2023-03-31-accounts

Migrants Organise Limited

Company registration number: 03673737 Charity registration number: 1077116

Migrants Organise Limited (A company limited by guarantee)

Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 31 March 2023

Migrants Organise Limited

Contents

Reference and Administrative Details	1
Trustees' Report	3 -14
Independent Auditor's Report	15-17
Statement of Financial Activities	18
Balance Sheet	19
Statement of Cash Flows	20
Notes to the Financial Statements	21-31

Migrants Organise Limited

Reference and Administrative Details

For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

Registered Company Number: 03673737 (England and Wales)

Registered Charity Number: 1077116

Registered Address: 196 Freston Road, London W10 6TT

Trustees Ali Lazizi Kyle Sawhney (Treasurer) Lorraine Gilbert Marzena Zukowska Reza Khalesi Roz Pendlebury (Chair) Rayan Fakhoury Dr Simon Cuff

Company Secretary Zrinka Bralo

Auditors

Moracle Limited, Chartered Certified Accountants & Registered Auditors

Migrants Organise Ltd Trustees’ Report

The Trustees, who are also Directors of the Charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2023. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

a. Constitution

Migrants Organise Ltd is a grassroots migrant and refugee rights organising platform. It works to grow the power of migrant and refugee communities through advice and support so that they can access their rights and organise to speak out for dignity and justice for all.

In the 2022/23 financial year, Migrants Organise Ltd employed twelve full-time and two parttime staff and benefited from the skills and commitments of hundreds of volunteers, who help deliver mentoring and casework support, carry out research, advocate and organise for positive social change.

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The Company is constituted under a Memorandum of Association dated 25 November 1998 and is a registered charity (number 1077116). In the event of the company being wound up, the members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1.

b. Method of Appointment or Election of Trustees

The appointment and removal of Trustees is decided by a majority of votes. At every Annual General Meeting, the longest-serving one-third of the Trustees are required to retire from office, although these Trustees are eligible for re-election. The Charity seeks to recruit Trustees from amongst its members and supporters with varied experience and expertise.

c. Organisational Structure and Decision Making

The Charity is governed by a Board of Trustees comprising nine members, who meet regularly during the year to administer the Charity. The members who served on the board throughout the year under review are named on page 1.

The Board of Trustees is the governing body responsible for the activities of the organisation. The role of the Board is to:

• Approve the budget for the year

• Approve signatories to the bank accounts

• Appoint staff where not delegated to the Chief Executive

• Receive reports from the Chief Executive on areas of concern

• Approve exceptional items of expenditure

• Monitor the organisation’s financial position based on regular re ports

• Approve the annual accounts, auditor’s report and appointment

d. Risk Management

The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the Charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. A risk assessment has been carried out, and this is updated annually. Significant external risks to funding and the need to respond to conditions in the local community make it necessary to review and diversify our activities regularly. Internal control risks are minimised by the implementation of procedures for the authorisation of all transactions and projects. Procedures are in place to ensure compliance with Health and Safety requirements, Employment Law and the Data Protection Act.

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

The objects for which the Charity is established are:

The relief of migrant and refugee individuals and communities, in particular, but not limited to those living in the London Boroughs, in any manner which is charitable in law as the Charity shall decide, in particular by

(a) The advancement of education and training for employment

(b) The provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving the quality of life of the said migrant and refugee individuals and communities

(c) The relief of poverty

• (d) The preservation and protection of health

(e) Support and advice to charitable organisations established for similar purposes in the area of benefit

(f) The promotion of activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds, and the cultivation of sentiment in favour of equality and diversity

(g) The promotion of social inclusion by preventing the said migrant and refugee individuals and communities from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded, and assisting them to integrate into society.

Public Benefit

In setting our objectives and planning our activities, the board of trustees has carefully considered the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit. Migrants Organise Ltd.’s charitable purpose is to promote the rights of migrants an d refugees by supporting and strengthening the development of their community organisations, ensuring access to services and opportunities, and establishing effective partnerships with statutory and voluntary agencies, with the ultimate aim of developing selfsustainable communities capable of participation in and contribution to an inclusive society.

Migrants Organise Ltd Vision and Mission

Migrants Organise vision is an inclusive, fair and equal society where migrants and refugees are treated with dignity and respect. Migrants Organise mission is to create a platform with migrants and refugees, and supporters to act for dignity and justice for all. Our aim is to organise and mobilise with migrants and refugees and our supporters into a solidarity movement that will deliver that change.

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We translate this vision, mission and aim into action by doing the work to:

• Connect with each other and supporters who share our values in an intentional and relational way.

• Build common ground in our communities , organise and mobilise, and work in solidarity on the local and national level, tackling diverse and multiple issues of concern.

• Grow our power by sharing knowledge and resources and working together to build a coherent, organised, inclusive and strategic movement for change. We mentor, train, and develop leadership and platform migrants and refugees in a meaningful and dignified manner.

• Speak out and disrupt the normalisation of dehumanising narratives and policies by opening spaces for a new narrative and lived experience. We advocate, advise, welcome and celebrate.

Our communities are people seeking asylum, refugees, resettlement programme refugees, EU migrants, un/under-documented people, migrant students, migrant workers, settled minorities communities, supporters and allies.

Activities and Achievements in 2022/2023

In 2022/23, despite many extraordinary external challenges, we organised with 140 grassroots migrant and refugee community organisers around the UK to address urgent issues emerging from new and existing policies and provide essential support to vulnerable people.

The impact of the pandemic has been compounded by the cost of living crisis, relentless hostile attacks by media, right-wing groups and a hostile policy environment that has been challenging to manage for many organisations and communities.

The focus of our organising in the highly hostile legislative environment has been on solidarity and resilience building in order to deepen the relationships of trust and support each other through difficult times. The priority identified by our community is to maintain the well-being of many grassroots communities and organisers who feel isolated, overwhelmed and targeted by right-wing policies and groups, as well as negative media discourse.

In 2022, our Organisers held over 800 one-to-one mentoring meetings with 450 individuals from 32 cities across the UK and Northern Ireland. The Fair Immigration Movement (FIRM) Charter, launched in 2020, is now supported by 68 organisations and signed by over 2,000 individuals. We held 35 regular monthly group calls and webinars with community organisers around the country to share experiences and support each other, usually attended by 30 to 60 people.

We organised and took part in 242 training sessions with communities around the country to provide capacity building for their local organising. The organising team spoke at 55 external meetings to raise awareness about issues affecting our members and build alliances with other organisations working in the social justice sector, including faith groups, trade unions and professional associations, universities etc.

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Together we took 42 organised actions of solidarity and welcome for refugees and migrants.

In June 2022, we marked a decade since the introduction of the Hostile Environment immigration policy by coming together, building resilience and raising awareness about the challenges migrants and refugees are experiencing. We supported Solidarity Knows No Borders network members to organise 60 events in 12 cities. Thousands of people participated in vigils, picnics, training, art installations, cultural events, carnivals, gigs, and conferences to unite communities in solidarity for dignity and justice. Although planned earlier in the year, the Week of Action started with actions to halt deportations to Rwanda. It mobilised tens of thousands of people around the country against this egregious policy.

To mark the occasion, during Refugee Week, Migrants Organise organised a public lecture From “Go Home Vans” to Rwanda Asylum Deal: A Decade of Hostile Environment by an award-winning writer Kamila Shamsie . The lecture was followed by a panel discussion of grassroots Solidarity Knows No Borders members sharing their experiences. The Guardian published the shorter version of the lecture, and the entire lecture, including the video, is on our website.

Organising learning and action planning sessions this year focused on frequent legal changes in immigration, lack of legal aid, housing organising tactics, mental capacity issues, campaigning, public speaking, media and social media, power analysis and local organising etc. We also produced reports and guides such as the Illustrated Guide to the National Referral Mechanism.

We continued supporting people lacking mental capacity. With the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Network, we produced the Briefing on Legal Challenge on the Lack of Litigation Friends of Last Resort in the First Tier and Upper Tribunals. In collaboration with Speak Up Radio, we produced a podcast series in which our members talked about the impact of the immigration experience on their mental health - six episodes can be heard here.

Strategic litigation produced some results. For example, we continued with our Migrants Mental Capacity Advocacy (MMCA), the only initiative in England and Wales that strategically looks at the intersection between mental health and immigration. We provided specialist support for 58 individuals who lacked the mental capacity to navigate and engage with the immigration system while at the same time advocating for systemic change through community organising, capacity building, training, policy and strategic litigation work.

We published our ‘Without Capacity’ Report and launched a legal challenge with the Public Law Project and Garden Court Chambers concerning the Home Office’s failure to provide EU citizens living in the UK with an accessible and humane process for settling in the UK after Brexit. In August 2022, we issued another strategic legal challenge for migrants with mental capacity issues and sent a pre-action letter to MoJ.

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Abolish Reporting campaign has improved the lives of people forced to report in person by advocating for telephone reporting – more details here. With the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, we produced the guide to the rules change. The Abolish Reporting organising group now has 140 members who are organising every two weeks and growing.

In October 2022, it emerged from our casework that out of 1,100 attempted referrals to legal aid solicitors in the previous six months, we only managed to secure Legal Aid representation for just 30 people. Because of the systemic problems with Legal Aid contracts and pay, very few firms take on legal aid clients, and community law centres are overwhelmed. As a result, thousands of people are stuck in an adversarial and hostile system with no legal advice or representation.

In response, we started organising and have convened a group of 50 advice practitioners and academics who are now organising together, mapping out power to develop the public campaign and find solutions to immediate problems with access to legal advice and representation. The Legal Aid organising group made a joint submission to Joint Committee on Human Rights in 2022 and coordinated work on Asylum Questionnaires, taking their first public action.

We are developing a new organising strand emerging from the experiences of many of our members living in substandard housing or hotel accommodation and intimidated and threatened when asked for basic necessities. The first organising action of the housing campaign in Tower Hamlets Council improved the living conditions of our members, who were left with no choice but to live in the accommodation provided by the for-profit companies. The exhibition Home Bitter Home in January 2023 and this first victory inspired many others to speak out and start organising.

The highlight of the growing Patients Not Passports Access to Healthcare campaign has been the success of The Justice For Simba Campaign, which supported Simba and his family to get full refugee status and more than £120,000 of NHS charges for his stroke treatment by the hospital in Sheffield, has been dropped. ITV and the Guardian covered the news, which boosted the Patients Not Passports campaign, with many affected people speaking up and organising. More than 50 PNP organisers from groups in 22 cities came together for a two-day Summit in September 2022 hosted in partnership with Medact to plan and organise together, and new campaign focusing on a little girl Omisha who was charged £76,000 for cancer treatment has been developed using similar community organising model as with Justice for Simba campaign with a people at the sharp end of the system driving the campaign.

Our regional organiser in York and Humber, who was part of the Justice for Simba campaign in Sheffield, and increased our capacity for regional organising with 25 local community groups who delivered the Yorkshire Solidarity Summit, attended by 114 delegates from 60 groups and campaigns for migrant justice supporting each other and building trust and resilience.

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In March 2023, we recorded over 2,200 registrations to attend the 20-session Stand Up! Speak Out! webinar series co-created by grassroots organisers and public sector workers who deal with the impact of hostile policies daily.

All our Organising emerged from and is holistically linked with our advice provision via our Community Programme , which provides direct access to justice for many people who could not find, access or pay for advice . We have two level 3 OISC immigration advisers, one at OISC level 2 and one at level 1. We are also registered with the Advice Quality Standards (AQS) quality mark that must be renewed every two years following an audit.

We supported 555 members and 196 of their dependents from April 2022 to March 2023. 238 adults are female, and 316 are male.

We have seen an increase in people with no or insecure immigration status in 2022 - 2023 (60% compared to 57% in 2021).

In 2022 - 2023, 45% of our members were going through the asylum system (34% had initial asylum claims, and 11% had been refused), and 14% of our members were overstayers.

The Brent Borough Times newspaper reported the experience of one of our members supported by our caseworkers:

Asylum seeker suicidal after eviction from Home Office housing .

This is, sadly, just one of many examples of injustices we try to address through our advice work.

The majority of our members live in insecure housing and/or are homeless (asylum support accommodation 36%, emergency accommodation 3%, hostel 6%, hosting 2%, NRM accommodation 3%, rough sleeper 1%, social services accommodation 8%, staying with friends or sofa surfing 11%, temporary accommodation 8%). 2% of our members live in other forms of accommodation.

Only 6% are housed in permanent social housing accommodation, and 14% are private tenants.

190 members (34% of all members) receive asylum support, and 187 of the 190 members are also accommodated by the Home Office in asylum support accommodation. This is the first year we recorded how many members live in hotel accommodation as there has been a sharp increase in members staying in hotel accommodation long term. In December 2022, 80 members and their 14 dependents stayed in hotel accommodation (s95 hotel, s4 hotel, s95 hotel & NRM support, s98).

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The majority of our members are unable to work or claim welfare benefits because of their immigration status and are therefore in receipt of support through Social Services (Care Act, Section 17 support), the Home Office (asylum support such as Section 4, Section 95, Section 98) or NRM support as victims of trafficking. 18% of our members are destitute and do not have access to any form of financial aid.

Only 3% of our members are in employment, which pays sufficiently that they do not need to claim additional benefits. Another 3% are employed (often on zero-hour contracts) and need to increase their earnings with Universal Credit.

In order to help people manage destitution and depression while stuck in this hostile system for many years, we organise many activities for people. In the past year, the Community Programme provided 10 weekly group sessions to bring members together to address isolation and increase skills and confidence. A total of 435 sessions have been held in the past year. This group work culminated in the Resilience Festival, a week-long celebration of members' activities in July 2022.

Matching members with volunteer mentors and buddies is vital to our holistic approach to addressing isolation, supporting well-being, and increasing community connections, friendship, and access to other support. This process enables migrants to take action to help themselves, with some members, in turn, becoming peer mentors to help and encourage others. 70 members over the year had 800 one-to-one in-person sessions with mentors and buddies. In total 94 volunteers supported the work of the Community Programme during the year.

As immigration is primarily debated and reported as a ‘problem’ , it has been much more challenging for community members to feel heard, understood and included in mainstream society. We are especially concerned for the welfare of all of our members, especially those housed in areas where right-wing groups can easily target them. All of that can have a silencing effect on people whose voice is often missing in the immigration debate. That is why we provide safe spaces and platforms for our members to organise and speak out on their terms.

In December 2022, our members who originally joined to get advice and now started organising talked about their experience of our Community Programme and Organising and produced a short video and a blog which helped raise £20,000 from public donations to support new members in need.

In partnership with Speak Up Radio Migrants Organise, members produced Losing Myself: Mental Health in a Hostile Environment podcast series in which they share the impact of hostile policies on their mental well-being.

All our work is planned and delivered in organised, decentralised partnerships based on need and rooted in shared values of the Solidarity Knows No Borders community.

We are grateful for the support from many faith institutions such as Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the London Churches Refugee Network, the Joint Public Issues Team:

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Baptist, Methodist, and United Reformed Churches, working together for peace and justice, the Muslim Council of Britain and several local churches around the country. We have longstanding partnerships with hundreds of organisations and groups around the country. For example, with Medact and DocsNotCops, with whom we work on the Patients Not Passports Campaign. We also worked with Liberty on Know Your Rights training and resources and Generation Rent on a joint housing survey in the private renting sector to inform the new joint housing rights campaign. We are working with Climate Outreach to develop a campaign to raise awareness about climate as a push factor in forced migration and connect the migrant justice campaign with the climate justice campaign.

We continued working with immigrant organising coalitions in the US via the National Partnership for New America (NPNA) organising coalition and Transatlantic Migration Democracy Dialogue. Two of our organisers attended and spoke at the National Immigration and Integration Conference (NIIC) in December 2022 in Virginia.

FUTURE PLANS

Our work is growing, and we are looking for resources to increase our advice and organising capacity as migrants and refugees face increased barriers to their rights and dignity.

We are planning the biggest-ever Solidarity Knows No Borders national summit in the Autumn of 2023 to mobilise new organisers and allies across the country and many regional and campaign convening and actions.

We look forward to organising with migrant and refugee communities in the existing and new communities and geographical areas.

In November 2023, Migrants Organise is celebrating its 30[th] anniversary, and we will be organising an event to mark this momentous birthday.

Volunteering at Migrants Organise Ltd

Volunteers are the heart and soul of Migrants Organise. Volunteers support our various activities and campaigns and are always there for our members and staff. When needed, they also host refugees and migrants in their homes and fundraise for our hardship fund to support destitute people.

We are incredibly grateful to 120 wonderful volunteers, in addition to our Trustees, for their time, generosity and solidarity.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

The Charity's income was £1,056,453 in the year ended 31 March 2023 compared to £ 969,332 in the year ended 31 March 2022. The total expenditure amounted to £ 990,786 in the year ended on 31 March 2023 compared to £ 889,171 in the year ended 31 March 2022.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW (Continued)

Migrants Organise Ltd ended the 2022/2023 financial year with a fund balance carried forward of £345,769 in general unrestricted funds. The Charity’s reserves policy is to maintain unrestricted reserves to cover three months’ operating expenditure. Based on the 2022/2023 expenditure, the target reserves are £250,000. As of 31 March 2023, £60,290 of these unrestricted funds have been designated for the 2023/24 budget.

The full Statement of Financial Activities is on page 18 of these accounts.

Reserves Policy

The organisation's current reserves policy is to maintain sufficient cash flow for known commitments and to:

Meet contractual liabilities should the organisation have to close. This includes redundancy pay, amounts due to creditors, and commitments under leases.

• Meet unexpected costs such as the breakdown of equipment, building costs, staff cover in case of illness, maternity leave, parental leave and lega l costs defending Charity’s interests.

• Ensure that the organisation can continue to provide appropriate services to those who need them. Within this context, to minimise recruitment, staff training, staff induction and marketing costs by avoiding the need for redundancies caused by a financial crisis and to provide working capital when funding is paid in arrears.

Acknowledgements

We are incredibly grateful to all the funders who supported our work this past year.

A B Charitable Trust; Aviva Community Fund; Awards for All; The Belpech Trust; The Blue Thread Foundation; The Bromley Trust; City Bridge Trust; Disrupt Foundation; Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; Garden Court Chambers; Greater London Authority; John Ellerman Foundation; The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust; The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust; Justice Together Initiative; The Kensington and Chelsea Foundation; Kusuma Trust UK; Lankelly Chase Foundation; Lantern Projects; The Leigh Trust; London Catalyst; London Churches Refugee Fund; London Legal Support Trust; The Mbili Charitable Trust; Migration Foundation; The National Lottery Community Fund; Network for Social Change; Orange Tree Trust; Paul Hamlyn Foundation; Positive Action in Housing; Rethink Mental Illness; Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; Sir Halley Stewart Trust; Sports England. Swire Charitable Trust; Turning Point; North West London Integrated Care System; Trust for London; Unbound Philanthropy; Wates Foundation; Westminster City Council.

We also received invaluable support from many trusts that provide specific grants for individuals facing hardship and from many individuals through regular and one-off giving and our crowdfunding appeals. We want to thank all our donors who supported our public appeals. All your donations are used to directly support people who need it.

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Staff Team

1. Aliya Yule, Access to Healthcare Organiser

2. Bethan Evans, Caseworker

3. Brian Dikoff, Legal Organiser

4. Erica Lang, Grants Manager

5. Esme Kemp, Caseworker

6. Ffion Wyn Evans, Communications Organiser

7. Francesca Valerio, Community Programme Director

8. Heike Langbein, Advice and Training Manager

9. Mallika Balakrishnan, Digital Organiser

10. Maymuna Osman, Migrant Organiser, National

11. Micol Carmignani, Operations Manager

12. Sarli Nana, Migrant Organiser, York and Humber

13. Son Olszewski, Trainee Caseworker

14. Zrinka Bralo, Chief Executive

We would like to thank all our members, funders, mentors, volunteers, staff, partners and supporters who gave their time, skills, money and goodwill to make Migrants Organise a place of welcome.

S TATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES

In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to 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.

So far as each of the Trustees is aware at the time the report is approved:

There is no relevant information of which the independent Accountant is unaware; and The Trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant information and to establish that the Accountant is aware of that information.

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

A resolution will be proposed at the annual general meeting for the re-appointment of Moracle Limited, Chartered Certified Accountants and Registered Auditors.

APPROVAL

This report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 27[th] July 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

Roz Pendlebury Chair

Kyle Sawhney Treasurer

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Independent Auditor's Report to the trustees of Migrants Organise Limited For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

We have audited the financial statements of Migrants Organise Limited (the 'Charity') for the year ended 31 March 2023 set out on pages 18 to 31. 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:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company's affairs as at 31 March 2023 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

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 Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council'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

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you, where:

• the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is not appropriate; or

• the Trustees have not disclosed in the financial statements any identified material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt about the charitable company's ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

OTHER INFORMATION

The Trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual report, other than the financial statements and our Auditors' report thereon. 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.

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Independent Auditor's Report to the trustees of Migrants Organise Limited (continued)

For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

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.

OPINION ON OTHER MATTERS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMPANIES ACT 2006

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

• the information given in the Trustees' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements

• the Trustees' report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

MATTERS ON WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT BY EXCEPTION

In the light of our 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 Trustees' 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:

• adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• certain disclosures of Trustees' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or

• the Trustees were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small company’s regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemptions in preparing the Trustees' report and from the requirement to prepare a Strategic report.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES

As explained more fully in the Trustees' responsibilities statement, the Trustees (who are also the directors of the Charity 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.

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Independent Auditor's Report to the trustees of Migrants Organise Limited (continued)

For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

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 Auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

A further description of our responsibilities 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 Auditors' 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 Auditors' 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 its members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

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Morlai Kargbo (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of Moracle Limited Statutory Auditor 960 Capability Green, Luton England, LU1 3PE United Kingdom

Date: 27[th] July 2023

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Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2023 (Including Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses)

	Unrestricted Restricted Total
	funds funds 2023 Total 2022
Note	£ £ £ £
Income and Endowments from:
Donations and legacies 4	35,764 20,731 56,495 92,197
Charitable activities 5	50,000 937,136 987,136 844,368
Other activities 6	- 12,822 12,822 32,767
Total income
	85,764 970.689 1,056,453 969,332
Expenditure on:
Raising funds	- 24,691 24,691 23,603
Charitable activities 7	85,764 880,331 966,095 865,568
Total expenditure
	85,764 905,022 990,786 889,171
Net income before transfers
	- 65,667 65,667 80,161
Transfers between funds
	(14,964) 14,964 - -
Net income after transfers
	(14,964) 80,631 65,667 80,161
Total funds brought forward
	360,733 449,005 809,738 729,577
Total funds carried forward 17
	345,769, 529,636 875,405 809,738

All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods.

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Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2023

		2023	2022
	Note	£	£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	14	5,674	2,904
Current assets
Debtors	15	5,417	10,140
Cash at bank and in hand		876,120	831,869
		881,537	842,009
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year	16	(11,806)	(35,175)
Net current assets		869,731	806,834
Net assets		875,405	809,738
Restricted funds		529,636	449,005
Unrestricted funds
General funds		285,479	270,479
Designated funds		60,290	90,254
Total unrestricted funds		345,769	360,733
Total funds	17	875,405	809,738

The Charity’ s Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to small companies’ regime.

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the trustees on 27[th] July 2023 and signed on their behalf, by:

Roz Pendlebury - Chair

The accompanying notes on pages 21 to 31 form part of these financial statements

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Statement of Cash Flows for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Note	2023 2022
	£ £
Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash income
	65,667 80,162
Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items
Depreciation 14	1,989 969
Working capital adjustments
Decrease/(increase) in debtors 15	4,723 3,607)
Increase/(decrease)in creditors 16	(23,369) (6,240)
Net cash flows from operatingactivities
	49,010 78,497
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible fixed assets 14	(4,758) -
Net cash flows from investingactivities
	- -
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
	44,251 78,497
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 April
	831,869 753,372
Cash and cash equivalents at 31 March
	876,120 831,869
Reconciliation of net cash flow to movement in net funds
Increase in cash	44,251 78,497
Net funds at 1 April 2022
	831,869 753,372
Net funds at 31 March 2023
	876,120 831,869

All of the cash flows are derived from continuing operations during the above two periods.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

1 Charity status

The charity is limited by guarantee, incorporated in United Kingdom, and consequently does not have share capital. Each of the trustees is liable to contribute an amount not exceeding £10 towards the assets of the charity in the event of liquidation. The address of its registered office is: 196 Freston Road, London, England, W10 6TT. These financial statements were authorised for issue by the trustees on 27[th] July 2023.

2 Accounting policies

2.1 Basis of preparation of Financial Statements

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', the Charities Act 2011 and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

2.2 Going concern

The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties about the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements have therefore been prepared on a going concern basis.

2.3 Fund accounting

Unrestricted income/ funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees’ discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity. Restricted income / funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.

2.4 Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably. Income from government and other grant, whether capital grants or revenue grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.

2.5 Expenditure 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 costs cannot be directly attributed to particular activities they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of the resources. Overheads and other salaries are allocated between the expense headings on the basis of head count.

2.6 Liabilities are recognised when there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure.

2.7 Support costs are those costs incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the Charity and are allocated on the basis of staff costs .

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

2.8 Governance costs which form part of Support costs and are those incurred in connection with enabling the Charity to comply with external regulation, and constitutional and statutory requirements and in providing support to the Trustees in the discharge of their statutory duties.

2.9 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation

Assets costing more than £1,000 are capitalised. Depreciation is provided using the following rates and bases to reduce by annual instalments the cost, less estimated residual values, of tangible assets over their estimated useful lives:

Computer equipment & Furniture and fittings - 25% straight line basis Office equipment - 33.3% straight line basis

2.10 Stock

Stock is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after due regard for obsolete and slowmoving stocks. Net realisable value is based on selling price less anticipated costs to completion and selling costs.

3.1 Statement of Cash Flows

The charity has prepared a Statement of Cash Flows as required for accounts prepared in accordance with the under FRS 102 and under the requirements of the Charities SORP.

3.2 Going concern

The trustees have at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

3.3 Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the charity's accounting policies, the trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

4 Income from donations and legacies

	Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
	funds funds 2023 2022
	£ £ £ £
Donations from individuals	35,764 20,731 56,495 83,540
Other Donations	- - - 8,657
	35,764 20,731 56,495 92,197
5 Income from charitable activities
	Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
	funds funds 2023 2022
	£ £ £ £
Migrant Organising	- 322,882 322,882 302,755
Community Programme	- 301,079 301,079 228,728
Organisational Infrastructure	50,000 228,503 278,503 312,885
Capacity Building	- 84,672 84,672 -
	50,000 937,136 987,136 844,368

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

6 Income from other activities

	Unrestricted funds £ Restricted funds £ Total 2023 £ Total 2022 £ - 12,822 12,822 32,767 - 12,822 12,822 32,767
Refund and other income

7 Expenditure on charitable activities

	Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
	funds funds 2023 2022
	£ £ £ £
Community Programme	35,764 359,732 395.496 291,018
Organisational Infrastructure	50,000 180,358 230,358 282.394
Migrant Organising	- 274,865 274,865 281,821
RW Amnesty	- - - 29,378
RW RBKC	- 13,235 13,235 4,560
Capacity Building	51,896 51,896 -
	85,764 880,086 965,850 889,171

8 Analysis of support costs

	Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
	funds funds 2023 2022
	£ £ £ £
Staff costs	- 671,717 671,717 374,285
Direct costs	- 132,482 132,482 242,287
Support costs (note 9)	66,676 119,911 186,587 278,791
	66,676 924,110 990,786 895,363

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

9 Analysis of support costs allocated to charitable activities

	Programme Administrative Total
	costs costs 2023
	£ £ £
Staff costs	67,939 - 67,939
Governance costs	- 44,307 44,307
Office expenses	- 74,341 74,341
	67,939 118,648 186,587
	Programme Administrative Total
	costs costs 2022
	£ £ £
Staff costs	93,481 - 93,481
Governance costs	- 26,634 26,634
Office expenses	- 67,076 67,076
Other operational expenses	- 1,120 1,120
	93,481 94,830 188,311

10 Auditors Remuneration

During the year a Total of £4,800 (2022: £4,800) was paid to the Auditors in relation to Audit services

	Total 2023 Total 2022
	£ £
Audit remuneration–audit services	4,800 4,800
–other services	- -
	4,800 4,800

11 Trustees’ remuneration and benefits

During the year, no trustees received any remuneration (2022: £Nil), benefits in kind (2022: £Nil) or reimbursements of expenses (2022: £Nil) in their roles as trustees.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

12 Remuneration of key management personnel

The remuneration of key management personnel is as follows:

The remuneration of key management personnel is as follows:
	Total Total
	2023 2022
	£ £
Aggregate compensation	173,500 162.504
	173,500 162,504

13 Staff costs

	2023 2022
	£ £
Wages and salaries	592,415 498,342
Social security costs	61,280 48,097
Pension costs	18,022 14,897
	671,717 561,336

The average number of full-time equivalent employees during the year was as follows:

	2023 2022
Charitable activities and support	12 12
	12 12

2 employees (2022:1) had emoluments in the band of £60,000-£69,999 in the current reporting period.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

14 Tangible fixed assets

	Computer equipment £ Total £ 8,179 8,179 4,758 4,758 (6,009) (6,009) 6,928 6,928 5,274 5,274 1,989 1,989 (6,009) (6,009) 1,254 1.254 5,674 5,674 2,905 2,905
Cost
At 1 April 2022
Additions
Disposals
At 31 March 2023
Depreciation
At 1 April 2022
Charge for the year
Disposals
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

15 Debtors

	2023 £ 2022 £ - 10,140 5,417 - 5,417 10,140 2023 £ 2022 £ 8,995 18,246 2,811 16,929 11,806 35,175
Accrued income
Other debtors
16 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors and accruals
Social security and other taxes

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

17 Funds

	Balance at 1 April 2022 £ Incoming resources £ Resources expended £ Transfers £ Balance at 31 March 2023 £ 360,733 85,764 85,764 (14,964) 345,769 449,005 970,689 905,022 14,964 529,636 809,738 1,056,453 992,702 - 875,405
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds

	Balance Balance at	Balance Balance at
	at 1 April Incoming Resources Transfers 31 March
	2022 resources expended 2023
	£ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General Funds	270,479 - - 15,000 285,479
Designated funds	90,254 - - (29,964) 60,290
Community Programme	35,764 35,764 -
Organisational Infrastructure	- 50,000 50,000 - -
Total unrestricted funds	360,733 85,764 85,764 (14,964) 345,769
Restricted funds	- - - -	-
Capacity Building	- 85,672 51,854 -	33,818
Migrant Organising	147,760 294,614 274,865 -	167,509
Community Programme	137,849 343,374 359,337 9,745 131,632
Organisational Infrastructure	148,226 247,029 203,797 5,219 196,677
Refugee Welcome/Community 13,630 - 13,630 - -
Women on the move awards
	1,540 - 1,540 - -
Total restricted funds
	449.005 970,689 905,022 14,964 529,636
Total funds
	809,738 1.056,453 990,786 -	875,405

Funds (Continued)

£Nil of restricted income in the year was approved to be allocated to unrestricted funds by grant providers as part of annual budget submissions, in order to fund ongoing governance and support costs.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

18 Analysis of net assets between funds

	Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total
	funds funds 2023 funds funds 2022
	£ £ £ £ £ £
Tangible fixed assets	5,674 - 5,674 2904 - 2,904
Current assets
	351,901 529,636 881,537 393,004 449,005 842,009
Current liabilities
	(11,806) - (11,806) (35,175) - (35,175)
Total net assets
	345,769 529,636 875,405 386,565 420,554 807,119

19 Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions in the year and previous year.

20 Operating leases

Rentals applicable to operating leases where substantially all of the benefits and risks of ownership remain with the lessor are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities as incurred.

21 Lease commitments

The groups minimum operating lease payments are as follows:

	2023 £ 2022 £ - 10,304 - - - 10,304
Within one year
Between one and five years

22 VAT

The Charity is not registered for VAT, therefore all costs are inclusive of VAT that cannot be recovered.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

23 Pension Scheme

The charity operates a defined Contribution Pension Scheme for its employees. The pension costs charged in the financial statements represent the contribution payable by the charity during the year.

24 Comparative statement of financial activities (SOFA) (2022)

	Restricted Total
	Unrestricted funds funds 2022
	£ £ £
Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies	73,164 19,033 92,197
Charitable activities	107,384 736,984 844,368
Other activities	- 32,767 32,767
Total income
	180,548 788,784 969,332
Expenditure on:
Raising funds	- 23,603 23,603
Charitable activities	140,838 724,730 865,568
Total expenditure
	140,838 748,333 889,171
Net income before transfers
	39,710 40,451 80,162
Transfers between funds
	12,000 (12,000) -
Net income after transfers
	51,710 28,451 80,162
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
	309,023 420,554 729,577
Total funds carried forward
	360,733 449,005 809,738

25 Analysis of changes in net funds

The charity had no debt during the year.

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