This is website is a community project run by volunteers, so we always need help updating and maintaining the platform. We need volunteers who can research services available in Greater Manchester and ensure all the details are correct.
This site is aimed at Refugees and Asylum Seekers, volunteers, care-givers, community outreach, social workers and student support services and anyone else who is signposting or who needs to access support in Greater Manchester.
If you want to help out, please email mcr.refugee.info@gmail.com for more info. Thank you.
Most charities and groups listed on our other pages would welcome volunteers, so please get in touch directly if there is something you have an interest or skill in.
Facebook Groups
Manchester Refugee Rights Collective
A group in Manchester interested in running education sessions, fundraising and volunteering, to provide aid in the current refugee crisis. Started by a group of people with direct experience volunteering in Calais and Dunkirk.
CARE UK (Refugee Aid Chorlton)
People and groups from the Northwest of England collecting and distributing practical items to refugees in need and raising funds for those that we can’t reach directly.
Reguraly ships aid out to refugee camps in Syria and Greece and has a couple of charity shops. They are always in need of volunteers and donors.
Friends of Help Refugees- Manchester and Salford
A focus on collecting material aid (donations of clothing, tents, sleeping bags etc.) and transporting them directly to Calais and Dunkirk where they are desperately needed.
Email manchester@helprefugees.org.uk
Twitter: MCR_to_CALAIS
Instagram: MCR_to_CALAIS
BeeFree NCS
An NCS team, The National Citizen Service is a voluntary personal and social development programme for young people in England, funded from the UK Government. Our aim is too help the local community to welcome asylum seekers by fundraising money.
Twitter: @beefreencs
Other volunteering opportunities
Code Your Future
https://codeyourfuture.io/
A non-profit organisation that supports refugees with the dream of becoming developers.
We are looking for experienced web developers (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Node, Angular, React, Database) to participate in our classes.
We are also looking for technology managers and entrepreneurs to give workshops on modern software practices and methodologies.
Or you can become a volunteer and help us support the expansion of the organisation. No matter where you are in the UK, with your help we’ll create a local program to serve local refugee communities.
Greater Manchester Refugee Information 