SOLACE SURVIVING EXILE AND PERSECUTION
Registered charity 1104507 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REFUGEE SUPPORT CENTRE
Solace provides counselling and psychotherapy to asylum seekers and refugees.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year in a deficit position with total funds decreasing to £245,297. However, the trustees anticipate achieving a breakeven position in the coming year after securing new contracts, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £237k; policy: three months salary costs, plus one quarter of our total rent and estimated redundancy obligations)
“We therefore aim to hold £298,500 in unrestricted reserves. At the end of the financial year the charity had a total of £236,514 in free reserves.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Solace Surviving Persecution and Exile (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Kathryn Ashworth — CEO (source)
- Elaine Goodwin — Chair (source)
- Anne Burghgraef — Clinical Director (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.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Elaine Goodwin
- Maria Gribenyuk
- Natalie Moran
- Pascale Gayford
- Peter Coltman
- Peter Dawson
- Rosie Galbraith
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SOLACE SURVIVING EXILE AND PERSECUTION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year in a deficit position with total funds decreasing to £245,297. However, the trustees anticipate achieving a breakeven position in the coming year after securing new contracts, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Thomas Coombs Limited.
Who funds SOLACE SURVIVING EXILE AND PERSECUTION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SOLACE SURVIVING EXILE AND PERSECUTION as a grant recipient include THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST.
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