ACTION FOR REFUGEES IN LEWISHAM

Registered charity 1116344 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

AFRIL aims to relieve the poverty of refugees, asylum-seekers and vulnerable migrants, advance their education and advocate for their rights. We work with our service users by providing them with the tools they need to improve their own lives and fulfil their potential as members of the community and society.

Objects

4.1 TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF REFUGEES4.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF REFUGEES4.3 TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF REFUGEES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. LEWISHAM

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £51,064 for the year ended 31 May 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £142,879, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for three to six months of expenditure in the event of a funding drop.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action for Refugees in Lewisham (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gareth Redmond-Kingchair
• Divaughn Burnett
• HASAN KHALIFAH
• Karleen Richards
• Kathleen Anne Bride Commons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsten Rebecca Wildgoose
• Lorna Sarah Barron
• Margaret Ruth Gravelle
• Neil Denis Walker
• Welat Sardar Ahmed Kurdi

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Greenwich · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AKRAM AID.

• AKRAM AID income £58k
• LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK income £1.3m
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• THE ADFAL TRUST income £130k
• ASSIST SHEFFIELD income £787k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k

Side by side with its peers

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