SHARE KNOWSLEY

Registered charity 1204302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We help refugees and asylum seekers access all they are entitled to, providing advocacy case work, health and well being support & advice to help them with integration and settlement. We run 2 weekly drop-ins where people can meet others in a safe space, relax, and access help, as well as offering English classes and social events. We help raise awareness in the local community of refugees.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED AMONGST REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE BOROUGH OF KNOWSLEY WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EMOTIONAL, ECONOMIC AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT TO PROMOTE THE INTEGRATION AND INCLUSION TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.

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 holds unrestricted reserves of £151,163, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover three months of running and wind-up costs in accordance with their internal policy. The trustees confirm the charity is in a sound financial position with funding secured to operate at current levels into 2026, and they have a reasonable expectation of continuing in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN HENDERSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID MONAGHAN
• David Derefaka
• Ghazaleh Zarrabi-Kashani
• Hannah Deane
• Ibtisam Idris Hamad Idris

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

Operates in: Knowsley

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Refugee and Migrant Justice.

• Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.9m
• SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE income £131k
• FURNESS REFUGEE SUPPORT income £53k
• SUSSEX HOMELESS SUPPORT income £69k
• WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL income £1.9m
• RURAL REFUGEE NETWORK income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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