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2021-03-31-accounts

THE REDRESS TRUST LIMITED TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021

Amended on 14.01.2022

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 5
Message from the Chair, Paul Lomas 6
Message from the Director, Rupert Skilbeck 7
A. TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 9
Our Impact: Objectives and Activities 9
Our Programmes 11
Justice 11
Reparation 16
Dissent 17
Discrimination 18
Solidarity 20
Our Methods 21
Thanks to our Supporters 26
Governance and Management 29
Financial Review 33
Plans for the future 35
B. INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE
REDRESS TRUST 37
Opinion 37
Basis for opinion 37
Conclusions relating to going concern 37
Other information 38
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006 38
Matters on which we are required to report by exception 38
Responsibilities of trustees for the financial statements 39
Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements 39
Use of our report 40
C. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2021 41
Income & Expenditure Account 41
Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2021 42
Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 31st March 2021 43
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st March 2021 44
1. Accounting Policies 44
2. Donations 47
3. Income from Charitable Activities 48
4a. Expenditure 49
4b. Comparative period expenditure 49

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5. Governance Costs 50
6. Net Income/(Expenditure) 50
7. Personnel Costs 50
8. Tangible Fixed Assets 51
9. Debtors 52
10. Creditors 52
11a. Fund Movements 52
11b. Comparative period Fund Movement 54
12a. Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds 55
12b. Comparative period net assets between funds 55
13. Capital Commitments and Contingent Liabilities 55
14. Operating Leases 55
15. Pension Schemes 56
16. Redress Trust (USA) 56
17. Stichting REDRESS Nederland 56
18. Related Party Transactions 57
Who is Who at REDRESS 57

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INTRODUCTION

REDRESS is an international human rights organisation that delivers justice and reparation for survivors of torture, challenges impunity for perpetrators, and advocates for legal and policy reforms to combat torture. Our cases respond to torture as an individual crime in domestic and international law, as civil wrong with individual responsibility, as a human rights violation with state responsibility. Our approach is strategic, so that as well as representing an individual we target the policy reasons that enabled the torture to take place, by building a campaign that uses advocacy, community engagement, and communications to influence change.

This report provides information on our activities from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021:

Our Impact this Year

During the course of the year our work has had an impact across our programme areas.

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Message from the Chair, Paul Lomas

Welcome to our Annual Report for 2020-2021. We hope that the information that follows will give you a clear indication of all that REDRESS has achieved over the past year despite the very difficult

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circumstances. I wanted to record at the outset the remarkable job that the whole staff, including our interns, under the leadership of Rupert Skilbeck, have done in keeping REDRESS functioning, growing, and succeeding in our core mission of seeking redress for the victims of, and combatting, torture around the world through difficulties that we have all faced during the current pandemic.

During the year, the trustees and staff adopted a new strategy, which sets out our priorities to 2025. REDRESS will continue its focus on justice and reparation for survivors of torture, with an emphasis on torture related to dissent and discrimination – where the use of torture is currently most acute and pernicious. We will also support the wider anti-torture movement through a new programme on solidarity. The strategy is designed to ensure that REDRESS can effect real change in the fight against torture and, critically, the position of survivors. The strategy is available on our website – please read it!

Over the past year, REDRESS has had real impact. In the United Kingdom: we were closely involved in the campaign to prevent impunity for torture committed by British service personnel abroad; ensured that the arbitrary detention and torture of UK citizens and residents remained at the top of the political agenda, including the case of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe; and were instrumental in the use of Magnitsky sanctions as a new form of reparation against those responsible for torture. Our long-term engagement with Sudan has led to legislative change against the use of torture and the country signing the Convention against Torture.

All of this has been achieved through the tireless efforts of the REDRESS team and our partners around the world. We are, as always, enormously grateful to our many pro bono partners from the legal and academic community, and I wanted also to thank the trustees and patrons who support our work with their time and experience. During the year, we saw the retirement of Michael Birnbaum QC, who has provided guidance to the governance of REDRESS for many years as a trustee, and welcomed Karen Thompson as a new member of the board, bringing her expertise in charity finance to the organisation. We were also sad to hear of the deaths of two of our patrons, Lord Lester QC and Lord Judd, who have for many years supported and promoted the work of REDRESS. Finally, I want to thank our donors: without your critical support, we could not do this important work; but you also challenge us to be worthy of your support and to lift our standards in all that we do.

Thank you for reading this report. I hope it gives you a clear idea of what REDRESS is doing and will help you to engage with our work and mission.

Message from the Director, Rupert Skilbeck

This annual report reviews the achievements and performance of REDRESS over the 12 months from April 2020 to March 2021. Despite the difficulties that the global pandemic has caused, our partners around the world have continued their work to support survivors of torture to obtain justice and reparation, even as governments have used the excuse of emergency powers to enhance repression and torture against the vulnerable.

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This report sets out how we have continued our core work to provide justice and reparation to survivors of torture both in the United Kingdom and around the world. Under our new strategy we have challenged torture related to dissent, drawing attention to the use of enforced disappearance in Africa as a form of torture that is often used against human rights defenders, journalists, and others who oppose their governments. We have also started a new initiative relating to the widespread torture used against protesters in Belarus, and progressed individual cases relating to dissent.

Our new strategy also focuses on discriminatory torture, allowing us to challenge those who are tortured because of who they are. During the course of the year we have begun to implement the leading judgment on LGBT+ torture in Latin America while exposing the same problem in Africa, supported a landmark decision on sexual violence in Kenya, and developed a new project to explore reparations for gender-based torture.

REDRESS has continued to operate effectively during the year, thanks to the flexibility that many of our donors have shown, the dedication of our partners, and the hard work of the staff. As a result, we have ended the year in a positive financial situation, allowing us to start the planned growth that the trustees have agreed is necessary to put the charity on a stronger and more sustainable footing. This will allow us to develop some of the novel ideas in our new strategy, recruit new staff to support both our projects and operations, and put the organisation in a powerful position as it enters its 30[th] year.

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A. TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT

Our Impact: Objectives and Activities

Nearly 30 years after REDRESS was founded, torture remains a constant problem around the world, but commands less attention than other global challenges. Populist governments now appear entrenched, a situation which may allow previous threats to the absolute prohibition against torture to be realised. The international framework for human rights protection is no longer universally accepted, and is threatened by exceptionalism and suffocated by financial restrictions. There has been an increase in the use of torture against those who dissent, whether they are human rights defenders, activists, journalists, or protesters. Torture is regularly used against marginalised minorities, including refugees, migrants, women, and the LGBT+ community. At the same time, police in many countries continue to use torture as an ineffective alternative to proper investigations.

Our Strategy: REDRESS 2025

The objectives of the charity are set out in the 2020 Articles of Association, and direct the charity to assist victims of torture to obtain redress through legal assistance, to provide assistance to states prosecuting torturers, and to procure the abolition of torture. The Articles of Association are also the governing document of the charity.

The staff and Trustees of REDRESS developed a new strategy during the year which was approved by the Board of Trustees in February 2021. The REDRESS 2025 Strategy sets out the priorities for the charity, and how those priorities will be delivered.

Vision . Our vision is a world without torture.

Mission . Our mission is to deliver justice and reparation for survivors of torture, challenge impunity for perpetrators, and advocate for legal and policy reforms to combat torture.

Our Programmes

Under the REDRESS 2025 Strategy our work is focused on five priorities:

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Geographical Focus

Our core method of working in collaboration with other parts of the anti-torture movement allows us to prioritise where we work, and not to focus on issues and regions that are effectively covered by other civil society groups, and where there is less need for our assistance. Before starting any new case or project we consider criteria including the scale of the problem, the impact we can achieve, the strengths and needs of national partners, the willingness of national authorities to reform, and the sustainability of the work. We work in the United Kingdom, with a specific programme focus on Justice in the UK, in the Netherlands, where we have a second office, and elsewhere in Europe. We also have cases and projects in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

Our Values

REDRESS has developed specific values through which we project an organisational culture that respects survivors, values partnerships, and ensures expertise.

Our Services

REDRESS has built expertise in three specific areas that complement the skills of our partner NGOs.

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Innovations

The REDRESS 2025 Strategy sets out some new and innovative areas of work, including:

Our Programmes

During the course of the year our work has progressed across each of our five new programme areas: Justice, Reparation, Dissent, Discrimination, and Solidarity.

Justice

We pursue legal claims for survivors and the prosecution of perpetrators

There are many torture survivors in the UK, both citizens and refugees. We bring legal claims on behalf of survivors based in the UK, ensure referrals for their psycho-social support, engage with their communities, and conduct advocacy to push for policy changes to improve their situation and address the underlying causes of torture. We encourage the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute perpetrators.

Our project-based justice work is focused on specific jurisdictions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia where there is impunity for torture and opportunities for justice. We bring cases to domestic and regional courts, the UN Treaty Bodies, and the International Criminal Court on behalf of survivors of torture around the world. We also work with prosecutors in Europe to encourage universal jurisdiction cases.

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Consular Assistance

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. REDRESS continued to campaign for justice for Nazanin during the course of the year. Nazanin remained on release from prison with an ankle tag throughout the year, and was then convicted in a second trial, for which an appeal is pending. REDRESS is working on the case with pro bono support from John Dugard SC, Alison Macdonald QC and Tatyana Eatwell.

Jagtar Singh Johal . REDRESS continued to demand a proper response to the evidence of torture in this case involving a British citizen from Glasgow. In April 2020 we published a briefing paper highlighting India’s international obligations to ensure his right to adequate medical treatment in the context of the coronavirus crises. In August 2020, which marked 1,000 days of his detention, over 60 UK MPs signed a joint letter drafted by REDRESS, calling for the UK to take stronger action.

Hostage Diplomacy. Following consistent public and private advocacy by REDRESS and our partners in this work, in February 2021 the UK backed a Canadian initiative against arbitrary detention of individuals for diplomatic leverage over another government. The UK Foreign Secretary specifically named Iran as an example. Ending this practice was also included as one of the government’s priority actions in its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, published on in March 2021.

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UK Casework

During the course of the year we have continued to bring legal claims on behalf of survivors of torture in the UK, such as:

UK Policy Advocacy

Overseas Operations Bill. We continued to collaborate with other NGOs to oppose the introduction of an effective amnesty for violations of international law committed by British service personnel overseas. We published a Briefing Paper for the House of Lords debate setting out how the Bill undermined the absolute prohibition of torture and created an effective amnesty for torture and other international crimes committed by British Troops, responded to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ request for evidence, and engaged with the UN Special Rapporteur on torture who subsequently made an intervention. The government eventually amended their proposals, so that international crimes were not covered by the amnesty provisions.

Independent Review of the Human Rights Act. In March 2021 REDRESS made a submission to the Independent Review, as well as a subsequent submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights examination of the Review. The submissions were prepared together with the law firm Hogan Lovells,

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and followed a round-table discussion on the proposal that involved REDRESS trustees and other experts. The submission explains how the Human Rights Act 1998 has, though its existing framework, effectively implemented the absolute prohibition of torture, and makes the case that the existing provisions of the Human Rights Act were successfully designed to address the very concerns raised in the call for evidence.

Universal Jurisdiction

Victims’ rights in universal jurisdiction prosecutions. In May 2020, REDRESS, FIDH and ECCHR published a Policy Report on how to strengthen victims’ rights in a new mutual legal assistance treaty on cooperation in the domestic prosecution of serious international crimes (MLA). Since 2011 a group of States have advocated for this new treaty. The MLA is currently supported by 70 countries, and led by a core group including the Ministry of justice of The Netherlands.

UK War Crimes Network . REDRESS chaired the regular meeting of the UK War Crimes Network in October 2020, which brings together representatives from the Metropolitan Police, Crown Prosecution Service, Home Office, FCO, other UK government departments and NGOs to improve coordination and UK policy on prosecuting international criminals present in the UK. REDRESS also submitted a dossier of evidence to the War Crimes Unit relating to an individual perpetrator, which remains confidential.

Sudan

REDRESS has continued to challenge torture in Sudan, and push for policy reforms.

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Uganda

Transitional Justice for Victims in Uganda. In August 2020, REDRESS published a report, “Not Without Us: Strengthening Victim Participation in Transitional Justice Processes in Uganda”, which looks at the existing rights of victims to participation and reparation in Uganda´s transitional justice process. It proposes avenues to improve such rights and contains recommendations for government and civil society actors in Uganda and beyond. REDRESS and Impunity Watch published a further report in December 2020, “Victims Front and Centre: Lessons on Meaningful Victim Participation from Guatemala and Uganda”, which explores the challenges victims face to participate effectively in transitional justice processes, and makes a number of policy recommendations.

International Casework

Aravinda Dodanpegamage Asantha. In July 2020 we submitted updated information to the Human Rights Committee on the communication filed in 2011 on behalf of Mr. Aravinda against Sri Lanka challenging his torture by police officers.

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Olivier Acuña . In October 2020, we made a further submission to the Inter-American Commission to reinforce the key elements of this case against Mexico, which concerns the torture of a journalist, following confirmation that the State was refusing to engage in the “friendly settlement” process.

Mustafa al-Hawsawi. In February 2021, we filed a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) on behalf of Mr al-Hawsawi, who remains in Guantánamo Bay. The complaint is made against the UK intelligence services in relation to conduct likely to have been carried out against him by or on behalf of the UK agencies, which involved the UK agencies knowingly aiding, abetting, encouraging, facilitating, procuring and/or conspiring with US officials to inflict torture and ill-treatment on Mr al-Hawsawi at a range of secret detention facilities to which he was forcibly rendered between 2003 and 2006.

Reparation

We deliver remedies and reparation for survivors

REDRESS works to secure the delivery of effective reparation for survivors of torture, including through compensation and the introduction of practical measures to implement international standards for satisfaction, rehabilitation, non-repetition, and restitution. Through litigation and policy advocacy we develop and implement national legal frameworks that deliver reparations for individuals and communities. This work includes developing asset recovery and sanctions as a way to deliver reparations, promoting reparations in specific tribunals including the International Criminal Court, and implementing the UN Basic Principles on the Right to Reparation.

Evidence obtained by Torture. In April 2020 we published an implementation tool with the Convention against Torture Initiative that set out the legal and policy changes that are necessary to provide safeguards against the use of evidence obtained by torture, building on our report Tainted by Torture published in November 2018.

Asset Tracing and Recovery Framework. In March 2020, REDRESS published a Framework for Financial Accountability, identifying potential strategies for promoting financial accountability following torture and other serious human rights abuses, supported by pro bono partners, including Latham & Watkins and Raedas, with further informal input from law enforcement and other select partners. The Framework was launched with a social media campaign and promotional video.

UK Magnitsky Sanctions . REDRESS has developed a new project to support NGOs making submissions to the United Kingdom government seeking the designation of individuals under the UK’s new human rights sanctions regime. REDRESS is working with Human Rights First, which has a parallel project in the US, to produce training materials and provide mentoring and advocacy support. During the year more than 200 representatives from civil society were trained by REDRESS on the new regime, increasing their ability to file effective sanctions submissions. We also published a briefing note on the key aspects of the regime, and have been mentoring NGOs through individual meetings and reviewing draft submissions, including in relation to Myanmar, Colombia, Uganda, Venezuela and others.

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Xinjiang Sanctions Submission. On 10 November 2020 REDRESS increased pressure on the UK government to sanction the perpetrators of serious human rights violations against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of China, submitting an extensive dossier of evidence. Twenty one UK parliamentarians wrote to the government in support of the submission as reported in the Telegraph. On 22 March 2021 the UK sanctioned four Chinese officials and one government entity for their involvement in human rights violations against the Uyghur community in Xinjiang, in a joint action taken alongside the US, EU and Canada.

UNCAT Ratification and Implementation in the Commonwealth Caribbean . In December 2020, REDRESS together with the Convention against Torture Initiative (CTI) and the Commonwealth Secretariat cohosted an online technical workshop on UNCAT ratification and implementation for Commonwealth Caribbean countries. Representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs and ministries of legal affairs, and office of the Attorney-General of nine Caribbean countries attended the workshop. In March 2021 we published a report highlighting the main conclusions from the event. From January to March 2020, REDRESS and CTI co-led individual country consultations with ministry officials of some of the participating countries to follow-up on specific steps towards ratification and implementation of UNCAT.

UN Basic Principles . In December 2020 REDRESS co-organised a webinar on The UN Basic Principles at 15: Reparations at a Crossroads, which brought together experts to review the opportunities for implementing the standards in practice. In March 2021, REDRESS co-organized a second webinar exploring the implementation challenges of the principles. The event featured a victim from South America, UN staff, practitioners and academics from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

South African Torture Act 2013. REDRESS has worked to emphasise the importance of anti-torture measures as a form of reparation through a third-party intervention in a civil claim for torture before the High Court of South Africa. The claim was filed on behalf of five prisoners who allege they were tortured in prison in 2014. This will be the first case on the Preventing and Combating of Torture Act of 2013, which implements the UN Convention against Torture. REDRESS will make submissions on the elements of torture in international and regional law to inform the High Court on relevant applicable standards, as well as drawing attention to the case.

Dissent

We challenge torture used to suppress activism and protest

Torture is used with impunity against human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, protesters and activists, particularly climate and environmental defenders, often taking the form of police brutality. With more authoritarianism, such torture has increased, including through the inappropriate use of emergency powers. Activists are often disappeared, which makes it easier for torture to take place. The use and threat of torture against those who dissent closes down civil society space, making it even more difficult to hold governments to account. We respond to this problem in specific jurisdictions with projects that use strategic litigation to highlight the issue, determine responsibility, and push for policy reform.

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Enforced Disappearance in Africa. REDRESS is delivering a three-year project that focuses on enforced disappearance in Africa as a particular form of torture that has not been adequately addressed in law or policy, working with partners in Algeria, Libya, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.

Torture of journalists. REDRESS filed a third-party intervention to the High Court in Cameroon in support of an application made by the family of a local journalist, Mr Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe (popularly known in Cameroon as Samuel Wazizi), who are seeking an inquiry into his arrest, disappearance, and death. Our intervention sets out the vulnerability of journalists to torture and abuse, the State’s positive obligations to protect journalists from torture and disappearance and to investigate allegations.

Torture of Protestors in Belarus. In March 2021 the International Accountability Platform for Belarus was launched, a new initiative funded by 15 States to ensure the effective documentation of the widespread torture that took place in Belarus in August 2020 in response to anti-government protests. REDRESS will act as the international co-lead with the Danish NGO Dignity.

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Discrimination

We challenge torture used against marginalised and excluded minorities

Torture is often used against minority groups, knowing that they may be powerless to respond, further marginalising them. REDRESS uses strategic litigation to challenge discriminatory torture used against such minorities including women, LGBT+, refugees, migrants, and those facing multiple forms of discrimination.

Gender

Sexual Violence in Kenya. On December 10[th] 2020, UN Human Rights Day, the Kenyan High Court issued a landmark judgment against the Kenyan government brought by the Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) for failing to protect, investigate, and prosecute sexual and gender-based violence following the 2007-2008 election. The case was filed in 2013, and REDRESS intervened as amicus curiae on the appropriate reparations. The court awarded four petitioners damages of 4 million Kenyan Shillings. We will work to support the implementation of the reparations awarded.

Unilever Kenya. On 28 July 2020 REDRESS, together with SOMO and Leigh Day, submitted a complaint against Unilever before the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. The complaint is made on behalf of a group of 218 Kenyan nationals who worked in a Unilever tea plantation in Kenya and suffered torture and other forms of violence during the post-election period.

Mariam Yahia Ibraheem. In July 2020, following many years of advocacy by REDRESS, the Sudanese government announced the abolition of the crime of apostasy, which had been punishable with the death penalty. Since 2014, REDRESS has been representing Mariam before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in a claim that her rights were violated when she was convicted of apostasy and sentenced to death, together with 100 lashes for adultery for marrying a Christian man. Several reports on the reforms referred to Mariam’s case as emblematic of the problem.

Reparations for victims of CRSV. At the end of the year REDRESS started work on a new project in collaboration with the Global Survivors’ Fund to conduct studies on the delivery of reparations for victims of conflict-related sexual violence in countries including Chad, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

LGBT

Azul Rojas Marín v. Peru. Following the landmark judgment of the Inter-American Court in March 2020, REDRESS conducted a number of activities to promote the decision and the necessary reforms to counter LGBT+ torture. On 2 December 2020, together with our Peruvian partners and Azul, we participated in the first meeting with the Peruvian State to discuss implementation of the decision.

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LGBT+ in Africa. REDRESS commenced work on a three-year project in collaboration with the law firm Allen and Overy which will build on the Azul decision to provide African LGBT+ torture survivors a route to justice and introduce stronger legal protections against discriminatory torture. In March 2021 to mark the one year anniversary of the Azul judgment, we collaborated with the office of Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, to promote a social media campaign to highlight the importance of the decision.

Solidarity

We support and strengthen the anti-torture movement

For nearly 30 years REDRESS has worked with anti-torture NGOs across the world, many of which operate in extremely difficult circumstances. These are mutually beneficial relationships. We work to ensure that these relationships are effective and collaborative partnerships, and that both REDRESS and our partners are strengthened by the process. This work also includes engaging the anti-torture movement through networks, building its resilience, promoting the use of holistic strategic litigation as an effective technique against torture through training and mentoring, encouraging our volunteers, and working with academic experts.

Networks . REDRESS continued to lead and participate in key networks to bring together the anti-torture movement.

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Strategic Litigation . During the course of the year REDRESS has continued to promote civil society use of this technique, producing a series of practice notes on holistic strategic litigation, developing training materials on strategic litigation, and delivering two litigation workshops, which were held online rather than in person due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Our Methods

REDRESS has developed specific skills that can be used to challenge torture and deliver impact. Our focus on these techniques is based on our experience working in collaboration with national partners and the anti-torture movement who have strengths in other civil society techniques.

Strategic Litigation

With this method we represent individual clients but also use the case to challenge the underlying problem. We adopt a holistic approach, ensuring referrals for psycho-social support and accompanying survivors through the process. We provide training and mentoring to partner NGOs on this technique.

As set out in the narrative report above, we progressed a number of cases during the course of the year.

New Cases. During the year we had more than 100 new case inquiries. We intervened in two of them as amicus curiae , provided assistance on two cases, and referred two more to other specialist lawyers. Other inquiries were considered carefully, before being rejected with reasons being given for the decision (usually because cases do not fall within our mandate or expertise), and general signposting materials provided where relevant.

Submissions. We prepared and filed significant submissions in cases including:

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Court hearings. In this reporting period we had a court hearing in the COVAW case in Kenya on 30 June and on 27 July, as well as a hearing in the Wafula and Gichaba case in Kenya on 17 November which was ultimately postponed. In January 2021 final oral arguments were delivered before the High Court of Nairobi in the case of Kamilya Tuweni.

Judgments and Decisions. There was one judgment delivered during the course of the year in the COVAW case, where the Nairobi High Court issued a landmark judgment against the Kenyan government for failing to protect, investigate and prosecute the sexual and gender-based violence following the 20072008 post-election violence.

Policy Advocacy

We work with partners to deliver campaigns at national, regional, and international level to advocate for policy reform for reparation and for the introduction of anti-torture laws and safeguards. This work includes detailed research to inform our conclusions and recommendations and engaging with survivor communities to involve them in the campaign.

Policy Reports. We published four major reports during the course of the year, using our research to increase the understanding of key stakeholders, and the need for reform.

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Policy Briefings. We published more than 20 briefings during the year, providing legal analysis and policy reform recommendations on specific issues, including:

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Communications and Media

We support our litigation and policy advocacy through the press and social media, to influence stakeholders, draw attention to the issues, ensure that survivors have a voice, and to raise our profile to enhance our influence.

During the year, REDRESS:

Media Coverage . We continued to develop high quality media coverage of our work to draw attention to the problem of torture and influence key stakeholders. Some examples include:

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media by a senior advisor to the Minister of Justice, and several Sudanese papers carried stories on our efforts to promote the ratification of key international treaties (in English and Arabic).

Social Media. Throughout the year, our social media channels grew significantly, with Twitter increasing by 12% to 9,326 followers, Facebook by 4.5% to 2,691 followers, and LinkedIn by 28% to 4,129 followers. Visitors to our website increased to 124,000 during the year, a 60% increase on the previous year.

Some highlights of our social media campaigns include:

Online Events. We sought to respond to the Covid-19 lockdown by enhancing our online events, enabling us to engage with civil society, survivor communities, and government policy makers. We

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organized eight major webinars that were attended by over 1,200 people, and participated in many other webinars. Some highlights include:

Supporter Engagement. During the year, we sent monthly digital newsletters to 2,200 supporters each month time, with an average open rate of 35%. We also published the Annual Review 2020, two editions of the REDRESS Bulletin (3[rd] Edition and 4[th] Edition), and the 2019-2020 Trustees Annual Report.

Fundraising . We produced communication materials to support our fundraising campaign Bring Nazanin Home , including a video for social media which has been seen by 4,000 viewers and additional social media posts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. The posts related to our work in the case have been seen by 244,000 people and the ones directly related with the campaign by 60,000 people.

Thanks to our Supporters

Funders

The Trustees are grateful for the ongoing support of the AB Charitable Trust, Bay & Paul Foundations, Bromley Trust, European Union, John Armitage Charitable Trust, Open Society Foundations, Sigrid Rausing Trust; and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, whose continued funding has enabled REDRESS to sustain and grow our work over this period. REDRESS would also like to extend special thanks to the Allen & Overy Foundation, Baring Foundation, Clifford Chance Foundation, Convention against Torture Initiative, David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Foundation, DLA Piper, Global Survivors Fund, Hogan Lovells, Joffe Charitable Trust, Knowledge Management Fund, Linklaters, Matrix Causes Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands; National Endowment for Democracy, Oakdale Trust, Peoples Postcode Trust, Queens University Belfast, Souter Charitable Trust, and Southall Trust for their support and funding during this time.

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We would like to thank the runners who participated in the 2020 Virtual Virgin Money London Marathon for generously spending their time and effort on raising funds for REDRESS: Chris Loudon, Eleanor Piper, Hjalti Rognvaldsson, George Shirlaw, Walker Syachalinga, and John White. We are grateful to our regular supporters and to those who have continued to promote and contribute to our Help Bring Nazanin Home campaign.

We would like to thank all of our donors and supporters for their commitment over what has been a difficult year. Sustaining our work during such a challenging time would not be possible without your continued support, for which we are very grateful.

Interns, Fellows, Volunteers, and other supporters

The Trustees would like to record their appreciation for the many volunteers who willingly gave their time to the benefit of the charity. This year, REDRESS’ volunteers provided invaluable support to all of our programme areas. REDRESS has been fortunate to host a range of interns and volunteers from many countries, who have contributed substantially to our work. We would like to thank in particular Mariana Batista, Jodie Chun, Tom Davies, Margaret Gallagher, Dariana Gryaznova, Ines Jimenez, Amy Kerr, Sarah Khan, Daniel Mackenzie, Dorine Nauleau, Ludivine Plenchette, Renata Politi, Andrea Rogers, Lisa Schmidt, Lynn Temp, Amela Tokic, Wiebke Hangst, and Janna Wermeskerten. We also want to thank our fellows Lina Abdelhafiz, Ana Cutts, Emma DiNapoli, Elizabeth Hartley, Mariana Hou and Celeste Kmiotek as well as our trainees Nicole Jocelyn and Lina Smith Buhl. We are also very grateful to a number of lawyers who worked pro bono for a period of time with REDRESS: Natalia Kubescu, Jonny McQuitty, Matthew McGonagle, and Megan Smith. We are also very grateful to Vilmar Luiz for his tireless work designing our materials.

Clinical and related human rights programmes

Thank you as well to the professors and students who collaborated with REDRESS through a number of clinical and related human rights programme. We would like to thank the law clinics that have provided substantial support this year, including the Bristol University School of Law Human Rights Implementation Centre, Cambridge University Pro Bono Project, LSE Law Clinic and LSE Pro Bono Matters, the SOAS International Human Rights Clinic, the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, University College London’s Public International Law Pro Bono Project, the Law Clinic of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Law Faculty of the University of Groningen, the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic at Fordham University School of Law, and the Victims’ Rights Clinic of Queen’s University Belfast Human Rights Centre in the School of Law.

We would also like to thank in particular Dr Clara Sandoval, Professor Lorna McGregor, Dr Carla Ferstman, and Dr Daragh Murray of the University of Essex; Dr Luke Moffett of Queens University Belfast; Dr Lutz Oette (SOAS) and Professor Lynn Welchman of SOAS; Professor Kate O’Regan and Dr Annelen Micus of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford; Professor Rachel Murray and Debra Long of the University of Bristol Human Rights Implementation Centre; Professor Frederiek de Vlaming; Dr Sam Raphael of University of Westminster; Professor Frans Viljoen and Ayo

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Sogunro of the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria; and Professor Damien Scalia of the Université Libre de Bruxelles for their ongoing collaboration.

Civil society partners and other supporters

Special thanks are also due to civil society partners and other supporters and partners throughout the world who continue to share our vision for a world without torture and for the need to achieve justice for victims. In particular, we are grateful to Advocacy Forum (Nepal); African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies; African Centre for Torture Victims (Uganda); All members of the Pan-African Reparation Initiative (PARI); All members of the Victims’ Rights Working Group; Amnesty International Nederland; Amnesty International UK; Amnesty International South Africa; Aristata Capital; Association for the Prevention of Torture; ATPDH (Chad); Bangladesh Legal Aid Services (BLAST); Center for Justice and Accountability; Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation; Chatham House; CICC; City of The Hague; Civitas Maxima; CNDDHH (Peru); COFAVIC (Venezuela); Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa; Convention Against Torture Initiative; CORE Coalition; ; DefendDefenders; Dignity; ECCHR; Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR); Emerging Solutions Africa; En Vero (Canada); Enough Project; Ensaaf; European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR); the European Implementation Network; and the Global Survivors Fund (GSF).

We are also grateful to: FIACAT; FIDH; Freedom from Torture; Free Nazanin Campaign; Genocide Network Secretariat; Global Witness; Greek Helsinki Monitor; Guernica 37; Human Dignity Trust; Human Rights Watch; International Center for Transitional Justice; ILGA Europe; Independent Medical Legal Unit; Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA); Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA); Institute for International Criminal Investigations; Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti; International Federation of Human Rights; International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims; International Truth and Justice Project; Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants; Kdei Karuna (Cambodia); Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR); Kenyan Human Rights Commission (KHRC); Legal Action Worldwide; Lawyers for Justice in Libya; Liberty; Medical Justice; Mahmoud Elsheikh; MENA Rights Group; Naripokkho (Bangladesh); Nuhanovic Foundation; OMCT; Open Society Justice Initiative; Outright; Oxford Human Rights Hub; Pan African ILGA; Parliamentarians for Global Action; Public Interest Law and Policy Group; Project Expedite Justice; PROMSEX (Peru); Reprieve; Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID); Southern Africa Litigation Centre; The Sentry; Spotlight on Corruption; Syrian Justice and Accountability Centre; SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations); Stichting LOS; Transitional Justice Centre; Transparency International UK; TRIAL International; United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Coalition (UKACC); Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights; and Waging Peace.

We would also like to thank in particular Baroness Helena Kennedy QC; Bob Campbell-Lamerton; Brock Chisolm; Dame Rosalind Marsden; Jacqueline Moudeina; Najlaa Ahmed; Nicole Piche; Reed Brody; Sarah Fulton; Tony Wright; and Crofton Black.

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Law firms, barristers, and investigators

We would also like to warmly thank the numerous law firms, barristers, and investigators that have supported our work over the year. In particular, special thanks to Alison Macdonald QC at Essex Court Chambers; Allen & Overy; David Pretorius, Kate Shoeman and Mandisi Rusa at Bowmans (South Africa); Caroline Buisman; Clifford Chance; Debevoise & Plimpton; Dentons; DLA Piper; Frans-Willem Verbaas; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Gibson Dunn; Hickman & Rose; Hogan Lovells; Ingrida Botyrienė (Lithuania); John Dugard SC, Steve Powles QC, Tatyana Eatwell, Megan Hirst, Tayyiba Bajwa, and Jake Taylor at Doughty Street Chambers; Julie Soweto (Kenya); Latham & Watkins; Leigh Day; Linklaters; Mbugua Mureithi (Kenya); Mintz Group; Isobel Koshiw; Rachel Scott, Genevieve Woods, and Rachel Barnes at 3 Raymond Buildings; Raedas Consulting, and its not-for-profit arm, FIND; Sam Mohochi (Kenya); Shaheed Fatima QC, Celia Rooney, and Ravi Mehta at Blackstone Chambers; Shu Shin Luh, Emma Fitzsimons, Miranda Butler and Emma Nash at Garden Court Chambers; Sterling Solicitors (Nigeria); Sudhanshu Swaroop QC, Belinda McRae and John Bethell at 20 Essex Street Chambers; Three Crowns; and White & Case.

Governance and Management

Governance

The charity was founded in 1992, and the Articles of Association were revised and updated in 2020.

During the course of the year, one trustee retired and one new trustee was appointed. Michael Birnbaum QC retired from the Board after many years’ service, and will continue to support the charity through the Legal Advisory Council. Karen Thompson joined the board, providing expertise in charity finance, and was appointed Treasurer of the Charity shortly after the year end in May 2021.

The Trustees meet four times a year. In addition, the Finance Committee, Risk Committee, and Development Committee meet in advance to consider the operation of the charity in more detail. During the year an enhanced induction training was introduced in order to ensure that new trustees have a strong grasp of their duties, and also of the work of the charity. The Trustees were not able to meet in person this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and so an in-person meeting to allow for some continuing training is planned as soon as circumstances permit.

Structure

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the strategic direction of the charity, and in February 2021 approved the new 2025 Strategy, with the objectives set out in it. The Trustees oversee the delivery of that strategy, and the policies and finances that support it. The Director is responsible for the day-today management of the charity, through the Management Committee which consists of the Director, the Head of Finance, and the Head of Law.

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The trustees review the activities of the charity each quarter, and hear from different staff at each meeting, ensuring that they hear about each of the programmes during the course of the year. They also consider annual deliverables at the beginning of each year, and review the impact that the charity has achieved annually.

The Chair and Treasurer agree objectives with the Director at the beginning of each year, which are then reviewed at the end of the year. The salary of the Director and all key management and staff are reviewed annually and normally increased in accordance with average earnings to reflect a cost of living adjustment, together with any step increases based on performance.

Statutory Requirements

The Board of Trustees confirms that the annual report and financial statements of the charity comply with current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity’s governing document, and the provisions of the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.

Public benefit

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the guidance of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to public benefit published by the Commission in determining the activities undertaken by the Charity. The Trustees are satisfied that the aims and objectives of the charity, and the activities reported on above to achieve those aims, meet these principles.

Fundraising

Our fundraising efforts during the year were very successful, with income increasing by more than 50% from the previous year. We maintained our unrestricted income from Trusts and Foundations through a strong fundraising pipeline and active potential donor engagement, which resulted in both repeat funding and new funding relationships. We also maintained our income from Law Firms, through sustained pro bono partnerships and by maintaining strong relationships with the firms. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in delayed decision making from some donors, and also reductions in other forms of fundraising such as events, including sporting events. Our fundraising capacity was enhanced through the recruitment of a Programme Development Manager and also a consultancy firm to assist with applications to UK trusts.

For restricted income, we secured a new funding relationship with the Global Survivors Fund and a threeyear funding agreement with the Allen & Overy Foundation for new projects under our Discrimination programme. We also secured continued funding from the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture and the National Endowment for Democracy under our Justice programme.

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Fundraising compliance

Under section 13 of the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016, the Trustees are required to report on the following.

Fundraising Approach . Our primary fundraising methods at REDRESS are (a) trusts and foundations, (b) law firm contributions, and (c) major donors. Our secondary methods are (a) sporting events, (b) other events, and (c) regular supporters. The fundraising at REDRESS is primarily carried out by employees: the Director, the Programme Development Manager, and the Finance and Fundraising Administrative Assistant, supported by the Head of Finance and the Head of Law. We also use a consultancy company, Competitive Solutions Limited, for help in drafting applications for core funding and Justice UK work – primarily to UK trusts. We do not undertake telephone, face-to-face, private site, or door-to-door fundraising, or use commercial participators.

Fundraising Standards. The charity has chosen to register with the Fundraising Regulator, and voluntarily adheres to the Code of Fundraising Practice. We adhere carefully to donor requirements for grant compliance, including the additional rules which apply to the government funding that we receive. If funding proposals are rejected, we seek feedback in accordance with the funder’s guidelines, and only reapply if there is clear justification to do so. We approach online fundraising through occasional promotion on our social media and follow GDPR guidelines when processing donations and storing supporter data. When facilitating marathon runners to fundraise for us we use online fundraising platforms that are registered with the Fundraising Regulator. The fundraising is overseen by the Management Committee and the Development Committee of the Board of Trustees. There have been no compliance issues under the Code during the year.

Monitoring . Fundraising has been carried out by staff and by our consultants, who are overseen by the Director and the Programme Development Manager, and who are registered with Institute of Fundraising. Some fundraising has also been delivered through “Run for Redress”, through sponsorship. We have worked closely with our runners, set up online fundraising pages for them, and provided them with draft language for encouraging supporters to make contributions, ensuring that their fundraising efforts are delivered appropriately.

Complaints . REDRESS received no complaints relating to fundraising activities during the course of the year. There was one request for the re-imbursement of a direct debit, which was dealt with promptly.

Vulnerable donors . The fundraising approach adopted by REDRESS is unlikely to engage vulnerable donors, as we do not undertake the most high-risk fundraising activities. Our contact with the general public is by social media and email, and we only contact people for fundraising when they have given us their explicit permission to do so, or where their prior engagement with REDRESS (for example, as a patron, trustee, or pro bono partner) suggests that they have an interest in supporting the work of the charity. REDRESS has a safeguarding policy for children and vulnerable adults, and staff receive induction training and annual training in the policy, which includes recognising vulnerable people.

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Risk Management

The Charity has robust policies and procedures in place for the identification and management of risk both for the charity as a whole and for individual projects where there are specific risks.

Risk Committee . The Board of Trustees has appointed a Committee to review risk, which meets twice a year to review the Risk Register and specific policies, and at other times where a specific risk management issue arises.

Risk Register . The staff and management of the charity maintain a risk register that sets out the primary risks that the charity faces, identifies how they should be mitigated, and creates an action plan for that mitigation. All significant risks, together with current mitigation actions, are reviewed by the Trustees twice a year. The Trustees are satisfied that systems have been developed and are in place to mitigate identified risks to an acceptable level.

Policies . The Risk Committee reviewed several new policies during the year which were subsequently approved by the Board, including a new Equality Policy, an Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy, a Safeguarding Policy, and an Environment Policy.

Conflict of interest. There is a Conflict of Interest policy between REDRESS UK and REDRESS Netherlands that was agreed in May 2018. Under this policy there must be no instructions or action between the two NGOs which may be incompatible with the charitable objectives of the other, might infringe the applicable laws for the other, might prejudice the financial or operational stability of the other, might involve any breach of any duty of confidentiality or data protection owed by the other, or might otherwise expose the other to any form of legal liability or damage to reputation. This policy is included as a financial risk in the Risk Register, which is reviewed twice a year. Trustees are asked to declare any conflicts of interest at the beginning of each quarterly trustees meeting. No infringements of the policy have arisen.

Impact of Covid-19. The global pandemic and consequent national lockdowns and restrictions on travel adversely affected the way the organisation operated. Following UK government advice all staff moved to home working from March 2020. Our landlord carried out a comprehensive health and safety assessment, restricting access to the REDRESS office. Funding was secured from Barings Foundation to purchase laptops for staff, bringing forward the IT improvement programme. Travel was restricted with staff unable to travel internationally to meet with partners for meetings or host training workshops or other events. Project activities were severely impacted, as our project partners were unable to hold planned activities in person, with events moving from in person to online. Our funders on these projects agreed to the changes, and adopted a flexible approach to requests for the amendment of budgets, allowing us to delay the delivery of projects with no cost extensions agreed. Many donors focused on supporting their existing grantees, meaning that decisions on new funding were delayed or deferred.

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Reference and Administrative details

Charity number: 1015787 Company number 2774071 Registered address: 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ Auditors: Haysmacintyre LLP, 10 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AG Bankers: HSBC Bank Plc, 28 Borough High Street, London SE1 1YB Unity Bank, Nine Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HB Royal Bank of Scotland, High Holborn Branch, London, WC1V 6PQ. CCLA, 80 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DZ

Financial Review

Financial performance

The charity had net expenditure on unrestricted funds of £17,862 for the year (2020: income of £60,430) before transfers. After transfers, together with the accumulated surplus brought forward from previous years, the charity now has an accumulated surplus on unrestricted funds of £159,559 (2020: £167,941). Restricted funds carried forward at 31 March 2021 amounted to £259,926 (2020: £183,168), following net surplus for the year of £68,376 (2020: loss of £401,128). The funds carried forward are sufficient for the activities for which the funds were provided.

Income from donations decreased by 3.4% to £474,429 in 2021 compared with £491,007 in 2020. Restricted income increased by 240.59% to £613,973 in 2021 compared to £180,267 in 2020. There is no income from training in 2021 comparted to £5,150 in 2020. The overall increase in income year on year is 52.78%. Expenditure overall has decreased by 8.3 % from £1,112,831 in 2020 to £1,020,496.

The balance sheet shows that funds held at the end of the year were £68,376 higher than at the start of the year.

The Trustees have also carefully addressed the complementarities of the charity’s work with other national and international organisations to assure donors that funding contributes the maximum impact to a co-ordinated approach to the charity’s overall goals.

Reserves Policy

REDRESS’ total reserves are £419,485 (2020: £351,109) of which £159,559 are unrestricted and £259,926 are restricted. REDRESS holds reserves for a number of reasons:

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The Trustees calculate that REDRESS requires a range of free reserves of between £150,000 and £327,000 (3 – 6 months of operating costs) to operate. Free reserves are calculated as the total value of Unrestricted Funds less the value of Fixed Assets which are not immediately realisable for use under the Policy.

At the year-end REDRESS had free reserves of £148,449 (2020: £156,159). The current free reserves are slightly below the target range. The trustees have agreed the 2021/2022 budget with this in mind, with the intention of increasing free reserves during the year. ~~T~~ he reserves policy will be reviewed during the year and a new policy will be implemented in 2021/2022.

Going Concern Assessment

The Management Team and Trustees have carefully considered the current financial position of the charity, and whether it has sufficient funds to operate for a period of at least one year from the date of signing the accounts. It is the opinion of the trustees that there are no concerns, based on the strong reserves of the charity (particularly considering the post-year end change in the reserves position), the careful budgetary and other financial controls that are in place, regular oversight by the Finance Committee of the Board, and the strong fundraising pipeline that is in place. Specifically:

Reserves and cashflow. The reserves at the year end were just under the policy of having three months running costs, but have been significantly enhanced by post year-end income, which has increased our projected reserves to more than six months running costs, and provides for strong cash-flow projections, as a result of which the Trustees believe that the charity has sufficient funds for at least 12 months of operation.

Fundraising . There is a very strong fundraising pipeline which is overseen by the Development Committee of the Board. The charity has recruited a Development Manager in the last year and is also using specialist fundraising consultants, allowing for more applications at a higher quality to be submitted.

Multi-year funding. The charity has received several multi-year commitments for project funding, which allows for multi-year budgeting.

Budget . The Head of Finance and the Finance Committee have prepared a robust budget, and spending is carefully maintained with the agreed amounts.

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Events since the end of the year

During 2020/21 Covid-19 directly impacted on REDRESS’ development strategy with funding decisions delayed. Since the year end, several grants that we would had expected to be confirmed during the reporting period were secured after the year-end. Two large unrestricted donations were received in the first quarter as well, and several multi-year project grants were secured that will fund the current work and the development identified in the strategy. These contributions mean that the Trustees are confident that the reserves will be built up during the course of the following financial year, as set out in the budget approved by the Board in February 2021.

Statement of the Trustees’ Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are also directors of The Redress Trust for the purposes of company law), are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time of the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

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In so far as we are aware:

Plans for the Future

The REDRESS 2025 Strategy sets out some new and innovative areas of work, including:

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B. INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE REDRESS TRUST

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The Redress Trust for the year ended 31 March 2021 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of 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:

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 trustees’ 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 charitable company’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.

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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 trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Messages from the Chair and Director and the Trustees’ Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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.

Opinions on other Matters Prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which We Are Required to Report by Exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Messages from the Chair and Director and Trustees’ Annual Report (which incorporates the directors’ report).

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

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Responsibilities of Trustees for the Financial Statements

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 25 the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are 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 trustees determine 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 trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’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 trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements

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.

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:

Based on our understanding of the charitable company and the environment in which it operates, we identified that the principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to charity and company law applicable in England and Wales , and we considered the extent to which noncompliance might have a material effect on the financial statements. We also considered those laws and regulations that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements such as the Companies Act 2006 and the Charities Act 2011, and consider other factors such as income tax, payroll tax and sales tax.

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We evaluated management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls), and determined that the principal risks were related to the improper recognition of revenue and management bias in accounting estimates. Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:

Discussions with management including consideration of known or suspected instances of noncompliance with laws and regulation and fraud;

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our Report

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members 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 charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Murtaza Jessa (Senior Statutory Auditor)

For and on behalf of Haysmacintyre LLP, Statutory Auditors

10 Queen Street Place, London EC4 1AG

Date:

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C. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2021

Income & Expenditure Account

Income & Expenditure Account
Note
Income from
Donatons and Legacies
2
Investment Income
Other income
Charitable actvites
3
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
Total Income
Expenditure on
Raising Funds
Charitable actvites
4
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
Total Expenditure
Net Income/(expenditure)
6
Transfers between funds
Fund balances brought forward at 1st
April 2020
Fund balances carried forward at 31st
March 2021		 Unrestrict-
ed Funds
£
474,429
470
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
179,886
14,865
356,630
59,792
2,800
Total
2021
£
474,429
470
-
179,886
14,865

356,630
59,792
2,800		 Total
2020
£
491,007
1,279
5,150
55,464
107,904
8,669
40,430
2,800
474,899 613,973 1,088,872 712,703
88,587
134,357
40,047
205,213
23,788
769
492,761		 -
175,432
52,290
267,949
31,060
1,004
527,735		 88,587
309,789
92,337
473,162
54,848
1,773
1,020,496		 65,598
541,976
109,281
282,827
113,149
-
1,112,831
(17,862) 86,238 68,376 (401,128)
9,480 (9,480) - -
167,941 183,168 351,109 751,237
159,559 259,926 419,485 351,109

There were no recognised gains and losses for 2021 or 2020 other than those included in the statement of financial activities. All the above results are derived from continuing activities. The notes at page 44 form part of these financial statements.

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Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2021

Company Number: 02774071

Note
£
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible fxed assets
8
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
9
82,189
Cash
461,946
Total current assets
544,135
CREDITORS:falling due within
one year
10
(135,760)
NET CURRENT ASSETS
NET ASSETS
REPRESENTED BY:
12
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds:
General funds
Designated funds		 2021
£
£
11,110
119,434
390,225
509,659
(170,332)
408,375
419,485
259,926
148,449
11,110
419,485		 2020
£
11,782
339,327
351,109
183,168
156,159
11,782
351,109

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board of Trustees on 15th October 2021 and signed on its behalf by:

Nigel Paul Lomas

Chair

The notes at page 44 form part of these financial statements.

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Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 31st March 2021

Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 31st March 2021
2021 2020
Cash fows from operatng actvites: £ £
Net cash provided by /(used in) operatng actvites (Note a) 77,365 (469,504)
Cash fows from investng actvites:
Interest Income 470 1,279
Purchase of fxed assets (6,114) (1,677)
Net cash provided by /(used in) investng actvites (5,644) (398)
Cash fows from fnancing actvites:
Net cash provided by /(used in) fnancing actvites - -
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reportng period 71,721 (469,902)
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reportng period 390,225 860,127
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reportng period 461,946 390,225
Note a: Reconciliaton of net movement in funds to net cash fow from
operatng actvites
Net movement in funds for the reportng period 68,376 (401,128)
Adjustments for:
Depreciaton charges 6,786 6,684
Interest (470) (1,279)
(Increase)/decrease in debtors 37,245 (96,449)
Increase/(decrease) in creditors (34,572) 21,669
Net cash provided by (used in) operatng actvites 77,365 (469,504)
Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
Cash in hand 461,946 390,225
Total cash and cash equivalents 461,946 390,225

The notes at page 44 form part of these financial statements.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st March 2021

1. Accounting Policies

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgments and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

REDRESS meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and Liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

Going concern

The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about REDRESS’ ability to continue as a going concern. With respect to the next reporting period, a good fundraising application pipeline is in place and the Charity has a reasonable contingency plan in place such as reducing certain lines of expenditure if the required level of funding is not achieved. Trustees receive frequent updates and monitor the financial health of the organisation on a regular basis. The review of our financial position, reserves levels and future plans gives Trustee’s confidence that the charity remains a going concern.

Company status

The charity is a company limited by guarantee. The members of the company are the Board of Trustees named on page 45. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £10 per member of the charity.

Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Board of Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes. Restricted funds are funds that are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donors, which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes. The aim and use of each restricted fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Investment income, gains and losses are allocated to the appropriate fund.

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Income recognition

Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity is legally entitled to the income, it is probable that income will be received, and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that settlement will be required, and the amount of obligation can be measured reliably.

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been included under expense categories that aggregate all costs for allocation to activities. Where support costs cannot be directly attributed to particular activities, they have been allocated in proportion to direct costs incurred. The allocation of support and governance costs is analysed in note 4

Governance costs have been incurred in ensuring compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements.

Tangible fixed assets and depreciation

Assets acquired for the long-term use of the charity and having an initial cost or valuation of £250 or more are capitalised as tangible fixed assets. Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost or valuation less depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation of fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:

Office equipment - 4 years Straight line Software - 4 years Straight line Fixtures & fittings - 6 years Straight line

Foreign currencies

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate ruling on the date of the transaction. Exchange differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating surplus.

Employee benefits

Short term benefits. Short term benefits including holiday pay are recognised as an expense in the period in which the service is received.

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Employee termination benefits. Termination benefits are accounted for on an accrual basis and in line with FRS 102.

Pension. The charity operates a defined contribution pension policy and the pension charge represents the amounts payable by the charity to funds established by individuals in respect of the year.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from income tax and corporation tax on its charitable activities. The charity is not registered for VAT and is unable to recover VAT on its purchases. All irrecoverable VAT is included within the relevant expenditure categories.

Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any discounts due.

Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

Financial instruments

The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.

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2. Donations

2. Donatons
Open Society Foundatons
AB Charitable Trust
Cliford Chance Global Foundaton
DLA Piper UK
Hogan Lovells UK
J Armitage Charitable Trust
Jofe Charitable Trust
Linklaters
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred
Heart
The Bay & Paul Foundaton
The Sigrid Rausing Trust
The Bromley Trust
David and Ruth Lewis Foundaton
Other		 Total
Funds
2021
£
145,858
15,000
10,000
-
14,572
36,000
-
7,000
-
-
150,000
20,000
25,000
50,999		 Total
Funds
2020
£
118,106
-
10,000
12,000
10,000
36,000
25,000
-
19,055
34,775
150,000
-
-
76,071
491,007
474,429

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3. Income from Charitable Activities

Justce
Barings Foundaton
Equality Human Rights Commission
MFA Netherlands
Natonal Endowment for Democracy
Peoples Postcode Trust
Three Crowns
Trust Africa
UNVFT
WF Southall Trust
Reparaton
University of Bristol
CTI
Knowledge Management Foundaton
Queens University Belfast
ROLE UK
UNVFT
Dissent
Donor X
Hivos
Discriminaton
Allen & Overy
Barings Foundaton
Bromley Trust
Child Rights Internatonal Network
Global Survivors Fund
Solidarity
Matrix
Training and other income		 Total
Funds
2021
£
5,000
-
78,987
49,398
20,000
-
-
21,501
5,000
-
6,615
8,250
-
-
356,630
-
50,000
-
-
9,792
2,800
-		 Total
Funds
2020
£
-
6,822
-
13,539
-
35,000
3,925
-
3,000
3,650
49,580
6,593
8,250
2,852
30,157
-
8,669
-
465
20,000
19,965
-
2,800
5,150
613,973 220,417

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4a. Expenditure

Direct Staf
Costs
£
Raising Funds
31,184
Charitable actvites
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
44,285
9,212
81,216
18,195
-
Total
184,092
4b. Comparatve period expenditure
Raising Funds
28,938
Charitable actvites
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
69,436
35,381
78,177
41,095
-
Total
253,027		 Direct Staf
Costs
£
31,184
44,285
9,212
81,216
18,195
-		 Other
Costs
£

18,982
131,147
43,078
186,734
12,865
1,004
Apportoned
Support
Costs
£

38,421
134,357
40,047
205,212
23,788
769

Total
2021
£

88,587
309,789
92,337
473,162
54,848
1,773
184,092 393,810 442,594 1,020,496

12,346
271,658
33,395
99,820
30,115
-
24,314
200,883
40,505
104,830
41,938
-
65,598
541,977
109,281
282,827
113,148
-
253,027 447,334 412,470 1,112,831

Apportioned support costs include the following costs, allocated to activities in proportion to direct costs incurred on each charitable activity area.

Cost pool

Cost pool
Staf and associated costs
Casework costs
Communicatons costs
Ofce costs
Premises costs
Governance costs-see note 5
Total		 2021
£
325,184
8,878
3,389
67,707
24,686
12,750		 2020
£

307,629

33,812

3,463

25,509

27,357

14,700
442,594 412,470

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5. Governance Costs

Governance costs include:

Audit and accountancy
Other direct costs		 2021
£
12,750
-		 2020
£
13,200
1,500
12,750 14,700

Audit and accountancy costs are charged to Restricted Funds where allowed.

Audit services costs have been charged to Charitable Activities where they are covered by Restricted grants.

6. Net Income/(Expenditure)

Net income/ expenditure are stated after charging:

Depreciaton of tangible fxed assets
Auditors remuneraton
Annual Audit services (excluding VAT)
Other Accountng services (excluding VAT)
Operatng leases
7. Personnel Costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs- Employer NIC
Pension
Temporary, contract and non-UK staf costs
Other staf costs e.g. recruitment, training, volunteers		 2021
£
6,786
12,750
-
19,275		 2020
£
6,682
11,000
1,250
20,909
38,811 39,841
2021
£
393,716
39,381
39,778
113,535
10,723
597,133		 2020
£
365,143
35,681
35,960
123,874
12,601
573,259

The non-UK staff costs include staff employed by partner organisations who are working to implement projects and are not directly employed by the charity.

One employee received remuneration was between £70,001 and £80, in the year (2020: 1 received between £70,001 and £80,000). Key management personnel are the senior management team is made

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up of the Director and Head of Finance. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel for the year totaled £150,667 (2020: £ 144,544).

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

Project staf
Support staf		 2021
6
4		 2020
5
4
10 9

REDRESS Stichting based in the Hague, employed an average of 2 staff (2020: 2) during the year.

No trustees (2020: nil) received any remuneration in respect of their role as trustees. No trustee claimed expenses (2020: £133 for travel expenses) during the year and no amounts were paid directly to third parties.

8. Tangible Fixed Assets

At 1stApril 2020
Additons for the year
Disposals
At 31stMarch 2021
Depreciaton
At 1stApril 2020
Charge for the year
Disposals
At 31stMarch 2021
Net Book Value
At 31stMarch 2021
At 31stMarch 2020		 Sofware
20,909
-
-		 Ofce
Equipment
£
7,063
6,114
(2,984)		 Fixtures
& Fitngs
£
2,771
-
(341)		 Total
£
30,743
6,114
(3,325)
20,909 10,193 2,430 33,532
12,197
5,227
-		 4,258
1,439
(2,984)		 2,506
120
(341)		 18,961
6,786
(3,325)
17,424 2,713 2,285 22,422
3,485 7,480 145 11,110
8,712 2,805 265 11,782

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9. Debtors

Due within one year
Other debtors
Advances to partners under Grant agreements
Grants receivable
Prepayments
10. Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Accruals
Social security and other taxes
Other creditors
11a. Fund Movements
Balance
Income
1st April 2020
£
£
Restricted funds
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
52,502
71,549
48,551
7,766
2,800
179,886
14,865
356,630
59,792
2,800
Total restricted funds
183,168
613,973		 Due within one year
Other debtors
Advances to partners under Grant agreements
Grants receivable
Prepayments
10. Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Accruals
Social security and other taxes
Other creditors
11a. Fund Movements
Balance
Income
1st April 2020
£
£
Restricted funds
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
52,502
71,549
48,551
7,766
2,800
179,886
14,865
356,630
59,792
2,800
Total restricted funds
183,168
613,973		 Due within one year
Other debtors
Advances to partners under Grant agreements
Grants receivable
Prepayments
10. Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Accruals
Social security and other taxes
Other creditors
11a. Fund Movements
Balance
Income
1st April 2020
£
£
Restricted funds
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
52,502
71,549
48,551
7,766
2,800
179,886
14,865
356,630
59,792
2,800
Total restricted funds
183,168
613,973		 Expenditure
£
(175,432)
(52,290)
(267,950)
(31,059)
(1,004)		 2021
£
1,084
25,148
33,318
22,639		 2020
£
5,096
34,182
58,717
21,439
119,434
2020
£
40,602
63,438
10,601
55,691
170,332
Balance

31st March
2021
£
50,663
33,517
135,502
35,648
4,596
259,926
82,189
2021
£
24,030
44,685
2,999
64,046
135,760
183,168 613,973 (527,735) (9,480)

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Unrestricted funds

Designated fund –Fixed Asset
General fund
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds
Restricted Funds		 11,782
156,159		 -
474,899		 (6,784)
(485,977)		 6,112
3,368
167,941 474,899 (492,761) 9,480
351,109 1,088,872 (1,020,496) -

The funds of the charity include restricted funds comprising the unexpended balances of donations and grants, as set out below, held on trusts to be applied for the following purposes:

Justice. This programme supports the charity’s direct to pursue legal claims for survivors and the prosecution of perpetrators of torture in the United Kingdom and across the world. It is supported by grants including from People Postcode Trust, WF Southall Charitable Trust, and the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.

Reparation. This programme supports the charity’s work to deliver remedies and reparation for survivors, including through projects supported by Queen’s University Belfast and Matrix Chambers.

Dissent. This programme supports the charity’s work to challenge torture used to suppress activism and protest including through a project on enforced disappearance in Africa supported by an international donor.

Discrimination. This programme supports the charity’s work to challenge torture used against marginalized and excluded minorities, including through a project challenging LGBT+ torture in Africa supported by Allen & Overy, and a new project on conflict related sexual violence supported by the Global Survivors Fund.

Solidarity. This programme supports the charity’s work to support and strengthen the anti-torture movement working with NGOs across the world, including a project to produce practice notes supported by the Matrix Chambers Fund.

Designated Funds

A designated fund representing the net book value of fixed assets has been established. These funds are tied up in fixed assets and are not readily realisable as cash.

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Transfers

Transfer of £6,112 from unrestricted to designated funds to cover the depreciation in future years for fixed assets purchased during the year. Transfer of £3,368 from restricted funds represent spent funds.

11b. Comparative period Fund Movement

Restricted funds
Justce
Reparaton
Dissent
Discriminaton
Solidarity
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Designated fund –Fixed Asset
General fund
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 Balance
1st April
2019
£
367,171
13,841
217,879
44,835
-		 Income

£
20,464
107,904
8,669
40,430
2,800		 Expenditure
£
(335,133)
(50,196)
(177,997)
(77,499)
-		 Transfers
Between
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance

31st March
2020
£
52,502
71,549
48,551
7,766
2,800
643,726 180,267 (640,825) - 183,168
16,788
90,723		 -
532,436		 (6,683)
(465,323)		 1,677
(1,677)		 11,782
156,159
107,511 532,436 (472,006) - 167,941
751,237 712,703 (1,112,831) - 351,109

Comparative period transfers

Transfer of £1,677 from unrestricted to designated funds to cover the depreciation in future years for fixed assets purchased during the year.

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12a. Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds

Unrestricted
Funds
£
Fund balances at 31stMarch 2021 are represented by:
Tangible fxed assets
11,110
Current assets
192,137
Current liabilites
(43,688)
159,559
12b. Comparatve period net assets between funds
Unrestricted
Funds
£
Fund balances at 31stMarch 2020 are represented by:
Tangible fxed assets
11,782
Current assets
217,229
Current liabilites
(61,070)
167,941		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
Fund balances at 31stMarch 2021 are represented by:
Tangible fxed assets
11,110
Current assets
192,137
Current liabilites
(43,688)
159,559
12b. Comparatve period net assets between funds
Unrestricted
Funds
£
Fund balances at 31stMarch 2020 are represented by:
Tangible fxed assets
11,782
Current assets
217,229
Current liabilites
(61,070)
167,941		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
351,998
(92,072)		 Total
Funds
31st March
2021
£
11,110
544,135
(135,760)
159,559 259,926 419,485
Restricted
Funds
£
-
292,430
(109,262)		 Total
Funds
31st March 2020
£
11,782
509,659
(170,332)
167,941 183,168 351,109

13. Capital Commitments and Contingent Liabilities

At the end of the period there were no capital commitments. There are no other financial commitments for which full provision has not been made in these financial statements (2020: £0).

14. Operating Leases

Operating lease rentals of £19,735 (2020: £20,909) were paid in respect of properties and equipment held under leases in the year. At 31 March 2021, the charity had the following future minimum lease payment under non- cancellable leases.

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Land and buildings Land and buildings Other
2021 2020 2021 2020
£ £ £ £
Up to one year 19,275 20,309 - 140
Between two to fve years - - 460 460

15. Pension Schemes

The charity operates an auto enrolment scheme in respect of its employees. Pension contributions for are paid into this scheme. As at 31 March 2021, employer contributions outstanding amount to £2,999.21 (2020 £3,392.46).

16. Redress Trust (USA)

The Redress Trust Limited was incorporated as a Not-for-Profit Corporation in the State of New York on 27[th] June 1995, (Number 13-4028661). The Internal Revenue Service determined on 22[nd] October 1999 that The Redress Trust Limited (USA) is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organisation under Section 501 (c) (3).

The Board of Directors consists of:-

17. Stichting REDRESS Nederland

Stichting REDRESS Nederland was formally established on 7 September 2016 as an independent charitable organisation under Dutch law. Given the composition of its Board which currently includes a majority of REDRESS TRUST (UK) members. The trustees of both Boards are bound by a conflict-of-interest policy, which sets out the principles to be applied to avoid the risk of any conflict of interest arising.

During the financial year REDRESS UK transferred £129,985 (2020 £141,005) to cover salaries of staff working on UK funded projects and general running costs. The Board is comprised of:

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18. Related Party Transactions

Donations received from Trustees as aggregate in the year were £7,500 (2020 £24,450). There are no related party transactions.

Who is Who at REDRESS

Board of Trustees

Staff

Staff of REDRESS Nederland

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Patrons

Founder and Honorary President

Legal Advisory Council

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redress.org

REDRESS 87 Vauxhall Walk London, SE11 5HJ United Kingdom

REDRESS Nederland Alexanderveld 5, office 3.19, 2585DB The Hague, The Netherlands

@REDRESSTrust /theREDRESSTrust company/REDRESS