Organisations and community groups supporting migrants and people seeking asylum in Leeds.
- PAFRAS – Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Emergency provision and crisis intervention, OISC regulated casework, integrated mental health support and dedicated young person’s service for people seeking asylum. - Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network – Social, practical and wellbeing support through befriending and English at Home. Grace Hosting where volunteers can offer spare room for asylum seekers who are destitute.
- RETAS: For refugees – integration, employment, education and 28 transition project for newly granted refugees.
- The Refugee Council: Children Section, New Roots integration project (Leeds)
- British Red Cross: Casework, family tracing, Surviving to Thriving youth group
- Leeds Refugee Forum: social & wellbeing groups, ESOL, community support, IT facilities
- St Vincent’s Support Centre: Groups, ESOL, community support, immigration advice drop-in
- Manuel Bravo: Free legal advice for asylum seekers and refugees who can’t get legal aid
- The Children’s Society: Hearts youth group for young migrants and employment support
- Give A Gift: Destitution and poverty alleviation
- Leeds Unity Centre: Practical support and solidarity for reporting at the Home Office
- Ashiana: Support for survivors of trafficking
- Micro Rainbow: Housing and social inclusion support for LGBTI asylum seekers
- Rainbow Hearts: Weekly group for women seeking asylum
- Yorkshire St Pauli: Football for All sessions
Local and National Campaigns
- Asylum Matters: Campaign to improve asylum accommodation and support
- Stop the Scan: Ending racist stop and scan initiative originally trialled by West Yorkshire Police
- Yorkshire Resists and Racial Justice Network: local resistance movement to the hostile environment
- These Walls Must Fall: Lived experience/community led opposition to immigration detention. Local chapters in Leeds and Sheffield.
- Detention Action: Opposing indefinite immigration detention
- Lift the Ban:Coalition to lift the ban on the right to work for people seeking asylum
- Liberty: Guide to the Hostile Environment and how to resist it. They have their own campaign against data sharing with the Home Office #CareDontShare. Global Justice Now also has national campaigns opposing the Hostile Environment.
- Doctors of the World: Safe Surgeries Initiative for ensuring migrants has access to healthcare
- Patients Not Passports: toolkit designed to support you in advocating for people facing charges for NHS care, and in taking action to end immigration checks and upfront charging in the NHS.
- Antiraids: Guide on what to do if you see an immigration raid
- #StopAsylumEvictions: NACCOM campaign during pandemic
- Project 17: Campaign to ensure welfare of children regardless of immigration status/NRPF
- Bail for Immigration Detainees: legal advice, campaigns
- Migrants Rights Network: Challenging hostile environment, migrants know your rights resource
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants: Campaign for safer and legal routes, right to rent
- Stop Watch: Fair and accountable policing