Tai Pawb
Tai Pawb works to advance equality and social justice in housing in Wales. Equality in housing matters because home is where everything starts. Poor housing reduces life chances. We work to enable all people to have an equal chance by working with organisations to reduce prejudice, disadvantage and poverty related to housing. Phone: 02921 057 957 Email: [email protected] Website
Rainbow Migration
Rainbow Migration provides practical and social support to improve self-esteem and confidence, reduce isolation, and help access health services and housing. They run in-person men’s, women’s and trans support groups in London every 2 weeks. They also give specialist legal information and advice to LGBTQI+ people who are seeking asylum or making partnership applications to live in the UK with their partners. They have partnerships with several law firms to whom they can refer service users for quality legal representation. You may find their guide on how to apply for asylum here. It is available in English, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, [...]
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:Â Tania Baldwin-Pask Phone: 01865 722 082 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:07510 544 692 Email:Â [email protected] Website / Facebook Â
Booth Centre
The Booth Centre provides a warm welcome, an opportunity to belong, to gain a purpose and rebuild lives. Our programme includes activities such as volunteering, creative projects and sports, as well as training and help to gain employment. We also support people to improve health and wellbeing, to access emergency accommodation, and to secure and maintain a permanent home. The Centre is run in partnership with the people who attend and they apply their skills and experience to influence strategic change. Contact: Alix Moreleigh Phone: 07557 642 427 Email: [email protected] Website  Â
Refugee and Migrant Justice
Refugee and Migrant Justice (formerly RAMFEL) is a charity that supports vulnerable migrants to access justice and provides vital support in moments of individual crisis. We work to support people in crisis, fight together to access justice and breakdown barriers that stand in peoples way. We help Refugees & Migrants feel safe, welcome and able to get on with their lives in the UK. We offer IAA Level 3-accredited immigration advice, helping asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants with applications such as renewals, citizenship, and E-visas. While most of our services are free, capacity is often limited, we therefore offer a [...]
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement (OHM)
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement 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 flagship project supports people experiencing homelessness who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF), meaning they have lost or don’t have access [...]
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. Phone number: 0141 258 2773 Email: [email protected] Website  / Facebook Â
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
Migrant Centre NI
Migrant Centre NI was established to protect the rights of migrant workers in Northern Ireland, tackle racism, eliminate barriers against migrant workers, advance education and raise public awareness about their rights. Contact:Â Justin Kouame Phone: 0330 088 0464 Email:[email protected] Website /Â FacebookÂ
West End Refugee Service (WERS)
At West End Refugee Service (WERS) we work alongside refugees and people seeking asylum, meeting people where they are through community outreach and practical support. We focus on helping people move forward in their lives, while also challenging the systems and narratives that hold them back. Phone: 0191 273 7482 Email: [email protected] Website Â
Hope Into Action UK
Hope into Action is a registered charity whose unique purpose is to enable churches to house the homeless. Contact:Â Ed Walker Email: [email protected] Phone: 01733558301 Website |Â Facebook Â
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 Â
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 /Â Facebook /Â Â 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. We can only support individuals verified through Ealing Rough Sleeper Agent, St Mungo's. Contact:Â John Murphy Phone: 07983 505 138 Email: [email protected] Website /Â Instagram /Â Facebook Â
Refugee Welcome Homes
Refugee Welcome Homes is a charity based in Bristol. Our mission is to reduce homelessness for refugees by bringing people with a spare room in their home together with refugees needing a place to call home. We provide ongoing support and signposting to landlords and lodgers to enable refugees to resettle in Bristol. Phone: 07395 901 365 Email: [email protected]Â Website /Â Facebook
Starling Collective
Starling Collective is an organisation based in Belfast that provides a safe space for those who are marginalised by society; principally but not exclusively from the asylum seeker and refugee community. A safe space of welcome, patience, compassion, understanding, and a willingness to learn from and develop each other mutually. A space which honours and celebrates diversity of culture and heritage. Our End Destitution project provides holistic Trauma Informed support for people who are destitute and outside of the asylum system and to vulnerable people who have recently been granted refugee status and find themselves homeless due to the housing [...]
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  Â
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
Unity in Poverty Action
At UPA we run the Leeds Homeless Charter Migration and Homelessness Group. We are a networking organisation and don't provide any front line services, apart from delivering some food parcels. Contact: David Paterson Phone: 07903 123 283 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
National Zakat Foundation
We are a charity that provides financial grants to people in need. This is done through the following funds - hardship relief, housing, work and education. Website: National Zakat Foundation - Zakat charity in the UK (nzf.org.uk) Social media: Facebook / Twitter
Safety4Sisters
If you are a woman experiencing abuse and you have no recourse to public funds then Safety4Sisters is able to talk to you about your options. You may think there is no way to leave if you are dependent on your partner’s immigration status, if you have no recourse to public funds or if you have no money. This is not the case, so please do get in touch. Contact: Vicky Marsh Phone: 07591359733 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
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 /Â 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 [...]
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: 0808 196 7273 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Destitution Project (Bolton)
Destitution Project Bolton has been operating at a Drop-In for asylum seekers and refugees at the Victoria Hall since 2001. The service was originally part of Befriending Refugees and Asylum Seekers (BRASS) but became a separate charity in 2015. The Casework team at the Destitution Project provide casework support for asylum seekers and refused asylum seekers who live in Bolton. Casework operates Monday to Fridays remotely - 9am till 1pm, except for Wednesdays - face to face at the drop-in: 10am till 3pm. Contact:Â Shaheda Mangerah Phone: 07421 352 829 Email: [email protected] Website
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 find [...]
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 [...]
Simon on the Streets
Simon on the Streets is a charity operating in Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire, offering emotional and practical support on an individual basis with no time limitations to those at risk of homelessness. All our services are delivered on an outreach basis directly on the streets, ensuring that we are supporting those individuals who are homeless and may not be engaging with other services. Phone: 01133 452 270 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Darlington Assistance for Refugees (DAR)
 Darlington Assistance for Refugees is a registered charity (CIO) based in Darlington, County Durham. Our organisation is run by volunteers who work alongside refugees and asylum seekers as they rebuild their lives in the Darlington area. DAR provides drop ins, language support and school orientation. Email: [email protected] Website | Facebook