Refugee Survival Trust provide refugees and people seeking asylum with practical support, helps build connections between people and campaigns for change. Some of the support provided includes:

• Financial assistance to refugees and people seeking asylum in Scotland who are facing extreme poverty and homelessness.
• Accommodation service filling a crucial support gap for people seeking safety in Scotland through the asylum system, who have become homeless and have lost their entitlement to support.
• Travel expenses for new or expectant mothers

1. We offer safe accommodation and holistic support to people who have been made homeless and destitute through the asylum process.

2. Boaz Floating Support provides holistic support including ensuring people have access to legal advice, practical help to relieve destitution, and other specialist support, advice and signposting (in partnership with the Booth Centre and GMIAU as part of the Greater Manchester Restricted Eligibility Support Service).

if you’ve made a homeless application and the council:

• refuse to give you emergency housing
• ask for more information to show you’re in priority need

And you need a supporting letter, please email your regional staff team and ask them to complete and send a Homelessness Support Letter, which is in the Team Drive.

People who have refugee status and a good standard of English can refer themselves for accommodation.  We also offer the self-referral process for those arriving through the Homes for Ukraine scheme. 

They will need to provide details of two people who can vouch for them. These need to be people who we have known the prospective guest while they have been in the UK and who know the guest well enough to be able to answer questions about who they are and what their plans are. Hosts may ask to speak to them.

(CYF will vouch for CYF trainees and grads. Email us about this.)

This service is for:

1. People who have been granted refugee status and get a 28 day move on order.
2. Asylum seekers waiting for NASS housing.
3. Refused and destitute asylum seekers.

Homelessness services in Birmingham are available 24/7 over the telephone.

Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm: 0121 303 7410. Select option 3

All other times: 0121 303 2296

StreetLink is a website, mobile app and phone service for England and Wales, which enables people to send an alert when they see someone sleeping rough to connect that person to local support services that can help to end their homelessness. 

StreetLink itself is not an outreach service or an accommodation provider, nor is it an emergency service. It is the link between someone sleeping rough and the independent local services available. Self referrals are accepted.

StreetLink is not an emergency service. If you think someone needs urgent medical attention, please call 999.