Working together to rebuild lives
Positive Action in Housing is an independent homelessness and human rights charity dedicated to supporting refugees and migrants to rebuild their lives.
Palestine: Children and teacher at a Samaritan school in Nablus, c. 1920
People seeking asylum are living on £1.40 a day. Will you help?
Our Refugee Appeal is raising funds to provide humanitarian assistance to refugee families, children, babies, lone women and men — including torture survivors and those fleeing wars and persecution — who are forced to live without n extreme poverty here in the UK.
What’s happening
What we do
By empowering people with information, advice and targeted practical support we enable individuals to achieve independence. Through proactive casework, we challenge unfair decisions and processes that make people’s lives harder.
Winter Crisis Appeal
Our Winter Crisis Appeal is raising vital funds to provide humanitarian aid to refugee and asylum-seeking families and individuals — including torture survivors and those fleeing wars and persecution — who are facing destitution and homelessness across Scotland this winter.
Lifeline Destitution Service
Crisis intervention for destitute or insecurely housed refugees and asylum seekers. The ultimate aim is to enable beneficiaries to find the breathing space to rebuild their lives and resettle independently.
Money Skills Project
The Money Skills Project provides people from BME, refugee and migrant communities with one-to-one money, debt advice/representation, and workshops to reduce fuel poverty and improve financial stability.
“Room for Refugees enables those moved by compassion and a sense of justice to offer shelter to someone in need.”
Positive Action in Housing pioneered refugee hosting in the UK in 2002. We run the Room for Refugees Network — the UK's longest established refugee hosting programme.
We have 20 years of expertise in responding in a refugee crisis. To date we have sheltered over 4,000 refugees. We have 16,000 fully registered hosts. Over 500 refugee, emergency and homelessness organisations, including the British Red Cross, all Refugee Councils, Freedom from Torture, Migrants Organise, The Passage refer their clients to us, and we process hostings on our REFER online platform. We have hosts in every part of the U.K. and are now assisting Ukrainian and other refugees to find homes and navigate the visa application process.
- To become a host visit www.roomforrefugees.com or complete the online host request form
- Ukrainians who want to be accommodated via Room for Refugees or the UK Government Homes for Ukrainians can complete this refugee request form
- Ukraine Refugee Appeal: this Appeal will support Ukrainian and other refugees in the UK and Europe. Donate to our Appeal today
- See also our resources for refugees from Ukraine, and for supporters
During the time I’ve worked in Glasgow covering social issues, Positive Action in Housing has been a constant presence and an extremely useful one. I admire this charity because it is no respecter of institution or status where injustice needs to be tackled. I think it is worth thinking about how unusual that is – journalistically, I encounter people all the time who would like to speak out but don’t – due to concern over offending funders or alienating those in political power.
Stephen Naysmith, former Social Affairs Correspondent, The Herald