The Nottingham Arimathea Trust (NAT), a charity providing housing and support to asylum seekers and refugees in Nottingham, is shutting down due to severe financial difficulties. The closure leaves a significant gap in services for vulnerable individuals who rely on NAT's assistance.
A Nottingham charity that housed asylum seekers and refugees will be put into liquidation after issuing a stark 'no money' message. The Nottingham Arimathea Trust (NAT), which was based in St Ann's, Nottingham , ceased trading on Friday, December 20. The trust will be liquidated in due course, with a spokesperson explaining that trustees and staff deeply regretted its closure.
The representative said: 'Like many small charities, NAT has found it increasingly difficult to raise sufficient funds to continue its housing activities. 'We recognise that those whom we used to help are now more vulnerable than before, but NAT cannot operate on no money.' The Nottingham Arimathea Trust, named for Biblical figure Joseph of Arimathea, was started in 2007 by the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham of the Church of England. The small housing charity based in Hungerhill Road had supported destitute asylum seekers, newly recognised refugees and modern slavery/trafficking victims. Its website, which is currently still operational, said it had at one point managed more than 20 properties and housed around 50 people. Financial documents, submitted to Companies House, showed the trust provided supported accommodation to 95 people and had 11 employees in 2023. This included 68 refugees and 27 refused asylum seekers and totalled more than 27,000 nights of accommodation. Andrew Wilson, chair of trustees at NAT, previously expressed his worry about what would happen to those in need after the charity closed. NAT had supported many asylum seekers who have had claims refused by the government while their cases were reassessed, he explained back in October this year. The charity said that its clothes bank and its Host Project, which put asylum seekers and refugees up in spare rooms across Nottingham, would continu
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