BARNET REFUGEE SERVICE

Registered charity 1107965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as New Citizens' Gateway

We work with individuals and agencies to improve the quality of life and promote the physical, social and mental well being of asylum seekers and refugees who live, work or study in England and Wales, helping to reduce health inequalities, social exclusion and poverty. We enable our beneficiaries to access their full potential as equal participants in UK life.

Objects

3. THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED (HEREINAFTER, THE 'OBJECTS') ARE:3.1 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING ASYLUM OR WHO ARE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS LIVING, WORKING OR STUDYING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN ENGLAND AND WALES (HEREINAFTER, THE 'BENEFICIARIES').3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE PERSONS DEFINED IN OBJECT 3.1 AS BENEFICIARIES3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.3.4 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO THOSE PERSONS DEFINED IN OBJECT 3.1 AS BENEFICIARIES.3.5 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS DEFINED IN OBJECT 3.1, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.?

Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a deficit of £56,187 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £243,784 were maintained at year-end, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure (£218,348). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 6 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.

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 31/03/2021 (received 22/02/2022, 22 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• GSK — “Proud winner of the GSK IMPACT Award New Citizens’ Gateway is delighted to have been recognised for its outstanding work support in improvin…” (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 ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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

• Dr Sanjiv Ahluwaliachair
• Antonina Lagun
• Dr Penelope Anne Trafford
• Esmond Sidney Rosen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fanta Sheriff · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fariba Salehi-Kellaway
• Geethawathy Thirusaba-Nathan
• Niks Kolosnicins
• Sanja Dujmovic Potnar

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY BARNET.

• COMMUNITY BARNET income £1.6m
• BARNET REUSE CENTRE LIMITED income £474k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• BARNET CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k

Side by side with its peers

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