Appealing4 helps aims to helps match the practical needs of asylum seekers with those who can help.

Through Appealing4 any asylum seeker/new refugee who needs something which they are not in a position to buy, for example a Mum wanting a school uniform to enable her child to fit in at school or a musician wanting a guitar to give them a creative outlet, can give us the details and we will make an appeal to ask if anyone has one they no longer need which they are willing to donate.

Are you an Asylum seekers?

Tell us what you need as part of our Friends and Neighbours get-togethers on Wednesdays at 10.30-11.30am and at the Drop-in centre social get-together / activity sessions on Thursdays 1-4pm. Both sessions are at St Martins House, next to the Cathedral in the city centre.

See out events page for more information about these sessions or contact Gill Buttery (Development Worker).

Want to help?

Join our email group for regular Appealing4 circulations and other information, for example appeals for: street sleeping supplies, an outgrown school uniform, a chat over coffee, an unwanted bike, a bed for a couple of nights, a bag of groceries …..

Please contact Gill Buttery (Development Worker) to be added to the circulation list.

We are currently Appealing4…:

• a cd player requested by a lady who’s room in a share house is just too quiet

• a back-pack/rucksack requested by a gentleman who needs a replacement to use as he cycles around Leicester

• Bikes4All (who take old/damaged/unwanted bicycles and bring them back to a usable state) are n need of more bicycles to refurbish and send out to clients. So if any of you have bicycles to spare, whatever their state, please contact Michael Tully (tully.michael@gmail.com) or on 0116 278 1449 (with answerphone), who will cheerfully arrange for collection. Any spare accessories (lights, locks, helmets) would also be welcome.

• ‘shopping buddies’ – people willing to be paired up with an asylum seeker and do some monthly shopping in one of the main supermarkets, Boots or Peacocks (doesn’t involve any financial contribution. Please contact us for full details.