Detention centre contact details on this page are from UK Border Agency.
See the UKBA website for more details on visiting hours, directions etc.
Immigration Removal Centres
Brook House IRC
Perimeter Road South
Gatwick Airport
West Sussex RH6 0PQ
Tel: 01293 566500
Tel: 01293 566559 (to arrange visits)
Campsfield House IRC
Langford Lane
Kidlington
Oxfordshire
OX5 1RE
Tel: 01865 233600
Fax: 01865 233723
Cedars, family detention
Brighton Road
Pease Pottage
Crawley RH11 9AD
Phone: 01293 844900
Fax: 01293 844945
Colnbrook IRC
Colnbrook by Pass
Harmondsworth
West Drayton UB7 0FX
Tel: 020 8607 5200
Fax: 020 8607 5383
Dover IRC
The Citadel, Western Heights
Dover
Kent
CT17 9DR
Tel: 01304 246400
Fax: 01304 246401
Dungavel House IRC
Strathaven
South Lanarkshire
ML10 6RF
Phone detainees: 01698 395000
Phone Immigration: 01698 395063
Fax: 01698 395079
Harmondsworth IRC
Colnbrook by Pass
Harmondsworth
West Drayton UB7 0HB
Phone: 020 8283 3850
Fax: 020 8283 3851
Haslar IRC
2 Dolphin Way
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 2AW
Tel: 023 9260 4000
Fax: 023 9260 4001
Morton Hall IRC
Swinderby
Lincolnshire
LN6 9PT
Phone: 015 2266 6700
Fax: 01522 666850
Tinsley House IRC
Perimeter Road South
Gatwick Airport
West Sussex RH6 0PQ
Phone: 01293 434800
Fax: 01293 434846
Yarl's Wood IRC
Twinwoods Road
Clapham
Bedfordshire
MK41 6HL
Main switchboard: 01234 821000
Fax numbers
Centre: 01234 821096
UK Border Agency: 01234 271349
Short Term Holding Centres
Larne House, STHC, Northern Ireland
2 Hope Street
Larne
Antrim BT40 1UR
Phone: 028 282 62070
Fax: 028 282 62071
Pennine House Manchester STHC
Short Term Holding Centre
1506-1510
Terminal 2
Manchester Airport
M90 4AG
Tel: 0161 489 5702
Fax: 0161 489 5701
Harwich STHC
Harwich Immigration Short Term Holding centre
Parkstone Quay
Harwich
Phone: 01255 252106
Heathrow Airport STHC
Queens Buildings, Heathrow Airport
020-8564-9726 or 020-8564-9727
Gatwick Airport: STHC
North Terminal 01293 507803
South Terminal 01293 502640
Resources and support groups
Visitor Groups
Visitors groups are groups of volunteers who visit Immigration Removal Centres, Prisons and Short Term Holding Facilities- anywhere a detainee may be held. Volunteers provide support, practical advice and friendship to detainees, and as such are often a lifeline for those in detention. You can find a directory of visitors groups on the website of AVID, the Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees
Bail
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) is a registered charity that works with asylum seekers and migrants to secure their release from detention. BID's three offices in London, Oxford and Portsmouth between them work with detainees in all removal centres in the UK, and with many immigration detainees held in prison at the end of their sentence.
Medical Justice
Medical Justice is a charity that exposes and challenges inadequate healthcare provision to immigration detainees. Medical Justice challenge instances of medical evidence produced by qualified medics being ignored by the Home office and immigration courts, challenges instances of medical findings by unqualified Home Office officials and immigration judges, and writes medico legal reports. They also deal with medical abuse in detention, including denial of medication and treatment, access to hospital, testing and test results.
Detention Action
Detention Action supports people held in Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centres, near Heathrow Airport in London, and people held under immigration powers in London prisons. They also campaign for an end to detention without time limit and to the practice of detaining people because they have claimed asylum.