HACKNEY MIGRANT CENTRE

Registered charity 1122363 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hackney Migrant Centre is a community-based charity that provides free advice and support for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, regardless of their nationality or immigration status. The centre focuses on four main areas: immigration, housing, welfare, and holistic support.

Objects

• To relieve financial hardship, destitution and any other needs among refugees, asylum seekers, other migrants and their families including, but not limited to, the provision of legal services, advice, advocacy and other support which they could not otherwise obtain through lack of resources; • To preserve and protect the physical and mental health of refugees, asylum seekers, other migrants and their families especially, but not exclusively, by providing advice and advocacy to assist them to access suitable housing, health care and other relevant services; and • To advance the education of the public in general about issues relating to refugees, asylum seekers, other migrants and their families.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND IN PARTICULAR IN EAST LONDON.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £82,631 for the year, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £249,335. This figure exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of three months' expenditure (£105,500), indicating a stable financial position. However, the trustees note that a significant portion of recent income was from one-off sources and that future funding is not guaranteed.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 30/03/2022, 58 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hackney Migrant Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abdullahi Omodolapo Yussuf
• Courtney Jae Youngberg
• DANIEL ALEXANDER PASTERNAK OPPENHEIMER
• Dr Belinda John-Baptiste
• Elizabeth Olubukola Kolawole-Johnson
• Katharine Meade · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Jane Busby · trustee of 1 other charity
• OLUSOLA OLAYINKA ERIOLUWA
• SUSAN MARGARET SHUTTER · trustee of 1 other charity

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIGRANT SUPPORT.

• MIGRANT SUPPORT income £173k
• HARINGEY MIGRANT SUPPORT CENTRE income £408k
• Migrant Help income £69.8m
• Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.9m
• MIGRANT ACTION income £338k
• REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK SUTTON income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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