Dear Supporter,

It is now over two years since the European elections and your support has helped us to keep flying the flag for the voting rights of EU citizens in the UK and Britons abroad as we continue to press for a full inquiry into vote denied.

I am writing today to share two bits of good news with regard to New Europeans' campaigning on these issues.

Firstly, the UK Government has now brought forward a bill to enfranchise UK citizens who have been abroad for longer than 15 years (we had been expecting this as provision was made for the financing of this in the budget).

This has been a long-standing campaign of New Europeans - we fought for many years alongside Harry Shindler MBE and are delighted that his campaign, which we have the honour to support has come to fruition.

Read more about Harry Shindler's campaign here

The second but of good news is that New Europeans UK has become a charity. This will not affect our ability to campaign for the rights of EU citizens in the UK and Britons abroad. 

Now that our UK operations have been awarded charitable status, your donations can attract gift aid.

Read more about our award of charitable status here

(If you would like more information about Gift Aid, please contact us at members@neweuropeans.uk)

We have just had the first set of local elections in the UK since the end of the transition period, and EU citizens had the vote.

I am quite sure that part of the explanation for why the government has not taken the voting rights of EU citizens away has to with the strengths of campaigns such as Vote Denied.

As Harry Shindler's 20 year campaign for the abolition of the 15 year rule has shown - when you lose your vote, it can take a very long time to get it back again.

Thanks again for your support and please do keep chipping in what you can afford to support our work on this campaign and all our activities to support EU citizens and Britons abroad going forwards.

It does take time to win through - but Harry Shindler's campaign shows that perseverance pays off.

We will never stop demanding justice for those who had their vote denied and working to make sure it never happens again in future.

If you would like to make a donation to our campaigns please chip in using the link below.

With best regards

Roger

ROGER CASALE

Founder and CEO
New Europeans UK