ASYLUM WELCOME

Registered charity 1092265 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AWADS

TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE, OPERATING PRINCIPALLY FROM OXFORDSHIRE, FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND VULNERABLE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE A HUMANITARIAN NEED FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE UK, INCLUDING THOSE DETAINED WITHIN THE LEGAL OR PENAL SYSTEM.

Objects

TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE, OPERATING PRINCIPALLY FROM OXFORDSHIRE, FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND VULNERABLE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE A HUMANITARIAN NEED FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE UK, INCLUDING THOSE DETAINED WITHIN THE LEGAL OR PENAL SYSTEM.?

Area of benefit: PRINCIPALLY FOR THOSE LIVING IN OR HAVING A CONNECTION WITH OXFORDSHIRE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £75,202 for the year, resulting in a general fund deficit of £100,115. However, the trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £584,767 remain within the stated policy target range of £435,000 to £560,000. The auditors have confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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 — Asylum Welcome (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Hari Reed — Joint CEO (source)
• Sarah Totterdell — Joint CEO (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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 8.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aiham Al Aswadi
• Asser Bakheet
• Courtenay Victoria Stock
• David Levy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Hawar Ameen
• James Andrew Bell
• James Graham Hartzell
• Julia Foster
• Lucy Keating · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Peter Holmes
• Tony Samuel

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REFUGEE RESOURCE.

• REFUGEE RESOURCE income £631k
• ASYLUM AID income £1.7m
• WELCOME CHURCHES income £321k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK income £1.3m
• THE WELCOME CENTRE (HUDDERSFIELD) income £900k

Side by side with its peers

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