We help bring together the welcomers and the welcomed
About Us
The Welcoming Committee helps coordinate efforts to support Hong Kongers to settle in the UK, from civil society, communities, business, education and government, across the UK’s nations and regions. We help welcoming organisations to share their stories, in the media and online. We conduct research to inform policy and share best practice.
The WC4HK was established in response to the policy decision by the UK government to allow BN(O) passport holders from Hong Kong to live, work and study in the UK. With up to three million people eligible to take up the offer, this highlighted the need for a coordinated response across the country to welcome significant numbers of migrants from the region and help them to settle successfully in the UK.
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"I believe collaboration is the way we get the best value for money and we make the biggest impact. So it makes sense for the left hand to be talking to the right hand so that we can work together well."
Krish Kandiah, Chair, Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers
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“We’ve got a lot of Hong Kong people coming to the UK, some of them with insecurities: worries about the future, worries about being in a strange country. For them it’s really important there are resources – a network helping them with jobs and homes and helping them with childcare and necessary information.”
Activist and author Nathan Law
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“I have met many Hong Kongers who have recently arrived and are trying to make their new homes here. There is a great diversity among these new Hong Kongers: young, single people; families with school-age children; multi-generational families with grandparents. While some will settle in quite easily, others will need help with jobs, homes, learning English or even just meeting new people.”
Kathleen Ng, a Hong Konger who worked with the Welcoming Committee
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“Something was needed… that would bring the entire effort together: so we could speak, not necessarily with one voice but in a coordinated fashion. So that government could understand what the needs and requirements are and where policy might need to change. That was why we established the Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers.”
Daniel Korski
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"I’m the son of a refugee. My mother came to this country and she became a teacher and married my father. And this great country gave her a huge stability because it stands for freedom and tolerance within a framework of the rule of law. “I think it’s wonderful to have those 90,000 come [from Hong Kong] – and hopefully many more."
Speaking at the launch of the Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers, Lord Greenhalgh spoke of his own personal connection with the drive to extend a warm welcome to Hong Kongers
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Research & Policy
We conduct research to inform policy, share best practice and support organisations to make their voices heard. Find out more and read our latest research,
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Welcoming Network
We bring welcoming organisations together to coordinate efforts to support Hong Kongers in the UK and help them share their stories in the media and online.
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HK Arrivals
Useful links for Hong Kongers to local and national organisations working to welcome you to the UK and help you to settle in your new home.
The Welcoming Committee is hosted at British Future, a non-partisan think tank and registered charity working for a confident and inclusive Britain, welcoming and fair to all.
British Future is helping to make the links between welcoming efforts for new arrivals from Hong Kong and from Ukraine, Afghanistan and elsewhere – to help shape a welcoming movement that can promote social contact between welcomers and welcomed on a national scale.
Click here to find out more about British Future’s work to promote welcoming.