Bristol Hospitality Network

Our skilled and experienced advice team support refused asylum seekers, and others in need of protection, with understanding asylum decisions and systems, accessing services and entitlements, liaising with solicitors and health professionals, and applying for Home Office support. Who we can advise: people who are claiming asylum, need to claim asylum, or have been refused asylum. We are not experts in the rights of people who have been granted refugee status, or who are migrants who do not need asylum. However, our Monday drop-in centre is open to non-asylum seeking migrants needing a safe space and a warm welcome, and we may be able to signpost to appropriate services.

Bristol Hospitality Network sources accommodation for asylum seekers whose claims have been refused. We manage a host network of households who offer a spare room and we run a 10 bed men's house in East Bristol. We have hosted over 200 asylum seekers since 2009, providing safety and security for people to rebuild their lives in the UK. We do not accommodate people who are entitled to Home Office support or who have their Leave to Remain. We accept referrals from Bristol Refugee Rights, Red Cross, Borderlands, people can also self refer by coming to our drop-in on Mondays in Easton.

Moveable Feast caters for various occasion, such as such as conferences, AGMs, team meetings, weddings, or any other special event. Moveable feast works with amazing people who have been made destitute by the UK's asylum system. Our chefs are asylum seekers who come from all around the world. All profit we make goes into providing vital assistance to asylum seekers through our other services. Moveable Feast offers BHN members and refugees to connect with UK citizens, improve skills for integration and employment, and feel less lonely and become a part of the community.

Our Welcome Centre is at the beating heart of BHN - a welcoming, intercultural space, where those with insecure immigration status and lived experience of being a refugee and/or asylum seeker can come and be part of a supportive, safe and cohesive community. The Welcome Centre is built around a delicious hot lunch, but also offers breakfast, teas and coffees, creative activities (games, art, music, sewing), English classes and even a barbershop! We deliver additional services in partnership with Herbalists without Borders, Ashley Community Housing, SARI and the mental health charity MIND. Our Advice Team (which offers case support work and advocacy) also meets with accommodated members at the Welcome Centre.