We work with, residents, community groups and local businesses to alleviate food and fuel poverty.

The Hull Community Shop is open to EVERYONE no matter what your personal circumstances are. So please feel free to pop in and have a look around.

Enactus is an international non-profit organisation that encourages student entrepreneurship with a truly social purpose. Manchester Enterprise Centre is a proud supporter of the Enactus Manchester team. The team has received numerous awards and grants over the years for its enterprise projects in Greater Manchester and around the world.

At Engage Leeds we believe everyone has the right to decent housing that meets their needs. We promote inclusion, fairness, dignity and hope and support people to make change for themselves. Our goal is to positively impact both individuals and their wider communities.

We work in collaboration with the people we support to develop meaningful and support plans that are tailored to each individual’s unique circumstances.

EnterprisingYou is a program delivered by GM Business Growth hub, tailored to support those with a budding business idea, those ready to start a business or established self-employed individuals, freelancers and gig economy workers in Greater Manchester.

Our mission is to support, empower and connect European Nationals to navigate life in the UK, promote cultural diversity and inclusivity, and inspire community cohesion.

Family Action protects children, supports young people and adults and offers direct, practical help to families and communities across the UK. We represent the changing needs of all families, and work to ensure society understands the importance and power of family as the foundation for individual futures and resilient communities.

We offer a variety of services both online and in person: • Children and young people • Adoption and special guardianship • Food and hardship support • SEND support • Health and wellbeing • Schools and education • Skills and employability

Our purpose is to mobilise our community to improve the basic conditions of life for local residents trapped in deprivation, hardship and abuse. We do this by encouraging local people with lived experience of inequality to become part of FAST as volunteers.

By providing the skills, qualifications and supervision for volunteers to develop and run our services we have the capacity to address practical everyday needs as well as complex social issues for the most vulnerable in our community.

Forum Central is the collective voice for Leeds third sector in health and care. Our vision is a better quality of life for people in Leeds through a thriving, diverse and sustainable third sector. Our work is delivered in partnership by Leeds Older People’s Forum and Volition.

We are a member led network and connect the fantastic work happening in Leeds’ diverse third sector organisations with that of other organisations and strategic developments happening in health and social care. We promote and support partnership working across the city and provide information for and about the sector.

At Freedom from Torture We provide specialist psychological therapy to asylum seekers and refugees who have survived torture, helping them recover and rebuild their lives in the UK.

Our counsellors, psychotherapists, doctors, care coordinators and pain management specialists help people through the long recovery journey. We offer one-to-one therapy, group activities and other support including for physical pain.

Our services are offered to men, women, children and young people, as well as to families and couples. 

At Friends of Shamwari we help asylum seekers and refugees in Rochdale.

We run free monthly socials (first saturday of each month), which includes free hot meals, children's activities, bingos and raffles.

We are a supported housing scheme for single homeless people, situated close to both Manchester City Centre and Salford Shopping City.

Our accommodation is varied but consists primarily of single rooms with cooking facilities, all within a 2-mile radius of the office.

Comprehensive support is provided to each service user with weekly support sessions by our dedicated support staff.

George House Trust has been providing HIV support, advice and advocacy services to improve health outcomes since 1985. We are a service user centred organisation, with a diverse team of highly trained and knowledgeable staff and volunteers.

At George House Trust we offer 1 to 1 services for everyone and as someone living with HIV, you can talk to an adviser on any issue that may concern you and they will advise, signpost or advocate on your behalf.

Our advisers can also signpost you to other organisations if you have a specific need, which may not be directly related to your HIV health.

The Greater Manchester ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Advice Service helps people in Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Bury, Trafford, Oldham, and Tameside improve their English. They work with local authorities and offer various ESOL courses at different levels. You can access help through online assessments or by contacting them directly. They provide both classroom-based and online learning options, and help with practising English outside of formal classes.

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit is a voluntary organisation supporting people subject to immigration control for over 25 years.

We offer free legal advice, representation and support services to people seeking asylum, refugees, children and vulnerable adults.

The GM Migrant Destitution Fund (MDF) provides cash grants for people forced into destitution by their immigration status. 

We operate a “fund-plus” model. Beyond our grants programme, we also: 

• Signpost where possible for additional support and pathways out of destitution
• Develop partnership working between frontline organisations across GM  
• Advocate for change to build towards a society where no one is made destitute because of where they come from.  

GMYN is a charity that helps young people. Our Being Together programme is specially for asylum-seekers and refugees who arrived in the UK under 18 without parents/guardians. We work with these children and young people up to age 21, in partnership with GMIAU.

We offer: Weekly groups in different areas of Greater Manchester, after school/college. These groups are a fun social space where young people can try activities like art, cooking, sport, volunteering, or learn about life in the UK.

At Golden Centre of Opportunities we offer training and support in a variety of courses.

We support in Housing, Schools, Social Services, Appeals & Advocacy Service, Utility Bills & Issues. We also do a Homework Club in English, Maths & Science, ages 8 - 16 year olds. 

Some of the courses we offer include: ESOL, Information, Advice & Guidance, Work Club, Basic IT, City & Guilds short online courses for Childcare, Safeguarding and Health & Social Care, British Sign Language

We enable the people of Greater Manchester to campaign for change as well as to provide access to free and independent legal advice and representation for people who could not otherwise afford it.

Our friendly and dedicated front-of-house reception staff will try to help you with all your enquiries – on the phone or face to face. To use our services, you need to be resident in Greater Manchester. If we are able to deal with your enquiry, we will arrange an appointment with one of our case workers or monthly legal advice clinics.

At Greater Together Manchester we build effective partnerships in communities to bring about positive change by tackling poverty and transforming lives throughout Greater Manchester and Rossendale.

​We enrich, inspire and equip communities with the skills, knowledge and confidence to bring about change in their localities, to help tackle social injustice and ensure that everyone can enjoy life in all its fullness.

​We help relieve financial hardship, by providing our own services where necessary, as well as providing information, advice and infrastructure support for other community projects.

We are a large resilient community of asylum seekers and refugees and dedicated volunteers centred around our thriving allotment site in Levenshulme, Manchester. We welcome people from across Greater Manchester to our garden to give and access support and create a relaxing, therapeutic space to enjoy together.

We develop therapeutic horticulture projects with and for our members, meeting members needs through signposting, referral and the provision of individualised support and building community and networks of solidarity, mutual aid and peer support.

Guidance Hub is a community-focused organisation based in Manchester. Our work revolves around three key pillars: education, spirituality, and community service. By providing essential services and fostering a culture of compassion and growth, we aim to positively impact the lives of individuals and families across the region.

Through our educational programs, spiritual guidance, and community initiatives, we strive to equip individuals with the tools they need to live fulfilling, purposeful lives.

Sure Start is the government programme to deliver the best start in life for every child.

Sure Start Children's Centres are places where children under 5 years old and their families can access a wide range of support services and information including early education, childcare, health and family support.

Hazelhurst Solicitors has a Private immigration team which assists clients from all over the world to navigate the complex UK immigration laws. Solicitors from our Immigration department can give advice to individuals or families if:

• Migrating to the UK
• Already in the UK, but seeking to regularise their immigration status, o
• Applying for further leave to remain, or settlement in the UK

Heart4Refugees is a charity that support refugees to fully integrate into our community, helping them to build new, successful lives and relationships.

We provide practical assistance, advocacy, and community integration services for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
We offer support through our drop-in centre and community activities such as Art Therapy and Bicycle club.

At Heart and Parcel We work with people learning English to recognise, celebrate and develop their existing rich skills and knowledge, so they can communicate confidently and live fulfilling lives.  

We do this by supporting learners to flourish in their local communities and forge connections by developing English language and communication skills through the medium of food.

Supporting People seeking Sanctuary – a Place of Welcome, Safety and Hope Our project has grown out of Hill House, a much loved family home, which is now used as a rest and retreat venue in particular for refugees, asylum seekers and survivors of trafficking or torture. The house is also available for others who are seeking short periods of restoration, or to pursue a particular creative interest, either as individuals or in groups.

Holy Trinity Church & Community Centre (HTCCC) is a dedicated community hub that partners with Tameside College to deliver educational and enrichment programs, particularly for local, hard-to-reach women.

We offer Pre-Entry level ESOL courses designed to boost confidence and foster connections among women. Our friendly and supportive learning environment covers a broad ESOL curriculum, including phonics, everyday life skills, and health and wellbeing topics.

Home-Start HOST is a local charity of trained volunteers and dedicated, experienced staff.  We help families with young children flourish during the years of early childhood, supporting parents across Tameside, Oldham, Stockport, Bolton & Glossop.

We offer a range of support, from one-to-one support in the home to specialist early learning, breastfeeding and perinatal support.

Hope Cafe is a place for asylum seekers, refugees and their families to receive support in many ways from reading letters, emailing and phoning to having access to food, household items and clothes. We want every person to feel valued and to integrate into life here. The team give time to help people to learn English, run an allotment and to play football together.

We also have a Bible study for Farsi speakers, and for more than a year now we have been delivering food to homes. Contact us for more details, we want to help however we can!

We connect socially isolated asylum seekers and refugees with volunteer befrienders. We operate in London, Greater Manchester and Tyne & Wear.

Through careful matching with friendly residents, we aim to give refugees a positive experience of our cities, a pathway into our communities and a relaxed space for practising English.

Hull and East Riding Interfaith exists to promote good relations between people of different faiths and beliefs in our region.


The aims of the organization are to develop mutual respect, understanding and cooperation amongst people of all faiths (and of none) in the Hull and East Riding area of Yorkshire, by:

• providing a forum for dialogue between the faith communities and for the exploration of issues relating to them;
• giving leadership with regard to raising common issues with the main public organizations and providing a collective response;
• supporting the work of the local Standing Advisory Councils for Religious Education (SACREs) in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Support includes:
Free, rapid and confidential HIV testing and other STI testing, Pregnancy testing, Contraception Provision, Condoms and lubricant, Consultancy, Counselling, Information and resources, free meeting rooms to use, Consent training, Outreach to the commercial gay scene, cruising areas and public toilets, Support for individuals and community groups, Training on sexual health and culture relevant consent workshops.

People this service supports:
People of colour and other marginalised races, gay, bi and other men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers (varying genders depending on the location), LGBT+ young people, trans communities.

At the Immigration Advice Service our lawyers specialise in a wide range of UK visas, nationality and asylum applications and have represented clients in various successful complex and high-profile cases.

We offer professional assistance for several immigration processes, such as:

• Entry clearance, leave to enter and leave to remain
• Applications under the points-based system
• Marriage and Family visas
• Permanent residency and British citizenship applications
• Work permits and employment immigration services
• Deportation appeals, bail and detention matters
• Refugee and humanitarian protection enquiries
• Appeals and judicial review challenges

Integrated Sexual Health Services provide free and confidential sexual health services. This includes information and advice on all types of contraception, STI testing and treatment. Our service is confidential, non-judgemental and for people of all ages, genders, and orientations.

Everyone is welcome and you don’t need to see a GP first.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) offers services to support refugees and asylum seekers into work in the UK. These include a comprehensive Job Readiness course, which helps individuals find jobs, create excellent applications, build interview skills, and understand their legal rights in the workplace.

*This organisations programmes are no longer taking referrals*

The Working Well Work and Health Programme, in partnership with the DWP, is a tailored service to support you back into employment, with help from employment specialists, health professionals and community organisations.

We are a charity providing free English language support to refugee and migrant children in Bristol and Oxford. We help children and young people from refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant communities in deprived areas of Bristol and Oxford. The children and young people we support are a wonderfully diverse group, representing many different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The thing they have in common is that they speak English as an additional language and their school teachers know that they would benefit from the extra support we offer - perhaps because they lack confidence, are struggling at school, or have just arrived in the UK and are new to English.

Jigsaw Foundation is an exciting new £450,000 fund to support local projects run by charities, resident and community groups, voluntary organisations, social enterprises and partner agencies.

Julian House is a charity that supports vulnerable and at-risk individuals. These include adults and young people experiencing homelessness, escaping domestic abuse, adults with learning difficulties and people who need support after leaving prison.

We address the psychological and mental health needs of children, adults and families, with particular emphasis on cultural competence.

Just Psychology is on the Manchester City Council Family Resource and Intervention Framework, the Approved Register for Counselling in Schools in Salford, and Trafford's Early Help Dynamic Purchasing System. We are fully compliant with the 20 Salford Safeguarding Standards.

At Kalsi Legal Aid, we are committed to providing compassionate and expert legal assistance to asylum seekers.

Our dedicated team of legal professionals offers comprehensive services, including application assistance, document preparation, interview coaching, support for those in immigration detention and representation at all stages of the asylum process.

We also support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children providing comprehensive legal representation, support in navigating the asylum process, and collaboration with social services to ensure the best possible outcomes for these vulnerable individuals.

At the Kashmir Youth Project we help individuals obtain the services and skills they require to meet and fulfil community and personal needs. We offer a high level of practical and lived experience, know-how and a network with long established partnerships.

In line with our aims, we provide an on-site Nursery (Little Gems) as well as an Elders Day Care Centre (Apna Ghar). KYP also offers business support by providing excellent affordable managed workspace for new start-ups and growth companies.

KYP also provides a bi-lingual Welfare Advice service for those that struggle to access the support they need due to language barriers.

We have state of the art conference and training facilities as well as community facilities for residents, community groups and other organisations for hire.

Kids In Need Of Defense UK protects undocumented children in the UK.

We provide free legal help to children, young people and families as they navigate the UK immigration system. We partner with lawyers and law firms across the country to ensure the best quality legal advice and representation.

We protect the rights and wellbeing of undocumented children and young people.

We campaign for systemic change to ensure that all children are safe and able to thrive regardless of their immigration status.

LASSN runs projects that address the needs of refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants at risk of harm or exploitation in Leeds, and raises awareness of issues facing people seeking refuge and other migrants in Leeds.

Learning Unlimited is a not for profit social enterprise that specialises in adult and family learning, ESOL and integration, literacy, numeracy and teacher education.

We believe in learning as empowerment and engage adults and families in local communities who face a wide range of issues and barriers to social inclusion. We also train the volunteers and professionals who work with and support them.

Yorkshire MESMAC is one of the oldest and largest sexual health organisations in the country. We offer services to various communities across Yorkshire, including men who have sex with men, people of colour and other marginalised races, people misusing drugs, sex workers and LGBT+ young people and adults.

Legal Remedy Centre (LRC) is a registered CIC offering legal advice and representation to members of the community. We offer confidential advice and a good quality specialist legal service in social welfare law. We have partnered with a number of other not-for-profit community organisations and community members who we work closely with to help overcome barriers to provide the support needed.

Here at Lei Dat & Baig Solicitors our Immigration solicitors have an outstanding reputation for acting on behalf of individuals with highly successful results.

Our Immigration lawyers can assist you with your Asylum and Human Rights case no matter how complex it is. We are able to assist you with:

• Applications to the Home Office for asylum for any of the convention reasons
• Cases involving children, victims of torture and rape, domestic violence, trafficking, sexual orientation and gender related issues
• Human rights applications based on fear of torture, or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment
• Human Rights applications on medical grounds of serious illness
• Human Rights applications on the basis of family or length of residence in the United Kingdom
• Representation at all levels of the appeal system;
• Judicial Review applications to the Administrative Court relating to Asylum and Human Rights matters
• Family reunion
• Representing those who face exclusion from the Refugee Convention

Inspire is a multi-purpose community venue based inside a former church, a thriving and well-loved centre owned by the people of Levenshulme.

All the activities, classes and events that happen at Inspire aim to benefit local people through community activity, creativity, enterprise and fun. All our projects, events and our cafe are supported by a dedicated team of volunteers which are made up of community members from all over the world.

We also aim to draw people in from further afield to take part in our activities, and to see how fantastic our neighbourhood is and to connect with others.

At Levy Old Library we strive to be:

• A community centre that all sections of the community can use
• A home for arts and cultural activities
• A home for performance, music and events that celebrate our community
• A youth-friendly space
• A home for learning and growing, where individuals can improve their lives
• A home for groups: Offices, meeting spaces, resources etc
• A building that pays its way whilst benefiting the aims above (such as through pop up cafés, exhibitions, a party venue and place for celebration)

We are a national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We celebrate and empower LGBTQ+ individuals and our diverse communities to realise their full potential, every day.

We provide services and activities that give a lifeline to those in need, offering hope and support on their journey towards achieving their aspirations.

Our services and activities include:

- A range of support groups

- Face-to-face counselling

- Helpline, email and pop-in service

- Befriending scheme

- Sexual health programme

- Substance-misuse project

- Organisational training

- A range of guides and resources

- National website

- Advice surgeries including legal advice

- LGBT infrastructure support

- Various research projects and policy campaigning

Each service has different access. Our befriending scheme, is self-referral. For other services please visit our website for updated information.

Lifeshare is Manchester’s oldest serving homeless charity, and marked its 40th anniversary in 2024. Lifeshare is dedicated to providing essential services to people experiencing homelessness and poverty.

We have a small core staff team and a large number of volunteers; both individual and corporate volunteers from Manchester businesses that we enable and support to deliver services/projects that seek to make a difference to those who are experiencing homelessness in Manchester.

Our core projects are currently; • Weekend respite breakfast project (52 weekends a year; Fridays, Saturday and  Sunday 7-9 am) • Weekly emergency drop-in food bank (Tuesday and Thursday 2.00pm to 5.00pm)

Our NHS funded first-language mental health service is designed to support refugees and asylum-seekers in temporary hotel accommodation in Greater Manchester. We understand that refugees may experience various mental health challenges due to the stressful and traumatic experiences they have encountered in their home countries and during their journey to seek asylum.

At LHH we provide financial assistance to those who are in hardship due to illness or disability. This includes physical and diagnosed mental health conditions, learning disabilities and people caring for an adult or child with a disability.

We help those who are living on a very low income, receiving the appropriate welfare benefits and who have exhausted all other funding sources including statutory funding, occupational, local and specialist charities. 

Assistance is offered to all ages; help for children should be made with a parent/legal guardian as the lead applicant.

We can offer one-off grants, extended assistance and carers' breaks.

Our specialist immigration solicitors can advise people about their immigration and nationality status and the applications that they may be able to make to the Home Office.

• We have national expertise in Statelessness based applications – with full representation for applications for permission to stay and to register as British citizens on the grounds of statelessness.
• We advise and assist people with children who want to register as British, and can help with fee waiver applications.
• We can advise and assist refugees who want to naturalise as British Citizens.
• We can help with renewal of leave to remain on a discretionary or human rights basis.
• We can assist with SET(P) applications for refugees seeking Indefinite Leave to Remain.
• We can support individuals with Refugee status or Humanitarian Protection to obtain travel documents.

We support the homeless, isolated and vulnerable in Salford and the surrounding area.

We run a drop in centre which is open Monday to Friday 9am -12.30pm (afternoon opening for appointments and activity sessions only).

At the drop in centre we:

• Serve free hot meals with indoor and outdoor seating available.
• Can help with advice and referrals in to Housing, support with food, finances, health, accommodation and benefits  or we can get you in touch with lots of other services that can help you.
• Provide access to Salford Foodbank, advice, guidance and support appointments and access to the Homeless GP Service and Achieve Recover12.3

Our Skills for Life Centre is open daily

Monday - Drop in Arts and Craft Groups

Tuesdays - Housing advice and support drop in run by Salford Council

Wednesdays - Employability day actively supporting people in to employment and training

Thursdays - ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) take place in the mornings. In afternoon we run a basic to advanced IT and computer course.

Friday - Yoga classes

Longsight Children’s Centre provides high-quality, welcoming and accessible environments and support services that empower families to achieve their full potential.

The centre is in the same building as Longsight Nursery and Longsight School, and we all work together to provide seamless provision and support for children aged 0-11 and their families.

Our shared building ensures that families have a single point of contact and that services can be provided effectively and efficiently.

We offer practical support for refugees and asylum seekers through ESOL classes, homework clubs and youth groups.

We develop and support community leaders through training, personal development, mentoring and one to one appointments.

We advocate for the needs and aspirations of refugee communities through bilingual advocacy (by appointment only) and working collaboratively with other organisations to provide extra services for refugees and asylum seekers.

Make a Difference community group brings together and fosters understanding amongst local people from the diverse communities across Greater Manchester.

We facilitate promote, support and develop recreational activities, events, fundraising, and project planning support, catering, and trips out. We welcome and support people with special needs and disabilities from all backgrounds to all our activities and events.

Our wide variety of courses cover lots of subjects including essential skills, English, maths and digital, as well as vocational courses in health and social care, and education, which are aimed at helping adults gain qualifications to help them move closer to the jobs market.

We also have a programme for learners with additional education needs, a very large ESOL provision for speakers of other languages and community learning courses that encourage people to become engaged and active in their local community.

Most of the courses that we offer are free and we have a dedicated and accredited careers and progression service.

The Manchester Chinese Centre is a charity that supports the Chinese community in Manchester and surrounding areas. They offer various services aimed at helping individuals and families improve their quality of life. Their work includes providing advice on housing, immigration, and employment, as well as health and social services.

The centre runs English language classes to help members of the community improve their language skills, as well as an advice drop-in assisting with the relief of poverty covering: Welfare benefits Citizenship Housing Homelessness Consumer rights Bad debt Family and personal issues Employment Education Health.

A part of Greater Manchester ESOL. We offer funded ESOL courses in 4 locations from Entry 1 to Level 2. We offer ESOL for 16-18 year olds, and adult learning classes.

Manchester Community Central is a website through which voluntary and community groups and social enterprises across Manchester can easily get the support, advice and information they need – everything from funding searches through to news about local strategic developments and the hot topics at the Voluntary Sector Assembly.

The Manchester City Council provides services for individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. They offer support to people of all ages, including families, young adults, and vulnerable individuals.

The service helps people find emergency accommodation, such as hostels or temporary housing, and provides advice on housing options. For example, they assist with applying for housing benefits and understanding rights as tenants.

Manchester Migrant Solidarity (Manchester MiSol) is a self-help group set up as a convergence space for all migrants including asylum seekers offering practical and social activities for mutual support, empowerment and solidarity with non-migrants to build a powerful political voice against the systematic mistreatment of migrants in the UK.

Here are some of what we undertake:

• Awareness raising of migrants and asylum seekers’ issues
• Workshops (appeals, legal, campaigning etc.)
• Language help/lessons
• Socials (cooking etc.)
• Anti-deportation mobilisation and detention support
• Film showings/talks/infosessions

Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN) is a grass-roots organisation directly managed by refugee communities in Manchester. We provide practical support to those fleeing persecution, conflict, and various forms of injustice and abuse.

Support - We support refugees to access services and opportunities on an equal basis, in order to prevent all forms of poverty and allow individuals to fulfil their potential.

Educate - We educate refugees and asylum seekers on their rights and responsibilities as active citizens, and contribute to positive media representation of refugees.

Empower - We empower refugees to establish strong community organisations and provide platforms for them to represent the needs and aspirations of their communities.

The MUD team make beautiful gardens in urban spaces, where people grow, cook and eat delicious, healthy food together. These gardens are hubs for thriving, connected communities, havens for nature, and visions of a fair and sustainable alternative way to supply the food we need to be part of a fairer food system.

WE’RE BUILDING ROUTES TO MARKET

This includes the MUD Kitchen, the MUD shop & the monthly Farmers Market at Platt Fields Market Garden.

WE’RE PROVIDING ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

We’re teaching people how to grow and cook food. We have a mixed team of food growers, chefs, and STH practitioners who deliver free sessions such as our New Growers Programme and our Open Volunteering Days.

WE’RE PROTECTING AND DEVELOPING GREEN SPACES AND NATURE

We’ve worked on over 30 gardens since 2019. We design and build community gardens around the city and we maintain 3 large gardens in South, Central and East Manchester.

WE’RE GROWING, COOKING AND EATING TOGETHER

Our gardens are places where local people can participate in activities that support greater wellbeing such as cooking clubs and community lunches and volunteer lunches.

Manuel Bravo Project is a registered charity in Leeds. We give free legal representation to asylum seekers and refugees who cannot get legal aid.

We also provide free immigration advice to everyone through our outreach service.

Sure Start is the government programme to deliver the best start in life for every child. Sure Start Children’s Centres are places where children under 5 years old and their families can access a wide range of support services and information including early years education, childcare, health and family support. Sure Start Children’s Centres offer a number of sessions, which provide young children with opportunities to develop and learn by good quality experiences.

Maternity Action is the UK’s maternity rights charity dedicated to promoting, protecting and enhancing the rights of all pregnant women, new mothers and their families to employment, social security and health care.

We a provide a variety of resources including:

• Information sheets
• Free legal advice
• Casework
• Peer support
• Free help for employers
• Reports
• Training

We also provide a NHS maternity charging service. Maternity Action’s NHS charging team is the only specialist advice service that provides free legal advice and representation to women who’ve been charged for their NHS maternity care.

The service is open to all women who have been charged, their partners, friends and family, midwives, other health professionals and advisers.

We at MCR Solicitors (Manchester) provide a wide range of UK visas & immigration services to businesses and individuals including UK work visas, UK visitor visas, family visas, student visas, Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) and British citizenship etc.

Meeting Point aims to serve the needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, ability or legal status. Meeting Point principally aims to work with Refugees and Asylum Seekers towards social integration. We also provide a range of suitable community provisions in association with other organisations to meet the needs of our beneficiaries – whether health, employment, advice, family support or food provision. We also aim to reduce negative stereotypes and break down barriers in the local community.

MRSN provide practical help to refugees “moving-on” from the asylum system and to support their onward social and economic independence for life in the Liverpool region and beyond.  Our service is person centred to meet client needs throughout their integration journey, underpinned by our health and wellbeing work. 

We offer casework and advocacy support to help clients with benefit applications,  support with applications for statutory housing services, emergency financial and destitution support.  Once out of crisis we can offer employability support when resources allow.  We also offer community support to refugee diaspora communities.

We are a Christ-centred congregation which serves, celebrates and affirms the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities of Manchester and North West England.

Our trans members play a full and active part in our ministry, leading worship, celebrating Holy Communion, welcoming others, preaching, and taking part in the government of church. People may dress as they please and we provide care and support for people at all stages in their journey. Our trans members are particularly skilled at helping and encouraging other trans people as they explore their identities. Our whole church welcomes everyone who comes without bias or prejudice. Many of our members are lesbian, bisexual or gay and know from their own experience about the pain of coming to terms with who they really are.

Micro Rainbow’s vision is to create a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people are free from discrimination, persecution and have equal opportunities in life, including in accessing employment, training, education, financial services, healthcare, housing, places of faith, and public services.

We do this by:

• Providing safe housing to LGBTQI asylum seekers 
• Facilitating access to employment, volunteering, training and education for LGBTQI refugees through our moving on programme
• Providing social inclusion activities to reduce the extreme isolation faced by LGBTQI people
• Advocacy – up to 6 tailored sessions with Outreach Officers to meet need and requirements, providing legal workshops and signposting and collaborating with relevant organisations

Middlesex Law Chambers is a well-established firm that has built up a reputation for providing legal services that are second-to-none. We specialise is a range of different legal fields including immigration law, care proceedings and family law, criminal law and conveyancing.

Manchester Immigration Detainee Support Scheme - visitors to immigration detainees held at Manchester Airport. We offer emotional and social support to try and improve the conditions of people held in detention. MIDST is a volunteer-run group and visits and supports men and women being detained at RSTHF302, a short-term holding facility at Manchester Airport. The group also visits and supports men being held post-sentence under immigration control at HMP Manchester. We provide information about detention, people's rights, and signpost people to relevant support.

MIDST visits the centre three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) between 10am-12pm. Usually it is just one member per visit. We introduce ourselves to anyone who is in detention and offer the opportunity to speak with us in private in the visitors room. If you would like to meet with us just ask a member of staff or speak to us when our volunteers come to visit. We can also be contacted via email. The telephone number provided is for AVID. MIDST do not have a direct telephone number.

Migrant Action is a migrant justice-based organisation enabling migrants to feel welcome, access justice and effectively integrate and thrive in the UK. As an organisation, our analysis of migrant justice is rooted in humanity, empowerment, systemic justice and transformational change.

We view migrant justice in terms of holistic support provision including; safe spaces for information, advice & guidance, advocacy support, access to legal immigration advice, ESOL & employability support, and other forms of practical assistance to ‘vulnerable’ migrants. We facilitate pathways to mainstream services provision and ensure equity of access to rights and justice for migrants.

In addition to our direct assistance to migrants, Migrant Action’s work is also focused on system/structural change. Through research, campaigns, and service delivery partnerships, we highlight and help influence positive change of systems/structures that perpetuate vulnerability and hostile migration experience for migrants.

Migrant English Support Hub (MESH) is a charity dedicated to supporting adult migrant language learners in the Yorkshire & Humber region.

Here at Migrant Help, we exist to protect people affected by displacement and exploitation, helping them thrive as individuals and recover from their trauma. We support those most in need and least likely to find support elsewhere, whilst aiming to bridge community gaps and bring services and support together.