REFUGEES WELCOME

Registered charity 1169909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting refugees within the Cheshire East area.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING, IN THE AREA OF CHESHIRE EAST AND ITS ENVIRONS, OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY; AND2) TO PROVIDE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND UNEMPLOYMENT AMONGST THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £35,097 and held unrestricted reserves of £35,097. The trustees' report notes a policy to hold six months of running costs in reserve, which the current balance appears to satisfy given the total expenditure of £41,778. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified that would cause concern regarding the accounts.

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
• 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

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicola Ann Campbellchair
• ANNE TOWERS
• Anthony James Smith
• David George Raines
• Mark Aston Buttle
• Paul Kinnersley Nixon
• Thomas James England

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REFUGEES AT HOME.

• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• REFUGEE EDUCATION ACROSS CONFLICTS TRUST income £31k
• GREENWICH REFUGEE AID AND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE income £100k
• WORTHING 4 REFUGEES income £17k
• DERBYSHIRE REFUGEE SOLIDARITY income £65k
• BEST CHOICE income £80k

Side by side with its peers

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