Ark of Hope Foundation
Ark of Hope Foundation provides a safe and nurturing environment for women aged 18 and above who are facing domestic abuse, addiction, homelessness, and other crises. Embracing Christian values, we welcome women from all backgrounds, including refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, and care leavers, ensuring they have a secure place to rebuild their lives with dignity and respect. Our Holistic Support Program is designed to address the diverse needs of our service users. This program offers tailored assistance that combines practical and life skills, empowering women to regain control and thrive in their communities. Contact: Stella King Email: [email protected] Website
Thatcham Baptist Church
Between January 2022 and December 2023, Thatcham Baptist Church welcomed people waiting for asylum decisions or receiving refugee status. From December 2023 - December 2024 we hosted some of those who had become known to church members while they found their way into employment and longer term accommodation. We now provide ad-hoc support to people with refugee status, and those with NRPF on sponsorship visas. Work is plentiful in this area but housing is extremely expensive and social housing very limited, especially for single adults. Contact: Sarah Wylie Phone: 01635 867 054 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Asylum Welcome
Asylum Welcome offers information, advice and practical support to asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants living in Oxfordshire. We help adults, young people and families to feel safe, respected and understood as members of our diverse community. Contact: Tania Baldwin-Pask Phone: 01865 722 082 Email: [email protected] Website
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services (SJOG)
SJOG’s Modern Slavery Services provide accommodation in safehouses and outreach services to support victims of trafficking or modern day slavery. Working in partnership with The Salvation Army as part of the Government’s Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC), SJOG teams across the country provide specialist support to help people to recover and rehabilitate from their experiences. Phone: 01325 373 700 Email: [email protected] Website
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: Nicola Evans Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
New Neighbours Together
New Neighbours Together are a hosting charity based in Burnley, in the North West, also offering a drop-in service, advice and support, group social and sporting activities, distribution of quality second-hand household goods and clothes, personal development programmes and English tuition. Contact: Ruth Haygarth Phone: 07864 841 729 Email: [email protected] Website
ACAP (Ashton Churches Asylum Project)
ACAP (Ashton Churches Asylum Project) currently provides occasional hosting for local asylum seekers, who we know, on an informal basis. Phone: 01942 724 207 Email: [email protected] Website
Penrith and Eden Refugee Network
Penrith and Eden Refugee Network (PERN) provides empowerment and support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Cumbria, helping them to integrate into life in the UK and thrive. Our services include language classes, legal advice up to IAA Level 3, homelessness prevention, campaigning and community outreach. Particularly of note is our First Steps Housing service, which includes our ‘Rent a Room to a New Refugee’ scheme, where we connect socially-minded landlords and new refugees in both Carlisle and West Cumbria. We welcome enquiries to the email address below. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook Please note the pin does not [...]
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
The Jesuit Refugee Service is an international Catholic organisation, working in more than 50 countries to accompany, serve and advocate for refugees and forcibly displaced people. JRS UK provides specialist advice, legal support, accommodation, food, clothing, toiletries, and financial assistance. We also run a befriending programme, a range of classes and activities, and outreach to people held in immigration detention. Phone: 0207 488 710 Email: [email protected] Website / Bluesky / Facebook / Instagram
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. Email: [email protected] Website
ASSIST Sheffield
Since 2003, ASSIST Sheffield has provided accommodation, bespoke casework service and welfare payments to people forced into destitution by the asylum system. Offering a period of relative stability from which clients can begin to rebuild their lives and pursue their legal rights, ASSIST fosters an atmosphere of welcome in Sheffield, and works to challenge the policies of destitution and the hostile environment. Phone: 0300 201 0072 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Boaz Trust
The Boaz Trust is a Manchester based charity committed to ending destitution amongst refugees and asylum seekers who have become homeless through the asylum process. We provide accommodation alongside practical and pastoral support in the Greater Manchester area. Boaz was established in 2004 to see an end to destitution for people seeking sanctuary in the UK. We provided shared accommodation and specialist one to one support for people who have become homeless due to their insecure, unclear or recently changed immigration status. This includes people with refugee status and people who have had their asylum claim refused as well as [...]
Birmingham Community Hosting Network
Birmingham Community Hosting Network (BIRCH) aims to relieve the destitution of asylum seekers whose Home Office support and accommodation has been cut off. We have a growing network of volunteer community hosts who provide short term accommodation to those who are destitute and have nowhere to go. Contact: Helen Hibberd Email: [email protected] Website
Bristol Hospitality Network
Bristol Hospitality Network (BHN) extends solidarity to people seeking asylum and experiencing destitution through accommodation and creative community involvement. BHN provides full board accommodation in host households or in its large house for men in Bristol, as well as community volunteering opportunities and social enterprise in solidarity with both male and female asylum seekers experiencing destitution. BHN also offers a weekly welcome centre for over 100 asylum seekers and refugees and a solidarity fund for those with no other money. Contact: Laura Chester Phone: 07544 971 885 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network (LASSN)
Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network (LASSN) works with refugees and asylum seekers living in Leeds, offering befriending and support to learn English. The Grace Hosting project links local volunteers with a spare room with asylum seekers and refugees who have nowhere to stay. Phone: 0113 373 1759 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Housing Justice
Housing Justice brings together communities and finds solutions to homelessness by building personal connections, a sense of belonging, and creating justice in the housing system. We train and support volunteers to offer various accommodation options while building a network of local support. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Depaul UK
Depaul UK provides emergency accommodation to homeless clients, including those who are destitute, in the homes of approved and trained volunteers. The scheme is open to anyone over the age of 16. Clients are risk assessed on an individual basis and access accommodation on a night by night basis. The service is available on a short term basis only, but can provide much needed respite for destitute clients. Phone: 0207 278 4224 Email: [email protected] Website
Communities and Sanctuary Seekers Together (CAST)
Communities and Sanctuary Seekers Together (CAST) is a Southend-based community group, committed to bring an end to destitution amongst asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants with no recourse to public funding (NRPF) living in Southend. The organisation is made up of asylum-seekers, refugees and the wider community, and supports destitute and homeless asylum seekers by providing resources, advice and accommodation. CAST also builds links between sanctuary-seekers and longer-established communities to nurture integration and community cohesion. Phone: 01702436659 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.castsanctuary.com/ Social Media: Facebook | Twitter
Refugees At Home
Refugees at Home is the UK's largest independent hosting charity which connects those with a spare room in their home to refugees and people seeking asylum who are in need of somewhere to stay. We want to support a society where everyone looking to rebuild their lives in the UK can do so in safety and without the risk of homelessness. Email: [email protected] Website / Instagram / Facebook
EYST
SHARE Tawe is a project of the Ethnic minority and Youth Support Team (EYST), seeking to offer hospitality through accommodation, meals, welcome and solidarity to destitute asylum seekers in Swansea. . We do this through volunteers who offer a room in their home, or who support the scheme in other ways. Email: [email protected] Website
St Augustine’s Centre
St. Augustine's Centre is a Halifax-based community centre that welcomes the vulnerable and cares for all, including destitute asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. We enable individuals to access support and advice to help with basic needs, build confidence and prevent isolation through community participation. Contact: Becky Hellewell Phone: 01422 352 492 Email: [email protected] Website
Upbeat Communities
Upbeat Communities exists to help refugees settle and rebuild their lives. We want to see strangers become neighbours. We offer befriending, English classes, community building activities, enterprise and employment training, and run a hosting scheme. We also deliver refugee resettlement contracts on behalf of a number of local authorities. Phone: 01332 916 150 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook