Supporting Voluntary Returns through Community Partnerships

The Home Office is investing up to £3.25 million to help charities support vulnerable migrants with voluntary returns. You can apply for between £225,000 and £500,000. The funding runs until March 2027. You need to help reach and inform hard-to-reach migrants about voluntary return options. This is for charities and community organisations that work with vulnerable migrants. The deadline to apply is 27 May 2026. The grant covers awareness and promotion activities through community partnerships.

This grant is for charities and community organisations that work with vulnerable and hard-to-reach migrants. You need experience in supporting migrants and helping them access services. It is not for general businesses or organisations without migration expertise.

Supporting Voluntary Returns through Community Partnerships Fund, the Home Office (the Authority) will invest up to £3,250,000 in grant funding until 31st March 2027 to support a regional network of charities and eligible organisations that help reach, inform and support vulnerable and hard-to-reach migrants to access Voluntary Returns. The Authority intend to run a competition for the awareness of and promotion of Voluntary Returns to vulnerable and hard to reach migrants via charity and community organisations, by 31st March 2027. This scheme directly supports IE’s strategy by enabling earlier, supported decisions and dignified outcomes.