We act as a mediator between young people and their legal representatives and statutory services. We help them to understand their rights; navigate the overwhelming bureaucracy; and translate systems and languages they don’t understand, whilst also partnering with campaigners, unions and law centres, to challenge these injustices at policy level.

We offer a range of therapies to address the root and the symptoms of trauma both physically and mentally. This includes EMDR, hypnotherapy, art & music therapy, retreats and nature connection. We have a small in-house therapy team and work with trusted partners for referrals. Our therapeutic care informs our other programmes, ensuring all our work is trauma-informed.

We create group activities, where young people have space for human connection and get to express their experiences via creative mediums, to support their integration and cultural development. This includes exhibitions, social events and countercultural movements, which offer alternatives to the mainstream society they feel excluded by. We’re also a Communities in Residence partner at the Barbican.

Our abolitionist framework explores restorative justice, at local and global level. Through media training and influential partnerships, we provide platforms for young people to share their lived experiences, and challenge the hostile environment. This has included keynote speeches in Trafalgar Square for the 2021 & 2022 climate reparation marches; presenting to MPs in parliament on housing conditions for asylum seekers and publishing articles for Economy.

Founder & Executive Director

Mona’s the child of political refugees, raised in Denmark, and migrated to the UK as a teenager. Her experience spans across policy development to the grassroots; from the Cabinet Office to the refugee camp in Calais, and she’s been selected as a Clore Lived Experience Leader in the Migration Sector; a Thirty Percy Changemarker and for the Aspen Leadership Programme.

Non-Executive Director

Sarah’s a writer, storyteller, mother of four children and co-founder of Revoke. She’s worked in race equality across central government and the charity sector, with a focus on building strong communities, centred on compassion, including a TedTalk on Interconnected Communities. She’s based in Cardiff and works with Hijinx Theatre, exploring the intersection of race and the arts.

Therapeutic Programme

Hannah initially trained in architecture and is now an art facilitator and trainee Integrative Art Psychotherapist, with extensive youth work experience across the health, social care and education sectors, working extensively with highly vulnerable young people. She sees creativity as crucial to support young people through complex trauma and leads our therapeutic programmes.

Casework & Educational Development

Salma's British Pakistani and spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia. She's a qualified teacher, and facilitator, advocating for education, which nurtures people beyond the academic. Her facilitation focuses particularly on healthy relationships and nature connection, including work with Bold Voices and The Visionaries. She leads on casework and alternative education.

Casework & Advocacy

Amr is a Syrian activist who sought asylum in the UK in 2022 with his family. He spent his childhood in Kuwait, and has also lived in KSA, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and most recently in Turkey, before coming to the UK. He brings his 10+ years of experience advocating for displaced people, and his first hand experience as a refugee in the UK, to our Casework and Advocacy programmes.

Transformative Justice & Safeguarding

Laura's an Adult & Youth Facilitator and Trainee Transpersonal Counsellor whose experience spans formal education, activism, health advocacy and climate justice. She leads on embedding rehabilitation and transformative justice across Revoke’s programmes, drawing on abolitionist and radical safeguarding frameworks. She also advocates for young people’s health needs.

Operations & Partnerships

Bobby has worked with grassroots organising in Glasgow and London, mobilising against deportation, destitution and detention, and has been a short-term kinship carer for unaccompanied minors. They recently completed a PhD on the history of the Home Office, Deportation and Empire. Bobby oversees Revoke's daily operations, partnerships and curriculum development framework.

Art Psychotherapist

Ali is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist (IATE/HCPC), and a multi-disciplinary artist. He's worked with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) college students and within the NHS' alcohol and substance misuse services. He provides one-to-one therapy, applying a trauma informed framework, and drawing on his own family's experience of displacement from Iran.

Casework & Pastoral Support

Stephanie has a great passion for alternative, holistic health. She's currently managing the health store POWER HERBS and leads their community outreach. She's a trained Hypnotherapist and Blast Technique practitioner, and is studying towards a counselling qualification. She brings her personal experience of migration, and health knowledge to her pastoral care at Revoke.

Youth Organiser

Cherif left Niger aged 17 and spent five years travelling to the UK, where he’s still waiting for his refugee status. He’s passionate about social justice and has completed the One to One Leaders programme for young displaced people; delivered keynote speeches at the 2021 & 2022 climate reparations marches; been a Community Ambassador for Economy and part of Blagrave’s Challenge & Change programme.

Non-Executive Director

Jilna’s worked with grassroots movements in India and migration organisations in the UK, including as CEO of Migrants' Rights Network. She currently works in Philanthropy, with a focus on funding grassroots movements. She’s also a qualified Craniosacral Therapist and community movement & meditation facilitator, where her work centres those with less access to therapeutic care.

Non-Executive Director

Sofian sought asylum in Cardiff, from Algeria, aged 17 with his family. Having to learn English and enter a new education system, he graduated with a 1st from Bristol uni, and a Masters from Oxford and is now a Senior Software Engineer. He's helped many refugee causes including Techfugees and the Calais refugee camp. He supports us with tech, translation and strategy development.