SWANSEA ASYLUM SEEKERS SUPPORT

Registered charity 1175186 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SASS operates in Swansea and exists to welcome and involve asylum seekers and refugees. We organise twice weekly community drop-ins, offering language support, professionally run play, hot meals information, recreational and educational activities.

Objects

TO DEVELOP A COMMUNITY OF ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND LOCALS IN SWANSEA AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHICH WILL. PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS. PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS THROUGH DEVELOPING COMMUNITY AND COMBATING ISOLATION. PROVIDE 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. PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND HELP THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY. ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT ISSUES RELATING TO ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES. RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus for the year with total income of £216,405 against expenses of £201,043. Unrestricted reserves stood at £77,865, which the trustees state is sufficient to cover nine months of basic services, exceeding their policy target of 75% of annual essential costs. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no material matters identified.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• WCVA / CGGC Volunteering Wales Grant Scheme — “We are pleased to announce that SASS has received funding from the WCVA Volunteering Wales Grant, funded by the Welsh…” (source page)
• Allen Lane Foundation — “We thank the following grant-giving partner organisations: Allen Lane Foundation” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Sandra Jo Mortonchair
• Achuil Monytoch
• Clare Jones
• DR Kathryn Nia Jones
• Lilian Kujabi
• Mehdi Asghari
• Mohamad Fateh Zakaria
• Ngang Fru Delvis
• Phillip John Nicholas
• Shahsavar Rahmani
• Sheralee Ann Coates
• Sweeta Durrani
• TOM CHEESMAN

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PSS (UK).

• PSS (UK) income £25.3m
• SWANSEA SAMARITANS income £36k
• SOMERSET AND AVON RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT income £2.9m
• WAKEFIELD DISTRICT CITY OF SANCTUARY income £65k
• SOLACE SURVIVING EXILE AND PERSECUTION income £1.4m
• SUSSEX PRISONERS' FAMILIES income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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