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. Please note that AFRIL does not operate a drop-in service. To refer or self-refer to our services, please use email or telephone. Contact: Sophie Wickham 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 provides support and welcomes single adult refugees with leave to remain to settle in Penrith. Refugees must choose to settle in Penrith and we provide initial hosting and support into private rental housing, employment and belonging in the local community. We have a small settling-in and hardship fund and will pay for travel for exploratory visits to Penrith and support settling in costs. To find out more see our website or contact Sarah or Ali. We speak slowly and clearly. Translation can be organised. Penrith is a vibrant town, half-way between Manchester and Glasgow. We have public [...]
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. Contact: George Reiss Phone: [...]
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. Phone: 01414 453 718 Advice Helpline: 0800 310 0054 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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: 0207 488 7310 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook.
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 [...]
The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN)
The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN). We enable refugees to thrive through the power of their own ideas. We do this through providing them with access to business support networks and business financing, designed to help accelerate them towards launching sustainable businesses. Contact: Charlie Fraser Phone: 07951337060 Email: [email protected] Website: www.wearetern.org Social media: Twitter and Facebook
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. Email: [email protected] Website
Refugee Support Devon
Refugee Support Devon. We provide support to Refugees Asylum seekers and their families living in Devon, our projects are: Education and employability support Immigration advice level 2 Outreach support Drop-in services Allotment Destitution fund Contact: Kiven Emmanuel Phone: 01392 682 185 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Participation and the Practice of Rights
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. 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. 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 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). Contact: Amanda Church-McFarlane Email: [email protected] 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 run a hosting scheme matching vulnerable asylum seekers with people whom we have recruited and trained to provide a room in their home. 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, [...]
Nottingham Arimathea Trust
Nottingham Arimathea Trust provide housing and support to vulnerable Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Victims of Modern Slavery or Human Trafficking and other vulnerable migrants in Nottingham and Derby. Alongside accommodation we ensure individuals can access adequate legal representation so they can work toward submitting fresh claims for asylum and, from there, access Asylum Support housing or long term independent accommodation (for refugees). We also provide advocacy support, volunteering opportunities, training, English classes and cultural celebrations. Contact: Amy Ager Phone: 07842 574 741 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
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 [...]
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 OISC 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 activities. [...]
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: Mijanou Blech Phone: 07734 347 817 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, OISC accredited advice, practical support and social activities. We run English classes and assist with accessing education, volunteering and employment. We empower our community [...]
Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre
Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre offers advice and support, access to employment, education, training, basic life skills and volunteering, alongside an in-house supported housing scheme. The Coventry Destitution Fund offers practical help to people suffering extreme hardship, including food, clothes, night shelter and travel. Phone: 02476 227 254 Email: [email protected] Website
Immigration and Asylum Support Kirklees
Immigration and Asylum Support Kirklees (formerly DASH - Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield) provides support to asylum seekers including case work and helping prepare appeal applications, immigration advice, welfare support, volunteer mentor and integration projects, outreach and housing projects. Contact: Jane Fowden Phone: 07716 799 221 Email: [email protected] Website
Refugee Sanctuary Scotland
Refugee Sanctuary Scotland provides practical support to refugees living in Scotland who are at risk of homelessness and/or destitution. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Home4U
Home4U is a volunteer-run, Registered Charity based in Cardiff offering accommodation to a small number of asylum seekers who are destitute. It works closely with Space4U, a separate Charity which is a Drop-in Centre with a variety of services for people who are asylum seekers and refugees and also prioritises support for those who are destitute. Contact: Renee Bolton Phone: 07878 173 681 Email: [email protected] Website /Facebook
Hope Projects (West Midlands)
Hope Projects challenges flawed refusals of asylum. Working with a network of partner charities across Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country we provide housing, financial support and legal advice and representation along with peer support activities. Email: [email protected] Website