WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL

Registered charity 1102449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16903047 · Wikipedia

We promote the interests of asylum seekers and refugees, and support initiative to ensure they are welcomed in Wales and are given protection and support. We provide advice and support for refugees, focusing on preventing homelessness.We provide paralegal advice and support for women seeking asylum.We run play development sessions for the children of refugees and asylum seekers.

Objects

(A) PROVIDE RELIEF FOR REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; (B) PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF CULTURAL, ARTISTIC, SPORTING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES; (C) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST IN THEIR REHABILITATION WITHIN WALES; (D) PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF REFUGEES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND WAYS OF PROVIDING CHARITABLE RELIEF FOR THEM AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH; (E) ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT THE POSITION OF REFUGEES AND THE SITUATION, WHICH GIVE RISE TO REFUGEE MOVEMENTS;

Area of benefit: WITHIN WALES.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £91,901 for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £871,462. The trustees consider the charity has adequate resources to continue in business for the foreseeable future and have adopted the going concern basis. The charity's reserves policy targets a level sufficient to meet three months of expenditure, which the trustees note is near to target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Welsh Refugee Council wins top award for helping those fleeing persecution nation.cymru · 12/10/2023

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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

• Dr Mohammad Alhadj Alichair
• Darren Carew
• Dr Michael Scott Evans
• Eanas Naas
• Harry Iles
• Jamie Braddock
• Jennifer Morgan
• Natalie Richards
• Stephen Burton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zoe Hilton

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

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 WELSH WOMEN'S AID.

• WELSH WOMEN'S AID income £3.2m
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• SUFFOLK REFUGEE SUPPORT income £769k
• WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £503k
• WEST WALES DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE LTD income £1.2m
• REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT income £879k

Side by side with its peers

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