RAY (REFUGEE ACTION YORK)

Registered charity 1154065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAY

- Running a weekly Sunday drop-in for asylum seeker, refugee and migrant families at Clifton Children's Centre.-English Language classes- Outreach with and for the asylum, refugee and migrant community in the City of York.- Campaigning on behalf of local asylum seeking individuals and families.- Organising the annual Refugee Week in York.- Events during and outside Refugee Week.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST MIGRANTS, THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND GUIDANCE.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £76,560 were held at year end, which is slightly below the trustees' desired range of three to six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £100,261 for the year, supported by a 54% increase in total income to £426,783.

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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — RAY (Refugee Action York) (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Hugh Croftchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angela Creswick · trustee of 1 other charity
• Annette Maas
• Dr Hussni Nakeshbandi
• Marwa Dorai
• Mary McCormack
• Rachel Bateson
• Ruth Briggs

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REFUGEE ROOTS.

• REFUGEE ROOTS income £326k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• YORK CITY OF SANCTUARY income £55k
• ACTION FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK SUTTON income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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