SOUTH LONDON REFUGEE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1102814 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MERTON AND WANDSWORTH ASYLUM WELCOME

Providing services for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants at risk or in crisis in the South London Area.

Objects

“The Charity’s objects are to relieve poverty and distress by assisting and supporting refugees and migrants in need, primarily but not exclusively those living, working or studying in South London; whether or not they have been granted asylum or other permission to remain in the UK.”

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total resources increased to £310,752, up from £297,965 in the previous year, with unrestricted funds rising to £291,724. The charity reported a net income of £12,787 for the year, supported by incoming resources of £933,667 against total expenditure of £920,880. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts comply with accounting records and statutory requirements.

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 3 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
• 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 — South London Refugee Association (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).

• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “Our Early Intervention Project, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, sees us developing a collaborative approach to meeting the needs of young …” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Lulsegged Abebe
• Habtom Okube
• Joe Gordon
• Maria Abdul Rahman Tanko
• Murali Prathaban Mahendran
• Sarah Neblett-Lindo

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

Operates in: Croydon · Lambeth · Merton · Wandsworth

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 REFUGEES AT HOME.

• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK income £1.3m
• SUFFOLK REFUGEE SUPPORT income £769k
• REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT income £879k
• Migrant Help income £69.8m
• SOUTH YORKSHIRE REFUGEE LAW AND JUSTICE income £237k

Side by side with its peers

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