STAR (STUDENT ACTION FOR REFUGEES)

Registered charity 1079042 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STAR

STAR is a national charity building a society where refugees are welcomed & can thrive. We do this by building amovement of welcome, empowering young people to be changemakers; providing localsupport to refugees through community projects; challenging the structural barriers people face seeking protection and building new lives; sharing information to shift the narrative.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, HARDSHIP, POVERTY AND DISTRESS PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF A TRAINED STUDENT NETWORK OF VOLUNTEERS AND HELPERS TO ASSIST IN ALL ASPECTS OF REFUGEE ASSISTANCE (11) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THE ROLE OF STUDENTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Croydon, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated in a challenging environment with limited funding and rising operational costs, which strained smaller charities. Despite these pressures, the organization continued its activities, supported by student volunteers and staff, though it notes increased competition for funding from larger charities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — STAR (Student Action for Refugees) (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra McAssey
• Annam Khalid
• Christine Bacon
• JAMES OSBORNE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Maryam Taher
• Matthew Peter Grenier
• Tim Seal

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• STAR income £817k

Side by side with its peers

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