MIGRANT LEGAL ACTION

Registered charity 1152073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFRO-ASIAN ADVISORY SERVICE

To enable:1.The relief of poverty/financial hardship and ending social exclusion of those whose immigration status is unresolved.2. British and foreign nationals and asylum seekers to have their human rights recognised in accordance with British and EU law and under the UN Conventions. 3. Persons who have been trafficked to the UK by the provision of legal advice and representation.

Objects

1)THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PERSONS WHOSE IMMIGRATION STATUS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM REMAINS UNRESOLVED, BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ADVOCACY SERVICES RELATING TO IMMIGRATION, REFUGEE AND/OR NATIONALITY LAW.2) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS AND UNITED KINGDOM LAW) BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ADVOCACY SERVICES AS A MEANS OF:- RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;- ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.3) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR UNRESOLVED IMMIGRATION STATUS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ADVOCACY SERVICES RELATING TO IMMIGRATION, REFUGEE AND/OR NATIONALITY LAW.

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

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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 loss of £5,101 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds of £83,231. The trustees note that the current level of reserves remains considerably below the desired amount, with no free reserves after excluding fixed assets. However, the trustees consider the state of affairs satisfactory, citing that more than 50% of 2026 income is secured and free accommodation is confirmed until December 2027.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/12/2021 (received 31/03/2023, 151 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07879053

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KAPADIA, Bhavesh Kalayanji — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• GREWAL, Sheila Kaur — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• MONJI, Bina Manilal — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
• NEGAHBANI, Lili — director, appointed 14/12/2018on trustee list
• WAGNER, Bim Evasdotter — director, appointed 14/12/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bhavesh Kalayanji Kapadia
• Bim Evasdotter Wagner
• Bina Manilal Monji
• Lili Negahbani
• Sheila Kaur Grewal

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 MIGRANT ACTION.

• MIGRANT ACTION income £338k
• Migrant Help income £69.8m
• THE VOICE OF DOMESTIC WORKERS income £125k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• MIGRANT AND ASYLUM SEEKER SOLIDARITY AND ACTION income £143k
• HUMANITY CONCERN PROJECTS income £83k

Side by side with its peers

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