About us
Friends Without Borders (formerly Haslar Visitors Group) is a charity that provides support for asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants within the Portsmouth area. Until it closed in the spring of 2015 much of our work centred around befriending detainees within the Haslar Immigration Removal Centre. Even before this, however, more and more of our work focused on asylum seekers and refugees in Portsmouth. We now have two main projects both of which are run from All Saints Church on Commercial Road in Portsmouth. Firstly, the All Saints drop-in, run on Mondays and Thursdays, provides support, problem solving and socialising opportunities for those who attend. This service aims to reduce isolation and social exclusion by enabling clients to negotiate bureaucratic systems which they may not understand and to build networks, both professional and personal. Secondly, our Access to Justice project is the only provider of free legal advice on immigration law from qualified advisers in the Portsmouth area.
Please look through these pages to find out more about us.
Please look through these pages to find out more about us.
News
Who we help
How we help
Why we help
Detainees and those we support in the community are among the most vulnerable and isolated communities in the U.K.
Click here to find out more about the value of the work of HVG.
Click here to find out more about the value of the work of HVG.
About Haslar Immigration Removal Centre
Our volunteers
Awards
External recognition is always nice, click here to find out more.
If you have any suggestions of awards that you think HVG should be nominated for, please let us know.
If you have any suggestions of awards that you think HVG should be nominated for, please let us know.
Resources
Our patrons
The Rt Hon The Earl of Sandwich
The Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth
The Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth
Our registered charity number is: 1080187
