WORTHING 4 REFUGEES

Registered charity 1169912 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To enable the Worthing area to be a place of welcome, safety, integration and justice for refugees and displaced peoples.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(A) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THEIR DEPENDANTS LIVING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN WORTHING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.(B) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.(D) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £32,520 at the end of the financial year, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure (£7,629). The trustees confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties, and they intend to gradually spend down the excess reserves over the coming years.

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

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE MARGARET MARY GLYNN-DAVIES
• DERMOT MICHAEL CASEY
• PHILLIP CHARLES RUGG
• Rebecca Edna Sellens
• Rev ANDREW AYODELE FADOJU · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Roy Ransley

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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 WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION.

• WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £987k
• REFUGEES WELCOME income £39k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• EXPERIENCE GIVING income £93k
• REFUGEE AID FROM TAUNTON income £43k
• REFUGEE ROOTS income £326k

Side by side with its peers

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