REFUGEASE

Registered charity 1175022 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a small and mighty UK-based NGO that lives to help our war-torn brothers and sisters around the globe. At your service: emergency humanitarian aid, crisis awareness, and education for refugees.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERNALLY DISPLACED, OR WHO ARE FLEEING FROM THEIR COUNTRIES BECAUSE OF WAR, PERSECUTION OR ECONOMIC DISTRESS. ASSISTANCE TO AFOREMENTIONED PERSONS WILL BE PROVIDED BY WAY OF AID DELIVERY (FOOD, SHELTER, BASIC MEDICAL SUPPLIES, GENERAL ASSISTANCE AND ADMIN SUPPORT). WE WILL OPERATE PREDOMINANTLY IN FRANCE, HUNGARY, SYRIA, GREECE, LEBANON AND JORDAN, AND OTHER AREAS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DEEM FIT.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £18,797 for the year ended 31 December 2025, yet the balance sheet shows a negative unrestricted reserves position of £35,668. The Trustees acknowledge the charity is insolvent at the balance sheet date but are confident that the recovery plan in place will restore the charity to a solvent position. The charity's activities are entirely dependent on continuing grant aid, voluntary donations, and trading revenues.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 — Refugease (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 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 (52% 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: 49.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gregory James Holderchair
• Jonathan Edward Traquair
• Lorna Furminger

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

Operates in: Greece · Jordan · Nigeria · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Throughout England · Turkey · Ukraine

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• REFUGEE SUPPORT EUROPE income £383k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k
• ForRefugees income £567k
• REFUGEES IN EFFECTIVE AND ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP income £84k
• REFUGEE CRISIS FOUNDATION income £392k

Side by side with its peers

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