Refugees Home Homeless and Wellbeing 30th Jan 2019
See below for:
Resources for people who find themselves working with refugees who are facing homelessness, in West London. Including participating organisations 2015 – 2019.
About the event on 30th January 2019
At: Centre for Armenian Information and Advice (CAIA)
‘Hayashen’ 105 Mill Hill Road, Acton Town, W3 8JF Nearest Tube: Acton Town
Refugees: Home, Homelessness, Mental Health and Wellbeing
9.15am for 9.30 start, to 1.00pm with extended campaigning workshop until 3.00 (HEAR/RoTA)
A networking, information sharing and collaboration / planning event for people concerned about the risk and impact of homelessness and insecure housing and futures for refugees and asylum seekers in London, also considering links between homelessness and refugees’ mental health, poor mental health and wellbeing.
Please email sarah@reap.org.uk to book a place.
Please let us know if you have any access or other needs.
- Also please let us know if you would be interested in
– a hotspot (2 minutes to raise an issue or talk about your work)
– facilitating a table discussion – and the topic you would be keen to facilitate
– bringing materials to display / give out
Spotlight and Discussion write ups from our network event in January 2018: Refugees: Home Homelessness and Destitution
KP, Refugee Advocacy Network, Refugee Council, discussion notes on Move on period, Hostility to Refugees Also Move On Briefing
CG, HEAR, Mental Health, Refugees and Homelessness
MW, Refugee Rights Data Project, ‘A Hostile Environment’ Documenting the Living Situation for Asylum-Seekers in London
LEP, Connection at St Martins, NRPF and Complex needs Table writeup
Thanks to Frontline Workers’ Network again for their support for the event on 24th January 2018. Frontline will hold a major conference on Thurs 7 June 2018 in Holborn, Central London on the theme “Wellbeing on the Frontline” They also have the Vicar’s Fund, details on their website.
HEAR continues to welcome new member organisations and participants in a wide range of equality and human rights-focussed events and other activities. Contact Christine Goodall, the Coordinator, directly on Christine@reap.org.uk who can sign you up for their regular London-wide Bulletin or see their website www.HEAREquality.org.ukREAP continues with our own networking and discussions with 2-3 workshops at REAP’s Annual conference on 4th July 2018. I’m attaching a ‘Hold the Date’. There will be up to 15 workshops on the day, many running in parallel including mental health, young refugees, interpreting and other topics.
Coming up
4th July 2019 REAP Annual Conference, including workshops on Refugees: Home Homelessness, and on Young refugees and mental wellbeing.
Participating Organisations
The following organisations have been involved in discussions about Refugees, Home and Homelessness in West London during events in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
| 999 Club Trust |
| Action West London (Prev. Action Acton) |
| Advice4Renters |
| Advocacy for Nepalese Organisations |
| African Refugee Community N20 |
| Albert Kennedy Trust |
| All African Women’s Group |
| Ashiana Network |
| Black Womens Rape Action Project (BWRAP) |
| British Red Cross, |
| Cardinal Hume Centre |
| Care 2 Talk |
| Centre for Armenian Information and Advice (CAIA) |
| Centrepoint |
| Challenge, The |
| Citizens UK Brent |
| CNWL – NHS Mental Health Trust (WLMHT) |
| Connection at St Martins |
| Crisis |
| Crossroads Women’s Centre |
| Doctors of the World |
| Ealing Advice Forum (EAF) |
| Ealing Community and Voluntary Service (ECVS) |
| Ealing Food Bank |
| Ealing Women’s Forum |
| ELATT Connected Learning, |
| Fayre Share Foundation |
| Felix Project |
| Freedom from Torture (FFT)(Prev. Medical Foundation For The Care Of Victims Of Torture) |
| Frontline Workers Network |
| Glass Door Homeless Charity (prev WL Churches Homeless Concern) Green Room, The (See Standing Together) |
| HEAR – Humanity, Equalities, Rights Network |
| Helen Bamber Foundation, The |
| Help through Crisis (Ealing) |
| Homeless Link |
| Hope for Southall Homeless – Street Homeless Drop in |
| Horn of Africa Youth Association, HAYA |
| Housing Justice |
| Inclusion London |
| International Organisation for Migration (IOM) |
| Iranian Welfare Association IWA London |
| London Churches Refugee Network (LCRN) |
| Micro-Rainbow (International) |
| Migrant Help UK |
| Migrants Organise (Prev. Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum (MRCF) |
| MIND in Ealing and Hounslow |
| MIND, Wandsworth & Westminster |
| MTG Solicitors |
| New Way Project |
| No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) |
| Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue (NPLS) |
| One Housing Group One Support |
| Origin Housing |
| Pathway (at UCLHospital) |
| PRAXIS and Praxis Interpreting |
| Pregnancy Matters Hounslow |
| Project 17 |
| Race Equality Foundation (REF) |
| Race on the Agenda (RoTA) |
| Rahab UK |
| Refugee Action |
| Refugee and Migrant Network, Sutton |
| Refugee Council |
| Refugee Rights Data Project |
| Refugees at Home |
| Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) |
| Refugees Welcome Ealing |
| Refugees Welcome Haringey |
| Refugees Welcome Hounslow (RWH) |
| Renaisi |
| Room to Heal |
| Safer Sister, Manchester |
| Salusbury World Refugee Centre |
| Southall Food Bank Café |
| St Mungos |
| Standing Together Against Domestic Violence |
| Stonewall Housing |
| Strategic Alliance on Migrant Destitution |
| Thames Reach |
| Turning Point |
| UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG) |
| West London College |
| West London Mission (WLM)(See Housing Justice) |
| West London, formerly Ealing Equality Council (EREC) |
| Winvisible (Women with Visible and Invisible Disabilities) |
| Yiewsley Baptist Church |
| Young Minds |
| Young Roots (Prev. Refugee Youth Project) |
Other Useful Contacts
Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) and ASAN Googlegroup, access to training
Frontline Worker Network
HEAR Network, Bulletin and Googlegroup on Disabled Refugees
Homeless Link Network and Googlegroup
MigrationWork CIC
NRPF Network
About the Wed 24th January 2018
“Refugees: Home, Homelessness, Destitution and Survival”
(9.30) 10.00 – 1.00, at “Hayashen” (CAIA), 105a Mill Hill Road, Acton W3 8JF
Organised by HEAR / REAP Tube Acton Town
for all West London / London Voluntary, community and statutory sector with an interest in making contacts and networking; to help us all respond effectively to refugees and asylum seekers (and refused asylum seekers) who are struggling with homelessness and destitution.
This workshop will follow up on and continue discussions and connections started up over the past two years at a couple of similar events, including one the previous January. It will be a chance to form new links, share questions, news, ideas and expertise. You do not need to have been to any earlier events to find this workshop useful, but we hope that if you have been to one of these earlier events you will come along again this January to strengthen connections.
Discussion themes will include :
– home and homelessness,
– mental and emotional health, health access,
– accommodation options after S4 refused,
– the 28 days after ‘Leave’ and risk of destitution,
– Community Care Assessments, sources of support,
– other topics and contributions welcome.
Please check www.reap.org.uk for most recent updates, and also see www.HEAREquality.org.uk
To book email sarah@reap.org.uk your name, organisation and any access needs.
Our sincere thanks to St Martin’s Frontline Workers Network for their support for this event and to City Bridge and Trust for London for supporting HEAR’s work including this event.
REAP (Charity 1103345) www.reap.org.uk Sarah
HEAR www.HEAREquality.org.uk Christine, Mhairi