ASYLUM SUPPORT APPEALS PROJECT

Registered charity 1105625 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ASAP works to reduce destitution of asylum seekers in the UK by defending their legal rights to food and shelter. We combine free legal representation, second-tier advice and training on asylum support law and policy work to ensure that asylum seekers are able to access the housing and welfare support they are legally entitled to.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG INDIVIDUALS SEEKING ASYLUM AND SUPPORT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION AND OTHER ASSISTANCE;2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING TO PERSONS TO ENABLE THEM TO GIVE LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO THE INDIVIDUALS REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE 2.1; AND3. THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only legal, administrative, and trustee information for the Asylum Support Appeals Project. It does not include financial statements, reserves, income, or expenditure data required to assess financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrows Audit Ltd. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04763838

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.

• ISMAIL, Haris — director, appointed 24/11/2025on trustee list
• FIELD, Susan Rennie — director, appointed 24/11/2025on trustee list
• BUNGWE, Tatenda — director, appointed 24/11/2025on trustee list
• HACKER, Rebecca — director, appointed 24/11/2024on trustee list
• SYED, Shakir Niaz Ahmed — director, appointed 23/05/2024on trustee list
• SAKI, Mahdi — director, appointed 28/04/2022on trustee list
• GREENER, Imogen — director, appointed 22/02/2022on trustee list
• MPONELA, Loraine Masiya — director, appointed 04/12/2019on trustee list
• OGHANNA, Maryam — director, appointed 04/12/2019on trustee list
• KUCZYNSKA, Marion — director, appointed 21/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maryam Oghannachair
• Haris Ismail
• Imogen Greener
• Loraine Masiya Mponela
• Mahdi Saki
• Marion Kuczynska
• Rebecca Hacker
• Shakir Syed
• Susan Field
• Tatenda Bungwe

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And 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 ASYLUM AID.

• ASYLUM AID income £1.7m
• AFRICAN SOLUTIONS UK income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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