YORK CITY OF SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1176094 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Finding legal support for asylum seeker applications and supporting refugees to obtain the right to remain and or gain citizenship. We assist refugees applying for benefits and emergency housing.We maintain and develop links with donors to provide household items and clothing for refugee households in York and partners in Bradford, Wakefield and Hull.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND 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.3) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £53,415, with total income of £55,148 and total payments of £45,674 for the year ended March 2025. The trustees confirm confidence in the charity's future with no material uncertainties identified regarding its continuation. Reserves were retained at £35,000 to guarantee continuity of work over the next 12 months.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — York City of Sanctuary (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ahmed Khaleelchair
• Christina Funnell
• Dee Boyle
• Dr Rasha Salaheldin
• Julie Randles
• Rev PAUL WORDSWORTH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rose Elizabeth Berl

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

Operates in: Bradford City · City Of Wakefield · City Of York · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire

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 CITY OF SANCTUARY UK.

• CITY OF SANCTUARY UK income £495k
• CITY OF SANCTUARY SHEFFIELD income £528k
• RAY (REFUGEE ACTION YORK) income £427k
• ASYLUM AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY, BLACKBURN income £243k
• WAKEFIELD DISTRICT CITY OF SANCTUARY income £65k
• YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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