Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum provides support to refugees and asylum seekers in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We believe everyone deserves a chance to feel safe and live with dignity. We provide a welcoming community space and offer specialised advice and support to families and individuals who seek asylum or live as refugees. We run several projects such as our Community Café and Community Garden, and our specialist advice team provides support on a variety of issues including housing for refused asylum seekers, support for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, those who are in initial accommodation or newly dispersed. Phone: 0115 960 1230 Email: [...]
Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID)
The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is a national network of visitor groups to immigration detention. We work with locally owned initiatives to end the human suffering caused by detention. We exist to enable and support the vital role of visitors to people detained whilst providing a platform for collective action amongst UK visitor groups, providing essential practical and emotional support for visitor groups, influencing detention policy and practice and of raising awareness of the human impact of detention. We have 14 member groups representing over 500 volunteer visitors, who visit inside every detention centre in the UK, [...]
Welcome Home Project
Welcome Home offer high quality, well equipped temporary, emergency accommodation for mothers and children, based in London. We work with social workers and agencies needing to provide the accommodation when an emergency situation arises. Each room has its own bathroom, fridge, microwave, desk, chair and TV. Our families share a kitchen, lounge, garden and washing facilities. We offer personalised support to our Mums, from school or nursery applications to connections with local food banks etc, whilst working with social workers to understand each family's specific needs. Contact: Lise Thorne Email: [email protected] Website
West London Welcome
West London Welcome is a community centre run for and with refugees, migrants, people seeking asylum and other locals living in West London. We provide a food bank, social and advice drop-ins, financial, legal and casework support. Contact: Leyla Williams Website
Refugees Welcome North Somerset
Refugees Welcome North Somerset. Empowering and enabling asylum seekers and refugees in North Somerset to find safety, friendship and opportunities in order to thrive. Running Welcome hubs, Coordinating donations and delivering Housing and homeless prevention advice and practical support. Website Social media
Resettlement CIC
Contact: Melanie Khuddro Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
The Cotton Tree Trust
The Cotton Tree Trust was founded in October 2016 to provide support and assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. Charities and legal firms seeking to provide immigration advice and support to refugees and asylum seekers are seriously overstretched, with many more demands for assistance than they can possibly meet. Cuts to legal aid funding and the merits test have exacerbated this situation. Many vulnerable asylum seekers who have a strong and honest case are at risk of being detained or deported. Some have already entrusted their savings to unscrupulous or unqualified advisers in exchange for a [...]
Micro Rainbow
Micro Rainbow provides housing and social support for LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers. Phone: 0800 358 5851 Email: [email protected] Website
Community Infosource
Community InfoSource works with marginalised communities in Glasgow, primarily with asylum seekers and refugees, to put their ideas into action and to secure their rights. Our organisation is human rights and equalities based and community led. Email: [email protected] Phone number: 0141 258 2773 Website / Facebook
Breaking Barriers
Breaking Barriers We welcome refugees into meaningful employment with advice, experience and education. We believe in the power of responsible business to change society for the better through our innovative partnerships. Contact: Carmen Chapell Elkin Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
West End Refugee Service (WERS)
At West End Refugee Service (WERS) our mission is to achieve positive change for asylum seekers and refugees through our direct support services, by creating opportunities for people to engage and thrive in their local communities and through our work raising awareness, promoting good practice and challenging injustices in the system. We will become a platform for the voice of the people we support and will ensure their lived experience shapes the work we do. Contact: Andy Durma Email: [email protected] Phone: 0191 273 7482 Website | Twitter
Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support (DCRS)
Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support (DCRS) supports people seeking asylum and refugees in Devon and Cornwall. We advocate around their immigration cases up to OISC level 1. We also support around integration into the local community, run activities and provide English classes. Phone: 01752 260471 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Housing Justice Cymru
Housing Justice Cymru runs a Wales-wide Hosting project for people with fragile immigration status. It works in partnership with local organisations. Hosts are needed in Cardiff, Newport, Swansea and Wrexham. Housing Justice Cymru works with Welsh Government in their commitment to becoming a Nation of Sanctuary. Contact: Romy Wood Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
LEDAS
Leeds Destitute Asylum seekers Support (LEDAS) run two houses which each house up to 4 destitute asylum-seekers with No Recourse to Public Funds. We work collaboratively with Leeds City Council who provide grant support, and with PAFRAS who provide referral and case-work for our residents. Our aim is to provide family-style housing, in which the residents have dignity and independence. Housing essentials, food and an allowance are provided. The five LEDAS Trustees run the houses on a voluntary basis. Email: [email protected] Website
Kairos Housing
Kairos Housing provides safe accommodation and holistic support to refused asylum seekers and refugees who find themselves homeless within Blackburn with Darwen. Contact: Lisa Norcross Phone 07877972373 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook | Twitter
Connection Support
Connection Support are part of a partnership project across Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire to provide housing, legal advice and support to those who are homeless, refugees and people with NRPF. Phone Number: 01865 711 267 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
NOAH Enterprise
NOAH's mission is to help in alleviating poverty, bringing hope and helping people who have no where to turn to; particularly those who are temporary or entrenched rough sleepers, and those who are marginalized and socially excluded, or have simply fallen into poverty. NOAH takes a holistic approach to homelessness and exclusion and no matter which service a person comes to first they are encouraged to make use of as many areas of NOAH as necessary to enable them to reach their potential. Our services are focused on Luton and the wider Bedfordshire area. We provide accommodation for people [...]
Starling Collective
Starling Collective is a new organisation based in Belfast that helps refugees and asylum seekers. We are an unincorporated association with Charitable status pending. Starling Collective founders have over 25 years’ experience of working with refugees and asylum seekers in Belfast. We established Starling Collective Collective because we felt that there were needs among the refugee community that we were not able to meet in the previous organisation. Contact: Ryan Doherty Email: [email protected] Social Media: Facebook Website
Rotherham Ethnic Minority Alliance (REMA)
REMA is the infrastructure support organisation for the Black and Minority Ethnic Voluntary and Community Sector of Rotherham. REMA is an independent charity that supports the development of a vibrant, effective and influential BME Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector locally (VCFS). We support destitute people by providing food parcels and immigration advice. Contact: Sithule Mguni Office: 01709 720744 Email: [email protected] Website: www.rema-online.org.uk Social Media: Twitter and Facebook
Welcome Churches
Welcome Churches exists to see no refugee alone in the UK. We do this by inspiring, equipping and resourcing local churches across the UK to welcome refugees and asylum seekers in their local community. Our main project, Welcome Boxes, gives an intentional welcome to newly-arrived refugees and asylum seekers within the first three months of arrival in a new place. Our Welcome Network also profiles refugee-welcoming churches across the UK so that they can find a 'welcome' from local people when they first arrive in a new community. Office: 01332 498 041 Email: [email protected] Website /Facebook
Princes Avenue Methodist Church Open Doors
Princes Avenue Methodist Church Open Doors places and supports destitute asylum seekers in two houses operated by other charities. Name: Cecil Jones Email: [email protected] Phone: 01482 345132 Website: http://www.Open-doors.org.uk
Severn Angels Housing & Support
We provide accommodation and support to refugees, mothers fleeing domestic violence, care leavers, asylum seekers and vulnerable women from 16 years over. Severn Angels supports homeless people with either psychological support, counselling, support with applying for benefits, applying for housing and a wide range of services. Our goal is to equip individuals and young people leaving care with the skills that will allow them to live independently and find a job they can earn a living from. This support comes in different forms, from providing supported housing where the individuals can live and be supported emotionally and also get help, [...]
Holy Family of Bordeaux
We reach out where possible to destitute asylum seekers. Contact: Maria Crowley Email: [email protected] Phone: 07907625366
Whispers of Hope
Whispers of Hope is a full member of NACCOM supporting women who are victims of domestic abuse and sexual exploitation who have the added complication of complex immigration issues. We support asylum seekers, refugees and those on spouse and family reunion visas. We provide befriending and sign posting to other agencies as well as well-being activities and a weekly SafeSpace meeting. We also have a Safe House, Avan House, offering temporary accommodation to women with no recourse to public funds. This house of hospitality has a part-time live-in host as well as other volunteers who provide emotional and practical support [...]
Helen Bamber Foundation
The Helen Bamber Foundation supports refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced human cruelty, including torture, human trafficking and other human rights abuses. We provide specialist care to meet the complex needs of some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people seeking asylum. We offer survivors specialist trauma-focused therapy, legal protection work and expert medico-legal reports, counter-trafficking safeguarding, medical assessment and liaison, housing and welfare casework, and creative arts and skills programmes to help people rebuild their lives. Phone: 0203 058 2020 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Welsh Refugee Council
We empower sanctuary seekers and refugees to build new futures in Wales and have over 33 years’ experience. We listen to people’s needs, and co-produce projects that create improved pathways of support. Phone: 029 2048 9800 Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC)
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC) runs a weekly service for migrants providing advice and casework on immigration, welfare, housing and community care issues. It also offers destitution support as well as referring or signposting to other specialist organisations supporting migrants with their specific needs. During the Monday drop-in we provide a hot meal, food parcels and a welcoming space offering opportunities for connection and participation. HMSC is attended by 35-45 people every week; some of them come with children and at least a third are new visitors. These are individuals who, due to their lack of status, are excluded from [...]
Glass Door Homeless Charity
Glass Door Homeless Charity is London's largest open-access network of emergency winter shelters and support services for men and women affected by homelessness. By partnering with churches to provide shelter and support, Glass Door is committed to supporting people get—and stay—off the street. Glass Door offers shelter, advice and support through a wide-range of services. Contact: Anna Yassin Phone: 0207 351 4948 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Destitution Project (Bolton)
A Drop-In Centre for asylum seekers and refugees that has operated at the Victoria Hall since 2001. Casework support has also been provided over the years and initially was part of the drop-in service. Since 2005 Casework now operates throughout the week as a separate service provided by Destitution Project Bolton. Phone: 07421 352 829 Email: [email protected] Website
Philoxenia Housing Ltd
Philoxenia Housing Ltd is currently developing their accommodation offer for refugees and migrants with NRPF in Bury in the North West of England. Email: [email protected]