 'scapegoating refugees' as election campaign enters final 48 hours".

June 2024

The Mirror: "Seven million people missing from UK General Election data hours before register to vote deadline".

The Guardian: "Nearly half of England's care workers get less than the real Living Wage, study finds".

BBC London: "Carers in London: 'We struggle every month'".

May 2024

Birmingham Live: "Five pledges from new Mayor of West Midlands on first day".

The Tablet: "Citizens showing faith to improve lives of others".

April 2024

Newstart Magazine: "800,000 jobs in London deemed insecure".

March 2024

The Mirror: "Major campaign launched to stop voters being caught out by photo ID rules at general election"

Baptist Times: "Churches to champion voter registration"

The Guardian: "Revealed: homeless children spending entire lives in temporary housing in England".

February 2024

The Big Issue: "Missed dental appointments and hours-long freezing walks: Why asylum seekers need free bus travel"

BBC News: "London has worst five areas for pay- report"

North East Londoner: "Haringey ranks as first local authority for low-paid jobs in the UK"

January 2024

Evening Standard: " Walthamstow: Hundreds of asylum seekers told to leave hotel by tomorrow".

About Citizens UK

We bring together everyday people and local organisations to build a better, fairer society. Together, we make change on the issues that matter, from campaigning for zebra crossings on dangerous roads, to reforming the immigration system, to the Living Wage campaign.

We've had 600 organisations participating, 4,000+ community leaders trained, 13,000 Living Wage employers, and hundreds of campaigns won since we were founded in 1989.