## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] April 2023 Period start date To 31[st] March 2024 Period end date Charity name: Croydon Refugee Day Centre**
## **Charity registration number: 1064465**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**This is set out in our Trust Deed: “To**
**relieve and assist in the relief of**
**refugees who are in need by the**
**provision of facilities within a Day**
**Centre”.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|We are a small, specialist organisation,
based at West Croydon Baptist Church 3
days per week. We have
a 70-strong
volunteer team and 25-year track record of
supporting refugees and asylum seekers.
We have five core projects:
1.
**Essentials Centre:**new & second
hand clothing, coats and shoes,
school uniform and essentials,
household goods, toiletries, online
access and food. .
2.
**Family Support Programme:**
weekly outreach into asylum hotels,
building trust with families and
helping children access education
and other opportunities; providing
necessary uniforms and equipment;
liaising with schools to support
children's needs.
3.
**Welcome Project:**weekly
community hub promoting well-
being and mental health through
social activities, language classes,
children’s play, dance and art.
4.
**Signposting, Advice and**
**Guidance Project: **assists and
supports with understanding and
navigating UK systems and
enabling asylum seekers and
refugees to be represented and
heard.
5.
**Refugee Homes Project: **In
partnership with The Spires Centre,
supports newly-recognised
refugees who are homeless or at|
|||risk of homelessness to find
housing options.|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees have kept in mind our purposes
and the Charity Commission’s guidance on
public benefit.
The main activities benefitting the public
were as detailed in Activities and
Performance below.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|We are grateful for the commitment by
many regular volunteers. Our 70-strong
volunteer team give over 100 hours of
voluntary work each week.
Without their valuable contributions
of time, energy and compassion we
would not have been able to achieve so
much.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|There are now 1100 people (including 300-
350 children) seeking asylum living in
emergency hostels in Croydon – a five
times’ increase on pre-pandemic levels.
Refugee Action’s report
suggests people
are being held in ‘de facto’ detention, in
conditions that are unsanitary, hostile and
actively harmful to their physical and mental
health. We are currently supporting
families who have been housed like this for
upwards of two years (rather than the 3-4
weeks in government guidance). Families
receive three basic meals a day - plus
£8.86 per person per week - and they are
generally banned from working and being
able to earn their own money. They are
therefore forced into destitution.|
Other asylum seekers live in dispersal accommodation in the borough, existing on a subsistence allowance of only £49.15 per person per week (42% lower than standard universal credit). Many refugees are now living in emergency accommodation or are street homeless after being evicted from asylum accommodation shortly after receiving leave to remain. Our services supported people from across these groups over the year in question, and our achievements are as follows: - **Supported 1416 individuals altogether (823 adults and 593 children).** They came from 54 different countries. The largest majority came from Iran (22%). 52% of the adults we supported were female and 48% were male. - **~100 individuals supported each week at our Essentials Centre** with good quality, second-hand clothing, school uniform and household goods as well as signposting advice, and guidance. - **~30 individuals supported each week at our Welcome Project** , with games and activities, language classes, socialising and refreshments. - Our Pilot Family Support Programme established **two weekly drop ins** at asylum hotels in Croydon offering support to access education and general signposting, advice and guidance. - **655 winter coats, 981 pairs of shoes, 1264 sets of new underwear, 815 food parcels and 1029 toiletry and hygiene packs** gifted to asylum seekers and refugees. **-** New partnership with The Spires Centre set up to **support individuals at risk of street homelessness** after receiving refugee status.
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
N/A
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Our funds have come from small grants
and from voluntary donations. We have
successfully expanded and diversified our
funding base this year to meet the new
level of need in Croydon.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charity was in a healthy financial**
**position at the end of the period.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We hold unrestricted reserves such that**
**we would be able to wind up the**
**organisation in a timely and orderly**
**manner, if it was no longer a going**
**concern.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Not more than 6 months and not less**
**than 3 months in unrestricted funds at**
**any one time against budgeted**
**expenditure.**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Grants and donations**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risks for the Charity are:**
**(1) not having sufficient funds to pay**
**any staff and buy food and**
**clothing provided to asylum**
**seekers and refugees, and**
**(2) not having sufficient volunteers to**
**operate our services in relation to**
**the demand for them.**|
|Other||**N/A**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated Association**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees have generally been drawn**
**from the pool of experienced volunteers**
**and are appointed at trustee meetings.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**-**|
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**-**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**-**|
|Other||**-**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Croydon Refugee Day Centre|
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|Other name the charity uses|-|
|Registered charity number|1064465|
|Charity’s principal address|Croydon Refugee Day Centre
West Croydon Baptist Church
Whitehorse Road
Croydon
CR0 2JH|
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||Linda Fox|Treasurer from
15/10/23|15/10/23 onwards||
||Ivanka Lennon||||
||Rosanna Edser||||
||Bridgette Nettleford||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A**
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity
Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser N/A**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Joanna Doherty (Centre Manager)
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**
## **Other optional information**
**N/A**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** (Known as Rory) **Full name(s)** Roderick Ian Neil MacLeod ~~es~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair of Trustees **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~
**Date** 21[st] November 2024
## **INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT**
Croydon Refugee Day Centre For the year ended 31 March 2024
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|**Account**|**RESTRICTED, FAMILY**
**SUPPORT PROGRAMME**|**RESTRICTED, FOOD BANK**|**RESTRICTED, FOOD**
**VOUCHERS**|**RESTRICTED, GENERAL**|**RESTRICTED, HARDSHIP**|**OPERATIONAL &**
**VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR**|**RESTRICTED, SCHOOL**
**UNIFORM PROJECT**|**RESTRICTED, TUESDAY**
**CENTRE**|**RESTRICTED, WEDNESDAY WELCOME**|**UNRESTRICTED, GENERAL**|**Total**|
|||||||**ROLE**||||||
|**Turnover**||||||||||||
|Donations - Organisations|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|10,297.47|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|8,551.66|18,849.13|
|Grants|7,781.75|3,360.00|3,840.00|10,000.00|1,900.00|18,607.50|2,500.00|2,900.00|7,000.00|5,000.00|62,889.25|
|Individual Donations|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|250.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|8,825.11|9,075.11|
|Online Donations|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|991.25|991.25|
|Other Revenue|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|148.75|148.75|
|**Total Turnover**|**7,781.75**|**3,360.00**|**3,840.00**|**10,000.00**|**12,447.47**|**18,607.50**|**2,500.00**|**2,900.00**|**7,000.00**|**23,516.77**|**91,953.49**|
|**BFWD FUND BALANCE**|||||||||**2,078.00**|**25,905.11**|**27,983.11**|
|**Administrative Costs**||||||||||||
|Administration & IT|245.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|521.19|0.00|0.00|766.72|479.86|2,012.77|
|Audit & Accountancyfees|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|1,765.00|1,765.00|
|Clothes|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|2,246.29|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|2,246.29|
|External Tuition|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|575.00|0.00|575.00|
|Food|0.00|3,283.40|0.00|97.63|304.21|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|2,101.25|5,786.49|
|Food Vouchers|0.00|0.00|3,840.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|3,840.00|
|Insurance|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|310.91|310.91|
|Mobiles|45.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|49.36|0.00|0.00|82.49|61.00|237.85|
|Pensions Costs|0.00|0.00|0.00|82.05|0.00|121.23|0.00|0.00|0.00|444.64|647.92|
|Salaries|0.00|0.00|0.00|5,333.35|0.00|5,600.01|0.00|617.05|2,537.47|4,117.68|18,205.56|
|Sundry|0.00|76.60|0.00|0.00|180.00|0.00|0.00|82.95|1,453.82|379.39|2,172.76|
|Toiletries|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|1,953.39|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|120.96|2,074.35|
|Travel|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|404.90|0.00|0.00|0.00|2,162.50|45.00|2,612.40|
|Use of Space|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|1,500.00|3,000.00|4,500.00|
|**Total Administrative Costs**|**290.00**|**3,360.00**|**3,840.00**|**5,513.03**|**5,088.79**|**6,291.79**|**0.00**|**700.00**|**9,078.00**|**12,825.69**|**46,987.30**|
|**Operating Profit**|**7,491.75**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**4,486.97**|**7,358.68**|**12,315.71**|**2,500.00**|**2,200.00**|**0.00**|**36,596.19**|**72,949.30**|
|**FUNDER**|**FUND**|**POOL**|
|---|---|---|
|REEDHAM CHILDRENS'S TRUST
PURLEY FOOD HUB
REEDHAM CHILDRENS'S TRUST
CROYDON COUNCIL A/S SUPPORT FUND
LEATHERSELLERS FOUNDATION
MAURICE FRY TRUST
POSTCODE SOCIETY TRUST
LONDON CHURCHES REFUGEE FUND
RED DOOR
CROYDON RELIEF IN NEED (CRIN)
NLCF AWARDS FOR ALL
CHARLES LEWIS FOUNDATION
CROYDON COUNCIL A/S SUPPORT FUND|RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
UNRESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED|FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMME
FOOD BANK
FOOD VOUCHERS
GENERAL
GENERAL
GENERAL
GENERAL
HARDSHIP
HARDSHIP
OPERATIONAL & CO ORDINATOR ROLE
OPERATIONAL & CO ORDINATOR ROLE
SCHOOL UNIFORM
WEDNESDAY WELCOME|
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|**UNRESTRICTED BFWD BAL 31 MAR 23**||25,905.11|
|**RESTRICTED BFWD BAL 31 MAR 23 (WEDNESDAY WELCOME)**||2,078.00|
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|**OPENING BANK BALANCE**||**27,983.11**|
|- RESTRICTED INCOME 23/24|68,436.72||
|- UNRESTRICTED INCOME 23/24|23,516.77||
|**TOTAL INCOME 23/24**||**91,953.49**|
|- RESTRICTED EXPENDITURE|(34,161.61)||
|- UNRESTRICTED EXPENDITURE|(12,825.69)||
|**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**||**-46,987.30**|
|**CLOSING BANK BALANCE**||**72,949.30**|
|**FUND RECONCILIATION AS AT 31ST MARCH 2024**|||
|**C/FWD UNRESTRICTED BAL**||36,596.19|
|**C/FWD RESTRICTED BAL**|||
|- TUESDAY CENTRE|2,200.00||
|- SCHOOL UNIFORM PROJECT|2,500.00||
|- OPERATIONAL & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR ROLE|12,315.71||
|- HARDSHIP|7,358.68||
|- RESTRICTED GENERAL|4,486.97||
|- FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMME|7,491.75||
|**TOTAL RESTRICTED C/FWD BAL**||36,353.11|
|**23/24 FUND BALANCES**||**72,949.30**|
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Croydon Refugee Day Centre **On accounts for the year** 31 March 2024 **Charity no** 1064465 **ended (if any)**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2024.
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 6 November 2024 **Signed: Name:** Dominique Wells ~~Po~~ **Relevant professional** FCA - Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 10 Lakeswood Road Petts Wood Kent BR5 1BJ
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## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of** None. **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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