Helping Hands for Refugees and Disabled (HHfRD) is a non-profit organisation run by skilled volunteers dedicated to helping socially-disadvantaged people and groups, as well as improving the quality of life and sustaining healthy communities. Our organisation is also run by disabled volunteers, we encourage older people and disabled people to join in our volunteering team. We promote equality and diversity, we welcome volunteers from all backgrounds.
Older volunteers are recruited to provide mentoring service and befriending to enable and empower vulnerable people, through this we all can become active citizens and role models in British Society.

Current boroughs we provide services to are: Newham, Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and pan-London but services are depend on the availability of volunteers.

Click here for our Mission Statement

We can provide help by:

Assisting with information on financial hardship with free self-help information for people who, through lack of means, would otherwise be unable to obtain this.

Assisting with the education and training of those granted refugee status and their dependants.

Our aim is to allow socially disadvantaged people to develop new skills and to adapt within their new communities, helping them to

integrate positively within British society.

We are based in London, Newham, but we can provide online assistance and self-help information, as well as home visits across London and to other areas.
 
Click on the links to the left to find out more.

HHfRD now have a number of policies in place, including:

	Child and Vulnerable Protection Policy
	Health and Safety Policy
	Volunteer Policy
	Financial Policy
	Complaints Policy and Procedures
	Confidentiality policy
	Equal opportunity policy
	Training policy

Read more about us in our July 2009 Newsletter - click here to download (this is a pdf document)

HHfRD support the planting of trees:

Planting is an act of putting down roots and contributing to the future. The simple act of planting a tree, helps the environment in so many ways. Trees…

filter pollution from the air help recycle water prevent soil loss create shade give shelter from wind and rain provide homes for animals make food for humans and wildlife provide an interesting, soothing, learning environment for children and your community and much more! Without trees, there would be no life on this planet!

HHfRD is supported by