Finance & Digital Inclusion
Financial Support
Migrant Help
Free Phone (open 24 hours, every day): 0808 801 0503
Email:
They have interpreters. Migrant Help are contracted by the Home Office and can advice you on financial support.
British Red Cross
Destitution fund - leave a message for a personal response.
Email: refugeeservicebristol@redcross.org.uk
Tel: 0117 9415 040
SIM cards to asylum seekers in any IA hotels in the area and destitute asylum seekers without a SIM card (not replacing SIMs)
Digital Inclusion
Bristol City Council
Provides old BCC laptops on extended loan and details of how to refer people to get one.
The priority groups/criteria for eligibility for a laptop are:
16-19’s NEET (or up to 25 if they have an EHCP)
Parents with children under the age of two who receive Universal Credit or have free childcare.
Unemployed with little to no qualifications eg: homeless, asylum seekers, refugees.
This group will have to enrol on a course with the Community Learning Team. This could be short digital learning course, there are several choices.
Older people over 50 – isolated & can’t afford a laptop.
If you fit the criteria & would like a laptop, please ask a charity to contact digital.inclusion@bristol.gov.uk, to make a referral.
Aid Box Community
Occasionally will be able to offer prepaid SIM cards or will have technological devices available. Please visit Aid Box Community’s Free Shop and Hub to enquire on availability. There is no guarantee on availability.
Email: freeshop@aidboxcommunity.co.uk
Borderlands IT Drop In
1:1 appointments available for IT support (Email, Excel & Word)
Email: Hello@borderlands.org.uk
Call/text: 0117 9040479 | 07925133225