GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP

Registered charity 1124328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

Area of benefit: WEST SUSSEX

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

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Crawley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£468k
Latest spending
£429k
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

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.

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 3 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.

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

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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

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
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

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BROMLEY TRUSTFY2025£30k
THE BROMLEY TRUSTFY2024£25kHuman Rights
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£22k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£22k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£20kMigrants and Refugees
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2025£15k
MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2026£15k
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2026£15k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£15kMigrants and Refugees
THE THREE OAKS TRUSTFY2025£12k
MIGRANT AND ASYLUM SEEKER SOLIDARITY AND ACTIONFY2023£10kOpen Funding Call Autumn 2022
SWIRE 2765FY2022£10k
THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATIONFY2025£5kUK Round July 2024
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£3kNational
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN THE APOSTLE & EVANGELIST, WATFORDFY2023£1k
SWIRE 2765FY2023£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
A B Charitable Trust17/03/2025£22kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust05/09/2024£2kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust18/04/2024£22kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust20/04/2023£22kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust06/12/2021£20kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
The National Lottery Community Fund16/04/2021£9kGatwick Detainees Welfare Group: Destitution Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund15/12/2020£257kGatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust04/12/2020£20kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust09/01/2020£20kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
The National Lottery Community Fund24/01/2019£10kRefugee Tales
A B Charitable Trust15/10/2018£10kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust04/07/2017£5kA grant to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
The National Lottery Community Fund27/01/2016£364kGatwick Detainees Welfare Group
A B Charitable Trust26/01/2016£10kEmotional and practical support to detainees
A B Charitable Trust27/01/2015£8kEmotional and practical support to detainees
The National Lottery Community Fund19/11/2014£9kThe Refugee Tales
A B Charitable Trust21/01/2014£8kEmotional and practical support to detainees
The National Lottery Community Fund25/04/2012£2k'The Longest Day' community project for Refugee Week
The National Lottery Community Fund12/10/2011£391kGatwick Detainees Welfare Group
The National Lottery Community Fund29/08/2008£6kBe Accessible
The National Lottery Community Fund21/10/2005£2kOffice equipment