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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) National VCSE Grants
| Organisation | Project | Contact Details |
Barnardos | Helpline offering advice on a range of issues, including but not limited to housing options, accessing education, welfare benefits, integration, and resettlement. The organisation will also offer emotional support and six free sessions of psychotherapy delivered by qualified Barnardo’s therapists. These sessions can take place remotely via telephone or online. | Support for Hong Kong BN(O) | BAME Helpline (barnardos.org.uk) |
Welcome Churches (UKHK) | Professional, educational, and social integration: online events, welcome book, job fair and opportunity portal, Skills to Work Initiative, Friendship Festivals, and a welcome course. | Welcome Churches (UKHK) Website |
Migrant Help | Support offer focussed on employability, self-employment, and business training to enable BN(O) status holders to contribute to life in the UK. A dedicated team of 3 client advisors / case workers will provide support across the UK and will be delivered virtually, or in person where practical. | Migrant Help (migranthelpuk.org) |
British Future/WC4UK | Regular Welcoming Committee Forum meetings, inviting groups working across the nations and regions. The organization will establish a communications network. The network will meet regularly, provide tools on how to work with the media, gather case studies, and help local voices tell positive stories of the welcoming work to media and public audiences. The Organisation’s research will seek to inform policy, share best practice, identify challenges, and find constructive solutions to them. | British Future/Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers (welcomehk.org) |
Hongkongers in Britain | UK-wide Employment Support: advice and coaching, newsletters and job bulletin, production of UK labour rights booklet. Regional outreach and community relationship building, UK-wide mental health casework with webchat and helpline, casework and signposting, community, and social events. | Hongkongers in Britain | 英國港僑協會 (hongkongers.org.uk) |
Protection Approaches | Third Party Hate Crime Reporting Service. Consortium of organisations will create an accessible UK-wide third party hate crime and hate incident support and reporting service for BN(O) status holders and all East and Southeast Asian communities. It will include a helpline and a website. | Protection Approaches (protectionapproaches.org) |
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) Regional VCSE Grants
Transform Training, Nottingham | To welcome existing and new BN(O) arrivals and enable them and their families to easily access the information, knowledge, support and services they need by providing them with experienced staff and trained volunteer ‘buddies’ who live and work locally. The project engages and supports resident communities to develop social cohesion and positive interaction. Project activities include: • individual 1-2-1 support • group support • support targeted on groups • online and face-to-face support and activities • business and civic networking opportunities • organised social events with local community members/groups | Home | Transform (transformtraining.org.uk) |
St Nicholas Church, Nottingham | In alignment with National UKHK, this project will support HKBN(O) in three areas: · Educational Integration · Professional Integration · Social Integration In Nottingham we are working across Chinese and Non-Chinese churches to ensure the wider integration across communities. The churches involved in this project are St Nics Church working in consultation with Nottingham Chinese Church and in addition to the Chinese church we have secured offers of support, though not direct project management, from Corner Stone, Grace Church, Reach and Trent Vineyard. | https://stnics.org/ |
East Midlands SMP Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Grants
 | A programme of integration training focused on the needs and accessibility for services of BN(O) citizens who are new to Nottingham & the UK. | https://www.belongnottingham.co.uk/ |
| 打比郡 Hong Kong Community Interest Company | English Conversation Club in Derby city area to help HK BNOs to build up their confidence and skills in daily English speaking and listening in small groups. |
VCSE Year 3 funding priorities
The East Midlands Welcome Hub would like to work with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations to help HKBNO:
- Develop English language skills for socialising
- Access housing
- Access physical health services
- Access mental health services
- Integrate into their local communities
Our priority for any VCSEs to support the work of the Welcome Hub, is direct engagement within communities; providing meaningful activities for families and individuals to create a feeling of ‘belonging’.
This activity needs to be bespoke in that it is empathetic of the needs of Hong Kong BNO and can be tailored to help this new community integrate more quickly.
We would want to build on the success of programmes funded in Years 1 and 2 which have provided specific integration activities for young people/teenagers and older BNOs who are not looking for work and therefore have less social connections in the community.
We would also like to see VCSEs come forward with plans to support BNO wellbeing needs.
This work needs to be focussed on the main settlement areas as previously outlined but with potential for outreach where needed.
