REFUGEE ACTION

Registered charity 283660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7307642 · Wikipedia

We provide reception, advice and information to refugees and asylum seekers and other displaced people; promote the development of refugee communities as distinctive parts of wider British communities; improve access to employment and mainstream services, and enhance opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers; raise awareness of refugee issues, influence policy, and campaign for refugee rights.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BECOME DISPLACED PERSONS OR REFUGEES FROM THE COUNTRIES OF THEIR ORIGIN OR DOMICILE BY REASON OF HOSTILITIES, PERSECUTION, OPPRESSION, DISCRIMINATION, NATURAL DISASTERS OR OTHER LIKE CAUSES, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £1.25m for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total reserves decreasing to £6.14m from £7.39m the previous year. The trustees consider the appropriate level of free unrestricted reserves to be between £1.7m and £2.3m, and the year-end general fund balance of £1.7m is within this policy range. The charity is investing in fundraising to achieve financial sustainability by the end of the 2025-26 financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Refugee Action (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nankunda Katangazachair
• Caroline Gormley
• Halyma Begum
• Kim Oanh Beach
• Lucy Branwen Vidal
• Mark Richard Nowottny
• Sahar Khan
• Salem Ibrahimi
• Ximena Alejandra Valenzuela
• Yagoub Matar

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT.

• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k
• WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL income £1.9m
• REFUGEE ACTION KINGSTON income £580k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• REFUGEASE income £289k
• REFUGEE AID FROM TAUNTON income £43k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.