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Advocacy & Policy Engagement
Since 2022, the UK has provided sanctuary to over 300,000 Ukrainians under temporary protection schemes. As families rebuild their lives, policy design and implementation play a decisive role in shaping stability, integration and long-term outcomes. Through our national digital platform and daily frontline engagement, Opora works at the intersection of community experience and institutional systems, ensuring that lived realities inform decision-making.
Ukrainians in the UK continue to face structural challenges, including temporary visa frameworks, fragmented communication between agencies, inconsistent guidance, and limited culturally competent support. These are not isolated cases but recurring patterns. By identifying systemic barriers and engaging constructively with policymakers and sector partners, Opora contributes evidence-led insight aimed at improving clarity, reducing avoidable crises, and supporting sustainable integration.
MIGRANT-LED POWER SHIFT
Systems Work Must Be Led by Those Affected
OPORA is migrant-led. Our leadership has lived experience of displacement. Our programmes are shaped by direct community insight.We centre displaced women and families in:● Programme design● Evidence gathering● Policy conversations● Narrative reframingThis ensures solutions are informed by lived reality, not assumption.
Our Systems Change Approach
Real-Time Community Intelligence
Through our AI Assistant, digital platform, and 35,000+ network, we identify emerging risks and recurring structural gaps.
Evidence-Informed Engagement
We bring anonymised frontline data into cross-sector discussions, roundtables, and stakeholder engagement spaces.
Practical Systems Bridging
We translate complex policy into accessible guidance, reducing misinformation, panic and preventable crisis.
Structural Barriers We Actively Work To Reduce
We do not duplicate statutory services. We improve access, clarity, and responsiveness within them.
Immigration uncertainty and lack of clarity
Policy-to-community communication gaps
Barriers to employment for displaced women
Digital exclusion
Lack of culturally appropriate wellbeing access
Fragmented integration pathways
Theory of Structial Impact
EVIDENCE OF IMPACT
2026
Written evidence submitted by the Ukraine Policy Network, hosted by University of Birmingham
2025
Ukrainian Voice Planning for tomorrow
2024
Impact Report
2023
Navigating Uncertainty: The Future of Ukrainian Refugees in the UKA partnership event from Opora & the Aspen Institute UK
The obstacles Ukrainian refugees face in accessing housingin the UK and the threat of a homelessness crisis