THE COVENTRY REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE

Registered charity 1090123 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COVENTRY REFUGEE CENTRE, CRC, THE COVENTRY REFUGEE CENTRE

CRMC provides impartial and confidential advice to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants living in Coventry and the surrounding areas. We relieve hardship and distress amongst these communities in and around Coventry, alongside providing holistic services to our clients. We also raise awareness of refugee, asylum, and migrant issues in the wider community and at a local government level.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS OF REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS3) TO PROVIDE OR TO ARRANGE FOR THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL OR OTHER LEISURE TIME PURSUITS FOR REFUGEES, MIGRANTS OR ASYLUM SEEKERS WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES

Area of benefit: GENERAL AREA OF THE CITY OF COVENTRY

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1,151,817, which the trustees report represents four months of operating costs, providing stability. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. The charity reported a net movement in funds of a deficit of £63,585 for the year, driven largely by restricted fund deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HB&O Ltd. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAMRAN MUNIRchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr DAVID KNIBB
• Dr Ecem Karlidag Dennis
• Dr Randhir Auluck
• Elizabeth Wendy Booth
• Furrukh Aslam
• Jennifer Clare Wells
• Matthew Aidan Greenhalgh
• Ravinder Kaur
• Rupinder Singh
• Thomas Fisher

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RMC CHARITY.

• RMC CHARITY income £4.4m
• Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.9m
• CAMBRIDGE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT CAMPAIGN income £108k
• CHELTENHAM WELCOMES REFUGEES income £53k
• THE COVENTRY MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £552k
• KENT REFUGEE HELP income £19k

Side by side with its peers

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