About Migration Exchange

Migration Exchange (MEX) is a UK-based charitable programme.

Our mission is to cultivate insight, collaboration and collective action towards changing the UK migration system for good.

Our vision is a UK migration system where people experience dignity, equity and fairness.

Our purpose is to be a bridge between funders, charities and communities and build a fair and dignified UK migration system, together.

See our strategic framework 2023 – 2028 to learn about our key delivery and development objectives.

For our latest publications and updates, scroll down to ‘Insights’  and visit our blog.

Current Opportunities

There are currently no job, funding or consultancy opportunities. Please sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about our latest updates.

Highlights

Insight

• ‘Strength in numbers: the UK refugee and migration sector in 2025′ is our latest report mapping the growth of the sector and funding landscape. This follows our 2023 report, ‘People, power and priorities’ .
• We published insights into the experience of the migration and refugee sector during the racist riots of August 2024. Access resources on providers of information and support on safety, security, wellbeing and resilience in the migration sector.

Collaboration

• For a summary of insights and recommendations from our shared sector and funder events and convenings, check out our blog posts and join our mailing list for the latest news. Some recent insights include:

How funders can address urgent needs and operational challenges for organisations supporting Palestinians from Gaza in the UK 

Healing communities: A call to action after far-right riots 

Celebrating lived experience leadership: Insights and the path forward 

• Our funder network meets online regularly on key topics and challenges and provides space to learn from peers.  Sign up here to receive invites and newsletters.

Collective Action

• NRPF Partnership: The No Recourse to Public Funds policy affects millions of people in the UK, unfairly shutting people out of the welfare system and government support based on their visa status. Impacted communities, charities, lawyers, local authorities are all pushing to end this policy. Our partnership with Citizens UK and Praxis aims to amplify and enable this movement so it is better resourced and connected to win change.
  Read more through our FAQs page and join the NRPF mailing list.

• ‘Shaping the Future’: Leadership Initiative for systemic change in the UK refugee and migration sector.
  This fund has been co-created with sector experts to address the growing need for leadership capacity and capability in the refugee and migration sector. It provides resources for individuals, organisations, and networks to foster holistic, sustainable leadership development. The fund promotes leadership development that is: 

Anti-oppressive: Challenging systemic inequities and power dynamics. 

Wellbeing-focused: Prioritising mental health and sustainable leadership practices. 

Grounded in lived experience: Building on the strengths and insights gained through lived experience of migration

In 2025, Shaping the Future has awarded 18 grants to 22 recipients, totalling over £600,000. MEX will be facilitating learning and collaboration among grant partners over the two year period of the grants. Join our mailing list for insights and invites to events.

Our team

Our team is made up of a Directors, a Programme Manager and Programme Coordinator. We have an excellent Advisory Group who support us to put our values into action, strengthen our intersectional practices, provide key insight and perspective and hold us accountable. Each of our flagship projects, Shaping the Future and NRPF Partnership, benefits from having their own co-creation group / steering group to co-design activities and take key decisions. As our host charity, we are also accountable to the board of Global Dialogue.

For more information and an introduction to the MEX team and partners, please contact us on mex@global-dialogue.org

Background

Since MEX was set up in 2010, we have worked with the refugee and migration field and funders in co-designing interventions on strategic communications and public attitudes, emergency funding responses, crisis-preparedness, and influencing funders and the migration field for systemic change. Previous work includes Respond and Adapt, distributing over £2.4m to 130 organisations across the UK in 2020-2021 and  Leading Beyond Borders programme (2018-2022).