REFUGEE SUPPORT EUROPE

Registered charity 1174070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REFUGEE SUPPORT EUROPE LIMITED

Humanitarian aid to individuals fleeing violence

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN NEED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR OR CATASTROPHE BY SUPPLYING THEM WITH ANY HUMANITARIAN AID THAT WILL MAKE THEIR LIFE MORE BEARABLE. MANY REFUGEES ARE STUCK FOR VERY LONG PERIODS WITH VERY FEW RESOURCES. WHILE THEY WAIT FOR THE APPLICATIONS TO BE PROCESSED, REFUGEE SUPPORT DISTRIBUTES ESSENTIAL AID IN A WAY THAT OFFERS SOME NORMALITY AND UPHOLDS THEIR DIGNITY

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £56,470 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. However, the trustees report that the financial situation remains extremely precarious, with cashflow forecasts showing a reducing balance and a need to secure income month-to-month to maintain operations. Total net assets stood at £218,182, with unrestricted reserves of the same amount.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BB Solutions. 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Refugee Support Europe (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew David Tasker
• Bonnie Howard
• Brenda Shrewsbury
• Eve Linieres
• Mark Lamprell
• Michael Thompson
• Wafa Kadri

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

Operates in: Cyprus · Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT.

• REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT income £879k
• ForRefugees income £567k
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• REFUGEASE income £289k
• REFUGEE EDUCATION ACROSS CONFLICTS TRUST income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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