A Year of Hope
Our Annual Report has just been published. We're proud of what we've done. Read about it here.
Our Annual Report has just been published. We're proud of what we've done. Read about it here.
One of the phrases we overuse here at Hope is that our job isn't to get people into our housing, its to get people out. Destitution housing, or financial support from a Hope grant can literally keep people alive while they fight there asylum case, but it isn't a long term solution. Everyone that we [...]
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Are you one of the 15,000 people cycling Velo Birmingham? Are you going to use your 4 free London midland day tickets? Why not donate them to Hope Projects? Destitute asylum seekers have to go to Liverpool in person to make further representations. Essential if they are to overturn flawed refusals of asylum. The Home [...]
Friday was always going to be a challenge. It started with Hope trustees meeting at 9.30 in the morning, in our new offices on the far side of Birmingham. I gave myself an extra half hour to drive and, what with Birmingham rush hour traffic, arrived frazzled just in the nick of time. An afternoon [...]
Hope sends a lot of people to Liverpool. We don't like doing it. Here's why.
This blog post came out of a workshop I ran for the excellent NACCOM network. My day job is coordinator of Hope project in Birmingham, providing housing, financial support and legal advice to asylum seekers left homeless and destitute by flawed asylum refusals. One of the things that makes Hope distinctive is our focus on the [...]