Children & Young People

Just For Kids Law

We help Children & Young People overcome all the difficulties they face, from problems at school and issues with immigration status to trouble with the police through direct casework and campaigning.

Kent Refugee Action Network

We work with separated young refugees and asylum seekers, also known as UASC (Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children). We provide drop-in sessions, befriending services, mentoring, health and wellbeing sessions and learning.

Multi-Cultural Family Base

Work with families, including new migrants and from BME communities, who are experiencing difficulties: housing, financial, personal like discrimination or emotional concerns. We offer therapeutic or social support. Also a social work teaching centre, which offer placements to students at Scottish universities. Opening times: Weekdays 9am-5pm

New Horizon Youth Centre

New Horizon Youth Centre provides young Londoners experiencing homelessness personalised support to give their potential a home. We do this through services including supporting young people to find temporary accommodation, offering training and skills development, and helping young people to improve their emotional, physical and sexual health.

One Parent Families Scotland

Freephone helpline for lone parents and agencies working with them on a range of issues: benefit/tax credit entitlement, housing options, childcare, maternity, child maintenance, legal issues, education, return to employment. We provide single fathers’ groups flexible childcare services, and family support.

Play for Progress

Play for Progress is a Croydon-based charity that supports unaccompanied young people seeking asylum and promotes community resilience through trauma-informed creative engagement in the arts and education.

Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund

Grant-making organisation, for prisoners of conscience and their families in the UK and overseas, offering hardship relief, bursaries for postgraduate study/requalification and for family reunion costs.  Many grants give practical help to destitute refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. Through referrals only. Office is not open to the public.

Project 17

organisation working to end destitution among migrant children. It works with families who have no recourse to public funds who are experiencing exceptional poverty to improve their access to local authority support

Rain or Shine South Lanarkshire Ltd

We provide new and pre-loved children’s clothing, toys, books and maternity and nursery items.

Refugee Education UK

We are working towards a world where all refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people can access education, thrive in education, and use that education to create a hopeful, brighter future. Project activities include: 1) Support in accessing schools, further education and higher education; 2) Educational mentoring; 3) Wellbeing support; and 4) Workshops for practitioners and young people on how to access and thrive in education. We work with individuals from 14-25 across London, West Midlands and Oxford, and offer training and workshops across the UK.

Saffron Project

The Saffron Project provides Housing Support to young BME people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Support can be provided in their current tenancy or in Saffron temporary furnished flats.

The Baobab Centre

The Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile is a non-residential therapeutic community solely focused on the needs of young people who have experienced child and adolescent specific human rights abuses.

The Children’s Society

We work with young people across the country to help them transform their lives.

The Clock Tower Sanctuary

We’re a small staff team supported by 45 volunteers working together to provide a safe space and practical support for young people experiencing homelessness in Brighton.

The Magpie Project

We believe all children have the right to a secure, safe place to play, healthy food, engaged, informed parents, and access to support, no matter what their family circumstances.

The Rock Trust

We advise, educate and support young people to enable them to build the personal skills and resources required to make a positive and healthy transition to adulthood, ensuring that every young person has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness.

Together with Migrant Children

We provide support to migrant and refugee children, young people and families across the UK. We aim to empower and support individuals, families and communities through advocacy, specialist assessment, family & youth work and social work.

Venture Scotland

Venture Scotland offer young people aged 16-30, a FREE 4-stage, progressive, personal development programme based in the outdoors, lasting up to a year, focused on helping to improve their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. The programme is group-based and involves meeting twice a week to participate in fun and challenging sessions that use the outdoor environment to stimulate and sustain personal development and growth. Activities include everything from hill walking to canoeing to coasteering.

The programme is still being offered through the pandemic and is being delivered in a blended approach, which is a mixture of online and in-person programming. Please get in touch to refer yourself or someone you know, or to find out more.

Young Roots

Young Roots is a London-based charity working with young refugees and asylum seekers aged 11-25, most of whom are alone in the UK without their families.

Youth Community Support Agency

Holistic support through a variety of in-house services to ensure that young people, especially those deemed “hard to reach”, at risk of social exclusion and on the fringes of society, have maximum and effective individual support. Staff experienced with cultural diversity and specific needs.