RECONNECT

Registered charity 1105016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Creating opportunities for professional refugees to return to their professions by organising training courses, work experience and one-to-one advice and guidance; creating opportunities for refugees to contribute with their skills to development in developing countries; drawing attention to the causes and consequences of displacement from developing countries and transforming its impact.

Objects

A) TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTIES PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY FACILITATING THE EMPLOYMENT IN SUCH COUNTRIES OF PERSONS LIVING AS REFUGEES OR DISPLACED PERSONS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES WHO HAVE SKILLS USEFUL TO IMPROVING CONDITIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS.1) BY PROVIDING AND FOSTERING THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE TRAINING SO THAT SUCH PERSONS MAY PARTICIPATE IN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;2) BY IDENTIFYING AND FOSTERING SUCH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ASSISTING SUCH PERSONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THEM.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £17,468 for the year ended 31 December 2025, bringing total funds to £60,318. However, the trustees note that the current unrestricted reserves of £55,898 are below their stated policy target of six to nine months' core expenditure, which they calculated as £60,318. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no related party transactions or trading subsidiaries.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 22/12/2025, 52 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reconnect (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).

• Department of Culture, Communication and Media — “A promotional Film by ReConnect, funded by the Department of Culture, Communication and Media, and Produced by UCL Educational Media, June 2…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH MARGARET BUXTONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BELAY GESESSE
• Dr Maknun Ashami
• Stephen Desmond

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONNECTIONS TRUST.

• CONNECTIONS TRUST income £116k
• RECONNECTION income £36k
• RECONNECTED income £319k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• BREAKING BARRIERS income £3.6m
• EXPERIENCE GIVING income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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