Material goods and food donations
Voices in Exile
Voices in Exile offer practical, material, legal, and integration support for refugees and asylum seekers in our city.
Voices in Exile welcome:
- monetary donations
- food donations, toiletries, and cleaning products for their weekly food bank. Current item list:
- rice
- pasta
- tinned fish
- cooking oil
- tins of chopped tomatoes
- chickpeas
- lentils
- washing detergent
- shower gel
- shampoo
- hand soap
- toothpaste (adult and children)
Donations must be in date, unopened and in good condition. Please send an email to foodbankcoordinator@voicesinexile.org or phone 01273 328598 to arrange drop-off.
Care4Calais
For clothes, toiletries and similar donations, please contact Care4Calais who will distribute to refugees and asylum seekers in need, both in the Brighton & Hove area and nationally.
They also regularly seek volunteers to support them.
Pelican Parcels
For toys and other children’s items, please consider donating to Pelican Parcels who take pre-loved and new item donations for babies and children up to age of 10, and redistribute them to families facing financial hardship via various existing family services in Brighton & Hove in Sussex.
Charity Shops
Refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton & Hove use local charity shops to buy affordable clothes and other items, like anyone else, and this enables them to make their own choices.