Ferret Underground: New year, new Ferret

Hi ,

2023 has finally arrived! Are you bounding into the new year well-rested, hydrated and motivated to effect change? Or have you stumbled, squinting into the daylight, surrounded by Quality Street wrappers, with your time-off now gone and the working week returned?

For this newsletter writer, a little of both. But The Ferret is certainly excited about the projects we have planned for this year - and all of them are only possible thanks to your support.

The Ferret is more than seven years old now and still growing as a team and in the scope of what we can achieve.

Happy New Year!

Asylum seekers housed by the Home Office in a Greenock hotel for months – and who are now spending their second Christmas without having their claim for sanctuary considered – say they have been “abandoned by the system”, with some reporting feeling suicidal.

The majority of the men – who say they fled conflict and persecution from countries including Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen – have been “stuck in limbo” for over a year in otherwise unused hotels provided by Home Office contractor Mears Group.