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René Cassin – Annual Report 2021

WELCOME FROM OUR CHAIR

Dear Reader

2021 was “topped and tailed” by two events that illustrate the scope, ambition, and effectiveness of our work. In January, Jewish communal revulsion at China’s treatment of its Uyghur Muslims attracted the attention of both national and international media. And in November, René Cassin ran a festival of women’s rights on an issue that we had only taken on at the beginning of the year.

We work quickly, we work thoroughly, and we make an impact. From a standing start in early 2019 when we first met Uyghur exile Rahima Mahmut, our campaign to mobilise the UK’s Jewish community in support of her co-religionists led to statements from the Chief Rabbi, Board of Deputies, and Jewish News and a high-profile interfaith meeting addressed by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams – all coordinated to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

That same pace and thoroughness characterised the development of our work on women’s rights. In what was an entirely new arena for us, we secured expertise and strategic partnerships by convening a high-level roundtable discussion led by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. From that discussion came the ideas, energy and collaboration that enabled us to launch our women’s rights campaign with a bang – a dazzlingly comprehensive digital festival programme of 30 events over ten days.

We are proud to be (and be seen as) a small charity with a disproportionately large impact. We achieve that impact because we are skilled at seeking the common ground of shared experience. This has led us to join and foster wide coalitions – interfaith and secular – on issues where Jewish values and experience have particular resonance. That approach was well summarised in our statement marking Hate Crime Awareness Week when we spoke out “… for refugees, asylum seekers, and our Gypsy and Traveller friends” on behalf of a Jewish community that is “… no stranger to society’s role in normalising intolerance, stigma, and discrimination”.

We take our name from the French-Jewish co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration was drawn up in response to the horrors of the Holocaust and has formed the foundation stone of all subsequent human rights law. In some cases, that law has not lived up to the Declaration’s vision – not least to the Article 25 right to an adequate standard of living “… including food, clothing, housing and medical care”. That so many of our neighbours lack such basic necessities is an affront to human dignity and a profound injustice in such a rich nation. The escalating cost of living crisis shows how prescient was our 2020 decision to open a new workstream on a Right to Food.

Whilst we continue to build on the Declaration’s legacy, we are also working to prevent the forces that are seeking to erode and demolish it. We are deeply concerned by a government, seemingly ignorant of history, proposing to replace the Human Rights Act

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(the grandchild, via the European Convention on Human Rights of the Universal Declaration) with a watered-down imitation.

I hope that you will find this annual report an uplifting read and would encourage you to support us and to get involved in our important work as the Jewish voice for human rights.

Danny Silverstone

Chair of Board of Trustees

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THIS YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS

In 2021 René Cassin:

Mobilised the UK Jewish community in support of Uyghur Muslims facing persecution in China
Negotiated a substantial start-up grant for Uyghur-led organisation Stop Uyghur Genocide
Marked Refugee Week in June by highlighting the parallels between the experience of today’s migrants and that of Jewish refugees in the past
Ran workshops for volunteers working in synagogue drop-in centers, enabling them to spot the signs of trafficking and modern slavery, and to respond to help victims
Built on our anti-Hate Speech #CutItOUt campaign with ‘Reach Out for your Rights’ – to show solidarity and foster mutual support
Emphasised how the Human Rights Act provides vital support to ordinary people in their everyday lives, through a sustained social media campaign
Created and disseminated a 47-page resource on the Right to Food
Ran a 30-session festival to launch our new workstream on Women’s Rights

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Why ‘René Cassin’?

We are proud to take our name from Nobel Laureate and French-Jewish Jurist Monsieur René Cassin, who was one of the principal drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and served as President of the European Court of Human Rights.

He was a lifelong advocate of international human rights protection and understood that, because of the Holocaust, it was vital that there was a strong and clear Jewish voice for human rights.

“…there is no task of safeguarding human rights more urgent than that of foreseeing such outrages and preventing them.”

Monsieur René Cassin, Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1968

Our Vision , Mission and Values

Our vision is of a world where:

everyone fully enjoys all their human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
members of the Jewish community are actively engaged in promoting and protecting these rights, both within the community and in concert with stakeholders outside of the community

Our mission is to promote and protect the universal rights of all people, drawing on Jewish experiences and values.

We will:

remake a compelling case for human rights values
campaign for change in defined human rights areas through a combination of advocacy, policy analysis, public campaigning and education
lead and grow a group of committed Jewish human rights advocates
maximise our capacity to work effectively

Our values – underpinning all the work we do:

Solidarity – human rights belong to us all, so we stand for the rights of everyone, everywhere
Judaism – we are inspired by Jewish values and experience
Collaboration – our work is not isolated, but intertwined with the efforts of others, so we nurture and mobilise relationships
Empowerment – we turn today’s Jewish activists into tomorrow’s leaders
Monsieur René Cassin – we are determined to create a legacy worthy of our namesake

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OUR WORK

As ‘the Jewish voice for human rights’ René Cassin works:

within the Jewish community – building support for human rights values amongst British Jews
in the wider community – bringing a Jewish perspective to human rights debates, especially on issues affecting vulnerable minorities

We work via advocacy, policy analysis, public campaigning and education, focusing on key issues that strongly resonate with Jewish experience.

Summary

Despite the shock of the onset of the pandemic last year, René Cassin remains a strong and dynamic organisation with ambitious plans for growth, with a new campaigns officer developing new workstreams on women’s rights and social justice. The outward impact has been very significant – not just in the new areas of work, where we have quickly developed key priorities and partnerships, but also in our ‘legacy’ areas – genocide, immigration, slavery, discrimination, and human rights protections – where we have been able to focus greater resources on important ongoing and emerging issues.

René Cassin has:

Built on our supportive relationship with the UK Uyghur community by helping secure funding for a new Uyghur-led campaigning organisation
Brought a crucial Jewish perspective to a broad coalition working to protect the Human Rights Act
Made progress with newly launched workstreams on women’s rights and the right to food
Continued to work effectively through the health emergency

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Genocide

In May 2019, when we introduced Uyghur campaigner, Rahima Mahmut, to the UK Jewish community at a public meeting, we pledged to “bear witness to what is happening [to Uyghur Muslims in China] , raise awareness among the Jewish community, and advocate for an end to China’s persecution of its minorities”.

By the beginning of 2021 we had succeeded in mobilising key elements of the community – with the Chief Rabbi, the Board of Deputies, and Jewish News all making high-profile pronouncements on the issue. These interventions were timed to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January when René Cassin and Christian Solidarity Worldwide hosted Together for Uyghurs – a panel event that included the daughter of an imprisoned Uyghur doctor, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. This event, and the unity of communal revulsion at the repression of the Uyghurs gained both national (The Observer ) and international ( Al-Jazeera ) news coverage.

That international theme continued, as we marked Pesach 2021 by partnering with Jewish World Watch in a Uyghur Week of Action – which included a ‘Freedom Seder’ and global days of action on advocacy and business engagement.

In April, our attention turned back to domestic politics as

we urged MPs to recognise China’s actions as genocide, a campaign we had started in January. Efforts to insert a ‘Genocide Amendment’ into the Trade Bill narrowly failed but, on 22 April, the House of Commons passed a motion that Uyghurs were “ … suffering Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide”, calling on the government to act “… to bring it to an end”.

Over the summer, we continued to work ‘behind the scenes’ to advance Jewish community support on the Uyghur issue – we facilitated support from Office of Chief Rabbi to the World Uyghur Congress; Mia Hasenson-Gross joined the UK Advisory Council of the World Uyghur Congress; and we helped negotiate a substantial ‘start up’ grant for Rahima Mahmut’s new organisation Stop Uyghur Genocide (SUG), made by the Pears Foundation on behalf of the British Jewish community.

Our outward-facing work progressed on three broad fronts:

Campaigning – launching two new projects: challenging Volkswagen, which has a factory in the Uyghur region (in partnership with SUG); and countering China’s attempts to garner positive publicity from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (in partnership with Jewish News and West London Synagogue)
Events – looking at parallels between current Uyghur and historical Jewish experience ( Three Women, One Hope and Forced Labour and Genocide: Then and Now ) and at practical ways forward, such as a definitional analysis of Uyghur repression and an exploration of a possible legal route through the International Criminal Court
Policy conferences – René Cassin partnered Newcastle University in a major threeday conference in September; and, in November, Mia Hasenson-Gross travelled to

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Prague to participate in the World Uyghur Congress’s International Conference and 7[th] General Assembly.

“With many thanks and all good wishes for the sterling work and commitment you are showing to the Uyghurs. You are all a true light shining in the darkness” – Ruth

Asylum and Detention

Throughout 2021, we have continued our key role as interfaith facilitators on the issue and in particular for the Detention Forum, the umbrella coalition of organisations working on the crucial issue of immigration detention. In a mirror-image of the ‘hostile environment’, the Forum is developing the concept of a ‘supportive environment’ for those fleeing persecution, which includes alternatives to detention.

Our interfaith work included hosting an educational webinar – Immigration detention – What is it? And how can faith groups challenge it? – in collaboration with Faiths Forum for London, and coordinating an interfaith letter in protest at plans for a new detention center at Hassockfield, County Durham.

We responded to the government’s new plan for immigration, made a submission to the AllParty Parliamentary Group on Refugees consultation on the Borders and Immigration Bill, and launched a public information campaign on the Bill, which we feel is harmful, inhumane, and contrary to Jewish values.

We marked 2021’s Refugee Week with blogs on how the UK’s detention policy echoes Jewish experience, be it Jewish women’s experience of internment on the Isle of Man or the brutality of offshore detention of Jewish refugees. This latter issue was particularly poignant given the Home Secretary’s regular floating of the idea of offshore detention in response to refugees from crisis-torn regions, a subject we had examined earlier in the year with our event Off-Shore Immigration Detention – Jewish History & Future Trajectories .

Another key element of our Refugee Week programme – the event Detention is a Feminist Issue – dovetailed with our newly-launched workstream on women’s rights (see below).

The tragic loss of 27 asylum-seekers in the Channel in November highlighted the urgency of our campaign to amend the Nationality and Borders Bill, a draconian piece of legislation that will further endanger lives and undermines the UK’s commitments under the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

We have continued to play an active part in the Free for Good coalition of anti-trafficking charities supporting proposed victim support legislation written by Lord McColl of Dulwich. On a practical level we have organised two workshops to help those working at synagogue drop-in centers for asylum-seekers spot the signs of exploitation. These will take place early in the new year. This crossover with the issue of asylum (see above) is an example of a common feature of our work in this area. Other examples include our work to explain how the current Nationality and Borders Bill fails victims of modern slavery, and our highlighting of the massive use of forced labour as a key element of China’s repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities.

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Discrimination and Hate Speech

We have built on our anti-hate speech ‘Cut It Out’ campaign, and are now developing ‘Reach out for your Rights’ – a new solidarity campaign that will see René Cassin partnering with: Hope Not Hate to deliver workshops on campaigning on campus and beyond; and Stop Funding Hate on a campaigners’ toolkit for Jewish youth and Jewish societies.

Our statement to mark Hate Crime Awareness Week spoke out “for refugees, asylum seekers, and our Gypsy and Traveller friends”, noting that the Jewish community “is no stranger to society’s role in normalising intolerance, stigma, and discrimination”.

Our work on hate speech has grown out of our long-standing support for the UK Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities. We continued that work, with an event to mark June’s Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month. We also issued a statement of solidarity and support on Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day, and our event Solidarity and Pride: LGBTQ+ Jews and Travellers in conversation was a powerful and practical discussion on cross-communal solidarity.

Safeguarding Human Rights Protections

Our work in this area has concentrated on defending the Human Rights Act (HRA) from threats of damaging reform. In March, we responded to the government’s independent review of the Act, concluding “ … the importance of the HRA to the Jewish community cannot be overstated”, and wrote a piece published in Jewish News in support of that conclusion.

We have subsequently worked to reinforce that vital message. In June, as reported in Jewish News , we coordinated a high-level interfaith letter to the Prime Minister, reiterating the HRA’s importance and urging him not to weaken its provisions. We have relayed the same message to Jewish MPs and Peers, and MPs with significant Jewish constituencies. In the wider community, we have brought our unique

Jewish perspective to partnerships with other NGOs, working to defend the HRA. To support this activity, we ran a widespread and creative social media campaign “Because of our Human Rights Act” that has emphasised how the Act provides vital support to ordinary people in their everyday lives.

“Wow! Both those films are absolutely outstanding! It will be a privilege to circulate them. We look forward to lots more collaboration with all at Rene Cassin in our current work to retain our rights”– Equally Ours

Social Justice

This is an entirely new area of work for René Cassin, so the first part of the year saw us ‘laying the foundations’ to determine exactly where a Jewish perspective would be most relevant and effective in securing progress.

We decided to concentrate on a right to food as the first and most fundamental of the ‘socio-economic rights’ listed in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the others being clothing, housing, medical care, and necessary social services).

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We began by scoping the current NGO landscape in this area, and identifying key project partners such as Just Fair, Sustain and Nourish Scotland. In May we launched our Right to Food campaign with a ‘Recipe for Rights’ resource pack during the Jewish festival of Shavuot. The launch was backed by a Jewish News article by Professor Geraldine van Bueren QC, a René Cassin advisor and long-time advocate of socio-economic rights. Professor van Bueren also agreed to convene our Jewish Food Rights Alliance as a means of advancing this issue within the Jewish community. At Rosh Hashanah, we updated the ‘Recipe for Rights’ pack with a ‘High Holy Days’ edition. We have also introduced the campaign to close to 30 Jewish MPs and Peers, asking them to work with us to enshrine a Right to Food in UK law. And we broadened the campaign beyond the Jewish community with our November event linking football supporters with foodbanks.

As the year drew to a close, the right to food was the subject of our 47-page resource pack, to help synagogues, university Jewish societies, youth movements and Moishe Houses mark Human Rights Shabbat.

Women’s Rights

Although we made tentative initial steps on women’s rights in 2020, this is another largely new area of work for René Cassin. It was therefore an enormous boost to our planning and profile on this issue that, in May, our policy roundtable on women’s rights was not only addressed by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, but was also attended by an array of experts working on the front line – including an MP, women working at a variety of NGOs, academics, lawyers, funders, and members of Jewish community organisations.

“It’s a testament to the great work René Cassin is doing that you managed to convene such an excellent group” – Caren

The roundtable further strengthened partnerships we had built earlier through work on International Women’s Day, on Stella Creasy MP’s campaign to make misogyny a hate crime, on ensuring protection for migrant women via the Domestic Abuse Bill, and on the proposed Hassockfield women’s immigration detention center.

Another partnership, with the Alliance of Jewish Women, saw us launch our ‘190 for C190’ campaign in June. This involved 190 Jewish women signing our letter asking the government to ratify the International Labour Organization’s Convention 190 which recognises “… the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including genderbased violence and harassment”. We are now looking to develop this campaign in support of the wider aims of the Istanbul Convention to counter violence against women and domestic violence. As the year drew to a close our New Horizons Women’s Rights Festival showed René Cassin’s ability to champion, coordinate and convene both Jewish community and wider society partnerships, initiatives and debates around women’s rights. The festival featured 30 sessions over ten days, covering engaging and topical issues, from politics to IT, religion to the law. Speakers included MPs Jess Phillips, Caroline Nokes, and Margaret Hodge, and Uyghur campaigner Rahima Mahmut.

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EDUCATIONAL WORK

The strictures of the Covid pandemic – with restrictions on face-to-face meetings and international travel – meant that we had to suspend our Fellowship Programme. Instead, we were able to further develop our Ambassadors Programme – our leadership-oriented initiative to empower young Jewish human rights activists and help amplify their voices in the UK – with 18 outstanding participants for the second cohort this autumn and a third cohort planned for early 2022.

That theme of education as a key element in engaging, mobilising, and supporting community involvement was also evident in our digital campaigning toolkit, published in July, the New Horizons Women’s Rights Festival (see under ‘Women’s Rights’ above), and our ‘Right to Food’ resource pack for Human Rights Shabbat in December.

These resources back up our numerous educational sessions with schools, youth movements, synagogues, and other organisation with and beyond the Jewish community. And, in addition to the 30 sessions of the New Horizons Women’s Rights Festival, we have organised a further 11 online sessions, educating the public over the whole range of our workstreams, attracting a total of 1,150 bookings.

“We need people like you to make people like me more aware of what is going on. Keep up the good work” – Alison

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MEETING FUTURE CHALLENGES

In 2020, as reported a year ago, we made the strategic decision to “advocate for a thorough overhaul of human rights protections in the UK, to ensure social, economic, environmental and racial justice”. Our rationale for doing so was twofold. Firstly, because we believe that public support for human rights in general can only be sustained by a renewed focus on social and economic rights which, although enshrined in 1948’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have tended to be sidelined in the UK and other liberal democracies since. And secondly, because economic inequalities and social injustices have been successively exacerbated by the global financial crisis and the pandemic.

2021 has seen us lay the groundwork for this strategy, recruiting new campaigns staff, scoping new workstreams on women’s rights and social justice, including making important new partnerships. Next year, 2022, will see us building on this solid base – coordinating Jewish communal action in these areas and ensuring strong links with similar campaigns in wider civil society. We will work to solidify and grow the Jewish Food Rights Alliance, convened by Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC, spearheading the Jewish community’s remarkable response to the food poverty crisis, as well as building a programme of work that addresses the fundamental challenges of social care and, fair, and respectful access and treatment of people with mental and other disabilities.

But needs are pressing in our ‘legacy’ workstreams too. The fact that we have grown as an organisation means we can not only continue, but intensify, our focus here. We will build on our success in uniting the Jewish community in support of the Uyghurs in China – via calls to label the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ‘the Genocide Games’, and further pressure for the UK to take political and diplomatic action. We will continue to bring a unique Jewish perspective to the growing crisis of vulnerable asylum-seekers dying for want of safe routes to the UK to seek sanctuary. Likewise, we will seek to counter the rise in levels and intensity of hate speech – both addressing the increasingly ‘hostile environment’ in the UK affecting marginalised and minority groups in our society.

In this, as in so much of our work, we see an increasing cross-over between the issues we work on – modern slavery intersecting with asylum and immigration, women’s rights with hate speech, and so on. In 2022 and beyond, we will work to highlight the particularly pernicious effects that such intersections cause. We will also continue to work to promote and protect the overarching human rights framework – like the UK’s Human Rights Act – that serves and unites us all.

Finally, we will continue to ensure that as an organisation, René Cassin has the resilience, the reach and the resources needed to maintain and build on our unique convening power to continue to ‘remake the Jewish case for human rights’.

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

René Cassin relies on its supporters for the funds to carry on its vital work.

Please help ensure our voice is heard loudly and clearly by supporting us:

Make a donation – you can make a one-off gift through our website at www.renecassin.org/donate
Better still, become a ‘Friend of René Cassin’ by making a monthly donation (via the ‘I’d like to give regularly’ option) www.renecassin.org/donate
Become an Individual Patron or Corporate Supporter – email the office for further details info@renecassin.org
Get involved in our campaigns – visit our website for more details
Attend our events – www.renecassin.org/category/events/
Volunteer with us – email info@renecassin.org
Sign up for our newsletter at www.renecassin.org
Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/Rene_Cassin and Instagram www.instagram.com/rene.cassin/ and like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/renecassin
Tell your friends, family and colleagues about our work

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FINANCE

Revenue and Support	2021
Donations	144,380
Total revenue and support	144,380
Expenditure	2021
Costs of raising voluntary income 20,819
Charitable activities	125,931
Total expenditure	146,750

Many thanks to our supporters

Anglo Jewish Association London Borough of Barnet Bluston Charitable Settlement Humanitarian Trust Judith Trust Little Butterfly Foundation Mintz Family Foundation SC & ME Morlands Charitable Trust Pears Foundation

René Cassin USA Sigrid Rausing Trust Sybil Shine Memorial Trust Shoresh Charitable Trust Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation

And to our individual Patrons (who give £1,000 or more annually) and Friends

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OUR PEOPLE

Our Staff

Mia Hasenson-Gross Executive Director Esther Raffell Campaigns Officer Rachel Vogler Campaigns Officer Debora Singer Human Rights Act Campaign Officer (volunteer) Sam Watson Development Manager

Our Trustees

Daniel Silverstone Chair Jeff Highfield Treasurer Justin Abbott Chalew Lauren Keiles Danielle Mason Jonathan Metzer Abigail Morris Rachel Zaltzman

Our Advisory Council

Sylvie Bacquet Rabbi Professor Tony Bayfield CBE Rabbi Dr. Naftali Brawer Professor Geraldine van Bueren QC Caroline Cassin Caren Gestetner Professor Margaret Greenfields Rabbi Alex Goldberg Maya Jaffe Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris Daniel Kingsley Professor Francesca Klug OBE

Dr Annette Lawson OBE Professor Noam Lubell Dr. Kishan Manocha Rabbi David Mason Vicki Prais Rabbi Danny Rich Rabbi David Rosen CBE Professor William Schabas OC Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon Yael Weisz-Rind Professor Jay Winter Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Dr. Reuven Ziegler

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LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

René Cassin is a UK charity registered on 5 January 2007 (number 1117472 as CCJO ReneCassin) and governed by a constitution amended 9 September 2013.

The charity is governed by the board of trustees listed on the previous page. Our constitution stipulates that there must be a minimum of three trustees at any time. There is no maximum limit to the number of trustees.

René Cassin complies with all applicable UK law in recruiting and selecting new trustees to join its board. Trustees are normally elected by the members (who are the current trustees) of René Cassin at a general meeting. Trustees are appointed on the basis of specific skills, experience and knowledge that will enable them to make a contribution to the management of the charity. These skills, experience and knowledge are first identified in the annual skills audit. When there is a specific gap identified, or a trustee with specific skills, experience and knowledge is approaching retirement, then a posting seeking to recruit a new trustee will be placed on a variety of independent voluntary sector websites, print or online publications. During the recruitment and selection process, René Cassin will ensure that prospective new trustees are eligible to act, do not have any conflicts of interest, and understand their responsibilities and René Cassin’s work. In particular, René Cassin pays heed to Charity Commission Guidance CC3: The Essential Trustee: What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do .

René Cassin’s board meets every two months to oversee the work of the charity, which the board delegates to its small staff team. All policies, such as risk register and safeguarding, are reviewed regularly and are up to date.

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The Jewish voice for human rights

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CCJO RENE CASSIN REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 The trustees prLsent their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 De[llber 2021. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and RertIng by Charities.. Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicabk in the UK and Republic of Ireland IFRS 1021 (effective l January 20191. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVETIES Objectives and aims Rene Cassin, 'the Jewish voice for human rights,, is a charity that uses Jewish experience and values to advocate for universal human rights, particularly on issue5 - such as discrimination, indefinite immigration detention, genocide and tnodern slavery that strongly resonate with Jewish history and values. We achieve this through a combination of advocacyi policy analysis, public campaigning, education and building the capacity of activists to promote and protect hutnan rights. As 'the Jewish voice for human rights., René Cassin works: Within the lewish community - building support for human rights values amongst British Jews. In the wider community - bringing the authority of a Jewish perspective to human rights debates, especially on issues ffecting vulnerable minorities. In furtherall of that object but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power to engage in political actwity provided that the tiustee5 are 5atlsfied that the proposed activities will further the purposes of the charity to an extent justified by the resources commiited and the activity is not the dominant means by which the charity carries out its object. Public benefit The Trustees confirm that it has complied with its duty under the Charltles Act 2011 to have due gard to the Charity Comm155ion's guidance on public benefit. Volunteers During the year there were 2 volunteers who supported the charity5 work by helping with research, campaigning and education. ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE Charitable activities and future plans Details of the campaigns and education drives undertaken by Rene Ca5sin, as well as Rene Cassin's plans for the future can iE found on their website at www.renecassin.org. FINANCIAL REVIEW Principal funding sources The principal funding sources are grants from charitable foundations. Reserves policy The prent level of funding is adequate to meet the trustees. objects. The trustees consider the financial position of the charity to be satisfactory. STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document The charity is governed by its constitution, amended 9 September 2013, and constitutes an unincorporated charity as defined by the Companies Art 2006. Recruitment and appointment of new trustees The trustees of the charity will appoint people once a year to serve as trustees including treasurer for a three-year term. A trustee will have a rmximum tenure of two three-year terms. The trustees may also appoint any person who is willing to act as a trustee at any point during the year. Whatever portion of the year they serve will count as the first year of their three-year term. The trustees shall hold meetings at least three times each year. Oryanlsatlonal structure The number of trustees shall be not less than three but {unless otherwise determined by a resolution of the charity in general meeting) shall not be subject to any maximum. Page I

CCIO RENE CASSIN REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Rlsk management Durlng the year the trustee5 improved thelr processes for Identlfylng, assessln9 evaluating the major r15kstowhlch Ihe charlty Is eXed. They classlfy the rfsks under specific headlngs finbnclal, reputstlonal, key person, governance, and operatlonal- and have cornpt a number of actlons to rnltlgate thelr exposure to these rlsks. In partlcular, the trustees have adopted a strengthened flnancla1 reseNes lIcY to mlnlmlse the rfsk of the Charity having to curtai or wse operatrons (Jue to fluctuatlons In tkp flow ol Intome. wth relatlon to covld.19, the orga11tIon swiftly adapted to the radlcally chansed condlyons Imposed by the Covld £rf5$5, becomlng an ouiward-faclng Virtual organ15atlon and Garrylng all functlons VIrtuty,. RÈFERENCE AND AOMINISYRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charlty number 1117472 Pilnrlpal address 8FJ HhleY Road LondDn NWII BLX Trustee5 D Sllverstone Chalr R Zaltzman SFAMords J Hlghfield J Metz J A Chalew L Kelle5 D mason Independent Examlnor Mr Danlel Flne, FCA Mellnek Flne ILP Chartered Accountants Fltst Floor, Winston House 349 Regents Park Road London N3 IDH Approved by rrfer of the board of trustees on 8 June 2022 an(1 SIgn on Its bthalf by: Lwbv D 511verstone-Twstee Page 2

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF CCJO RENE CASSIN Independent examiner's report to the trustees of CCJO Rene Cassin I report to the charity Iru5tees on my examination of the accounts of CCJO Rene Cassin (the Trust) for the year ended 31 December 2021. Responsibilities and basis of report the charity truste of the Trust you are responsible for the preparatitsn of the accounts in accordance with the requiretnents of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Acl'l. I report in respect of my examinaknon of the Trusvs accounts carried out under section 145 of the Art and in carrying out my examination I have followed 311 applicable DIrtIonS given by the Charity Commission under sectB)n 14515}(b) of the Act. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirrn that no material fflatters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any rnaterial respect.. accounting records were not kept in respert of the Trust as required by sectlon 130 of the Att,. or the accounts do not accord with those records,. or the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements Conrning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities IA¢count5 and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this rewrt in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Mr Daniel Fine, FCA Melinek Fine LLP Chartered Accountsnts First Floor, Winston House 349 Regents Park Road London N3 IDH 9 June 2022 Page 3

CCJO RENE CASSIN STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 2021 Total funds 2020 Total funds Uniestricted fund Restricted fund Nbtes INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies 77,780 61,600 139,380 131,964 Charitable activities Charitsble activities 5,000 5,000 Investment income Total 77,780 66,600 144,380 131,966 EXPENDITURE ON Raising funds 20,819 20,819 21,525 Charitable activities Charitable actiVitS 59,331 66,600 125,931 99,312 Total 80,150 66,600 146,750 120,837 NETINCOMEI(EXPENDITURE) (2,370) (2,370) 11,129 RECONCILIATION OF FIJNDS Total funds brought forward 68,089 68,089 56,960 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 65,719 65,719 68,089 The no form part of these financial statements Page 4

CCJO RENE CASSIN ALANCE SHEET 31 DECEMBER 2021 2021 Total funds 2020 Total runds Unrestrlcted fund Re5triLted fund Notes CURRENT ASSETS Debtors Cash at bank 2,568 67,057 67,057 99,227 CREOITORS Amounts falllng the thIn one year (1,338) (1,338) {3A,138) NET CURRENT ASSETS TOTAL ASSETS LE55 CURRENT LIABILITIES 65,719 65,719 6B,089 NET ASSETS FUNDS Unrestrtcted fuThJs TOTAL FUNDS The flnaKlal stateMts wereapproved by ihe Board ofTrLtee5ad aUthsed ft>r Issueon 8 June 2022 andwere gned on Its behalf by: D 5Slvetston2- Trustee The notes lorm part of these financbl statements Page 5

CCJO RENE CASSIN NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 ACCOUNTING POLICIES Basis of preparlng the financial statements The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP IFRS 1021 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities.. Statement of Recommended Prartice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland {FRS 102) (effective I lanvary 2019),, Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. Financial reporting standard 102- reduced disclosure exemptions The charity has taken advantage of the following disclosure exemptions in preparing these financial statements, as permitted by FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Stsndard applicable in the UK and RepU1C of Jreland,: the requirements of Sertion 7 Statement of Cash Flows. Income All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be ffleared reliably. Expenditure Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as s(M)n as there is a legal or constructive obligatlon cornfflitting the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the afflount or the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular heading5 they have been allocated to artivibes on a basis COThSiStent with the use of resources. Taxation The charity is exempt froTn tax QTI its charitable activities. Fund accountlng Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restncted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. RtrICtIonS arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restrirted purposes. Further explanation of the Trature and purpo* of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements. DONATIONS ANO LEGACIES 2021 2020 Donations Gift aid Grants 138,598 782 127,553 1,669 2,742 139,380 131,964 Grants received, included in the above, are as follows- 2021 2020 Other grants 2,742 Page 6 continued...

CCIO RENE CASSIN NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - contlnued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 INVESTMENT INCOME 2021 2020 Deposit account interest TRUSTEES, REMUNERA710N AND BENEFITS There were no trustees, remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 Dember 2021 nor foi the year ended 31 December 2020. Trustees, expenses There were no trustees. expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2021 nor for the year ended 31 December 2020. STAFF COSTS The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows.. 2021 2020 Employees Volunteers No employees received emoluments In ex$$ of E60,000. COMPAIiATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES Unrestricted fund Restrirted fund Total funds INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donation5 and legacies 107,464 24,500 131,964 Investment income Total 107,466 24,5(X) 131,966 EXPENDITUKE ON Raising funds 21,525 21,525 Charitable activities Charitable activities 74,812 24,500 99,312 Total 96,337 24,500 120,837 NETINCOME 11,129 11,129 RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward 56.960 56,960 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 68,089 68,089 Page 7 continued...

CCJO RENE CASSIN NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR 2021 2020 Other debtors 2,568 CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR 2021 2020 Taxation an(J social security Other creditors 498 840 299 30,839 1,338 31,138 MOVEMENT IN FUNDS Net nKJvement in funds At 31.12.21 At 1.1.21 Unrestricted funds General fund 68,089 (2,370) 65,719 TOTAL FUNDS 68,089 (2,370) 65,719 Net movement in funds, Sncluded in the above are as follows.. Incoming resources Resources expended Movement in funds Unrestricted funds General fund 77,780 (80,150) (2,370) Restricted funds Restricted fund 66,600 (66,600) TOTAL FUNDS 144,380 (146,750} (2,370) Comparatives for movement In funds Net movement in funds At 31.12.20 At 1.1.20 Unrestricted funds General fund 56,960 11,129 68,089 TOTAL FUNDS 56,960 11,129 68,089 Page 8 continued...

CCJO RENE CASSIN NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - contlnued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 310ECEMBER 2021 MOVEMENT IN FUNDS- continued Comparative net rnovement in funds, included in the above are as follows.. Incoming resources Resour expended Movement in funds Unrestricted funds General fund 107,466 (96,3371 11,129 Restritted fund5 Restrirted fund 24,5(XJ 124,500) TOTAL FUNDS 131,966 {120,837) 11,129 io. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 Dernbel 2021. Page 9