ForRefugees

Registered charity 1168435 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DONATE 4 REFUGEES, DONATE FOR REFUGEES, DONATE4REFUGEES

We raise money from individual and business donations, grants, trusts, and other fundraising activities to buy critical grassroots humanitarian aid and urgent relief services so that refugee men, women and children survive, and build new lives, in Europe. We are trusted to get the right aid to those who need it when they need it via our effective network of on-the-ground volunteer partners.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,206 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total funds decreasing to £138,995. The trustees note that reserves are unusually low at £138,995, which is above their stated policy target of £12,000, but acknowledge the financial situation is challenging due to falling income. The charity has no employees and relies on volunteers and trustees, with no fixed salaries or ongoing project cost commitments.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ForRefugees (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Strudwickchair
• Alexandra Broniewski
• Christopher McQuillan
• Hana Meer
• Ingrid Van Loo
• Merel Graeve
• Nima Moradi
• Nobel Awasom

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

Operates in: Bosnia And Herzegovina · Cyprus · France · Greece · Italy · Lithuania · Scotland · Serbia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• REFUGEE SUPPORT EUROPE income £383k
• THE SAIFEE FOUNDATION OF EUROPE income £21.1m
• ASYLUM AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY, BLACKBURN income £243k
• COMMUNITY OUTREACH income £1.5m
• BEING HUMANITARIAN income £117k
• REFUGEASE income £300k

Side by side with its peers

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