Father Hudson’s Caritas
Father Hudson's Caritas have been extending a hand of welcome and friendship to refugees and migrants since 1999. Brushstrokes Community Project offers holistic support from their site based in Sandwell, and Sophia House and Nicolas Barré House were developed in partnership with parishes and religious orders to offer accommodation and support to refugees and migrants. Contact: Shari Brown Phone: 01675 434 000 Email: [email protected] Website/ Facebook
Hope Housing
Hope Housing aims to provide a positive pathway out of homelessness through supported housing for people in all homeless situations including refugees, failed asylum seekers, EA migrants, those who are destitute as well as people with drug/alcohol problems or other support requirements. We provide casework support, and help people to access legal advice if required. Phone: 01274 900 764 Email: [email protected] Website/ Facebook
Young Roots
Young Roots work alongside young people seeking safety in the UK, building trusted relationships, providing practical and emotional support and promoting young people’s rights and power. 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
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. Phone: 01254 690 282 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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) is a community organisation established in 2006, supporting asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in the boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. AFRIL provides complex casework, advice and legal support to the community; destitution support through our foodbank for NRPF individuals; as well as holistic programmes such as our Allotment of Refugee and Rainbow Club Supplementary School. AFRIL also works with its members to translate casework into policy and advocacy, to create systemic change. Phone: 0208 297 4111 Email: [email protected] Website /Facebook Please note the pin does not reflect the accurate location of [...]
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 [...]
Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary
Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary is a voluntary community of people who are asylum seekers, refugees and UK nationals. It is volunteer led and its main aim is to create a culture of welcome where people can rebuild their lives when they arrive in Wolverhampton. We support asylum seekers in Wolverhampton and educate the public about the issues they face. We operate 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. Email: [email protected] Website
GARAS
GARAS opens the door to support those seeking asylum in Gloucestershire, providing a drop-in service for 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 on the Vulnerable Peoples Resettlement Scheme. Phone: 01452 550 528 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: 01414 453 718 Advice Helpline: 0800 310 0054 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Sufra NW London
Sufra is a charity in North West London that prevents hunger, fights poverty and builds community. With the help of our volunteers and partners, we coordinate a network of food banks, kitchens, a community shop and café. These act as a gateway for guests to access more holistic support – including welfare advice, asylum support and our award-winning community garden. We aim to work with our guests to find solutions to their challenges together, whilst campaigning against the causes of hunger and poverty. Phone: 020 3441 1335 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
WYDAN
WYDAN operate a winter night shelter for destitute asylums seekers in the Leeds area, providing befriending, signposting and a weekly financial allowance to those housed there. Phone: 07515 996 871 Email: [email protected] Website
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
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. Email: [email protected] Website
Refugee Support Devon
Refugee Support Devon. We provide support to Refugees Asylum seekers and their families living in Devon, including; Education and employability support Immigration advice (up to IAA Level 2) Outreach support Drop-in services Refugee Resettlement Scheme Community Garden Phone: 01392 682 185 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Participation and the Practice of Rights
Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) seek to build collective power among asylum seeker and refugee communities to hold public bodies to account and to advocate for more progressive policies. We use the organising, policy, campaigning and communications expertise within our staff team in service of this objective. We would like to ensure that Northern Ireland is a place where migrant and diaspora communities are secure in the knowledge that their human rights, whether civil and political or economic, social and cultural will be respected, protected and fulfilled, without discrimination. Phone: 02890 313 315 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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 / Facebook
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. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Open Doors International Language School
Open Doors International Language School (ODILS) is a faith-based charity that serves people living in the Plymouth area (including those who may travel to work in Cornwall) where English is their second language. We provide ESOL tuition, IELTS, teacher training and employment mentoring for refugees and asylum seekers. Telephone: 01752 258 770 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Abigail Housing
Abigail Housing is a West-Yorkshire based charitable company dedicated to providing support and homes to refugees and asylum seekers who find themselves destitute on our streets. This includes those who have been refused asylum but cannot reasonably return to their country of origin (our Destitution Project in Bradford) and those given refugee status who have to leave their Home Office housing (our Refugee Project in Leeds). Contacts: Leeds Refugee Project: Email: [email protected] Phone: 07743 189 314 Bradford Destitution Project: Email: [email protected] Phone: 07547 238 162 CEO: Email: [email protected] Phone: 07908 364 112 Website / Facebook
Action Foundation
Action Foundation is the only organisation in Tyne and Wear specifically set up to provide supported accommodation for destitute asylum seekers who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF). We lease properties from private landlords and sublet them free of charge to vulnerable asylum seekers with NRPF. We also provide supported, private rented accommodation to new refugees in Tyne and Wear who become homeless following their positive asylum decision. We currently operate in Newcastle, Gateshead. For our residents and any other migrants that cannot access English Language (ESOL) classes, we also provide free English, employability, and digital teaching. Phone: 01912 [...]
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
Asylum Link Merseyside
Asylum Link Merseyside provides a drop-in Service for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, offering welcome and friendship. A broad range of services from tea/coffee/meals and social activities to ESOL, clothes and casework (OISC1/Social Work), to housing and food for the destitute. Contact: Ewan Roberts Telephone: 01517 091 713 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
Voices in Exile
Voices in Exile work with refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants with no recourse to public funds in East and West Sussex and Surrey. We offer practical and legal support including generalist advice and specialist immigration casework (up to IAA Level 2) for those who would otherwise be unable to access justice. As part of our holistic approach we also offer practical support including a weekly food and toiletries bank for those who are destitute; and also advocate for, accompany and enable people to access services, build community, and develop their own potential through a programme of learning and creative [...]
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
Refugee Support Group
Refugee Support Group helps refugees and asylum seekers to rebuild their lives in Berkshire. Started in 1994 by a group of refugees, we now provide services to hundreds of families and individuals across all of Berkshire. We support refugees from more than 50 countries who have escaped war, violence, persecution and modern slavery. Many have been victims of human trafficking. Some have been tortured. Some have No Recourse to Public Funds. We provide a safe space, IAA accredited advice, practical support and social activities. We run English classes and assist with accessing education, volunteering and employment. We empower our community [...]