Who are we?  

Refugees at Home was born in response to the many refugees and asylum seekers who have come to the UK in search of safety and a better life, and have found themselves facing homelessness and destitution.
This doesn’t happen to all refugees or asylum seekers, but unfortunately many do find themselves without statutory support for long periods, or needing some additional help to build new lives in the UK.  

We match generous hosts with a spare room with asylum seekers and refugees in need of emergency and temporary accommodation. We continue to keep our processes as simple and immediate as possible so that we can respond quickly to those in need. By early 2021 we had arranged over 170,000 individual placement nights, up and down the country and, bar a few relatively minor issues, this has been largely trouble-free. 

Refugees at Home is a community comprising our guests, our hosts, the home visitors who support them, our placement team, admin volunteers and our support teams (IT, media, fund-raising, governance etc.). We work closely with referrers such as the Refugee Council, British Red Cross, and many other local and national organisations around the country.  

We hope you will find in this guide all that you need to start your hosting journey fully informed and with confidence. You will have a chance to talk things through with your home visitor when they arrange to see you.  Please do get in touch with us on info@refugeesathome.org if you still have any questions, or anything you would like to share.