BLC’s Hope Destitution Fund (formerly known as the Asylum-Seekers' Destitution Fund) assists destitute asylum-seekers and some others barred from "recourse to public funds" in and around Birmingham. Over the past six years the Fund has raised and distributed more than half a million pounds. 

The project is managed by Birmingham Law Centre, working with

  • ASIRT (Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team),
  • the Children's Society,
  • Coventry Refugee Centre,
  • the British Red Cross (West Midlands),
  • the Refugee Council,
  • the Refugee and Migrant Centre, Wolverhampton, and
  • Restore (Birmingham Churches Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees).

    Requests for assistance from the Fund must be made via one of the above organisations.

    See also Hope Housing.

    • Registered charity 1087514
    Company limited by
    guarantee 4173542
    Birmingham Law Centre, Dolphin House, 54 Coventry Road, Birmingham B10 0RX
    Telephone 0121 766 7466, fax 0121 766 8860