South East England (including Brighton, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading and Southampton)
Regional Migration Support:
Hong Kong British Nationals Overseas (South East Strategic Partnership for Migration)
British Future is an independent, non-partisan thinktank and registered charity, engaging people’s hopes and fears about integration and immigration, identity and race. It houses the Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers.
Citizens Advice in North & West Kent (CANWK) are an independent charity, affiliated with national Citizens Advice. We have six offices across Kent (Gravesham, Dartford, Swanley, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge & Malling and Tunbridge Wells). CANWK provide free, confidential, and independent advice on a range of topics, including our specialist immigration, debt, benefits, housing, and employment advice.
City Life Church Southampton partners with Citizens Advice, UKHK and Welcome Churches to deliver Hong Kong Welcome.
Coffee and Craft is a community group under Wycliffe Baptist Church, and has run community-based projects over the last 20 years. Aligning with the UKHK national programme, Coffee and Craft provides social, professional, and educational assistance to new arrivals from Hong Kong in Reading and its surrounding area.
Diversity Resource International (DRI) is a non-profit-making Social Enterprise that supports ethnically diverse and migrant communities.
Good Neighbour Church England helps HongKong BN(O)s on social and professional integration in settling the UK, including career workshops and English classes, as well as a range of children’s services. We also provide whole person and well-being development classes, for instance, mindfulness workshops and face-to-face advising.
Guildford Hongkongers originated from a community group set up in October 2020 aiming to offer help and support Hongkongers in Guildford and surrounding area. We are now formalising the organisation and we hope by setting up a formal organisation to continue our support action serving Hongkongers arriving and settled in Guildford. Different activities and courses have been organised regularly including Mental Health services, referral to public resources, talks on life in the UK, Hong Kong movie appreciation etc.
Harbour Sports Club will launch a series of activities to keep the community active and promote social support and bonding through sports. These include regular yoga classes and community runs, webinars on health and sports-related topics, and the Reading/London Sports Day, which is a whole-day carnival of various sports activities to promote health consciousness and social cohesion.
Hong Kong Assistance and Resettlement Community is a registered charity setup before UK BN(O) visa scheme, with the core aim of assisting Hongkongers, whether they are BN(O) holders or asylum seekers, to have a soft landing once they arrived in the UK.
An independent international business organisation, committed to supporting, accelerating and connecting Hong Kong entrepreneurs and businesses through business services, professional service referrals incubation programme, trainings, company profiling and networking opportunities, while also promoting and safeguarding the interests of the Hong Kong entrepreneurial community in the UK.
Monitoring and researching situation in Hong Kong, political lobbying. Has a page on FAQs to do with the HK BN(O) visa route.
Hong Kong Well UK is serving the mental wellbeing/health of children and teenagers newly migrated to the UK from Hong Kong as well as their parents in their mother tongue. We are a registered Community Interest Company.
Hongkonger in Brighton support BN(O) Hong Kongers who intend to move to Brighton settling in and integrate by providing local information.
Offers comprehensive support via casework (signposting and referrals), mental health, employment, outreach and online/in-person events across the UK, with Mission PERM for BN(O)s and Project HAVEN for non-BN(O)s, including asylum seekers and refugees from Hong Kong.
Migrant Help aims to to provide Hong Kong BN(O)s with support and access to education, training, and employment opportunities to help people feel confident and prepared to settle into their new live in the UK. A dedicated team offers free advice and support focused on employability.
MKCCC has a large Cantonese congregation with many HK BNO recent arrivals. We have a vibrant and welcoming community providing various targeted supports for new arrivals in the Milton Keynes area. These include social integration, access to advice and information, youth works, support groups for women, men and seniors.
A UK-wide support and reporting service for East and Southeast Asian Community members who experience racism and/or other forms of hate.
Options Wellbeing will be providing a project that will support Hong Kong BN(O) visa holders with their mental health and wellbeing via our well-established counselling, psychotherapeutic and wellbeing residing in Bournemouth and Southampton.
Oxfordshire Chinese Community & Advice Centre (OCCAC) exists to serve the Chinese community in Oxfordshire by providing independent quality advice and services, enabling them to gain equal access to public resources, improve their quality of life and integrate into society. Its BNO Welcome Project offers advice, talks on life in the UK, 'Survival English' training courses, as well as cultural festival celebrations.
Our organisation supports the Hong Kong BN(O) community in Oxfordshire during their transition to the UK. We address challenges in language, employment, mental well-being, and children services. We promote successful integration through community engagement, including volunteering and community gatherings. Our goal is to empower the Hong Kong BN(O) community, foster a sense of belonging, and facilitate their integration into the UK.
Pathways to Work is a project for people seeking safety in the UK, who want to work on their career and education goals. We focus on aspirational employment and confidence building.
We are currently running a course developed by the Welcome Church network entitled UK Welcomes Hong Kong. With a growing number of Hong Kong residents coming to live in Paddock Wood we are playing our part in helping them get to know us, and to understand something of our culture and way of life. So far we have seen over 40 join our two courses
A strong network of hundreds of churches across the UK providing local, informal help to newcomers. Also runs a number of programmes promoting welcoming, inclusion, and well-being in different cities and online, as well as the Welcome Course.
Victoria Harbor Group is a community developer working to develop new communities for Hong Kong immigrants. We aim to develop sustainable, outward looking and global new communities designed around innovation and enterprise, branded as 21st Century New City.