MIGRATEFUL

Registered charity 1180110 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MIGRATEFUL CIO

Migrateful helps refugees and asylum seekers on their journey to employment and independence and promotes integration.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.2m

Latest spending

£1.0m

Registered

2018

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £206,099 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income increasing by 18% to £1,220,624. Free reserves stood at £574,584, which the trustees consider appropriate as they fall within the stated policy target range of four to six months of cash costs. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee earned between £60,000 - £70,000 during the current period (2024: none).” — page 89

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee earned between £60,000 - £70,000 during the current period (2024: none).” — page 89

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: four to six months of cash costs (held: £575k)

“The trustees have set a reserves policy under which free reserves should be maintained within a range equivalent to four to six months of cash costs.” — page 67

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from Under £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).
Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Migrateful (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Jess Thompson — Founder & CEO (source)
Vickie Wambura — Chief Operations and Finance Officer (COFO) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Total income

£1.2m

Total spending

£1.0m

Cost of raising funds

£80k

Reserves (reported)

£840k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Edin Basic
Emily Miller
Neil Taylor
Netal Munoth
Paul Kane · trustee of 1 other charity
Sara Zimmerman
Wayne Carlos Holder
William Cardy

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£1.2m	£1.0m
30/09/2024	£1.0m	£954k
30/09/2023	£942k	£924k
30/09/2022	£993k	£900k
30/09/2021	£745k	£449k

Common questions

Is MIGRATEFUL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £206,099 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income increasing by 18% to £1,220,624. Free reserves stood at £574,584, which the trustees consider appropriate as they fall within the stated policy target range of four to six months of cash costs. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of MIGRATEFUL earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds MIGRATEFUL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MIGRATEFUL as a grant recipient include THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION, THE RAYNE FOUNDATION, THE NISBET TRUST, THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST, NEWBY TRUST LIMITED.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£50k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£50k
THE RAYNE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£40k	Chef training programme
THE NISBET TRUST	FY2023	£25k
THE NISBET TRUST	FY2022	£20k
THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£15k
NEWBY TRUST LIMITED	FY2025	£10k	Welfare
THE NORTHWICK TRUST	FY2025	£10k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2022	£10k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2023	£5k
THE EDGAR E LAWLEY FOUNDATION	FY2023	£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	08/03/2024	£20k	Free Migrateful Training To Refugees And Migrants In London
The National Lottery Community Fund	05/08/2022	£10k	London chef training
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/04/2021	£9k	Migrateful Replication in Kent
A B Charitable Trust	22/04/2021	£10k	A grant to Migrateful
Greater London Authority	06/04/2021	£45k	Migrateful UK
Greater London Authority	06/03/2021	£45k	Grant to Migrateful Cookery School
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/04/2020	£10k	Migrateful chef training
The National Lottery Community Fund	10/05/2019	£7k	Migrateful replication in Bristol

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
DISRUPT FOUNDATION	3	£276k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST	3	£210k
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST	3	£156k
JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	2	£1.0m
TRUST FOR LONDON	2	£171k
THE BROMLEY TRUST	2	£135k
CIVIC POWER FUND	2	£92k
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	2	£79k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD.

MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD income £1.2m
Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.6m
Migrant Help income £69.8m
LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK income £1.3m
MIGRANT SUPPORT income £173k
ASYLUM WELCOME income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MIGRATEFUL	£1.2m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD FY2026	£1.2m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
Refugee and Migrant Justice FY2024	£1.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Migrant Help FY2025	£69.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LEWISHAM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK FY2025	£1.3m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
MIGRANT SUPPORT FY2025	£173k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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