Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees (SFAR)
Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees is a project of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland. It seeks to co-ordinate and promote action by faith communities in Scotland to support asylum seekers and refugees. Currently we are developing and piloting a volunteer holiday hosting programme, where members of receiving communities can welcome refugees in their homes for short breaks, and receive reciprocal hospitality, in order to facilitate social connections, strengthen interfaith and intercultural dialogue and wider cultural orientation beyond refugees’ localities. We also have a speaking programme on refugee integration for faith communities and run a local integration [...]
Caritas Diocese of Salford
Caritas operates 30 different services in the Diocese of Salford - Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Services in emergency night shelters, housing and hostels for homeless people , refugees and asylum seekers mainly in the Greater Manchester area; resettlement of refugees, advocacy for destitute people and food-banks and drop-ins. We are members of Caritas Social Action Network - the official agency of the Catholic Bishops conference of England and Wales that is part of the European and Internation Caritas family responding to poverty and injustice globally. Contact: Patrick O'Dowd Phone: 0161 817 2250 Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
Safe In Scotland
Safe in Scotland is a human rights organisation committed to ending destitution among asylum seekers. We provide safe, dignified, ensuite accommodation 24/7 collaborating with case workers, service providers, and the communities we work alongside. Contact: Annika Joy Email: [email protected] Phone: 07818372130 Website:https://www.safeinscotland.com/
Ubuntu Women Shelter
Ubuntu Women Shelter Ubuntu Women Shelter is a Glasgow based charity dedicated to meeting emergency and short term accommodation needs of women who are destitute with no recourse to public funds. We are the first service in the UK run and managed by people with lived experience of migration, asylum and destitution. We are in direct resistance to the hostile environment and have an ethos of no borders and refuse to consent to the current border regime. Our services include hosting women, referrals and advocacy and are designed to meet the unique emotional and psychological needs of women excluded from [...]
Together With Migrant Children
Together with Migrant Children works with children, young people and families who are migrants, refugees or asylum seekers. We work nationwide, with the majority of our work in London and the South East. We are a small team of social workers, youth workers and other family practitioners. We provide holistic support for families, support with safeguarding, work and advocacy with families with No Recourse to Public Funds and carry out assessment work for a wide variety of different purposes. We also run activity days for destitute migrant children and their families. Email address: [email protected] Phone number: 01865528658 Website / Twitter
The Sanctuary Newport
The Sanctuary was founded in 2008 and provides a daily drop-in service and daily activities for asylum seekers and refugees in Newport. The project is now run by the charity 'The Gap Wales', originally growing out of Bethel Community Church trust. Contact: Mark Seymour Email: [email protected] Website /Facebook
Refugee Women Connect
Refugee Women Connect (RWC) is a support and advice service for women seeking asylum, refugees and their children. We run 3 drop in sessions each week, where women come for casework and to socialise. We also offer mental health support. We have a developing casework project, advising and advocating on behalf of women on the asylum system and support, as well as welfare, health and issues such as destitution and detention. We are increasing our advocacy capacity on a wider level, and are involved with local campaigns against detention. Contact: Lisa Hayden Phone: 01513051070 Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
Birchwood Community Church
Birchwood Community Church in Warrington runs a local community outreach called the Encounter Centre where we have recently welcomed two asylum seeking families. We have a heart to help not just them but others who we may come into contact with. Contact: Andy Jordan Email: [email protected] Phone: 07734457009 Website: https://www.birchwood-church.org/ Social media: Facebook
Father Hudson’s Care
Name: Joanne Watters Email: [email protected] Website Social media: Twitter / Facebook
Hope Housing
Hope Housing provides supported housing for all homeless situations including refugees, failed asylum seekers, EA migrants, destitute service users as well as generic homelessness including supporting people with drug/alcohol problems or other support requirements. We provide casework support, and help people to access legal advice if required. Contact: Phil Marshall Email: [email protected] Phone: 01274 900 764 Website Social Media: Facebook // Twitter
Young Roots
Young Roots. We provide one to one casework support to young asylum seekers and refugees between the ages of 11-25 in Croydon and Brent. We help them to access services, accommodation and support. Website
Giroscope
Giroscope is a provider of housing to disadvantaged people in Hull. We buy and renovate derelict and unused houses which we let on affordable rents to people in need, run volunteer programmes, support small enterprise development and provide food parcels. We also provide one house rent free to a family of EU migrants with no recourse to public funds and are part of the Gateway Resettlement Programme. We are working with Open Doors Hull to provide more housing for destitute refused asylum seekers. Email: [email protected] Website
ARC Blackburn
The Asylum and Refugee Community (ARC) Blackburn is a charity founded in 2004 that provides practical support to asylum seekers and refugees in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire. We pride ourselves on working in partnership with other local and national organisations in order to provide our service users with as many opportunities as possible. Email: [email protected] Phone: 01254 690282 Website / Facebook / Twitter
Watford & Three Rivers Refugee Partnership (WTRRP)
Watford & Three Rivers Refugee Partnership (WTRRP) Watford & Three Rivers Refugee Partnership (WTRRP) offers support to refugees, asylum seekers and non-European migrants with no recourse to public funds in West Hertfordshire. Our mission is to help provide access to the advice and services needed, often providing long term support (i.e. basic needs including food, ESOL, befriending etc) until statutory services are in place. WTRRP does not provide accommodation but finds ‘ways and means’ to help source emergency accommodation. Phone: 01923 252434 Email: [email protected] Website
Action for Refugees in Lewisham
Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) was set up in 2006 to reduce the poverty of local refugees and asylum-seekers, advance their education and raise awareness about refugees rights and needs. Services include advice in welfare benefits, housing, education, employment, health and immigration, a supplementary Saturday School for children aged 4-11 and a foodbank for destitute asylum-seekers and refugees. Contact: Sophie Wickham Phone: 0208 297 4111 Email: [email protected] Website /Twitter /Facebook Please note the pin does not reflect the accurate location of the project.
Positive Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS)
PAFRAS - Positive Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers - is a small grassroots organisation based in Leeds. We work with asylum seekers and the wider community to counter the effects of enforced destitution and increase access to justice. We provide crisis intervention, advocacy, casework and regulated immigration advice and specialised integrated mental health support. PAFRAS also has a holistic and intensive service dedicated for unaccompanied young migrants aged 16-24 years old, a Refugee Family Reunion Service and in-house Domestic Violence and Abuse Support. Contact: Karen Pearse Email: [email protected] Phone: 0113 2622163 Website / Twitter / Facebook
Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary
Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary supports asylum seekers in Wolverhampton and educates the public about the issues they face. It has a fund which can provide subsistence, emergency accommodation and other help to homeless and destitute asylum seekers in the area, and a weekly drop-in where people are welcomed and signposted to appropriate sources of help. Contact: Erik Pearse Email: [email protected] Phone: 07396 146 830 Website: https://wolverhampton.cityofsanctuary.org/
GARAS
GARAS provides a drop-in service to asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants. Here we provide level one advice in asylum and immigration. We help clients through their asylum claim, and into their settled lives. We provide ESOL classes three days a week to coincide with our drop-in days. One day a week we have psychotherapy for those affected by their experiences. GARAS is also the main organisation supporting families in Gloucestershire here on the Vulnerable Peoples Resettlement Scheme. Contact: Adele Owen Phone: 01452 550528 Email: [email protected] Website
Govan Community Project
Govan Community Project (GCP) provides services in the Govan and Cardonald area, including community social groups for men and women, a fresh food distribution service, free English language classes, and an advice and advocacy service for people in the asylum process, specialising in supporting people who are destitute or at risk of destitution. GCP works closely with the Scottish Refugee Council, the Refugee Survival Trust, the British Red Cross and other stakeholders. Contact: Traci Kirkland Phone: 07443964017 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Sufra NW London
Sufra NW London Sufra NW London is a Community Hub that provides Emergency Food Parcels; a Community Kitchen; Guidance and Advocacy; an accredited Food Academy course; a Refugee Resettlement programme; and a Community Growing Project that provides training in horticulture, school environmental visits and a vocational training course. Contact: Jo Kay Email: [email protected] Website Social Media: Twitter and Facebook
West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network (WYDAN)
West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network (WYDAN) is a longstanding network of organisations in West Yorkshire concerned with issues affecting destitute asylum seekers. It became a CIO in 2014 and over the last two winters has run a night shelter project for destitute asylum seekers. The team are now hoping to get the project running all year round. Although based in Leeds, the shelter takes referrals from other areas, including Wakefield. Contact: Katrina Burton Email: [email protected] Website
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation, at work in over 50 countries around the world with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons. JRS has been established in the UK for over 20 years, and its work here focuses on showing hospitality to, and supporting the needs of, destitute asylum seekers and people in detention. Activities include a day centre, hosting programme, detention outreach and advocacy work. Contact: Amy-Leigh Hatton Phone: 07745227141 Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook.
Sharedydd (Cardiff)
Housing Justice Cymru runs a Wales-wide Hosting project for people with fragile immigration status. ShareDydd is a hosting project run by Housing Justice Cymru in Cardiff and Newport. It works in partnership with local organisations. Housing Justice Cymru works with Welsh Government in their commitment to becoming a Nation of Sanctuary. Contact: Romy Wood Email: [email protected] Website: www.sharedydd.org Social Media: Twitter // Facebook Please note the pin on the map does not accurately reflect the location of the project.
Hope at Home
Hope at Home is a UK-wide charity fighting the cycle of modern day slavery and human trafficking, preventing re-trafficking and survivor homelessness by equipping people to host survivors in their homes and facilitating adult to adult voluntary living arrangements between hosts and survivors. Without this stable home, many survivors would be destitute and extremely vulnerable. We aim to give every survivor the opportunity to lead healthy, resilient, independent lives and become useful members of society. We train hosts, raising their awareness about modern day slavery and equipping them to set boundaries and welcome a vulnerable person into their home. Every [...]
C4WS Homeless Project
C4WS runs a winter night shelter from November to the end of March every year. We do not accept self referrals, but you can visit one of our partners who will take you through the processes of applying for a space based on suitability and availability. Please find details of where to go on the I AM HOMELESS page on our website. We also run a hosting scheme, which is only open to guests who have stayed with us at our winter night shelter. Website
Coventry Migrant Women House
Coventry Migrant Women House is an accommodation service for forced migrant women without any source of income in the Midlands. The project has been established since 2016 and works closely with other NACCOM Members in the area. Contact: Beth Ash Email: [email protected] Website
Participation and the Practice of Rights
Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) supports asylum seekers who are trying to ensure that the human right to housing is realised for all asylum seekers in Northern Ireland. We monitor conditions in NASS accommodation, campaign for access to housing for refused asylum seekers and work with other organisations on specific projects and to provide such accommodation. Contact: Twasul Mohammed Phone: 028 9031315 Email: [email protected] Website Social Media: Facebook / Twitter
Thousand 4 £1000
Thousand 4 £1000 CIO is a discrete offshoot of Brighton Migrant Solidarity (BMS being focused mainly on campaigning). We are the only organisation in the Brighton area providing housing support to destitute migrants who are not allowed to work or have no recourse to public funds. We take referrals directly from organisations such as Brighton Voices in Exile. In addition to accommodation, we also provide financial, practical and emotional support to locally based migrants. Contact: Jenny Priestman Email: [email protected] Website Social Media: Facebook and Twitter
Swindon City of Sanctuary
We are active in helping to make Swindon a welcoming place for people seeking sanctuary. We are happy to advise on anything hosting related but no longer can arrange accommodation for people. Contact: Chloe Wolfe Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
Open Doors International Language School
Open Doors International Language School (ODILS) is a faith-based charity that primarily serves those living in Plymouth and then travel to work in area of Cornwall, where English is their second language. Website / Facebook