SOUTHWARK DAY CENTRE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS

Registered charity 1143912 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SDCAS

SDCAS seeks to help relieve poverty & distress, & to promote health & further education for asylum seekers & refugees. We aim to provide a wide range of holistic services which support, promote & secure the rights of asylum seekers & refugees in the London Borough of Southwark. Current services include ESOL classes, advice sessions, counselling, & a range of creative & therapeutic activities.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. 2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £151,302 for the year, causing unrestricted reserves to deplete from £520,720 to £305,396. While the trustees note that current unrestricted reserves remain above their calculated target of £254,211, they warn that reserves are depleting fast and may reach minimum requirements by the end of the next financial year. Consequently, the charity has embarked on a cost-saving exercise and launched a fundraising campaign to maintain operations amid reduced funding streams.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 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 — Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~13.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chun Hei Lau
• Gay Barry
• Mariane Victoria Lisboa De Paula
• Ojie Sarah Ajoke
• SIMON TAYLOR
• Sally Inman
• Shayane Lacey
• Tod Heyda

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

Operates in: Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SWANSEA ASYLUM SEEKERS SUPPORT.

• SWANSEA ASYLUM SEEKERS SUPPORT income £216k
• CASE TRAINING SERVICES income £973k
• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY EDUCATION CHARITY ("SCEC") income £65k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• SOUTHWARK DISABLEMENT ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• AL-SADAQAH income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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