JUSTICE FIRST LIMITED

Registered charity 1116388 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JUSTICE FIRST LTD

The activities of the charity are to provide food and support including the provision of guidance , advice and assistance on health, employment and welfare matters to asylum seekers in the Tees Valley

Objects

To relieve poverty, sickness and distress among asylum seekers in the North East of England (primarily the Tees Valley, County Durham and the wider Tyne Valley), particularly but not exclusively, by the provision of guidance, advice and assistance on asylum, health, employment, welfare and education.

Area of benefit: THE TEES VALLEY

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockton-on-Tees, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves were £127,376 at the end of the year, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £75,000 (equivalent to six months of running costs). The trustees confirm that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis, citing sufficient budgeted income and reserves to continue operations for the next 12 months.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 30/04/2021 (received 15/03/2022, 15 days after the 28/02/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Justice First (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA HELEN HUNGINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CATHERINE RAMOS
• FREDERICK JOHN HUTCHINSON
• Hamida White
• Stephen Ollis
• Susan Ravalde
• Tresor Nyembwe BUKASA

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

Operates in: Darlington · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JUSTICE BASE.

• JUSTICE BASE income £726k
• Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.9m
• JUSTUS income £47k
• JUSTICE income £1.7m
• FAMILIES FIRST (NORTH EAST) income £1.8m
• MEDICAL JUSTICE NETWORK LIMITED income £935k

Side by side with its peers

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