Visitor Groups

AVID members provide support in every single detention centre and some prisons. See the links below for more information and contact details. (*IRC: Immigration Removal Center)

Alternatively you can contact AVID directly and we will put you in touch. 

Brook House IRC (near Gatwick)

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group

Colnbrook IRC (Heathrow)

Detention Action 

Jesuit Refugee Service UK 

SOAS Detainee Support

Derwentside IRC (Consett, Durham)

Durham Visitors Group

Dungavel House IRC (Lanarkshire, Scotland)

Scottish Detainee Visitors 

Harmondsworth IRC (Heathrow) 

Detention Action 

Jesuit Refugee Service UK 

SOAS Detainee Support

Larne House residential short-term holding facility

Larne House Visitors Group 

Manchester Airport residential short-term holding facility

Manchester Immigration Detainee Support Team (MIDST) 

Swinderby residential short-term holding facility (Lincolnshire) 

Midland Migrant Support

Tinsley House IRC (Gatwick) 

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group

Yarl's Wood (Bedford) 

Beyond Detention

SOAS Detainee Support

We also have members who visit in prisons to support people detained under Immigration act of powers and non-British nationals : 

HMP Huntercombe 

Asylum Welcome 

HMP Manchester and HMP Risley

Manchester Immigration Detainee Support Team (MIDST) 

HMP MortonHall and HMP Nottingham

Midaland Migrant Support

HMP Lewes

Lewes Prison Visiting Group 

HMP Wandsworth 

Detention Action

Few of our members can visit on request and please contact us to find out if you or your loved ones need a visitor to support in any prisons around the country: enquiries@aviddetention.org.uk