Media centre
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
What we offer
Spokespeople and campaign areas
We have a diverse network of local community leaders 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 Living Wage campaign
- Making London a Living Wage City
- School-based counselling
- Refugee and migrant justice through community sponsorship and citizenship
- Housing and homelessness
- Climate justice
Press highlights
Selected highlights of recent news stories, opinion pieces and coverage of Citizens UK's work.
East London pupils meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Newham Recorder, 17/07/25
London temporary accommodation is in dire state, says charity, BBC London, 24/05/25
Britons feel detached from society and distrustful of strangers, The Times, 18/05/25
TfL pledges 'better support' for asylum seekers applying for travel discounts, Evening Standard, 25/04/25
Brighton: School counselling project to continue next year, The Argus, 20/02/25
London night workers 40% likelier to be low paid than daytime workers, report reveals, Evening Standard, 01/12/24
Oxford asylum seekers given bus passes in pilot scheme, Oxford Mail, 16/11/24
Over 3,000 homeless children stuck in hotels longer than legal limit – a 600% rise in three years, The Big Issue, 24/10/24
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.
Recent press releases
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Citizens UK Deputy Director Jonathan Cox honoured for services to community organising and refugee resettlement
Citizens UK is delighted to announce that Jonathan Cox, Deputy Director, has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2023 with an O.B.E. for services to community organising and refugee resettlement.
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Local Students Ask Big Questions at Youth Assembly with Bridget Phillipson
Young people showed real leadership in the North East in their Youth Assembly, asking for change in their communities.
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