THE REDRESS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1015787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REDRESS

REDRESS is a human rights organisation that helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. REDRESS works with survivors to help restore their dignity and to make torturers accountable. We seek a variety of remedies, including restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free unrestricted reserves of £698,925, which is above the stated policy target range of £525,000 to £630,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient funds to operate for at least one year from the date of signing, citing strong reserves and a cautious budget.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02774071

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — REDRESS (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rupert Skilbeck — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• European Union — “We would like to thank all our donors including: European Union” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• VERHOOSEL, Gaetan Jean — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• MACKINTOSH, Kate — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• THOMAS, Ceri — director, appointed 28/02/2023on trustee list
• HOSSAIN, Sara — director, appointed 08/11/2022on trustee list
• SONGO, Andrew Harry — director, appointed 08/11/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Evan James — director, appointed 15/02/2022not on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Karen Jane — director, appointed 10/09/2020on trustee list
• MCINTYRE, Susannah Kirsten Crosier — director, appointed 16/07/2019on trustee list
• EVANS, Malcolm David, Sir — director, appointed 16/07/2019on trustee list
• HODGSON, Philip — director, appointed 16/07/2019on trustee list
• SKILBECK, Rupert — secretary, appointed 05/02/2018

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Malcolm David Evanschair
• Andrew Songo
• Evan James
• Gaetan Jean Verhoosel
• Karen Jane Thompson
• Kate Mackintosh
• Philip Hodgson
• Sara Hossain
• Suzannah Kirsten Crosier McIntyre

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Algeria · Cambodia · Chad · Congo (Democratic Republic) · France · Ghana · India · Kenya · Lithuania · Namibia · Nepal · Netherlands

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FREEDOM FROM TORTURE.

• FREEDOM FROM TORTURE income £15.1m
• SUPPORT A SURVIVOR OF TORTURE income £263k
• REDR UK income £2.2m
• BILD RESTRAINT REDUCTION NETWORK income £446k
• RESTORED income £296k
• THE LABOUR BEHIND THE LABEL TRUST income £101k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.