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7. Sign off your email with a note about refugees

The best thing about this action is you only need to do it once, and then with every email you send you help change the way refugees are seen! Who said lazy couldn’t be effective?

Sign off your email with a note about refugees

All you have to do is to add your own automatic signature to the bottom of your messages. Alongside your name add a statement that says something positive about refugees. Something along these lines:

Hi Tom,

Just letting you know that I’m going to the opticians tomorrow.

See you later!

Seymour Kleerly

Ps. Did you know Einstein was a refugee?


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Here are a few ideas for statements you can add to your emails

Go on...do it!Btw, did you know that the Mini was designed by a refugee?

Go on...do it!Refugees Rock! Find out how – visit www.refugeeweek.org.uk

Go on...do it!Did you know that Michael Marks from Marks & Spencer’s was a refugee?

Go on...do it!Fish and Chips was brought to the UK by refugees.



And it works for Facebook too!

Change your status to ‘Seymour reckons refugees rock his world!’

And also for Twitter!

Loving ‘fugees this lunchtime!!

Send us your statements

You can make up your own positive statements, serious or silly. Send them to us and we'll bung them on this page.

Completed Actions

I sent my freind a note about a refugee

Mariam 3A
Salusbury Primary School
30 June 2011 11:08 AM

I sent an email and defined what the word Refugee meant at the end.

Rassim
Salusbury Primary
22 June 2011 12:19 PM

I sent 2 emails to everyone in my MSN friends list.

Rahima
Salusbury Primary
21 June 2011 05:34 PM

My email signature tells people to find out more about events in their area by looking at the Refugee Week calendar.

Laura
London
15 June 2011 02:59 PM

Changed my email signature to let people know about Refugee Week and the Simple Acts Campaign.

Claire
London
15 June 2011 02:58 PM

I sign off my email with this quote " spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... The greatest life lesson I could ever recieve" im thankful for every minute i have spent with this beautiful , smart, strong , loving people :)

Nasomangel
Egypt
10 March 2011 11:52 PM

I sign off with a Quote "
spending time with refugees was the greatest gift.. the greatest life lesson I could ever receive " which truly describes how i feel they always amaze me they are strong , smart, beautiful individuals i have learned the most important lesson of mylife from them & to them i want say Thank you:)

nasomangel
Egypt
10 March 2011 11:44 PM

I'm using the einstein one but what about Cockney was a word invented by refugees, Hugenots. Also Kosher.

vicky ayech
Cambourne
20 August 2010 08:46 AM

some are grengers for me but some are people you don't no

lubna shirwa 3A
salusbury primary school
23 June 2010 10:56 AM

Since April i have been signing off my email with a fact about refugees. I have sent approximately 900 emails!

anna
london
21 June 2010 04:46 PM

forwarded your web site to all email contacts and put it on facebook. also looked through the site and did some of the quizzes

Helen Symonds
United Kingdom
18 June 2010 04:07 PM

I sent my mate a refuee fact on my email.

mia
salusbury school 3H
17 June 2010 06:22 PM

My email sign off is promoting refugee week!

Anna
London
17 June 2010 01:13 PM

I sent it to my freind and said how are you

will 3A
salusbury school
16 June 2010 11:05 AM

I put a note about refugees on the email I sent to my friend.

Iris picken
London
15 June 2010 06:30 PM

I've added a note to the bottom of my email, wil be watching a movie about refugees tomorrow, and playing volleyball with a group of young refugees too !

ruth
portsmouth
15 June 2010 03:19 PM

I have added refugee week in my email.

Eunjoo Lee
N16
15 June 2010 10:38 AM

I added: 'Happy refugee week!' Plus a link to this website

Christina Biss
Surrey
15 June 2010 09:04 AM

I edited your info about refugees and included it in my signature. Also Rt'd Guardian event on Twitter and will tweet your site. Well done - great. easy campaign!

Claire Thompson
Reading
14 June 2010 03:24 PM

I've made my work email signature a fact about refugees with a link to the refugee week website and I've posted a link on my Facebook

Carys Afoko
London N16 5SP
14 June 2010 12:07 PM

added link into my signature file, also added the refugee week twibbon to twitter and facebook

Alan Dix
Tiree, Scotland
14 June 2010 11:19 AM

I am signing off my email with a reminder to people to do a Simple Act - I will encourage others to do the same!

Lara
London
14 June 2010 09:38 AM

I regularly email all the 100 staff in my local primary school so they are receiving reminders about Simple Acts at least once a day!

Sarah Reynolds
London
14 June 2010 09:30 AM

glad to do this little bit to help

Mandi Brennan
Belfast
12 June 2010 10:05 AM

I have changed my regular email signature to include a refugee fact.

Jane Bramley
Manchester
10 June 2010 12:32 PM

I'm telling everyone that fish and chips were brought to england by refugees. Not original, but brilliant, and memorable.

Alys Torrance
London
08 June 2010 03:13 PM

All staff at the welsh refugee council have been doing this act for years!

Hawar
Cardiff
07 June 2010 04:14 PM

I've added the Refugee Week URL to my email.

Kate
London
06 June 2010 06:32 PM

Nothing exciting - just thought provoking snippets provided by your website!

Mandy Parris
Maidstone, Kent
28 May 2010 01:07 PM

We've added an e-mail signature to all staff e-mails so every e-mail from a member of staff at Scottish Refugee Council has something about Simple Acts on it!

Sarah Gurney
Glasgow
19 May 2010 05:13 PM

I've added a note about refugee week and simple acts campaign to my email signature. As I'm coordinating events in Brighton & Hove for refugee week, emails will be flying around all over the place! Hoping others will follow suit or click the link to Simple Acts!

Tessa Brechin
Brighton
19 May 2010 05:10 PM

I'm combining my email signature with finding out refugee facts, so I sign off with a fact about refugees and a link to refugee week website.

I've been attempting a little mandarin chinese and trying it out on clients at work.

Charlotte Laws
Stoke-on-Trent
19 May 2010 12:05 PM