BRIDPORT REFUGEE SUPPORT CAMPAIGN

Registered charity 1192063 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIDPORT REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL NAME OF THE ORGANISATION), BRIDPORT RSC, BRIDPORT RSG, BRSC

Supporting refugees and their dependents in Bridport and the surrounding area in West Dorset, including those resettled under the Government's Community Sponsorship scheme. This includes securing housing, helping refugees to access services and providing such other support as is needed to help refugees to integrate into the community. Advancing public understanding of issues facing refugees.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1)TO RELIEVE ?NANCIAL OR OTHER HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, IN PARTICULAR THOSE LIVING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN BRIDPORT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHIN WEST DORSET, BY PROVIDING HOUSING, ADVICE AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT (INCLUDING GRANTS OR LOANS) TO MEET IDENTI?ED NEEDS. AND, IN RELATION TO THOSE PEOPLE AS ARE MENTIONED IN SUB-CLAUSE (1) OF THIS CLAUSE:(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.(B) TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND SKILLS TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.(C) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.(D) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENE?T AMONGST THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION, BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND BY ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.(E) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE ME OCCUPATION WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, IN?RMITY OR DISABLEMENT, ?NANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.(F) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING THROUGH CULTURAL ACTIVITIES) OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENE?T, ABOUT ISSUES RELATING TO THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net income of £1,083 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total net assets of £17,850. Per the trustees' report, the majority of these funds are held as unrestricted cash, providing liquidity to support ongoing refugee resettlement activities and property sub-letting arrangements.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry James Lovejoychair
• Alan Charles Weston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alistair Mitchell Woodcock
• Julie Elizabeth Frew
• Richard Francis Jenner
• Sarah Ellis

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

Operates in: Dorset

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Government & lottery funding

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