The Refugee And Migrant Centre Limited
Charity 1104779
Overview
Summary
The Refugee and Migrant Centre appears to operate as a regional integration infrastructure organisation rather than a single-issue advice provider. It combines regulated immigration casework with practical support around housing, health, language, employment and digital access, while also convening partnerships, volunteers and specialist projects. Its role seems to be helping newcomers navigate the points where immigration status intersects with everyday systems, while using frontline experience to influence policy and strengthen other local support organisations.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: low
RMC’s official centres page identifies an active Birmingham Centre with regular drop-in and pre-booked advice appointments. However, the supplied evidence does not establish the ward in which the centre is located.
- Refugee and Migrant Centre — Our Centres
Lists RMC Birmingham as open four days per week for drop-in and booked appointments. - Refugee and Migrant Centre — Get Help
Lists the Birmingham Centre as one of RMC’s operational centres and states that Birmingham residents can access its advice service by phone or online enquiry. - Refugee and Migrant Centre — Move on Project: Birmingham
States that clients can access the Birmingham Move On Project through drop-in at the Birmingham Centre.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence strongly supports a fixed Birmingham service site, but does not establish its ward or provide a ward-by-ward map of where RMC delivers outreach, home visits, classes, events or resettlement support elsewhere in Birmingham.
- RMC delivers programmes for people resident across Birmingham, including the Homes for Ukraine contract and projects for Birmingham residents. This supports a citywide Birmingham service reach, but it does not establish permanent operational sites in particular additional wards.
- The Birmingham NRPF Women’s Support Network is delivered with Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid, British Red Cross, Central England Law Centre and Roshni. Safeguarding-sensitive delivery locations and referral routes should not be inferred from the public evidence.
- The charity’s registered address is in Wolverhampton and should not be treated as evidence of its Birmingham operating base; its official centres page provides the more relevant Birmingham site evidence.
Additional evidence needed
- Current programme delivery plans or commissioning specifications showing the geographic scope, outreach locations and service volumes of Birmingham projects.
- A current Birmingham service timetable identifying where ESOL classes, women’s groups, community events, outreach sessions and resettlement visits are delivered.
- Confirmation from Birmingham City Council or RMC of whether Homes for Ukraine and Move On delivery is commissioned across the whole Birmingham local-authority area, and whether delivery includes home visits in all parts of the city.
- Safely publishable information on any additional Birmingham venues used regularly by RMC, without identifying protected accommodation or locations that could compromise client safety.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A bridge between immigration status and everyday stability
RMC appears to treat immigration advice as inseparable from the practical conditions needed for people to settle safely, such as housing, healthcare, income, English and digital access.
Why it matters
This suggests its distinctive role is not merely resolving legal cases, but reducing the risk that a change in immigration status leads to homelessness, exclusion or failed integration.
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“Its support includes immigration, housing and homelessness, health and wellbeing, financial independence, English classes, employment and training, citizenship and digital skills.”
Source:Organisation“The Move on Project supports people with recent positive Home Office decisions to secure housing and integrate into mainstream services.”
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A specialist hub with a wider system-building role
Alongside direct support, RMC appears to build the capacity and coordination of the wider migrant-support ecosystem through training, partnerships and network activity.
Why it matters
This means its local value may extend beyond its own clients: it may improve how councils, community organisations and professionals respond to migration-related needs.
Show evidence
“RMC delivers training, events and workshops for professionals, community members and beneficiaries.”
Source:Organisation“The West Midlands Immigration Network is designed to build the quality and provision of immigration advice across the West Midlands.”
Source:Organisation“RMC describes multi-agency partnerships as central to its Homes for Ukraine support.”
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Frontline service and policy witness
RMC appears to use casework experience to identify structural harms in immigration and asylum policy, particularly where rules create destitution or heightened risk for women and families.
Why it matters
Its public role may therefore include translating otherwise hidden client experiences into evidence for policy scrutiny and reform.
Show evidence
“RMC published evidence on the Home Office pre-appeal review process, reporting delays and poor-quality reviews.”
Source:Organisation“It published responses on asylum support reform, settlement proposals and support for domestic abuse survivors with No Recourse to Public Funds.”
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- How demand, outcomes and service access vary between Birmingham, the Black Country and Wolverhampton.
- Whether specialist projects are sustained core capabilities or time-limited, funder-dependent additions.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual accounts and impact data showing funding sources, demand, case outcomes and geographic reach.
- Evidence from clients and partner organisations about referral routes, unmet needs and RMC's effect on local systems.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
RMC provides free, impartial & confidential advice to all asylum seekers, refugees and migrants living in the Black Country and Birmingham. Our broad approach covers many issues related to reception, settlement, integration and voluntary return. We will help anyone, regardless of country of origin, ethnicity, legal status, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP AMONG MIGRANTS, THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, LEGAL AND OTHER ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT. · TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF MIGRANTS, THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS. · TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF MIGRANTS, THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO MIGRATION, REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM. TO RELIEVE THE UNEMPLOYMENT OF MIGRANTS AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND SKILLS TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.