SANCTUARY IN CHICHESTER CIO

Registered charity 1181855 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SANCTUARY IN CHICHESTER

Provision of practical, social and pastoral support to refugees and asylum seekers in the Chichester area. This includes a weekly Drop-In, Befriending, English tuition, a football-based project for young men and a Pathways to Independence project. Support and signposting are also offered to those families currently hosting refugees from the war in Ukraine

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SUFFERING AMONG REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN CHICHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING PRACTICAL, SOCIAL AND PASTORAL SUPPORT TO REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a strong position for delivering on its strategic aims, supported by a dedicated team of staff, trustees, and volunteers. The trustees have identified a specific financial risk regarding potential new asylum accommodation and have proactively created a £40,000 reserve to mitigate the cost of a paid staff member. The document does not disclose total income, expenditure, or unrestricted reserves figures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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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Trustees · trustee networks

• Tony Toyntonchair
• Caroline Purewal
• Gemma Jane Driver
• Graham Hart
• Helen Charlotte Jackson
• Judith Margaret Clouston
• Lois Anne Smith
• Michael Peter Mansergh
• Waleed Hussein

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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 GRAVESHAM SANCTUARY CIO.

• GRAVESHAM SANCTUARY CIO income £245k
• REVIVE CIO income £358k
• CHRIST CHURCH CHICHESTER income £94k
• SANCTUARY FOUNDATION income £100k
• LICHFIELD DISTRICT CITY OF SANCTUARY income £45k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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