FENCES & FRONTIERS

Registered charity 1194720 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Fences & Frontiers aims to make the UK a welcoming, supportive, and inspiring place for refugees and asylum seekers to live and settle. We run cultural, recreational and educational activities for refugees, asylum seekers and the wider community - bringing people together in the spirit of friendship and solidarity.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OFIMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEESTATUS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN LONDON.

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

Causes: Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £56,363 in income and spent £48,397 in expenditure, resulting in a net increase in funds. The end-of-year unrestricted reserves were £25,902, which the trustees note is above their target of £12,700, though they expect reserves to decrease to that target over the next two years.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arta Shirokachair
• Bethan Illman
• Cristel Sainz
• Dr Benjamin Taylor
• Kobra Haghdoost
• Louise Coady
• Neil McGarrigle
• Ruki Hashi

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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