JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS

Registered charity 1117513 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JCWI

JCWI continues to maintain a leading place as an independent national organisation advocating for fairness and equality in immigration, nationalisation and aslyum law and policy in the UK. It undertakes policy work, advice and casework, training, and publication work to fulfil its objectives in the interest of marginalised migrants and refugees in the community.

Objects

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE ORGANISATION ARE:3.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG IMMIGRANTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, COUNSEL, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO THOSE WHO ARE CONCERNED WITH OR AFFECTED BY ANY UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IN RELATION TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE, COUNSELLING, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES;3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON THE LAW AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN PARTICULAR LAW THAT MAY AFFECT IMMIGRANTS;3.3 TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS ARISING UNDER OR BY VIRTUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1988 AND THE PROMOTION OF THE CONVENTION RIGHTS AS DEFINED BY S.1 HUMAN RIGHTS ACT INCLUDING THE ELIMINATION OF THE INFRINGEMENT OF THOSE RIGHTS AND THE PROMOTION OF EFFECTIVE REMEDIES FOLLOWING ANY BREACH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS WHETHER BY TEACHING OR PRODUCING MATERIALS (B) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM INCLUDING BY THE USE OF PUBLICATIONS, CODES OF PRACTICE, SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYERS, AWARD SCHEMES, THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY(C) PROMOTING THE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PARTICULARLY AMONGST IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND ALL MINORITY COMMUNITIES(D) PROMOTING THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO HUMAN RIGHTS BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES;(II) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL INTERVENTION TO ASSIST THE COURTS; AND (III) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ON THE INSTITUTIONS, STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS BY WHICH SUCH LAW IS ENFORCED;3.4 TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, SEX OR NATIONAL ORIGIN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) RAISING AWARENESS OF ALL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIETY INCLUDING BY PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, USE OF THE MEDIA, PUBLIC ADVOCACY AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION (B) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF THE SAME TO THE PUBLIC(C) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY WHETHER BY TEACHING OR PRODUCING MATERIALS(D) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY INCLUDING BY THE USE OF PUBLICATIONS, CODES OF PRACTICE, SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYERS, AWARD SCHEMES, THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY(E) PROMOTING THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO EQUALITY ISSUES BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES;(II) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL INTERVENTION TO ASSIST THE COURTS; AND (III) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ON THE INSTITUTIONS, STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS BY WHICH SUCH LAW IS ENFORCED;3.5 TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: IN THE 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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £30,032, increasing its total funds to £657,756. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £373,688, which they consider sufficient to maintain financial sustainability. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 4 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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)

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.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Campbell
• Felix Jennings
• Jacob Berkson
• Jayanthi Lingham
• Liam Browne
• Rogelio braga · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally Causer
• Simon Israel
• Zehrah Hasan

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 Refugee and Migrant Justice.

• Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.9m
• MIGRANT ACTION income £338k
• THE VOICE OF DOMESTIC WORKERS income £125k
• REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT income £879k
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• WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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