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: [...]
Heart 4 Refugees
Heart for Refugees provides wellbeing support for asylum seekers and refugees on the Wirral. Our services are designed to help refugees fully integrate into our community, helping them to build new, successful lives and relationships. We offer English classes, hot food, gardening, art-based therapy, early years outreach support, playgroup, clothing, household items, and food hampers. Contact: Katherine Vesey Phone: 07868 208 769 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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
Ekaya Housing Association
Ekaya Housing Association is a BME landlord, provides general needs housing, supported housing, temporary accommodation and shared ownership. Phone: 020 70 911 800 Website
Nomad Opening Doors
Nomad Opening Doors is a homeless charity that helps single, non-priority people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to access either supported accommodation or private rented accommodation. We also own two letting agencies. Contact: Karen Awdhali Email: [email protected] Phone: 01143210262 Website | Social media
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
Merseyside Refugee Support Network
Merseyside Refugee Support Network provide practical help and support to refugees moving-on from the asylum system and enable their onward social and economic integration into life in Liverpool, and beyond, reduce homelessness and financial crisis. Our work is based on our core charitable objective that is the relief of poverty of refugees and asylum seekers. Phone: 01517 097 557 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
RAY (Refugee Action York)
Refugee Action York (RAY)'s vision is for all refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to be welcomed and fully accepted into local and regional communities, where they can feel safe and empowered to rebuild their lives. RAY works with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from within and around the City of York. We provide a safe meeting point where people can seek information and support, learn new skills and languages and form lasting friendships. Through providing this support we hope to empower individuals to assist them in rebuilding their lives. Phone: 07355 598 866 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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
Hope Into Action: Southampton
Hope into Action: Southampton is a project of City Life Church Southampton. It is a franchise, and part of the wider Hope Into Action UK network – a Christian housing project set up to help break the cycle of housing poverty. Website
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
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
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
Refugee Welcome Homes
Refugee Welcome Homes links newly granted refugees with lodgings in family homes across Bristol. We provide ongoing support and signposting to landlords and lodgers to enable refugees to resettle in Bristol. Contact: Nese Davidson-Birch Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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
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
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]
Refugee Council
The Refugee Council works directly with thousands of refugees each year. The charity supports them from the moment they arrive in the UK. They provide crisis advice and practical support, help them to integrate into their new communities and offer mental health counselling to help them come to terms with the trauma so many of them have experienced. The Refugee Council is the only organisation providing a national service in support of refugee children and young people who arrive in the UK alone. They also speak up for refugees using their work as an evidence base and ensure refugees have [...]
Hackney Migrant Centre
Hackney Migrant Centre joined NACCOM in 2019 as an Associate Member. Hackney Migrant Centre runs a weekly drop-in advice service with the help of volunteers and professional advisers. Visitors to the service receive initial immigration, housing and welfare advice; as well as advice on accessing a GP and dealing with charges for hospital care. Outside the drop-in, they charity works with visitors to resolve the problems facing them. HMC provides a welcoming environment to migrants, regardless of immigration status, nationality or current place of residence. Phone: 07856632796 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook