REFUGEE ACTION KINGSTON

Registered charity 1176768 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide support to refugees and asylum seekers

Objects

1.THE RELIEF OF REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO ARE IN CONDITION OF, NEEDHARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; AND 2.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ASSIST IN THEIR INTEGRATION WITH THE NEW COMMUNITY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £145,518 as of 31 March 2025, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover estimated wind-down costs of approximately £85,000–£90,000 for the coming 12 months. The charity reported a net flow of resources of £196 for the year, with total incoming resources of £632,894 and total expenditure of £632,421. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and that no matters requiring attention were identified during the examination.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Houda Al Sharifichair
• Caterina Lombardo
• David Hoyle
• Gabrielle Vergottini
• Heather Knight
• Ipshita Chatterjee
• Jida Malas
• Krystyna Adamek
• Mohsen Mirza
• Nazar Sharif
• Saeed Chaudhary
• Sonia Martins

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m
• REFUGEES WELCOME income £39k
• MIGRANT ACTION income £338k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• KENT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK income £929k
• RWANDA ACTION income £220k

Side by side with its peers

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