The Night Shelter
Charity 1180003
http://coventrynightshelter.my-free.website/
Overview
Summary
The Night Shelter appears to occupy a focused crisis-response role for destitute asylum-seeking and migrant women in Coventry and the surrounding area. Its distinctive contribution is not only accommodation: it combines rapid access to short-term safety with support and advice for people whose poverty, migration status and housing insecurity may be closely intertwined. The available evidence suggests a narrowly targeted service designed to respond at the point where mainstream housing options may be inaccessible or insufficient.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission entry currently lists both Birmingham City and Coventry City as places where the charity operates, but it does not identify any Birmingham service, site, referral route or neighbourhood.
- The organisation's current website describes three short-stop emergency rooms and identifies Baobab Women's Project and Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre as referral partners, but does not state that these rooms or partners operate in Birmingham.
- Available evidence strongly indicates a Coventry-centred service model. It is unclear whether the Birmingham City declaration reflects direct service delivery, referrals involving Birmingham residents, a historic activity, or a broader administrative reporting classification.
- No Birmingham operational location should be inferred from the Coventry registered address, and no accommodation location is publicly identified.
Additional evidence needed
- A current statement from The Night Shelter confirming whether it directly delivers accommodation, advice or referral services in Birmingham.
- Current Birmingham-specific referral, commissioning or partnership information from the organisation or a named partner.
- Safeguarding-appropriate confirmation of any non-sensitive operational activity in Birmingham, if such activity exists.
Areas of work
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A specialist response to compounded exclusion
The organisation appears to focus on women facing several overlapping risks: destitution, insecure migration circumstances and homelessness. This may indicate a role serving people for whom generic emergency accommodation is not suitable, accessible or safe.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish The Night Shelter from a general homelessness provider. Its value may lie in addressing the interaction between housing crisis, migration-related vulnerability and gender.
Show evidence
“The charity relieves poverty, hardship and distress among asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Coventry and the surrounding area.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provision of short term quick access emergency accomodation and support for destitute asylum seeking and migrant women.”
Source:Organisation
Accommodation is paired with navigation support
The provision of advice alongside accommodation suggests that shelter may be used as a stabilising base from which women can understand options, access entitlements or address immediate barriers, rather than as an isolated overnight service.
Why it matters
This points to an operating model that may bridge immediate safety and longer-term resolution. Potential partners may need to understand it as both a housing and advocacy service.
Show evidence
“Provision of short term quick access emergency accomodation and support for destitute asylum seeking and migrant women.”
Source:Organisation“Provides Advocacy/advice/information.”
Source:Charity Commission
A rapid, short-term gateway rather than a full housing pathway
The emphasis on quick access and short-term accommodation may indicate that The Night Shelter is designed to prevent immediate harm during a crisis, while relying on other organisations or systems for longer-term housing, legal support and settlement.
Why it matters
This raises a useful question about the organisation's relationships: its effectiveness may depend heavily on referral routes and onward options beyond the emergency stay.
Show evidence
“Provision of short term quick access emergency accomodation and support for destitute asylum seeking and migrant women.”
Source:Organisation
- The scale, capacity and duration of accommodation are unknown.
- There is no evidence about referral partners, funding, staffing or onward housing outcomes.
- The unavailable website limits understanding of current services and organisational status.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current service description, eligibility criteria and accommodation capacity.
- Information on referral pathways, partner organisations and outcomes after emergency accommodation.
- Recent annual report or impact data showing demand, reach and unmet need.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Provision of short term quick access emergency accomodation and support for destitute asylum seeking and migrant women
Charity objects
THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS IN COVENTRY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY PROVISION OF, OR ASSISTANCE WITH, THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION, SUPPORT AND ADVICE.