PRAXIS COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Registered charity 1078945 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRAXIS

Providing specialist legal advice and welfare support to help people live safely. Working with partners to tackle migrant homelessness. Building capacity to provide innovative solutions, sharing our knowledge through training and partnerships. Forming alliances and collaborating with experts by experience to create positive, long-term changes to policies and practices that exclude migrants.

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Latest income

£3.2m

Latest spending

£3.0m

Registered

2000

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £163,519 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following two consecutive years of surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £607,743, which is 90% of the assessed target level of £673,551, indicating a position of financial stability despite an adverse funding environment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“Three Employees received emoluments between £60,000 and £70,000 in the current year” — page 55

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 3

“Three Employees received emoluments between £60,000 and £70,000 in the current year” — page 55

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £608k; policy: £673,551)

“The unrestricted reserves on 31 March 2025 were £607,743, which is 90% of the target level.” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Pension scheme deficit: £16.1m

“A full actuarial valuation for the scheme was carried out at 30 September 2023. This valuation showed assets of £514.9m, liabilities of £531.0m and a deficit of £16.1m.” — page 60

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 03638571

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Praxis Community Projects (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Minnie Rahman — Chief Executive (source)
Debbie Weekes-Bernard — Chair (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.

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.

PATEL, Chetal Nirav — director, appointed 25/06/2024on trustee list
CLARK, Harriet — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
STUART, Ruth Lorna — director, appointed 03/04/2023on trustee list
SINGH, Satbir Lochan Kumar — director, appointed 12/10/2022on trustee list
WEEKES-BERNARD, Debbie Sylvia, Dr — director, appointed 10/02/2022on trustee list
OGUNLANA, Oluwakemi — director, appointed 12/11/2020not on trustee list
GIBLIN, Shashi Ruby — director, appointed 18/07/2019on trustee list
CULLEN, Constance Jean — director, appointed 18/07/2019on trustee list
MATTHEWS, Dylan Toby — director, appointed 25/01/2018on trustee list
WALKER, Edward John — secretary, appointed 05/03/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income

£3.2m

Total spending

£3.0m

Cost of raising funds

£97k

Reserves (reported)

£473k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernardchair
Chetal Nirav Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
Constance Jean Cullen · trustee of 1 other charity
DYLAN TOBY MATTHEWS · trustee of 1 other charity
Harriet Rose Clark
Ruth Lorna Stuart
Satbir Lochan Kumar Singh
Shashi Ruby Giblin

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£3.2m	£3.0m
31/03/2024	£2.9m	£2.8m
31/03/2023	£2.3m	£2.5m
31/03/2022	£2.1m	£2.2m
31/03/2021	£2.4m	£2.2m

Common questions

Is PRAXIS COMMUNITY PROJECTS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £163,519 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following two consecutive years of surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £607,743, which is 90% of the assessed target level of £673,551, indicating a position of financial stability despite an adverse funding environment. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Goldwins Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of PRAXIS COMMUNITY PROJECTS earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 3 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds PRAXIS COMMUNITY PROJECTS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PRAXIS COMMUNITY PROJECTS as a grant recipient include TRUST FOR LONDON, THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION, THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST, THE 29TH MAY 1961 CHARITY, THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
TRUST FOR LONDON	FY2023	£135k	Continuing a national campaign, coproduced with experts by experience
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£79k	Grants & Donations
TRUST FOR LONDON	FY2024	£75k	2018-2024 strategy: Temporary accommodation
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£54k	Grants
THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£50k
THE 29TH MAY 1961 CHARITY	FY2022	£30k	costs of providing a variety of services to vulnerable refugees and migrants in London
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2025	£25k
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£22k	Church & Communities Programme
DISRUPT FOUNDATION	FY2024	£20k	Migrant Rights and Racial Justice
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£20k	Migrants and Refugees
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£17k	Church & Communities Programme
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	FY2022	£11k	Church & Communities Programme
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	FY2023	£11k	Church & Communities Programme
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST	FY2021	£11k
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST	FY2023	£10k
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST	FY2024	£8k
THE FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH OF LONDON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£6k	Grants to institutions
THE FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH OF LONDON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£6k	Hardship Fund Grant
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2023	£5k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k
THE FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH OF LONDON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£5k	Hardship Fund
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	FY2021	£5k
THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
LION WALK UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY	FY2022	£200

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
A B Charitable Trust	27/05/2026	£10k	A grant to Praxis Community Projects
Sport England	07/01/2026	£4k	Moving Together: Migrant Men's Fitness Project
City Bridge Foundation	24/03/2025	£250k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
Hackney Council	04/01/2025	£35k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
London Borough of Hackney	04/01/2025	£35k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
The Mercers' Company	24/01/2024	£57k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/12/2023	£500k	Roots and Branch (phase 2) growing migrants’ services solidarity and voice
Unbound Philanthropy	13/11/2023	£200k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
London Borough of Hackney	13/10/2022	£47k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
Hackney Council	13/10/2022	£47k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
Hackney Council	21/03/2022	£48k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
London Borough of Hackney	21/03/2022	£48k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
The Mercers' Company	06/10/2021	£22k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
A B Charitable Trust	22/04/2021	£20k	A grant to Praxis Community Projects
Hackney Council	10/12/2020	£37k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
London Borough of Hackney	10/12/2020	£37k	Grant to Praxis Community Projects
A B Charitable Trust	02/07/2020	£20k	A grant to Praxis Community Projects
The National Lottery Community Fund	10/02/2020	£10k	Praxis Community Garden
UK government	02/10/2019	£100k	Tampon Tax Fund - Ending Women's Homelessness
A B Charitable Trust	27/06/2019	£20k	A grant to Praxis Community Projects
The National Lottery Community Fund	01/10/2018	£498k	Root and Branch: growing migrants? services, solidarity and voice
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/09/2018	£10k	'The Giants' group for migrant men
A B Charitable Trust	23/01/2018	£20k	A grant to Praxis Community Projects
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/09/2016	£3k	Global Tower Hamlets: bringing people together on Human Rights Day
A B Charitable Trust	30/06/2016	£15k	Advice and Support for refugees/migrants

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE SIMMONS AND SIMMONS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	2	£73k
THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION	2	£10k
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION	1	£180k
DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUND	1	£20k
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	1	£20k
EVERSHEDS SUTHERLAND (INTERNATIONAL) CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£18k
ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£13k
EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIGRANT AND ASYLUM SEEKER SOLIDARITY AND ACTION.

MIGRANT AND ASYLUM SEEKER SOLIDARITY AND ACTION income £143k
Caring for Communities and People income £13.0m
Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.6m
COMMUNITY OUTREACH income £1.5m
PETRUS COMMUNITY income £2.7m
HEALTHY LIVING PROJECTS LIMITED income £549k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PRAXIS COMMUNITY PROJECTS	£3.2m	£60,001 - £70,000	3	below	—	no doubt
MIGRANT AND ASYLUM SEEKER SOLIDARITY AND ACTION FY2025	£143k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Caring for Communities and People FY2026	£13.0m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
Refugee and Migrant Justice FY2024	£1.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY OUTREACH FY2024	£1.5m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PETRUS COMMUNITY FY2025	£2.7m	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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