CHARIS (CHRISTIAN HELP & ACTION FOR REFUGEES IN SOMERSET)

Registered charity 1169400 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CHARIS works to resettle refugees in Somerset and the surrounding area providing for them the opportunity of a new life. These refugees are drawn from the most vulnerable groups and are identified through the UNHCR programs and arrive in the UK via the UK Governments Community Sponsorship Scheme.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES,TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS BEING RESETTLED IN TAUNTON, SOMERSET AND THROUGHOUT THE UK BY PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM WITH THE ADAPTION WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY, WITH THE OBJECTS OF: - 1.PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH 2.ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING; AND 3.RELIEVING THEM FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Area of benefit: TAUNTON, SOMERSET AND THROUGHOUT THE UK

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · 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 deficit of £58,294 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following a surplus in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £50,501, which the trustees consider sufficient against their policy target of three months' core operational costs (£60,300). The charity confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £250k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Richard Mitchell Austin
• Anne Caroline Maw
• GORDON ROBIN EAST
• Loaye Mohamed Elamien Homaide Agabani
• PHILIP MATTHEW HINDLE
• Ralph Thomas Mitford Bullock

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

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 RESET COMMUNITIES AND REFUGEES LTD.

• RESET COMMUNITIES AND REFUGEES LTD income £504k
• ASYLUM WELCOME income £1.6m
• CAMBRIDGE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT CAMPAIGN income £108k
• REFUGEASE income £289k
• Refugee Support Group income £973k
• REFUGEE RESOURCE income £631k

Side by side with its peers

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