ROOM TO HEAL

Registered charity 1128857 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROOM 2 HEAL, ROOM2HEAL

Room to Heal is a healing community for asylum seekers and refugees who have suffered torture and gross human rights violations. It provides therapeutic support groups,individual counselling/casework, and a range of creative activities, including a Mindfulness for trauma programme, a community gardening/social project, story-telling workshops, ESOL classes and rural community building retreats.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: (A) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; (B) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; (C) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; (D) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; (E) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS; (F) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS; (G) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; (H) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION; (I) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; (J) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; AND (K) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. 2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: THE WORLD

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · 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's unrestricted funds were £171,226 as of 31 December 2025, which the trustees report is slightly over six months' expenditure and above their policy target of three to six months. The charity reported a net surplus for the year, with total income of £441,587 against total expenditure of £436,905. The trustees confirmed there are 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 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
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• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Room to Heal (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• AB Charitable Trust — “Our funding partners currently include: AB Charitable Trust” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Areej Mohamed Yassin Osman
• Emily Haisley
• Howard Kalika
• MICHELLE KNORR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ramata Bah
• Sarko Ahmed
• Susannah Fairweather

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEALING ROOMS ENGLAND & WALES.

• HEALING ROOMS ENGLAND & WALES income £154k
• STORIES OF HOPE AND HOME income £51k
• HOSPITAL ROOMS income £1.9m
• COMMUNITY HOUSING AND THERAPY income £4.0m
• HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £1.7m
• THE LIVING ROOM income £842k

Side by side with its peers

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