GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP
The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group provides emotional and practical support, through its volunteer visitors, to asylum seekers and immigration detainees held at Tinsley House and Brook House removal centres, near Gatwick Airport.
Objects
TO GIVE CHARITABLE RELIEF TO IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES WHO ARE SUFFERING HARDSHIP, DISTRESS OR ARE IN NEED.
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The provided document is an Independent Examiner's Report and does not contain financial statements, reserve figures, or income details. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health, reserves, or income sources can be extracted from this text.
What the accounts disclose
Policies the charity declares
- 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)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025
- Volunteers: 70
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024
- Volunteers: 70
- Government income: £3,563 — grants £3,563 (2); under 1% of the £461,000 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023
- Volunteers: 70
- Government income: £4,432 — grants £4,432 (3); under 1% of the £443,427 total gross income on the same return
Trustees
- Laura Moffattchair
- ADRIAN RADFORD
- FELICITY DICK MBE
- Henry Crossley
- Lorraine Dsouza Fernandes
- MARWA ALI
- Pious Prosper Keku
- Seth Kaitey
- Stephen Collis
- THOMAS HACKETT
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/12/2025 | £468k | £429k |
| 31/12/2024 | £461k | £460k |
| 31/12/2023 | £443k | £428k |
| 31/12/2022 | £392k | £382k |
| 31/12/2021 | £260k | £280k |
Common questions
Is GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is an Independent Examiner's Report and does not contain financial statements, reserve figures, or income details. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health, reserves, or income sources can be extracted from this text. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP?
Funders whose own accounts filings name GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP as a grant recipient include THE BROMLEY TRUST, THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST, THE RODDICK FOUNDATION, MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST, THE THREE OAKS TRUST.
Known funders
| Funder | Year | Amount | Purpose (as stated by the funder) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE BROMLEY TRUST | FY2025 | £30k | |
| THE BROMLEY TRUST | FY2024 | £25k | Human Rights |
| THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2023 | £22k | |
| THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2024 | £22k | |
| THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2022 | £20k | Migrants and Refugees |
| THE RODDICK FOUNDATION | FY2025 | £15k | |
| MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2026 | £15k | |
| THE RODDICK FOUNDATION | FY2026 | £15k | |
| THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2021 | £15k | Migrants and Refugees |
| THE THREE OAKS TRUST | FY2025 | £12k | |
| MIGRANT AND ASYLUM SEEKER SOLIDARITY AND ACTION | FY2023 | £10k | Open Funding Call Autumn 2022 |
| SWIRE 2765 | FY2022 | £10k | |
| THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION | FY2025 | £5k | UK Round July 2024 |
| MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2023 | £3k | National |
| PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN THE APOSTLE & EVANGELIST, WATFORD | FY2023 | £1k | |
| SWIRE 2765 | FY2023 | £1k |
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| A B Charitable Trust | 17/03/2025 | £22k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 05/09/2024 | £2k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 18/04/2024 | £22k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 20/04/2023 | £22k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 06/12/2021 | £20k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 16/04/2021 | £9k | Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group: Destitution Fund |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 15/12/2020 | £257k | Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 04/12/2020 | £20k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 09/01/2020 | £20k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 24/01/2019 | £10k | Refugee Tales |
| A B Charitable Trust | 15/10/2018 | £10k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 04/07/2017 | £5k | A grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 27/01/2016 | £364k | Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| A B Charitable Trust | 26/01/2016 | £10k | Emotional and practical support to detainees |
| A B Charitable Trust | 27/01/2015 | £8k | Emotional and practical support to detainees |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 19/11/2014 | £9k | The Refugee Tales |
| A B Charitable Trust | 21/01/2014 | £8k | Emotional and practical support to detainees |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 25/04/2012 | £2k | 'The Longest Day' community project for Refugee Week |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 12/10/2011 | £391k | Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 29/08/2008 | £6k | Be Accessible |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 21/10/2005 | £2k | Office equipment |