This page will be where ASSIST announces any changes to our normal services in response to the Coronavirus.
ASSIST Sheffield helps destitute asylum seekers by providing accommodation, advice and other support to those in most need or distress. We’re a charity and we’re totally reliant on volunteers, grants and the generosity of the people of Sheffield and the surrounding area.
Fund 12 weekends' accommodation for an asylum seeker
Buy essential basic supplies for one of our houses
Fund a course for volunteers on asylum issues
Keep our night shelter open for 2 weeks
Give every client someone to accompany them to appointments
Provide 16 clients with an interpreter at their advocacy appointments
Fund a room in one of our houses for an asylum seeker for 6 months
Provide welfare payments for an asylum seeker for 6 months
Provide emergency payments for a new client each month
It’s been a couple of months since we’ve updated everyone on work at ASSIST so we thought it was about time.
With your support, in June we continued to work to keep our clients safe during the pandemic...
Over the past three months I have been continuing in my volunteering role as an interpreter...
I make a regular monthly donation because I can see what a big difference...
I arrived in the UK in 2008. Two years after I first applied for asylum I got an initial refusal...I was destitute.
Everyone can support asylum seekers, help us challenge asylum destitution now.
We started hosting not just because we wanted to provide shelter and security for people who had been left with nothing.
