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Positive Action in Housing

Positive Action in Housing Ltd

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Refugees & MigrationHousing & HomelessnessHuman rightsPoverty & Hunger
CharityFounded 1995National reach
Profile last updated: May 2, 2026

About

Founded in 1995, Positive Action in Housing is a charity based in Glasgow, United Kingdom working on refugees & migration, housing & homelessness, human rights +1 more.

Positive Action in Housing is a Glasgow-based, Scotland-wide, Black and Minority Ethnic led, antiracist homelessness and human rights charity. It supports people from refugee and immigrant backgrounds with housing and homelessness advice, welfare and financial inclusion support, emergency humanitarian aid, and refugee hosting. It also campaigns for policy change on asylum, destitution, detention and racial equality.

Location

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Founded

1995

Organisation type

Charity

Legal form

Company limited by guarantee

Legal name

Positive Action in Housing Ltd

Focus areas

homelessnessrefugeesasylum seekershuman rightshousingantiracismdestitutionrefugee hosting

Languages

EN

Causes & programmes

Causes

Refugees & MigrationHousing & HomelessnessHuman rightsPoverty & Hunger

Works for

Refugees & MigrantsHomeless peoplePeople in povertyFamiliesChildrenWomen & Girls

How they work

Direct servicesAdvocacy & campaigningEmergency response

Programmes

Room for Refugees

Refugees & Migration · United Kingdom

Community hosting network that offers safe temporary homes, with volunteer hosts, to insecurely housed refugees and asylum seekers with no recourse to public funds.

Refugee Aid

Poverty & Hunger · United Kingdom

Provides food, necessities and humanitarian support to destitute refugees and asylum seekers in Glasgow.

Emergency Relief Fund

Poverty & Hunger · United Kingdom

Provides crisis grants for food, clothing and shelter to people facing severe hardship due to poverty or homelessness.

Money Skills Project

Poverty & Hunger · United Kingdom

Offers one-to-one money and debt advice and helps new migrants access state benefits they are entitled to.

Lifeline Destitution Service

Poverty & Hunger · United Kingdom

Support service for people facing destitution.

Countries of operation

United Kingdom

Funding & support

Funded by

Individual donationsGrants

Ways to support

DonateMembershipVolunteer

Credentials & affiliations

Partnerships

Oak Foundation, Comic Relief, Tudor Trust, British Red Cross, Freedom from Torture, Migrants Organise, The Passage, UNHCR

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