First Base Winter Appeal
We are raising funds for First Base, our day centre for people facing homelessness. Donate to help us keep hope alive this winter.
First Base Winter Appeal
We are raising funds for First Base, our day centre for people facing homelessness. Donate to help us keep hope alive this winter.
Combating Homelessness, Creating Opportunities, Promoting Change
BHT Sussex is a housing association and a homeless charity. We provide essential services across Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne and Hastings, as well as elsewhere in Sussex. We see it as our role to both challenge the causes of homelessness, poverty and marginalisation and to deal with the consequences.
Our Service Areas
News & Events
Our Chief Executive David Chaffey responds to the Autumn Budget
New mental health support service launches in West Sussex
Mayor of Burgess Hill hosts chosen charities launch event
Real life stories from BHT Sussex
Baddar
For some it comes as a surprise that BHT Sussex runs an immigration and asylum legal service. The overwhelming majority of those we work with are ‘unaccompanied minors’, young people and children arriving in the UK with no adults to look after their welfare.
Baddar came to the UK in 2008 aged 15 fleeing persecution in Afghanistan. His initial asylum claim was refused. We assisted him with a further application to allow him to remain in the UK but this was also refused. After this, there have been numerous appeals with every decision seeming to go against him. We gathered evidence in support of his claim to show that he is particularly vulnerable as he has a learning difficulty and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression.
We gathered country evidence to support the fact that he would be at risk if he returned to Afghanistan.
