JRS UK provides vital practical and pastoral support to over 300 refugees and asylum seekers across Greater London, and outreach and support to peolpe held in immigration detention.
Thank you for your continued generosity walking alongside refugees.
£5 can provide a refugee with a one-month supply of toiletries
£10 provides a monthly mobile credit and data top-up to ensure friends are in touch with charities and loved ones
£20 can pay for an emergency hardship grant to newly destitute refugees
£100 helps JRS UK offer casework advice and support to refugees
We are developing more resources for you to use in your advocacy. Email Victoria, Senior Communications and Engagement Officer, at victoria.firth@jrs.net to give any feedback for resources that would be useful to you.
JRS UK regularly share news, blogs, and commentary from the refugee sector. You can receive these straight to your mailbox every two weeks by signing up to receive our e-Updates.
Together, JRS UK’s quarterly postal newsletter, brings updates about our work, reflections from refugee friends, and a lot more straight to your doorstep. You can sign up to receive them in the post or read them online.
Learn more pages – JRS UK publish summary pages for current key issues, such as the Illegal Migration Act, the Rwanda Plan, and the Bibby Stockholm.
We need more people speaking about the injustices of the UK’s current asylum system, and how we can change things for the better.
Reports – JRS UK produces reports that may be useful if you would like to advocate on behalf of refugees. These reports are in-depth looks at different elements of the asylum system, such as destitution, detention, and welfare. Report pages also summarise key findings & suggestions for how to write to your MP.
School resources – We are developing a number of school resources that you can use at school or with young adult groups. These resources are a mix of powerpoints, worksheets, and reflection questions.
e-Updates
Every two weeks, you’ll get news, blogs, and commentary from JRS UK straight to your inbox.
Postal Newsletters
Together, JRS UK’s postal newsletter, goes out quarterly. If you’re signing up now (late-May), it’s too late to receive JRS UK’s summer edition, but if you email victoria.firth@jrs.net with your address and the number of copies you’d like, we can send some straight to you in the post.
You can also view the newsletter online here: www.jrsuk.net/summer2024
Please make cheques payable to “Jesuit Refugee Service” and send to:
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
The Hurtado Jesuit Centre
2 Chandler Street
London
E1W 2QT
Every month, JRS UK welcome more than 300 refugees left destitute by the asylum system, and visit scores of people held in detention. Our refugee friends find comfort and hope by feeling accompanied during difficult situations. A donation every month will ensure the consistency and reliability of our services to support refugees in the UK.
You can help raise money for JRS anytime you shop on-line through Give As You Live. Over 3,000 on-line retailers will give a donation to us as a charity every time you make a purchase. This income provides resources for setting up smaller projects that we cannot get grants for.
Gift Aid is a government scheme that allows charities to reclaim tax on a donation made by a UK taxpayer, which means your donations to JRS UK will be worth 25% more to us at no extra cost to you.
If you Gift Aid your donations we can claim back from the government 25p for every £1 you donate to JRS UK. This additional income really does make a big difference, so please don’t forget to Gift Aid your donations if you are a UK tax payer.
How to Gift Aid your donations?
You can download our Gift Aid Declaration Form and post to: JRS UK, Hurtado Jesuit Centre, 2 Chandler Street, London E1W 2QT
Leaving a gift in your will to a charity is a special way to leave a legacy. By remembering refugees with a gift in your will, your values of love and care for your neighbour will live on through the services of JRS UK.
We are always looking for physical donations of much needed items to support our services for refugees – can you help?