KALAYAAN

Registered charity 1146596 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Kalayaan provides support, legal advice and advocacy services to migrant domestic workers. Services include advice on immigration and employment rights, emergency accommodation, English classes and support to victims of trafficking for domestic servitude. In addition, Kalayaan advocates for the rights of migrant domestic workers and works to improve the legislative environment around them.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £237,674 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the filing notes that free (unrestricted) reserves at year-end were £37,585, which the trustees state is towards the upper limit of their target of three months of operating costs. The trustees confirm that long-term grants are in place to support future service delivery.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kalayaan (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).

• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation” (source page)
• Barrow Cadbury Trust — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust” (source page)
• A B Charitable Trust — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Oak Foundation — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust Oak Foundation” (source page)
• The Bromley Trust — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust Oak Foundation The Bromley Trust” (source page)
• The Olwyn Foundation — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust Oak Foundation The Bromley Trust …” (source page)
• City Bridge Foundation — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust Oak Foundation The Bromley Trust …” (source page)
• Legal Education Foundation (LEF) — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust Oak Foundation The Bromley Trust …” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Our current funders include: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust A B Charitable Trust Oak Foundation The Bromley Trust …” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (17/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Virginia Mantouvalouchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALISON ROMA HARVEY
• Elizabeth Wiener
• Emelie Dela C Rodriguez
• Hugh Graham Collins
• Julieta Gadayan
• Lauren Exell
• Michael John Muirhead
• Natalie Margit Sedacca
• Pauline Uwins

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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