Drop-in for Families Seeking Asylum
West London Synagogue welcomes families with children and of all faiths and ethnic origins who are seeking asylum in the UK. We rely on volunteers to help provide a hot meal, grocery vouchers, clothing, toiletries, companionship, and advice for families who have fled life-threatening violence or persecution in their countries of origin.
Drop-in for Families Seeking Asylum
This Drop-in provides a safe, welcoming space where families seeking asylum can access practical support, community connection, and a sense of stability. It offers resources, activities, and a warm environment that helps families navigate daily challenges while building supportive relationships.
Rainbow Drop-in
Every month, we create an environment where LGBTQI-identifying asylum-seekers can feel safe, supported, and comfortable while awaiting a decision on their asylum application. Learn more about our Rainbow Drop-In.
Supporting WLS Drop-ins
There are many ways to support our Drop-ins, from donating nappies and food to pitching in and volunteering. Keep in mind that all of our volunteers were once first-timers, so inexperience need not be an impediment to your participation!
Families seeking asylum face institutional poverty in the UK, which often hits children the hardest. They live in temporary accommodation, frequently moved across the city, if not the country, making it hard to build momentum in schooling and build networks of support and community. These families receive a tiny stipend on which to live and regularly have to make impossible decisions between clothing, medicine, hygiene and food.
With our support, and the support received from the wider network of synagogue and other asylum seeker Drop-Ins, we succeed in ameliorating this poverty whilst we support families as they get the legal support that can change their status and get them on a path to establishing their lives in the UK.
To volunteer, or enquire further, please contact dropin@wls.org.uk.
If you can't donate any goods or your time, please make a donation to our running costs.