RMC CHARITY

Registered charity 1104779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE LIMITED, WARS, WOLVERHAMPTON ASYLUM SEEKER AND REFUGEE SERVICES LIMITED

RMC provides free, impartial & confidential advice to all asylum seekers, refugees and migrants living in the Black Country and Birmingham. Our broad approach covers many issues related to reception, settlement, integration and voluntary return.We will help anyone, regardless of country of origin, ethnicity, legal status, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.

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Latest income

£4.4m

Latest spending

£4.3m

Registered

2004

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources decreased by 7% to £4,356,771, while total expenditure decreased by 3% to £4,262,187. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £632,255, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern, though they note that funding for core work is hard to access.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: more than £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“Three employees received employee benefits of more than £60,000 during the year” — page 30

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 3

“Three employees received employee benefits of more than £60,000 during the year” — page 30

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three months of expenditure (held: £632k)

“The Board would ideally consider three months of expenditure to be the minimum level of free reserves and this remains the long-term objective.” — page 11

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Muras Baker Jones Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 04971299

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Refugee and Migrant Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Pam Gill — Deputy CEO (source)
Danai Papachristopoulou — Immigration Department Manager (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

Home Office — “Our Afghan project began in 2020 and is funded by the Home Office to resettle those currently or formerly employed by British forces Afghani…” (source page)
Justice Together Initiative — “The West Midlands Immigration Network is a project funded by the Justice Together Initiative (JTI) designed to build the quality and provisi…” (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.

RASUL, Modasar — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
AGANOVIC, Alma — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
WALTERS, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 04/09/2024on trustee list
CAIRNS, Emma Louise — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
SHAFI, Yusuf — director, appointed 16/12/2020on trustee list
OLIVER, David Melvyn — director, appointed 01/05/2019on trustee list
ASHWELL, Richard James — director, appointed 16/06/2008on trustee list
CARTWRIGHT, Martin John — director, appointed 20/11/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income

£4.4m

Total spending

£4.3m

Cost of raising funds

£200

Reserves (reported)

£1.1m

Employees

108

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

MARTIN JOHN CARTWRIGHTchair
Alma Aganovic
DAVID OLIVER
Emma Cairns
Modasar Rasul
RICHARD ASHWELL
Sarah Jane Walters
Yusuf Shafi · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£4.4m	£4.3m
31/03/2024	£4.7m	£4.4m
31/03/2023	£3.8m	£3.7m
31/03/2022	£2.7m	£2.8m
31/03/2021	£2.5m	£2.5m

Common questions

Is RMC CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total incoming resources decreased by 7% to £4,356,771, while total expenditure decreased by 3% to £4,262,187. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £632,255, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern, though they note that funding for core work is hard to access. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Muras Baker Jones Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of RMC CHARITY earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the more than £60,000 band, and 3 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds RMC CHARITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RMC CHARITY as a grant recipient include JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS, THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST, WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE SAINTBURY TRUST, GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	FY2025	£63k	Advice and Representation
THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST	FY2025	£60k	Core funding for RMC 2024-2026
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£20k	Grant
THE SAINTBURY TRUST	FY2025	£9k	Advancement of Education
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£500
IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION	FY2024	£14

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	26/02/2026	£379k	Addressing Poor Health and Health Inequalities of Marginalised Migrants
UK government	01/04/2024	£17k	Transition to eVisa Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/01/2024	£423k	Supporting the integration of refugees and other marginalised migrants
UK government	20/10/2023	£55k	HMRC Grant Funding Programme
UK government	29/09/2023	£33k	EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
UK government	29/09/2023	£72k	EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/11/2022	£300k	Facilitating the integration of new communities
UK government	25/06/2020	£30k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
UK government	01/04/2020	£27k	HMRC Grant Funding
UK government	01/04/2019	£191k	EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 2019-20
UK government	01/04/2019	£27k	HMRC Grant Funding
A B Charitable Trust	15/10/2018	£20k	A grant to Refugee and Migrant Centre
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/07/2018	£500k	Enabling the integration of new and emerging communities
UK government	01/04/2018	£30k	HMRC Grant Funding
A B Charitable Trust	31/10/2017	£20k	A grant to Refugee and Migrant Centre
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/01/2017	£499k	Assisting and empowering New Communities in times of crisis and beyond
A B Charitable Trust	25/10/2016	£10k	Assistance to destitute asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants
A B Charitable Trust	20/10/2015	£10k	Assistance to destitute asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants
A B Charitable Trust	21/10/2014	£10k	Support destitute asylum seekers in vulnerable situations
The National Lottery Community Fund	02/06/2014	£400k	Supporting the integration of new communities
A B Charitable Trust	29/10/2013	£10k	Assistance to destitute asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/09/2004	£4k	Training
UK government	—	£30k	HMRC Grant Funding

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	3	£40k
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST	2	£199k
TRUST FOR LONDON	2	£125k
SOCIETY OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS CIO	2	£82k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£60k
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	2	£7k
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£355k
THE HAPPY BABY COMMUNITY	1	£338k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COVENTRY REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE.

THE COVENTRY REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE income £2.5m
HACKNEY MIGRANT CENTRE income £562k
GLOUCESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS income £1.4m
Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.6m
LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK income £1.3m
Migrant Help income £69.8m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
RMC CHARITY	£4.4m	more than £60,000	3	unclear	—	no doubt
THE COVENTRY REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE FY2025	£2.5m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
HACKNEY MIGRANT CENTRE FY2025	£562k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GLOUCESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
Refugee and Migrant Justice FY2024	£1.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK FY2025	£1.3m	—	—	within	—	no doubt

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