THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025
The A B Charitable Trust Annual Report and Accounts Year Ended 30 April 2025
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Trustee
ABCT Trustee Limited
Directors of the Trustee company
Tarnjit Birdi Anne Bonavero Claire Bonavero Olivier Bonavero Philippe Bonavero (resigned on 15 July 2025) Sophie Bonavero Athol Harley James Lynch Juliet Lyon C.B.E
Charity Director and Secretary
Sara Harrity (resigned 31 October 2024) Alex Sutton (appointed 6 January 2025)
Charity Number
1000147
Principal Address
8 Bloomsbury Street London WC1B 3SR
Auditor
Cottons Accountants LLP The Stables Church Walk Daventry Northamptonshire NN11 4BL
Bankers
National Westminster Bank PLC Liverpool Street Station PO Box 282 216 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QB
Pictet & Cie (Europe) SA 15A Avenue J.F. Kennedy L-1855 Luxembourg
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CONTENTS
| 01 | Trustee’s Report | 3 |
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| 02 | Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustee of The A B Charitable Trust | 13 |
| 03 | Financial Statements | 18 |
| 04 | Notes to the financial statements | 22 |
ABOUT US
The A B Charitable Trust is an independent grantmaking organisation, founded in 1990 by Yves and Anne Bonavero to champion human dignity and support marginalised and excluded groups. The Trust has no endowment and is funded annually by the Bonavero family.
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01 Trustee’s Report
The A B Charitable Trust Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30[th] April 2025
Trustee’s Report
The Trustee presents its report and accounts for the year ended 30[th] April 2025. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on pages 22 to 38 and comply with the Charities Act 2011 and the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2019). The report takes account of the requirement for trustees to report annually on public benefit and the Trustee has had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit.
Structure, governance and management
The A B Charitable Trust (“the Charity”) is an unincorporated trust, constituted under a Trust Deed dated 30[th] March 1990. It is a registered charity, number 1000147. The Charity was established by an initial gift from Yves Jean Marc Bonavero (''the Settlor") in 1990. The Charity does not actively fundraise and seeks to continue its philanthropic work desired by the Settlor through the careful stewardship of its existing resources and ad hoc contributions.
Trustee
In July 2020, ABCT Trustee Ltd (company number 12699206) was incorporated to act as Trustee of the Charity in accordance with the terms of the governing document of the Charity.
The Directors of ABCT Trustee Ltd (“the Directors”, referred to collectively as “the Board”) who served during the year were as follows:
Tarnjit Birdi
Anne Bonavero
Claire Bonavero
Olivier Bonavero
Philippe Bonavero (resigned following the financial year, on 15 July 2025)
Sophie Bonavero
Athol Harley James Lynch Juliet Lyon
Following the year end, Yves Bonavero was appointed director on 15 July 2025.
Board meetings
The Board collectively agree the broad strategy and areas of activity for the Charity, including consideration of grant making, investment, reserves and risk management policies and performance. At their quarterly meetings, the Board make decisions to award grants in line with the strategy determined at regular strategy reviews. Grant decisions up to £30k per annum are delegated to a Grants Committee of four Directors, which meets quarterly. The day-to-day administration of grants prior to consideration by the Board is delegated to the Charity’s Director.
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Risk management
The Charity’s risk register is reviewed annually. It was presented to the Board and approved in July 2024. The Board actively review any major risks which the Charity faces on a regular basis and believe that maintaining reserves at prudent levels, combined with an annual review of the controls over key financial systems, will provide sufficient resources in the event of adverse conditions.
Objectives, achievements and performance
The objects of the Charity are to apply the income and all or such part or parts of the capital for or towards such charitable purposes and to make donations to such charitable institution or institutions at such time or such times and in such manner as the Board may in their absolute discretion think fit.
The Board have determined the aims of the Charity shall be to promote and defend human dignity and human rights. The Charity’s focus is on supporting the groups most marginalised and excluded by society.
The Charity’s four priorities and uplift in funding
The Charity continued to fund organisations:
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i. upholding the human rights framework;
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ii. providing access to justice;
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iii. working across the criminal legal system and penal reform; and
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iv. supporting migrants, refugees, and people seeking asylum.
Many organisations working in these fields find it increasingly hard to raise funds, at a time when demands on the ground are growing. In response, the Bonavero family decided to scale up their giving to reach the level of £10 million by financial year 2025/26.
The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
Based at Mansfield College, BIHR is one of five research institutes in the Faculty of Law at Oxford. In 2015, the Charity provided the founding endowment to fund BIHR’s Director and core staff in perpetuity.
BIHR continued to partner with Turpin & Miller LLP and the Centre for Criminology to run a legal aid clinic at HMP Huntercombe, a prison for foreign nationals. Through the clinic, funded by the Charity, individuals detained at HMP Huntercombe received high quality legal advice from the solicitors at Turpin & Miller LLP, drawing on University of Oxford students during case preparation. The Charity provided funding for the next five years to allow the BIHR and Turpin & Miller LLP to continue this service alongside a programme of remote advice to women foreign nationals in prisons across England and Wales.
Challenges and the Charity’s approach
The general election in July 2024 marked a significant change in the operating context for the Charity, with the introduction of a Labour government following 14 years of Conservative-led governments. The focus on criminal justice (one of Labour’s five missions) has seen the launch of the Women’s Justice Board with a clear goal of reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system,
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which presents opportunities for many of the organisations we fund. However, the context for migration and asylum policy continues to be difficult, with a public and political debate focused on reducing net migration and tackling small boat crossings through increasingly hostile policy. The heightened and polarised context for migration was thrown into sharp relief in the riots which broke out across the UK in August 2024. Migration continues to dominate media and political cycles and shows no signs of abating.
In response to the riots, ABCT launched an Emergency Solidarity Fund, providing organisations already in receipt of ABCT funding with small grants including for additional security, support for staff, and to absorb increased demand for services as a result of the riots. 97 applications were approved, a total funding amount of £348,554. The majority of the successful applications (60%) related to ABCT’s migration priority, with grants also awarded in the criminal legal system (c. 20%), access to justice (12%) and human rights framework (10%) priority areas.
The difficult operating and financial context for civil society organisations continues to see a high number have to cease operations and close. Organisations face uncertainty in the funding landscape, increasing costs, and challenges retaining staff. Alongside, the pressure on funders is growing, with 5,000 new charities registered every year. To support organisations navigate difficult transitions, ABCT provided funding to The Decelerator to support better endings, secure a lasting legacy for an organisation’s work and overcome some of the related stigma and shame.
The Charity’s work
During the year the Charity distributed £7,869,634 to 254 organisations through 360 unrestricted grants.
Details of all grants made can be found at https://abcharitabletrust.org.uk/grantholders/grants-awarded. The paragraphs below on each of the Charity’s priorities illustrate, in a broad-brush way, the work supported through grants made during the year.
The human rights framework
Through its open programme, the Charity funded work to promote and defend human rights across the UK. This included the Human Rights Consortium, a coalition of over 165 civil society organisations defending the human rights framework in Northen Ireland, and Just Fair, who support public bodies and build the capacity of civil society organisations to apply a human rights approach in their work.
Special initiatives included:
Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) – CCDH’s mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online. It strengthens communities and democracy by disrupting hate and misinformation in digital spaces, through innovative research, public campaigns and policy advocacy.
Anchor grants included:
The British Institute of Human Rights – works to promote and uphold human rights in the UK through capacity building work for organisations that engage in human rights advocacy. They ensure the rights covered by the Human Rights Act have meaning in policy, practice and people’s everyday experiences by working closely with grassroots groups and communities.
HOPE not hate Charitable Trust – defend, champion and promote democracy and the rule of law, speaking out against anti-democratic and authoritarian forces and policies. They use research, undertake advocacy and support community engagement to challenge mistrust and racism across the UK.
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Access to justice
Through its open programme, the Charity funded the provision of specialist legal advice services, often combined with policy influencing work, through specialist legal advice organisations working at the intersections of marginalisation and exclusion (including Children’s Law Centre, Disability Law Service, Legal Services Agency - secretariat for Scottish Association of Law Centres, Protect as well as 16 Law Centres across the country).
Special initiatives included:
Community Action Isle of Wight – following the closure of the Isle of Wight Law Centre which left a gap in specialist legal provision, Community Action Isle of Wight set out to establish a new Community Law Service to provide specialist advice and advocacy. The Community Law Service is a new team at Community Action providing independent pro-bono advice and advocacy focusing on Housing, Social Care and related Benefits.
Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors – develop and oversee Pre-Action Protocol (PAP) letters concerning destitute migrants and people seeking asylum in conjunction with civil society organisations. The PAP project aims to increase collaboration between lawyers and communities and increase access to justice for individuals who have received unlawful decisions.
Anchor grants included:
Public Law Project (PLP) – the first organisation to receive an anchor grant from AB Charitable Trust, PLP works across the UK to challenge public bodies and improve decision-making through legal advice and litigation, research, policy and influencing work, and training others, with a focus on those most marginalised by society.
The criminal legal system and penal reform
Through its open programme, the Charity funded work including support for organisations working at the intersections of marginalisation and exclusion (this includes Peer Power Youth, Pure Insight and Rees Foundation who all work with care leavers who have been affected by the criminal legal system, and Maslaha who increase awareness, promote equality and change the conditions that create inequalities for Muslim communities), assetbased work that promotes dignity (Streets of Growth); and influencing work (INQUEST Charitable Trust, Zahid Mubarek Trust).
Special initiatives included:
Runnymede Trust – a leading racial justice think tank, producing research on structural racism in the UK. This work will research narratives which build consensus for community investment and policy measures that address the drivers of youth violence including poverty, insufficient educational support, and lack of access to housing and other essential support.
Somali Outreach Project – works to build the capacity of the community in Milton Keynes to reduce crime and increase social inclusion. It offers a range of holistic support to divert young people away from the criminal legal system, and working with those engaged in it to reintegrate into life in the community.
Anchor grants included:
The Howard League for Penal Reform – the oldest penal reform organisation in the world, The Howard League works to create a more humane and effective response to crime that provides justice and helps to lower the level of reoffending. While the primary focus of their frontline work is the legal rights and entitlements of children and
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young adults in custody, they also undertake strategic litigation, public campaigns, and policy influencing on issues affecting the entire prison estate.
Migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum
Through its open programme, the Charity funded work including support for organisations working at the intersections of marginalisation and exclusion (ASSIST Sheffield); asset based work that promotes dignity (Afghan Association Paiwand, Refugee Women Connect) and that builds the agency of people to create change (English for Action, Migrant Voice, The Centre for African Entrepreneurship, Voice of Young People in Care); and influencing work (European Network on Statelessness, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants).
Special initiatives included:
Migration Exchange: Shaping the Future Fund – a lived experience leadership development programme for the migration and refugee sector. This fund, co-created with sector experts to address the growing need for leadership capacity and capability in the refugee and migration sector, offers targeted support to grassroot organisations and individuals with lived experience of migration.
Civic Power Fund: Migrant Power Project – Civic Power Fund is an intermediary organisation supporting grassroots community organising across the UK. This project aims to build and support the ability of migrant communities to create change in their own communities over the long term. It does this by building the political power of refugees, migrants, people seeking asylum and diaspora communities across the UK to ensure they are able to hold elected leaders to account and exercise their collective power.
Anchor grants included:
The No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) – continued support for NACCOM, a national network of over 130 frontline organisations and charities across the UK, and their work to end destitution amongst refugees, people seeking asylum or those refused asylum status, and migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds. NACCOM and its members campaign collectively for a fairer, more humane immigration system that doesn’t leave people destitute, and work to increase the provision of accommodation for destitute migrants.
Small grants through delegated authority to the Director
The team took opportunities to make small grants in pursuit of ABCT’s mission where this could add value, responding in a flexible and responsive way to specific needs as they arose. Often enhancing ABCT’s core funding to partner organisations, small grants were made for a range of purposes including workshops and training, governance support, bridging salary and or budget gaps, organisational development, and contributing to research reports.
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Grant making programmes
The grant amount for the year was £7,869,634, distributed to 254 organisations through 360 unrestricted grants.
This included: £4,087,700 for the open programme; £2,296,380 for special initiatives; and £1,137,000 for anchor organisations. A further £348,554 was distributed to 97 existing grant holders through an Emergency Solidarity Fund in response to the riots which took place in the summer of 2024.
ABCT’s main grant making programmes (our open programme, special initiatives and anchor programme) awarded 263 grants, comprised of 129 new grants and 134 renewals of multiyear grants made in previous years. Of the 129 new grants, 103 (80%) were new multiyear grants, and 26 (20%) were single year grants. Multiyear grants are subject to annual review and are formally committed on an annual basis.
189 of the 263 grants (72%) were unrestricted, totalling £5,157,700.
449 applications were made to the open programme, of which 17% were successful.
75 new grants were made through the open programme, with an average value of £24,933.
| Type | Migrants | Criminal Legal | Criminal Legal | Access to | Access to | Human | Human | Total |
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No. of | Total | No. of | Total | No. of | Total | No. of Total |
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grants | Awarded | grants | Awarded | grants | Awarded | grants Awarded |
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| Open programme - new | 35 £865,000 |
21 | £495,000 | 17 | £460,000 | 2 | £50,000 | 75 £1,870,000 |
| Multi-year renewals | 52 £1,192,500 |
25 | £550,200 | 17 | £380,000 | 4 | £95,000 | 98 £2,217,700 |
| Special initiatives - new | 14 £289,280 |
17 | £271,250 | 9 | £425,850 | 8 | £109,000 | 48 £1,095,380 |
| Multi-year renewals | 8 £395,000 |
7 | £157,000 | 6 | £594,000 | 2 | £55,000 | 23 £1,201,000 |
| Anchor - new | - - |
4 | £255,000 | - | - | 2 | £140,000 | 6 £395,000 |
| Multi-year renewals | 6 £323,000 |
2 | £84,000 | 3 | £195,000 | 2 | £140,000 | 13 £742,000 |
| Solidarity Fund | 59 £212,575 |
17 | £60,855 | 12 | £43,380 | 9 | £31,744 | 97 £348,554 |
| Total | 174 £3,277,355 |
93 | 1,873,305 | 64 | 64 2,098,230 |
2,098,230 29 |
620,744 | 360 £7,869,634 |
| Family grants* | 6 £441,652 |
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| Overall Total | 366 £8,311,286 |
*As well as grants made through the Charity’s grant making programmes, the Trust made six other grants totalling £441,652, on behalf of the Bonavero family, for: the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights; Friends of Ibba Girls School, South Sudan; Humanists UK; Mansfield College’s Sanctuary of Arts project; the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; and Refugees at Home.
Internal
Continuous improvement
The Charity continued to improve its grant making approach to ensure efficient and effective processes. This work included investment in the grant making database, Salesforce, to streamline operations and support workload
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management, deliver effective assessments, record events to support relationship management, and to capture and record learning. Work was also completed on the Charity’s website to increase accessibility and ensure clear and transparent communication of ABCT priorities.
Learning visits and events
A number (27) of in-person visits by Board members and the team took place during the year. Visits are a key mechanism for organisational learning, building relationships with partners, and gaining greater understanding of their work.
Representatives from the Charity attended conferences, events, network meetings and webinars throughout the year on a range of topics relevant to the Charity’s strategy. These were organised by partner funders and organisations we fund in civil society.
Insights from visits and learning from events are shared across the team in weekly meetings and with Directors at quarterly Board meetings.
Team
2024 was an important year for the Charity, when we marked the departure of Sara Harrity, who had led AB Charitable Trust as Director for 17 years. Planning to ensure a smooth transition was a central focus for the Board and the staff team over the course of the year. Sara Harrity left the Charity in October 2024, and a new Director, Alex Sutton, was appointed and began in January 2025. Rebecca Green, Head of Programmes, acted up in the intervening period.
Public benefit
The Charity’s aims were carried out for the public benefit. This was achieved through giving 360 grants to 254 organisations working to improve the lives of marginalised and excluded groups. The Charity continued to demonstrate its commitment to funding unpopular causes.
Financial review
The Charity is reliant on income from the Bonavero family and Gift Aid. In the year under review income increased from £7,495,299 to £8,834,184. Discretionary grants and donations of £8,311,286 (2024 - £6,643,052) were made by the Charity.
Investment powers and reserves policies
The Charity aims to spend the majority of its funds in the short term whilst maintaining a prudent level of reserves to cover working capital and any emergency grants which may be required. Where excess funds are held by the Charity these are invested in bank deposits, on a prudent basis, in line with prevailing market rates.
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Plans for the future
The context for the Charity’s work, and the work of funded organisations in our priority areas, continues to remain challenging. Opportunities for positive policy change are limited and narrow in scope. A difficult funding landscape means organisations at the coalface operate on straitened budgets, while those that access their support continues to grow. Against this backdrop, the Charity is committed to increasing its grants budget (£10m in 2025/26) and to providing funded organisations whenever possible with multi-year, core and unrestricted funding. In this context, ABCT will continue to look for opportunities to support work actively seeking to change the status quo (through approaches including policy influencing, advocacy and campaigning, community organising, and narrative change work) alongside supporting organisations to meet immediate needs.
Collaboration continues to be an important value for the Charity. The year ahead will see the Harm to Healing initiative, a coalition between funders* and specialist grassroot organisations working on racial injustice in the criminal legal system, establish an independent governance structure and make its first grants which will prioritise collaboration. We will continue to work with aligned funders who share our commitment to Justice, as well as supporting collaborative efforts in civil society.
*Funders who have contributed to the Harm to Healing initiative include AB Charitable Trust (fiscal host), Barrow Cadbury Trust, Disrupt Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Legal Education Foundation who have collectively awarded £510,000 to the Harm to Healing seed phase.
Statement of Trustee responsibilities
The Trustee is responsible for preparing the Trustee Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustee to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the Charity for that year.
In preparing these financial statements, the Trustee is required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP 2019 (FRS 102);
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue in operation.
The Trustee is responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable it to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. It is
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also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Statement as a Disclosure of Information to Auditors
So far as the trustees are aware, there is no relevant information (as defined in Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the charitable company’s auditors are unaware, and each Trustee has taken all the steps that they out to have taken as a Trustee in order to make them aware of any audit information and to establish that the charitable company’s auditors are aware of that information.
This report was approved by the Trustee and signed on its behalf by.
Olivier Bonavero Director of ABCT Trustee Limited
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02 Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustee of The A B Charitable Trust
The A B Charitable Trust Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30[th] April 2025 Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustee of The A B Charitable Trust
Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of The A B Charitable Trust (the “Charity”) for the year ended 30[th] April 2025 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion, the financial statements:
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give a true and fair view of the state of the Charity’s affairs as at 30[th] April 2025 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, for the year then ended;
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have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
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have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustee’s use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
Other information
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Trustee is responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements
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themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:
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the information given in the financial statements is inconsistent in any material respect with the Trustee report; or
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sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or
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the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records; or
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we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
Responsibilities of the Trustee
As explained more fully in the statement of Trustee responsibilities, the Trustee is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustee determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the Trustee is responsible for assessing the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustee either intend to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:
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the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
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we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the Charity through discussions with directors and other management;
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we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the Charity;
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we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and
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identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
We assessed the susceptibility of the Charity's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
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making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud; and
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considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations;
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
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performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
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tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions;
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assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates were indicative of potential bias;
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investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions;
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.
Other matters
Your attention is drawn to the fact that the Charity has prepared financial statements in accordance with "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (as amended) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1[st] April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has now been withdrawn.
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This has been done in order for the financial statements to provide a true and fair view in accordance with current Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the Charity’s trustee, as a body, in accordance with part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Charity's trustee those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Charity and the Charity’s trustee as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Richard Wilch FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Cottons Accountants LLP
Chartered Accountants Statutory Auditor
The Stables Church Walk Daventry Northamptonshire NN11 4BL
Cottons Accountants LLP is eligible for appointment as auditor of the Charity by virtue of its eligibility for appointment as auditor of a company under section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.
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| Restricted | Unrestricted | Total | Restricted | Unrestricted | Total | |||
| Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Income and Expenditure | ||||||||
| Income | ||||||||
| Income from generated funds | ||||||||
| Gift Aid and other contributions | 3 | 560,000 | 8,097,000 | 8,097,000 8,657,000 |
233,322 | 7,120,972 | 7,120,972 | 7,354,294 |
| Tax recoverable on Gift Aid | ||||||||
| contributions | 75,000 | 24,250 | 24,250 99,250 |
58,330 | 30,243 | 30,243 | 88,573 | |
| Investment income | 4 | - | 77,934 | 77,934 77,934 |
- | 52,432 | 52,432 | 52,432 |
| Total income | 635,000 | 8,199,184 | 8,199,184 8,834,184 |
291,652 | 7,203,647 | 7,203,647 | 7,495,299 | |
| Expenditure | ||||||||
| Charitable activities | ||||||||
| Grants | 15 | 441,652 | 7,869,634 | 7,869,634 8,311,286 |
291,652 | 6,351,400 | 6,351,400 | 6,643,052 |
| Grant related support costs | 5 | 79,200 | 565,470 | 565,470 644,670 |
- | 579,185 | 579,185 | 579,185 |
| Governance costs | 6 | - | 12,937 | 12,937 12,937 |
- | 8,530 | 8,530 | 8,530 |
| Total expenditure | 520,852 | 8,448,041 | 8,448,041 8,968,893 |
291,652 | 6,939,115 | 6,939,115 | 7,230,767 | |
| Net surplus/(deficit) for the year | 114,148 | (248,857) | (248,857) (134,709) |
- | 264,532 | 264,532 | 264,532 | |
| Reconciliation of funds | ||||||||
| Fund balances at beginning of year | 191,653 | 1,731,187 | 1,731,187 1,922,840 |
191,653 | 1,466,655 | 1,658,308 | ||
| Fund Balances at end of year | 305,801 | 1,482,330 | 1,482,330 1,788,131 |
191,653 | 1,731,187 | 1,731,187 | 1,922,840 |
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.
All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
The notes on pages 22 to 38 form part of these financial statements.
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Balance sheet
| Note | ―― 30-Apr-2025 ―― £ £ |
―― 30-Apr-2025 ―― £ £ |
―― 30-Apr-2024 ―― £ £ |
―― 30-Apr-2024 ―― £ £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current assets Debtors and prepayments 10 Cash and cash equivalents Total current assets Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 11 Net assets Income funds Restricted funds 12 Unrestricted funds Total capital and reserves |
2,927 3,598,187 |
3,443 3,207,372 |
||
| 3,651,114 (1,812,983) |
3,210,815 (1,287,975) |
|||
| 1,788,131 | 1,922,840 | |||
| 305,801 1,482,330 |
191,653 1,731,187 |
|||
| 1,788,131 | 1,922,840 |
The accounts were approved and authorised for issue by the Trustee of The A B Charitable Trust (registered charity number 1000147) and signed on its behalf by:
Olivier Bonavero
Director of ABCT Trustee Limited
The notes on pages 22 to 38 form part of these financial statements.
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Statement of cash flows
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Surplus/(Deficit) for the year | (134,709) | 264,532 |
| Adjustments for: | ||
| Investment income received | (77,934) | (52,432) |
| (Increase)/decrease in debtors | (49,484) | 24,243 |
| Increase/(decrease) in creditors | 525,008 | (29,268) |
| Cash generated from charitable activities | 262,881 | 207,075 |
| Cash flows from investing activities | ||
| Investments income received | 77,934 | 52,432 |
| Cash generated from investing activities | 77,934 | 52,432 |
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | 340,815 | 259,507 |
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year | 3,207,372 | 2,947,865 |
| Cash and cash equivalents at end of year | 3,598,187 | 3,207,372 |
The notes on pages 22 to 38 form part of these financial statements.
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Notes to the financial statements
1. Accounting Policies
Charity information
The A B Charitable Trust is an unincorporated trust, constituted under a Trust Deed dated 30[th] March 1990.
(a) Accounting convention
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charity's Trust Deed, the Charities Act 2011, FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the Charities SORP "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (effective 1[st] January 2019). The Charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
The financial statements have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a true and fair view. This departure has involved following the Statement of Recommended Practice for charities applying FRS 102 rather than the version of the Statement of Recommended Practice which is referred to in the Regulations but which has since been withdrawn.
The financial statements are prepared in pound sterling (“£”), which is the functional currency of the Charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
- (b) Going concern
At the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustee has a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the Trustee continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
(c) Charitable funds
The Charity has a single permanent fund which was wholly unrestricted as at the year end. The terms of the trust deed allow the income to be accumulated and the capital to be spent if the Trustee so determines.
Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donor or trust deed.
Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds which the Trustee is free to use for any purpose in furtherance of the charitable objectives. Unrestricted funds include designated funds where the Trustee, at its discretion, wishes to create a fund for a specific purpose.
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
1. Accounting Policies (continued)
(d) Income
All income is recognised once the Charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of the income receivable can be measured reliably.
Donations are recognised once received. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance before the Charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred and not recognised until either those conditions are fully met, or the fulfilment of those conditions is wholly within the control of the Charity and it is probable that those conditions will be fulfilled in the reporting period.
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the Charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.
(e) Expenditure
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the Charity to that expenditure, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.
All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis. All expenses including support costs and governance costs are allocated or apportioned to the applicable expenditure headings.
Grants payable are payments made to third parties in the furtherance of the charitable objectives of the Charity. In the case of an unconditional grant offer this is accrued once the recipient has been notified of the grant award. The notification gives the recipient a reasonable expectation that they will receive the one-year or multi-year grant. Grant awards that are subject to the recipient fulfilling performance conditions are only accrued when the recipient has been notified of the grant and any remaining unfulfilled condition attached to that grant is outside the control of the Charity.
(f) Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.
(g) Financial instruments
The Charity has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the Charity's balance sheet when the Charity becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
1. Accounting Policies (continued)
i) Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
ii) Basic financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
iii) Derecognition of financial liabilities
Financial liabilities are derecognised when the Charity’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.
(h) Governance costs
Governance costs comprise all costs involving the public accountability of the Charity and its compliance with regulation and good practice. The costs include costs related to the statutory audit fees together with other overhead costs.
(i) Irrecoverable VAT
Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred.
2. Critical accounting estimates and judgements
In the application of the Charity’s accounting policies, the Trustee is required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both.
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
3. Donations
| ―――― 2025 ―――― | ―――― 2025 ―――― | ―――― 2025 ―――― | ―――― 2024 ―――― | ―――― 2024 ―――― | ―――― 2024 ―――― | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restricted | Unrestricted | Total | Restricted | Unrestricted | Total | |||
| Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Gift Aid and other contributions | 560,000 | 8,097,000 | 8,657,000 | 233,322 | 7,120,972 | 7,354,294 | ||
| Tax recoverable on Gift Aid | 75,000 | 24,250 | 99,250 | 58,330 | 30,243 | 88,573 | ||
| contributions | ||||||||
| Total | 635,000 | 8,121,250 | 8,756,250 | 291,652 | 7,151,215 | 7,442,867 |
4. Investment income
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Interest receivable | 77,934 | 52,432 |
5. Grant related support costs
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Staff costs | 450,038 | 432,586 |
| Other overheads | 80,500 | 61,376 |
| Grant related activity* | 2,810 | 85,223 |
| Harm to Healing project – seed phase | 111,322 | - |
| Total | 644,670 | 579,185 |
- This relates to expenditure on activities which support funded organisations to increase their effectiveness
6. Governance costs
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Auditors’ remuneration | 4,500 | 3,600 |
| Professional fees | 8,437 | 4,930 |
| Total | 12,937 | 8,530 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
7. Trustee
No Trustee (or any persons connected with it) received any remuneration or benefits from the Charity during the year. During the year, the charity reimbursed one Trustee expenses totalling £63 (2024 - £606). These expenses were in relation to reimbursed travelling costs.
8. Employees
The average monthly number of employees during the year was 8 (2024 - 7).
Employment costs
| 2025 £ 2024 £ |
|
|---|---|
| Wages and salaries Social security costs Pension costs Total |
383,494 374,121 43,840 37,750 22,704 20,715 |
| 450,038 432,586 |
The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows:
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| £100,000 | to £110,000 | - | 1 |
| £110,000 | to £120,000 | 1 | - |
9. Retirement benefit schemes
Defined contribution schemes
The Charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the Charity in an independently administered fund.
The charge to profit or loss in respect of defined contribution schemes was £22,704 (2024 - £20,715). The amount owed to the pension scheme at the year-end was £4,852 (2024 - £2,019).
10. Debtors
| 2025 £ 2024 £ |
|
|---|---|
| Prepayments and accrued income Other debtors Total |
2,927 3,443 - - |
| 2,927 3,443 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
11. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Trade creditors | 6,127 | 1,861 |
| Grants payable and other creditors | 1,784,000 | 1,274,465 |
| Accruals and deferred income | 3,900 | 3,000 |
| Other taxation and social security | 18,956 | 8,649 |
| Total | 1,812,983 | 1,287,975 |
12. Restricted funds
The income funds of the Charity include restricted funds comprising the following unexpended balances of donations and grants held on trust for specific purposes:
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Balance at 1stMay | 191,653 | 191,653 |
| Incoming resources | 635,000 | 291,652 |
| Resources expended | (520,852) | (291,652) |
| Balance at 30thApril | 305,801 | 191,653 |
Of the remaining balance at 30[th] April, £125,000 relate to amounts that have been donated by Anne and Yves Bonavero in the expectation that certain funding applications would be received by the Charity and onwards grants would be made.
The remaining sum of £230,800 relates to amounts donated by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Legal Education Foundation and Disrupt towards the Harm to Healing project.
13. Analysis of net assets between funds
Fund balances at 30[th] April 2025 are represented by:
| ――― 2025 ――― | ――― 2025 ――― | ――― 2025 ――― | ――― 2024 ――― | ――― 2024 ――― | ――― 2024 ――― | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restricted | Unrestricted | Total | Restricted | Unrestricted | Total | |||
| Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Current assets/(liabilities) | 305,801 | 1,482,330 | 1,788,131 | 1,788,131 191,653 |
1,731,187 | 1,922,840 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
14. Auditor's limitation liability agreement
Upon appointment of Cottons Accountants LLP as auditors, the Charity entered into a liability limitation agreement with the auditors and this was approved on 14 October 2025. Liability is limited to £120,000. The effect of the liability limitation agreement is to limit the auditor's liability to less than such amount as is fair and reasonable.
The agreement limits the liability owed to the Charity by the auditors in respect of any negligence, default or breach of duty, or breach of trust, occurring in the course of the audit of the accounts for the year ending 30 April 2025.
The agreement does not limit liability for any instance of fraud or dishonesty on behalf of the auditor or any other liability that cannot be excluded or restricted by applicable laws or regulations.
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
15. Grants allocated in year
― Amount Awarded ―
£ £
| Migrants and refugees | |
|---|---|
| Abigail Housing | 25,000 |
| Action for Race Equality (ARE) | 100,000 |
| Action for Refugees in Lewisham | 18,675 |
| Active Horizons | 3,700 |
| Afghan Association Paiwand | 29,000 |
| AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children | 24,000 |
| Aid Box Community | 26,000 |
| Amma Birth Companions | 30,000 |
| Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit ATLEU | 34,000 |
| Asha North Staffordshire | 26,000 |
| ASSIST Sheffield | 24,000 |
| Asylos | 52,000 |
| Asylum Justice | 29,000 |
| Asylum Link Merseyside (ALM) | 25,000 |
| Asylum Matters | 20,000 |
| Asylum Support Appeals Project | 88,000 |
| Babylon Migrants Project | 15,000 |
| Bail For Immigration Detainees | 30,000 |
| Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile | 20,000 |
| Belong Nottingham | 29,000 |
| Beyond Detention | 20,000 |
| Bristol Refugee Rights | 29,000 |
| Caring and Sharing -Rochdale | 20,000 |
| Centre for Progressive Change | 25,000 |
| City of Sanctuary Sheffield | 51,000 |
| City of Sanctuary UK | 34,000 |
| Civic Power Fund | 100,000 |
| Compass Collective | 24,000 |
| Counterpoints Arts | 20,500 |
| Da'aro Youth Project | 4,000 |
| Detention Action | 22,000 |
| Doctors of the World UK | 33,610 |
| East European Resource Centre | 30,000 |
| ECPAT UK | 25,000 |
| Carried forward | 1,086,485 |
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| ― Amount Awarded ― | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |||
| Brought forward | 1,086,485 | - | ||
| Ella’s Home | 25,000 | |||
| English for Action (EFA) London | 20,000 | |||
| European Network on Statelessness | 30,000 | |||
| Europia | 26,000 | |||
| Flourish NI | 23,675 | |||
| Focus on Labour Exploitation | 20,000 | |||
| Gabriela Safe Haven for Women | 18,500 | |||
| Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group | 24,020 | |||
| Global Dialogue | 187,500 | |||
| Grampian Regional Equality Council (GREC) | 25,000 | |||
| Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit | 40,000 | |||
| Hackney Migrant Centre | 32,500 | |||
| Happy Baby Community | 29,000 | |||
| Haringey Migrant Support Centre | 25,000 | |||
| Hear Me Out | 4,000 | |||
| Helen Bamber Foundation | 55,000 | |||
| Hope at Home | 20,000 | |||
| Hope Projects | 25,495 | |||
| IMIX | 30,656 | |||
| Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) | 29,000 | |||
| Investing in People and Culture | 25,000 | |||
| Islington Law Centre | 25,000 | |||
| Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants | 34,000 | |||
| JustRight Scotland | 8,800 | |||
| Kalayaan | 25,000 | |||
| Kanlungan Filipino Consortium | 33,000 | |||
| Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) | 3,835 | |||
| Latin American Women?s Rights Service | 26,000 | |||
| Lewisham Refugee & Migrant Network | 29,000 | |||
| Manuel Bravo Project | 29,000 | |||
| Medical Justice | 25,000 | |||
| Migrant Centre NI | 4,000 | |||
| Migrant Democracy Project | 2,000 | |||
| Migrant Voice | 25,000 | |||
| Carried forward | 2,071,466 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
15 Grants allocated in year (continued)
| ― Amount Awarded ― | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| Brought forward | 2,071,466 | - | ||
| Migrants Organise | 74,000 | |||
| Migrants' Rights Network | 25,000 | |||
| New Europeans UK | 20,000 | |||
| North of England Refugee Service | 30,000 | |||
| Notre Dame Refugee Centre | 21,435 | |||
| Nottingham Arimathea Trust | 5,500 | |||
| Oasis | 34,000 | |||
| Our Second Home | 3,500 | |||
| People & Planet Student Activities Ltd | 20,000 | |||
| Peterborough Asylum and Refugee Community Association (PARCA) | 4,000 | |||
| POMOC | 2,400 | |||
| Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) | 25,000 | |||
| Positive Action in Housing | 24,000 | |||
| Project 17 | 30,000 | |||
| Project MAMA | 21,500 | |||
| Rainbow Migration | 22,000 | |||
| Refugee Action | 59,000 | |||
| Refugee Action Kingston | 29,000 | |||
| Refugee Education UK | 4,000 | |||
| Refugee Legal Support | 29,000 | |||
| Refugee Resource | 29,000 | |||
| Refugee Women Connect | 20,000 | |||
| Reset Communities and Refugees Ltd | 25,000 | |||
| Right to Remain | 24,500 | |||
| Room to Heal | 15,000 | |||
| Safety4Sisters North West | 29,000 | |||
| Settled | 30,000 | |||
| Shpresa Programme | 24,000 | |||
| Sister Circle | 25,000 | |||
| Slough Refugee Support | 24,000 | |||
| Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution | 30,000 | |||
| Tamil Welfare Association (Newham) UK | 22,000 | |||
| Carried forward | 2,852,301 |
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| ― Amount Awarded ― | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | ||
| Brought forward | 2,852,301 | ||
| The Care Rights Project | 20,000 | ||
| The Centre for African Entrepreneurship | 29,000 | ||
| The Hummingbird Refugee Project | 28,975 | ||
| The Launchpad Collective | 20,000 | ||
| The No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) | 60,000 | ||
| The RAMP Project | 30,000 | ||
| The Snowdrop Project | 26,000 | ||
| Trauma Treatment International | 24,000 | ||
| Unlock | 3,480 | ||
| VOICE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE (VOYPIC) | 30,000 | ||
| Voices in Exile | 4,000 | ||
| War on Want | 25,000 | ||
| We Belong | 30,000 | ||
| Welsh Refugee Council (WRC) | 28,999 | ||
| West Midlands Anti Slavery Network | 21,600 | ||
| Work Rights Centre | 22,000 | ||
| Young Roots | 22,000 | ||
| Total migrants and refugees | 3,277,355 | ||
| Carried forward | 3,277,355 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
15 Grants allocated in year (continued)
| ― Amount Awarded ― | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | ||
| Brought forward | - | 3,277,355 | |
| Criminal legal system | |||
| abandofbrothers | 25,000 | ||
| Action for Race Equality (ARE) | 97,500 | ||
| Agenda Alliance | 29,000 | ||
| APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) | 4,000 | ||
| Beating Time | 20,000 | ||
| Belong: Making Justice Happen | 18,700 | ||
| Birth Companions | 20,000 | ||
| Black Men 4 Change | 20,000 | ||
| Carney's Community | 25,000 | ||
| CASSPLUS | 20,000 | ||
| Change In Youth CIC (Account Project) | 20,000 | ||
| Child Rights and Youth Justice C.I.C. | 2,400 | ||
| Children Heard and Seen | 20,000 | ||
| Circles South East | 30,000 | ||
| Circles UK | 40,000 | ||
| Clean Break Company Theatre | 19,085 | ||
| Clinks | 65,000 | ||
| Commons Law CIC | 33,000 | ||
| CREATIVE CHANGE COLLECTIVE | 20,000 | ||
| Criminal Justice Alliance | 44,000 | ||
| Families Outside | 30,000 | ||
| Firebird Foundation | 30,000 | ||
| Himaya Haven Community Interest Company | 23,100 | ||
| Inner City Life | 19,000 | ||
| INQUEST Charitable Trust | 33,500 | ||
| JENGbA | 20,000 | ||
| Just for Kids Law | 31,500 | ||
| Justice Futures Community Interest Company | 12,500 | ||
| Key4Life CIO | 25,000 | ||
| Khulisa | 24,000 | ||
| Local Services 2 You (LS2Y) | 10,000 | ||
| Lucy Faithfull Foundation Scotland, part of The Lucy Faithfull Foundation | 22,000 | ||
| Carried forward | 853,285 | 3,277,355 |
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| ― Amount Awarded ― | ||
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Brought forward | 853,285 | 3,277,355 |
| Making It Out | 15,000 | |
| Margaret Carey Foundation (UpCycle) | 20,000 | |
| Mary Magdalene CiC | 4,000 | |
| Maslaha | 34,000 | |
| Nacro | 20,000 | |
| New Dawn New Day | 30,000 | |
| Peer Power Youth | 28,920 | |
| Prison Radio Association | 22,000 | |
| Prison Reform Trust | 50,000 | |
| Prisoners' Advice Service (PAS) | 25,000 | |
| Pure Insight | 25,000 | |
| Rees Foundation | 25,000 | |
| Release | 25,000 | |
| Revolving Doors Agency | 25,000 | |
| RiseUp | 15,000 | |
| Runnymede Trust | 30,000 | |
| Somali Outreach Project | 19,550 | |
| Staf (Scottish Throughcare & Aftercare Forum) | 20,000 | |
| StandOut Programmes | 22,000 | |
| StopWatch | 22,000 | |
| Streets of Growth | 25,000 | |
| Synergy Theatre Project | 18,000 | |
| The 4Front Project | 26,000 | |
| The Advocacy Academy | 8,800 | |
| The Big House Theatre Company | 20,000 | |
| The Centre for Justice Innovation UK | 20,000 | |
| The Hardman Trust | 20,000 | |
| The Howard League for Penal Reform | 70,000 | |
| The Recruitment Junction | 20,000 | |
| The Turnaround Project | 20,000 | |
| The Violence Intervention Project | 20,000 | |
| The Wickers Charity | 29,000 | |
| Transform Justice | 16,500 | |
| Carried forward | 1,644,055 | 3,277,355 |
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15 Grants allocated in year (continued)
| ― Amount Awarded ― | ||
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Brought forward | 859,885 | 3,277,355 |
| Treasures Foundation | 22,500 | |
| United Group for Reform of IPP | 15,000 | |
| UNJUST C.I.C | 24,000 | |
| Unlock | 25,000 | |
| Why me? | 29,000 | |
| WISH | 20,000 | |
| Women in Prison | 40,000 | |
| Working Chance | 20,000 | |
| Zahid Mubarek Trust | 33,750 | |
| Total Criminal legal system | 1,873,305 | |
| Carried forward | 5,150,660 |
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| ― Amount Awarded ― | ||
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Brought forward | 5,150,660 | |
| Access to justice | ||
| APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) | 22,000 | |
| Bristol Law Centre | 25,350 | |
| Central England Law Centre | 44,000 | |
| Centre for Women's Justice | 2,500 | |
| Children's Law Centre | 32,900 | |
| Community Action Isle of Wight | 30,000 | |
| Community Law Advice Network | 25,000 | |
| Community Law Service (Northampton and County) | 30,000 | |
| Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors | 35,000 | |
| Derbyshire Law Centre | 34,000 | |
| Disability Law Service | 25,000 | |
| Dundee North Law Centre | 25,000 | |
| Ealing Law Centre | 22,000 | |
| Equality and Employment Law Centre | 4,000 | |
| Friends, Families and Travellers | 24,880 | |
| Greater Manchester Law Centre | 57,000 | |
| Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre | 30,000 | |
| Here for Good | 5,000 | |
| Hillingdon Law Centre | 29,000 | |
| Justice Collaborations | 200,000 | |
| Law Centre NI | 25,000 | |
| Law Centres Network | 69,000 | |
| Law for Life - t/a Advice Now | 25,000 | |
| Legal Education Foundation | 420,000 | |
| Legal Services Agency Ltd. | 30,000 | |
| Luton Law Centre | 25,000 | |
| Mary Ward Legal Centre | 30,000 | |
| Maternity Action | 30,000 | |
| Merseyside Law Centre | 22,000 | |
| Norfolk Community Law Service | 25,000 | |
| North East Law Centre | 26,000 | |
| Carried forward | 1,429,630 | 5,150,660 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
15 Grants allocated in year (continued)
| ― Amount Awarded ― | ― Amount Awarded ― | |
|---|---|---|
| £ £ |
||
| Brought forward | 1,429,630 | 5,150,660 |
| North Wales Community Law | 45,000 | |
| Own The Space Projects | 10,000 | |
| Paddington Law Centre | 20,000 | |
| Plumstead Community Law Centre | 30,000 | |
| Protect | 20,000 | |
| Public Interest Law Centre | 60,000 | |
| Public Law Project | 74,000 | |
| Refugee Action | 60,000 | |
| Rights of Women | 30,000 | |
| South Wales Law Centre - t/a Speakeasy Law Centre | 22,000 | |
| South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice | 25,000 | |
| Southwark Law Centre | 43,600 | |
| Suffolk Law Centre | 22,000 | |
| The AIRE Centre | 26,000 | |
| Tower Hamlets Law Centre | 25,000 | |
| University of Oxford. The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford | 50,000 | |
| Vauxhall Community Law & Information Centre | 29,000 | |
| War on Want | 25,000 | |
| Working Families | 30,000 | |
| Z2K (registered as Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) | 22,000 | |
| Total access to justice | 2,098,230 | |
| Carried forward | - | 7,248,890 |
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Notes to the financial statements (continued)
15 Grants allocated in year (continued)
| ― Amount Awarded ― £ £ |
|
|---|---|
| Brought forward Human rights Center for Countering Digital Hate Committee on the Administration of Justice Ltd Equally Ours Global Dialogue Heard HOPE not hate Charitable Trust Human Rights Consortium Human Rights Consortium Scotland Just Fair Paul Hamlyn Foundation Rights & Security International The Advocacy Academy The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) The Centre For Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) The Civil Liberties Trust The Decelerator The Public Interest Litigation Support Project Third Percy Thrive Teesside Total human rights Total grants awarded (unrestricted funds) |
- 7,248,890 20,000 29,000 33,000 10,000 28,900 144,000 29,000 20,000 25,924 10,000 28,920 3,000 45,000 30,000 99,000 15,000 30,000 5,000 15,000 620,744 7,869,634 |
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