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
Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex & London
RAMFEL is a charity that supports vulnerable migrants to access justice and that provides vital support in moments of individual crisis. We are a not for profit organisation, running a busy client facing service. We provide immigration advice (OISC level 3) and generalist advice in a range of areas to support our clients. This goes alongside destitution services and support to build a new life in the UK, with ESOL classes and referrals for support accessing work. Our wide range of experience, drawing on the daily insights from those we work with, as well as the expertise of our staff [...]
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement (OHM)
OHM is a partnership of the many organisations helping those who are homeless in Oxfordshire. We all work to ensure that "nobody should have to sleep rough on our streets." If you think of these organisations as a community, then think of us as the Community Centre! We bring greater visibility to all of the county’s work in this area, signposting volunteers, supporters and those experiencing homelessness to the actions and services they’re looking for. OHM's project work fills the critical gaps in services that others can’t, and always working in partnership means that we have the best team for [...]
Greenwich Winter Night Shelter
Greenwich Winter Night Shelter operates a winter night shelter (October - March) and a year-round Day Centre for anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness in Greenwich and surrounding areas. With support from over 200 volunteers, we provide single-room accommodation for nine individuals (including a women’s only wing), 1:1 casework and advocacy, and a pet friendly drop-in day centre where anyone who is homeless or vulnerably housed can access advice, support and facilities. All our services have been designed by guests through focus groups to work towards breaking the cycle of homelessness. Contact: Katy Ridsdill-Smith Email: [email protected] [...]
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
Signposts (Luton)
Signposts is here to help people who are homeless in Luton and Dunstable, Our aim is to help clients achieve their own maximum potential to live and develop in the community Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook / Twitter
Hope for Southall Street Homeless
Hope for Southall Street Homeless: Enabling people to take ways out of Rough sleeping which result in them leading fulfilled lives. Contact: John Murphy Phone number: 01452 550528 Email:[email protected] Website / Instagram / Facebook
Connection Support
Connection Support are part of a partnership project across Oxfordshire to provide housing, legal advice and support to people currently accommodated in Oxford's COVID responses provision. Contact: Amy Delisser Email: [email protected] Phone Number: 07920041740 Website Social media: Facebook | Twitter
NOAH Enterprise
NOAH takes a holistic approach to homelessness and exclusion and no matter which service a person comes to first they are encouraged to make use of as many areas of NOAH as necessary to enable them to reach their potential. Our services are focused on Luton and the wider Bedfordshire area. We provide accommodation for people who are rough sleeping and have No Recourse to Public Funds and we provide intensive employment training to support people to move towards independence. We are building our immigration advice capacity and currently advice on the EUSS. Contact: Paul Prosser Email: [email protected] Website | Twitter [...]
Helen Bamber Foundation
Helen Bamber: 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. Website Social media: Facebook / Twitter
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: 02076514948 Email: [email protected] Website / Twitter / Facebook
Crisis
Crisis Crisis works directly with thousands of homeless people every year. They provide vital help so that people can rebuild their lives and are supported out of homelessness for good. They offer one to one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales. How Crisis helps someone depends on their individual needs and situation. It could be with finding a home and settling in, getting new skills and finding a job, or help with their health and wellbeing. Crisis uses research to find out how best to improve their services, but also to [...]
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. Website / Facebook / Twitter
Martha House
Martha House is a Full Member of NACCOM based in London providing temporary accommodation for forced migrants who have become destitute. Food and accommodation are provided for their guests who have no recourse to public funds and are not allowed to work. They take referrals from agencies who work with migrants. Contact: Conor Cregan Email: [email protected] Website
Commonweal Housing Limited
Commonweal works with Praxis Community Projects (a Full NACCOM Member) to run an NRPF housing project in London. The project provides free bed spaces for single women with NRPF, cross subsidised by income from housing families to whom local authorities have a Section 17 responsibility. Commonweal provide the houses, as well as strategic support and ongoing evaluation. Website / Twitter
Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP)
REAP is an independent refugee-led charity in West London that aims to support refugees as they rebuild new lives in West London, and to live as valued and equal members of British society. The charity provides support, facilitation and training for people and services who work with refugees to improve responsiveness to refugees daily realities and needs. This includes networking activities and events, as well as various activities around access to English, Young refugees and mental health, Right to Refuge, Refugees in Equality, Interpreting (quality, access and also rights and treatment of interpreters). Contact: Sarah Crowther Phone: 07710 254531 Email: [email protected] Website
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
Voices in Exile
Voices in Exile Enabling, accompanying and supporting Asylum Seekers & Refugees in Sussex & Surrey. Contact: Mel Steel (Director) Phone: 01273 328598 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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
Sanctuary Hosting
Sanctuary Hosting (formerly Host Oxford) is a project which matches destitute sanctuary seekers to those people with spare rooms and open hearts in the community who are prepared to allow someone to stay with them rent free for a pre-defined period of time. Email: [email protected] Website: http://sanctuaryhosting.org/ Social Media: Facebook