WAKEFIELD DISTRICT CITY OF SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1187477 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer a wide variety of weekly events aimed at asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) in our area. Through these events, mostly in the form of "drop-ins" we are able to provide a welcome, and a point of contact for help, advice and support with volunteers from many local voluntary, community and faith organisations. We also work to make our City more welcoming.

Objects

A) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY EDUCATING AND INFORMING ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND REFUGEES.B) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING VOLUNTARY, COMMUNITY AND FAITH ORGANISATIONS TO WELCOME ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND REFUGEES ENABLING THEM TO ACCESS COMMUNITY FACILITIES, ENABLING THEM TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITHIN THE WIDER COMMUNITY, AND SO AID THEIR INTEGRATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.C) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND HARDSHIP AMONG THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING OR HAVE SOUGHT ASYLUM, REFUGEES, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, AND PEOPLE SUFFERING POVERTY AND HARDSHIP IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY, BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL AND OTHER MATERIAL SUPPORT, INTERPRETING / TRANSLATING / ADVOCACY / HEALTH / HOUSING ADVICE AND EDUCATION.D) TO HELP ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND REFUGEES ADAPT TO LIFE IN THE UK BY: ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING, AND HELPING THEM TO ACCESS FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS.?

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with free/unrestricted reserves of £6,718, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining three months of general overheads. The charity reported a net receipt of £15,662 for the year, reversing a deficit from the previous period, and holds total fund balances of £61,755.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

• Peter Edward James Baldwinchair
• Ahmed Altuhamy
• Jonathan Richard Coatman
• Mohammad Al Johmani
• Susan Frances Ayton
• Susan Sanderson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSIST SHEFFIELD.

• ASSIST SHEFFIELD income £787k
• BRADFORD CITY OF SANCTUARY income £60k
• YORK CITY OF SANCTUARY income £55k
• CITY OF SANCTUARY UK income £495k
• CITY OF SANCTUARY SHEFFIELD income £528k
• SWANSEA ASYLUM SEEKERS SUPPORT income £216k

Side by side with its peers

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