Trusts and major donors

Throughout the UK many refugees are so close to the edge because they are being forced, by government policy, to live in the most desperate and degrading circumstances. We also rely on donations to deliver direct services through our Therapeutic Casework Unit, and our Children’s Section, to vulnerable groups whose complex needs are not met by mainstream health and social services.

Gifts from individual major donors and grant-making trusts make all this important work possible. Here are a few examples of how your contributions will help:

• Age disputed children: We need £190,000 each year to run our specialist service for unaccompanied children whose age is being disputed by immigration or social services.
• Day Centre services: We need £130,000 each year to continue providing a warm welcome and a hot meal for refugees who are newly arrived or destitute.
• Therapeutic Casework Unit: We have ambitious plans to raise £1.7 million and expand our therapeutic services over the next three years to the Midlands and the North where refugees are dispersed. Our experienced staff help people come to terms with trauma and turn their lives around.
• The Powerful Women’s project will empower refugee and asylum seeking women who have experienced sexual violence to take control of their lives. To run this three year project costs £210,000. Comic Relief, the main funder of this project, has contributed £125,000. We now need to raise £85,000 over three years.
• Trafficked young women: We are raising £60,000 to reach girls who need protection because they have been brought to the UK to be exploited. Our project helps girls access safe accommodation, escape their abusers, and start rebuilding their lives.
• SCORES ‘Supporting Community Organisations – Refugees Engage in Sport’: aims to help refugees integrate by playing football and joining local teams. When we raise £42,000 we’ll unlock another £132,000 from the Football Foundation!
• Policy and public affairs: £247,000 will help us respond to the negative effects of the UK asylum process on refugees.

Or wherever the needs are greatest…

Full proposals and budgets are available on request. For more information on any of these projects please contact the Institutional Giving Manager on 020 7346 1201 or email her at claire.tomkins@refugeecouncil.org.uk

As the leading charity working with refugees in the UK, we are commissioned by the Home Office to provide advice and support services to asylum seekers in four regions through a Public Sector 3-year contract obtained through competitive tendering. Additional contracts include Refugee Integration and Employment Services and Refugees into Teaching delivered on behalf of other government agencies.

However, we rely entirely on voluntary donations to run all of the projects listed above. With your support, we can make a real difference to the lives of refugees in the UK.