KENT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK

Registered charity 1097886 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the benefit of refugees,asylum seekers and ethnic minorities and to promote racial harmony in the wider community, particularly in Kent, but elsewhere when appropriate, by supporting voluntary groups working with such persons and by liaising with statutory agencies, local authorities and other interested parties.

Objects

a. To support and relieve the needs of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced persons and ethnic minorities principally in Kent, particularly by (a) providing advice and information; (b) providing education and life skills training and (c) offering support for wellbeing. b. The promotion of human rights, through improving racial harmony, equality and diversity in our local communities by (a) using our position, experience and knowledge to amplify the voices of people with lived experience (b) promoting awareness, informing policy and influencing practice for public benefit and for the refugees and asylum seekers we seek to support and serve.

Area of benefit: KENT

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £70,502, resulting in total net assets of £467,151. The trustees confirmed that unrestricted funds stood at £235,938, which they noted were sufficient to cover management and administration costs for a three-month period. The filing confirms the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04738880

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• AB Charitable Trust — “GRANTS (January-December 2025) AB Charitable Trust” (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.

• ABDULRAHMAN, Bashir — director, appointed 30/06/2026on trustee list
• ADAMS, Hilary Janet — director, appointed 30/06/2026on trustee list
• KARIM, Hardy — director, appointed 29/06/2026not on trustee list
• JUDGE, Tim — director, appointed 21/02/2025on trustee list
• DI MASCIO, Anna — director, appointed 21/02/2025not on trustee list
• BEARD, Caroline — director, appointed 29/02/2024on trustee list
• WARREN, Richard Lee, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• WEATHERALL, Sally — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• BROWN, Rupert James — director, appointed 18/02/2021on trustee list
• ROBBINS, Nicola Patricia — director, appointed 18/02/2021on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Patricia Carole — director, appointed 15/04/2017on trustee list
• SHARIFF, Razia — secretary, appointed 21/07/2016

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 ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (72% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rupert Brownchair
• Anna Di Mascio
• Bashir Abdulrahman
• Caroline Beard
• Dr Richard Lee Warren
• Hardy Kerim
• Hilary Janet Adams · trustee of 9 other charities
• Nicola Robbins
• PATRICIA CAROLE EDWARDS
• Sally Weatherall
• Tim Judge

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 KENT REFUGEE HELP.

• KENT REFUGEE HELP income £19k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• RURAL REFUGEE NETWORK income £101k
• TONBRIDGE WELCOMES REFUGEES income £11k
• REFUGEE ACTION KINGSTON income £580k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

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