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2021-03-31-accounts

Charity Registration No. 1142963 (England and Wales) Charity Registration No. SC050970 (Scotland) Company Registration No. 07154151 (England and Wales)

MIGRANT VOICE

ANNUAL REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

MIGRANT VOICE

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Trustees Mr Mohammad Habib Rahman (Chair)
Mr Jason Bergen
Mr Maurice Wren
Ms Sofi Taylor (Vice Chair)
Prof Ferdinando Sigona
Mr Wilfred Sullivan (Appointed 1 December 2020)
Ms Dorrie Chetty (Appointed 1 December 2020)
Ms Niketha Gamage-Watson (Appointed 1 December 2020)
Secretary Mrs Nazek Ramadan Moussa
Charity number 1142963 (England and Wales)
Charity number (Scotland) SC050970
Company number 07154151
Registered office VAI, 200a Pentonville Road
London
United Kingdom
N1 9JP
Independent examiner Reddy Siddiqui LLP
183-189 The Vale
Acton
London
W3 7RW

MIGRANT VOICE

CONTENTS

Page
Trustees' report 1 - 15
Independent examiner's report 16
Statement of financial activities 17
Balance sheet 18
Notes to the financial statements 19 - 27

MIGRANT VOICE

TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with Migrant Voice's governing document, the Companies Act 2006 and "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 2019)".

Objectives and activities

  1. To advance education amongst migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, by the provision of training, advice and support, especially around media work; and

  2. To advance the education of the public in general and the media about the issues relating to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

  3. To promote equality and diversity by the provision of activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and to cultivate a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity

We are a migrant-led national organisation which builds a community of migrant voices to speak for ourselves and call for justice for all. We work with all types of migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, across the UK.

We strive to create a society where migrants have full equality and achieve positive change for migrants – countering racism and xenophobia, discrimination and unjust policies, bringing communities together and bringing social justice - change which benefits the whole of UK society.

To achieve this, migrants need to build collective power and influence, ensure our rights are protected and have a seat at the decision-making table to set the agenda on migration.

Our mutually interconnected methodologies, guided by our Theory of Change, are:

We build a bigger, stronger and deeper community of migrant voices across the UK via our Migrant Voices for Change Network, made up of regional hubs;

We strengthen migrants’ ability to influence and shape the media and public debate through training, brokering stories to the media and working with journalists and editors;

We develop and conduct migrant-led campaigns and advocacy to change law and policy and individual outcomes, that are accountable to participating migrants;

We facilitate and act as an anchor for migrant-led initiatives of a wider migration justice movement in alliance with other movements, by convening, collaboration, capacity-building and representation.

The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities Migrant Voice (MV) should undertake.

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Achievements and performance

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit

Our Theory of Change (TOC) guides all of our work. In accordance with that, Migrant Voice has planned and run a series of successful projects and activities in this period in order to achieve our objectives.

Core organisational activities

Grants from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for core costs and a contribution from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation have ensured our success in providing a platform for migrants to engage with the media and with policymakers and to contribute to the public debate on migration. By putting migrant voices at the centre of these conversations, we aim to develop greater understanding and support for migrants’ rights, and pursue policy change to achieve those rights.

Both funders contributed extraordinarily to our core work in this year through the making of generous additional grants to help with our core activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. We also received a Covid-19 support grant from Barrow Cadbury Trust/The National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 Support Fund. This was invaluable at a time when some other funders stopped accepting new applications and made a huge different to our operation in this and the following financial year.

The core funding has helped provide stability for the organisation, enabling us to strengthen the organisational, financial and administrative systems, as well as further develop our strategic communications. It has also ensured the continuity of the work, for example, by enabling us to continue to pay core staff and to successfully apply for new funding.

The core funding has contributed to the continued running and development of the organisation and therefore to the work of our UK Migrant Voices for Change Network in the three regions (London, West Midlands and Glasgow).

As a result of this core funding, our Director has continued to build stronger alliances and partnerships while also engaging with media, academics, policymakers, unions, and other civil society organisations.

In this year we have had a change of Communications staff, recruited a Campaign Organiser and temporarily welcomed three other part time staff, two of them to work on the new ‘Resilience project’ partnership and one to help with Administration. We have also had to say goodbye to two other part time staff members at the end of February/March in the West Midlands and Glasgow.

During this period, we worked to receive charitable status in Scotland, too, which was granted in May 2021, adding another charitable objective to our constitution.

We undertook a re-development and re-design of our website which was relaunched in January 2021.

With the UK entering lockdown in March 2020, our staff moved to working from home and continued to do so throughout the year. We created new risk assessments and policies to enable this new way of working. Our activities have been delivered successfully online in all three regions with some modifications. The impact of the pandemic on migrants’ lives was the focus of many meetings and something our members spoke out about during the year. Until the middle of June we produced a weekly newsletter with resources for support and information at this time of COvid-19 and a list of tips for activities to undertake.

We also organised Cup’a’Tea online social gatherings, initially weekly during the first lockdown, later on the last Friday of every month. The gatherings provided a place for our members to catch-up and share their thoughts and feelings throughout Covid-19 and to feel connected and less isolated.

Partnership working

We worked with other organisations and groups on several specific issues in line with our Strategic Plan and to address emerging topics and opportunities. This partnership work is a valuable part of our work, sharing knowledge and expertise, organising joint events and collaborating on joint letters and policy asks.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Our partnership activities include many other collaborations within and beyond the migration sector, which are too numerous to mention here. Some of our work with other organisations this year included the following:

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UK Migrant Voices for Change Network

The UK Migrant Voices for Change Network (UKMVC) is the foundation for all our work across our three regions and hubs. Our network’s membership base is made up of migrants from a diverse range of communities, alongside UK citizens, journalists, academics, and colleagues from the migration justice sector.

Through the UKMVC hubs we engage in activities to ensure migrants have the skills, confidence, tools and platforms to speak out in the media, campaign or advocate for migrants’ rights. The aim is always to create positive change for migrants, bringing about social justice and campaigning against discrimination, xenophobia, racism and unjust policies. These changes benefit everybody in society.

Network meetings and training are key to the UKMVC, as they create the spaces for members to come together to discuss issues affecting them, alongside building strategies to address them and speak out.

In this period, we continued to hold network meetings in our three region hubs, all online, and some national, bringing together our members across the country. Topics included:

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In July, we held Migrant Voice’s first International Students Week, celebrating the international students who come to the UK and raising their voices and the issues affecting them. Through several blogs, articles and social media posts, students wrote about struggles during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown including over visas and finances.

Our training in speaking out in the media, to policy makers and the public, campaigning and advocacy form other essential activities of the UKMVC network, which are described later in this report.

The Barrow Cadbury Trust has funded the UKMVC hub in Birmingham. Funding from Impact Funding Partners in Scotland for the Volunteering for Change project has supported the Glasgow hub activities. Most of our other funding also supports work of the network.

Media training and work

Through the Migrant Media Lab, our signature training activity, we continue to deliver media training and mentoring sessions for our members throughout the year. The sessions are led by experts among our own staff and by volunteers, guest journalists/editors, and other media experts, with the goal of achieving a fundamental objective: to train and empower migrants to speak for themselves and to engage effectively with the media.

In this period, we ran Media Labs in Glasgow and the West Midlands. The Media Lab sessions gave migrants the skills to progress the action points agreed at national meetings.

We also delivered training for migrant groups, including a social media training for the # StatusNow4all Network; a training for young people from Safe Passage and two training sessions for a group of undocumented migrants on speaking to the media.

As a result of our training, members have engaged in interviews with journalists and attended public meetings and events where they spoke out about their experiences.

We continued implementing our proactive media strategy, pitching stories to the media, while also reacting to requests where we considered this productive.

Members were heard in a number of national, independent and regional news outlets. These included The i, ITV Central, BBC Midlands, The Birmingham Mail, The Guardian, Channel4 news, Sky News, The Independent, the Eastern Eye, Huck Magazine, gal-dem Magazine, MyLondon, Morning Star, Huffington Post and many others.

Topics included: the NHS surcharge; the TOEIC scandal; crossing the Channel; having No Recourse to Public Funds; the impact of extortionate visa fees; racism against Asian communities in the capital; seeking asylum in the UK and struggling as an asylum seekers on the Home Office’s financial allowance; about having to travel long distances on public transport to Home Office appointments during the Covid-19 pandemic and on our West midlands Media Lab and newsroom and the importance of hearing migrants’ voices.

Our members also contributed to a large number of stories published on our website in this period.

Campaigning, advocacy and policy influencing work

Drawing on core funding, we have continued and expanded our work to bring migrants’ voices and issues directly to policymakers with the goal of influencing policy changes. For the specific work of the My Future Back campaign we also had a grant from the ARM Trust, and for the visa fees campaign in London, we had a grant from Trust for London.

MIGRANT VOICE

TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Our campaigning and advocacy work in this period was focused on these main areas:

The rights of EU nationals

While we continue to sit on the Home Office user group advising on the development and implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme, our work in this period has focused on meetings for migrants to share concerns and get information, and on amplifying the experiences of our members and those of others in the sector providing front-line legal advice.

My Future Back Campaign

Our work on this issue built on the earlier successes of the campaign and although some work was on hold due to the pandemic, we continue to progress the campaign in several areas:

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We have worked closely with a pro bono solicitor and a barrister from two legal firms to assemble and submit evidence. We were granted our application to intervene and managed to argue that if the APPG report is not legally sound, then the transcript and voice recordings should be admissible. We have worked closely with Stephen Timms MP on this. While the court ruling has yet to be made, it looks like the transcript from the APPG will continue to be admissible in court so the students can continue to use it to help win their cases.

The work on the MyFutureBack campaign was funded by a grant from the Arm Trust and from our core funds.

The campaign against extortionate visa fees

We continued our fundraising for this work and successfully got a grant from Trust for London, enabling us to officially launch the campaign in London in March 2021 and recruit a new Campaign Organiser to step up our work on this. Our campaign is national and we continue our efforts to raise funds for the work nationally.

Our work with undocumented migrants

We have always worked with undocumented migrants to get their stories into the media and raise awareness about their realities. We run training and activities to ensure they are heard and part of the conversation about their future in the UK.

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Individual campaigns

In the West Midlands we support and build the skills of individual members to advocate and campaign for their rights. These ‘individual’ campaigns address wider systemic issues through our campaign model, turning individual stories into communities’ collective demands for change.

We use the learning from our national campaign models and the same elements of combining media coverage with targeted lobbying of policy makers and bringing in help from legal experts, but bring it to the hyper-local level.

In this period, we have been working with three members on their individual campaigns, while others we’ve worked with before continue to be involved as role models, sharing their learning and experiences and inspiring others to do the same to achieve justice.

Other policy influencing work

Our work bringing the voices and experiences of migrants to policymakers has also encompassed the following areas.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

The Building Resilience Project

In partnership with RAPAR (Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research) and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, we launched the Building Resilience project in December. This project, led by Migrant Voice, aimed to organise, empower and build networks with some of the migrant communities most marginalised by Covid-19.

The project provided spaces for migrants with limited and no immigration status to discuss shared experiences throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to build their resilience and form networks of solidarity .

The Building Resilience project strengthened leadership skills among Community Leaders and ran training session on engaging with your MP attended by 100 people, many of whom wrote to their MPs as a result.

We organised a meeting with Stephen Timms MP and 40 migrants who spoke about their experiences and the impact of Covid.

We ran media training sessions on preparing your message on impact of Covid of migrants with limited immigration status culminating in the production of a number of videos.

Based on a survey with 200 migrants and a number of in-depth interviews, a report shared the learning and findings from the project: ‘ Releasing resilience and building networks of resilience: learning from the survey, interviews, and evaluation.’ We secured good media coverage for the report including by Sky News, The i Paper, the Birmingham Mail, and PinkNews.

The project was funded by The National Lottery Community Fund - Coronavirus Community Support Fund.

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The MiFriendly Cities project

This year saw the conclusion of many of our activities as one of the partners of this three-year project, which began in early 2018. Over the years we have brought our expertise in supporting migrants with training to tell their stories, which has contributed to the project’s aims to ensure migrants and refugees are fully part of the West Midlands and their voices, skills and passion contribute to strengthening the social and economic fabric of the region for the benefit of all.

In this period, our six Media Lab sessions were delivered online, which meant some training had to be adapted, but also that we could bring participants across Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton to take part together.

Throughout the year, we continued our weekly ‘newsroom’ sessions, following up and supporting participants from the Media Labs to produce specific media content in mainstream media and for Migrant Voice and MiFriendly Cities social media platforms.

The highlight was the Newsroom’s work to produce their own magazine ‘Beyond’ to mark Black History Month 2020.

Elsewhere, our director took part in the MiFriendly cities sounding board with organisations from across Europe to talk about good practice around integration of migrants.

This project is a partnership with ten others: Coventry City Council (lead), City of Wolverhampton Council, Birmingham City Council, Central England Law Centre, Coventry University, Refugee and Migrant Centre, Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre, Coventry University Social Enterprise, Interserve, and MigrationWork.

MiFriendly Cities is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and forms part of the EU’s Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) initiative.

The Volunteering for Change project

We continued our work on this project in Glasgow, and concluded it at the end of March 2021. The project recruited, trained and supported volunteers to work across key roles in our organisation in order to develop their transferable skills and strengthen our capacity to support migrants, amplify their voices, and bring communities together.

In this period, we recruited and inducted two new groups of volunteers, who supported the delivery of a number of activities including Media Lab, research, meetings and know your rights sessions.

Volunteers have told us that the project helped to increase their skills and confidence through taking part in a wide range of training opportunities, improved their mental health and wellbeing, helped them meet new people and improve their career prospects. For some, the skills and confidence they gained from volunteering encouraged them to go back to College and University. A number of them found jobs using their experience with us. For the volunteers who were migrants, they told us that volunteering helped partially replace the links and ties they lost in the act of migration, creating a new sense of belonging.

This project was funded by Impact Funding Partners.

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The Meet a Migrant project

This period saw the successful continuation of this pioneering project, which transfers the knowledge from phase 1 of Meet a Migrant through tailored sessions for migrant community groups and individuals active in their communities, based on our toolkit, ‘Making headlines’. We also worked to address structural inequalities that exclude migrants’ voices from the media and from influencing policy.

We delivered training to 18 community groups and individuals (or ‘Migrant Ambassadors’) in Glasgow, Birmingham and London and continued to work with the Ambassadors we had already trained through ongoing mentoring with pitches, and developing their stories. Taking advantage of the benefits of working online, we were able to bring together the Ambassadors from across the country to share experiences, exchange learning and further their skills.

During this time, we prepared for and organised a Meet the Editors meeting with the Press Association, where members had the opportunity to provide feedback directly to editors on the news outlet’s media coverage and pitch untold stories from their communities.

We also continued to build relationships with numerous journalists from other outlets across the country. We successfully pitched and had tens of stories published, with dozens of members speaking out.

We continued working with the Universities of Glasgow, Coventry and Westminster, to analyse the impact of our Meet the Editors sessions and to share knowledge and expertise and plan further joint work.

The project also produced briefings for policymakers on issues raised by our members. In this period, topics included visa fees and the impact of Covid-19 on migrants.

This project and the broader work of the Communications Officer is funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. The communications capacity enabled by this grant continues to be instrumental, increasing our output of media stories and website content, and improving our visibility, impact, and social media presence and our members’ media influencing.

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Research

In this period, we have undertaken a media monitoring research project, assessing media coverage of migration during the first peak of the pandemic in the UK. We launched our report ‘Heroes, threats & victims; UK media coverage of migration during the first covid-19 lockdown’ in December 2020, at an online event chaired by our trustee, Professor Nando Sigona.

We analysed almost 900 news stories across nine of the UK’s most popular media outlets and found that migrants were heard more often in the media in this period at 21%. There were big differences between news outlets, however, with 33.5% of stories in The Guardian including a migrant voice and just 3.9% in the Express.

However, migrants were mainly presented in stereotyped categories of ‘disadvantaged’, ‘heroes’, ‘threats or ‘victims’, and across different outlets, these depictions entrenched existing perceptions and impacted on the level of public and policy support for different groups of migrants at this time.

Despite this, our research also showed that as a result of this pandemic, journalists, policymakers and the public know much more about issues such as asylum support and immigration detention, and we hope this can form the groundwork for more significant policy changes in the future.

Our core funding from The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation supported the work on this report.

Volunteering and in-kind support

All Migrant Voice activities are supported by a large number of volunteers (including journalists) giving their time and skills to support the work.

In addition, Migrant Voice receives a significant amount of in-kind support in the form of venues, expert trainers, legal advice for our members and to support our campaigns, editors, etc.

The ongoing maintenance, hosting and the re-development of our website in this period was done through inkind donation to a value of £8,000.

Financial review

The Charity's income was £474,230 in the year ended 31 March 2021 compared to £262,163 in the year ended 31 March 2020. The total expenditure amounted to £318,631 the year to 31 March 2021 compared to £268,828 in the year ended 31 March 2020.The fund balance carried forward at 31 March 2021 was £60,733 on general unrestricted funds. The fund balance carried forward on restricted funds was £198,156 on 31 March 2021. The full Statement of Financial Activities is set out on page 15 of these accounts:

The financial outlook for 2021-22 is positive.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Reserves Policy

The Board of trustees aims to develop and maintain a level of unrestricted reserves which ensures that there are adequate funds to meet current and known future liabilities.

A formal policy on reserves was agreed at the 4 December 2012 meeting of the executive committee and last updated 18 November 2019. It states:

The trustees have set a reserves policy which works towards achieving that:

Reserves be maintained at a level which ensures that Migrant Voice's core activity could continue during a period of unforeseen difficulty. A proportion of reserves be maintained in a readily realisable form.

Most of MV’s funding is restricted in some way and any restricted funds will be treated as restricted. MV will build its reserve from the unrestricted funding and through prudent savings. The organisation will build its reserves to reach the target by increased fundraising, increased earned income through e.g. training or presentation delivery, through donations, and through reducing expenditure.

We will aim to allocate an amount of £250 per month for the reserve (£3000 per year). This must come from unrestricted funds.

MV aims to have reserves equivalent to a minimum of 3 months running costs. At the moment our reserves are £60,733.

Investment policy and performance

The Memorandum & Articles of Association provides that the organisation invests moneys not immediately required for its own purposes in or upon such investments securities or properties as may- be thought fit. At the present time the trustees' policy is to maintain all such monies on deposits earning a market rate of interest.

The trustees h ave assessed the major risks to which Migrant Voice is exposed, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.

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TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Future plans for financial year 2021-22

MIGRANT VOICE TRUSTEES. REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS. REPORT) (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 Structure. governance and managémfrnt The organisation is a company limited by guarantee and a charity. It is opemled urKJer the rules of ils memorandum and articjes of 8ssociation dated 1110212010 and mosl r￿eNtlY amended 1110712011. It has no share capf(al and the liability of each member in the event of windin9-up is limited lo £1. The trustees. who are also the directors for the purpose of company law, and who served during the year and up to the dale of signature of the financial ststements were.. Mr Mohammad Hablb Rahman {Chair) Mr Jason Bergen Mr mauri￿ Wren Ms Simin Azimi Ms Sofi Taylor (Vice Chairl Ms Joy Wamiington Prof Ferdinando Sigona Mr Wilfred Sullivan Ms Dorrie Chetty Ms Niketha Gamage-watson (Resigned 11 February 20211 (Resigned 20 November 20201 (Appointed 1 De￿mber 2020} {ApFM)inled 1 De￿mber 20201 {Appointed 1 De￿rnber 2020} None of the trustees has any benefi￿￿1 interest in the company. All of the trustees are members of the company and guarantee to contribute £1 in the event of a winding up. Overall management of the company is the responsibility of the trustees who are elected and c¢>OPted under the terms of the memorandum and artides of association. Day to day project activity is managed and carried out by paid staff andlor volunteers. The trustees, report was approved by the Board of Trustees. Mr Mohammad Hablb Rahman (Chair) Trustee Dated.. 2 De￿mber 2021

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MIGRANT VOICE

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Unrestricted
Restricted
funds
funds
2021
2021
Notes
£
£
Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
3
12,940
-
Charitable activities
4
-
434,805
Other income
5
26,485
-
Total income
39,425
434,805
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
6
2,383
316,248
Net income/(expenditure)
for the year/
Net movement in funds
37,042
118,557
Fund balances at 1 April 2020
23,691
79,599
Fund balances at 31 March
2021
60,733
198,156		 Total Unrestricted
Restricted
funds
funds
2021
2020
2020
£
£
£
12,940
5,903
-
434,805
-
244,245
26,485
12,015
-
474,230
17,918
244,245
318,631
20,156
248,672
155,599
(2,238)
(4,427)
103,290
25,929
84,026
258,889
23,691
79,599		 Total
2020
£
5,903
244,245
12,015
262,163
268,828
(6,665)
109,955
103,290

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.

All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

The statement of financial activities also complies with the requirements for an income and expenditure account under the Companies Act 2006.

MIGRANT VOICE BALANCE SHEET ASAT31 MARCH 2021 2021 2020 Note8 Fixed assets Tangible assets 10 4,092 6,372 Current a$sots Debtors Cash al bank and in hand 11 93 259,187 158 98.307 259.280 98,465 Creditors: amounts falling du• within ono yèar 13 {4.483) 11,5471 Nel current assels 254,797 96,918 Total assets less currenl liablliti 258,889 103,290 Income funds R8Stricted funds Uniestrided funds 198,156 60,733 79.599 23.691 258,889 103,290 The company 18 enliued lo the exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companle8 Act 2006, for the year ended 31 MarGh 2021. The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for ensurtng that the charity keeps accounting records which comply with sedion 386 of the Act and for preparing financial stateme￿ts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its incoming resources and application of resour￿$, including its income ar)d expenditure. for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise Comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating lo financial statements. so far as applicable to the company. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements fLY the year in question in accordants wth section 476. These finanaal ststements have been p￿Pared in accordan￿ with the provisions applicable to companies subject lo the sm811 companies regime. The financial ststemgnls w8re approved by the Trustees on 2 December 2021 Mr Mohawnrnad Habib Trustsg n (Chairl Company Rogistration No. 07154151 18

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

1 Accounting policies

Charity information

Migrant Voice is a private company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is VAI, 200a Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JP, United Kingdom.

1.1 Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Migrant Voice's governing document, the Companies Act 2006 and “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)” (as amended for accounting periods commencing from 1 January 2016). The Migrant Voice is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.

The Migrant Voice has taken advantage of the provisions in the SORP for charities applying FRS 102 Update Bulletin 1 not to prepare a Statement of Cash Flows.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling , which is the functional currency of the Migrant Voice . Monetary a mounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, modified to include the revaluation of freehold properties and to include investment properties and certain financial instruments at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

1.2 Going concern

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

1.3 Charitable funds

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of their charitable objectives.

Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used. The purposes and uses of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Endowment funds are subject to specific conditions by donors that the capital must be maintained by the Migrant Voice.

1.4 Income

Income is recognised when Migrant Voice is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received.

Cash donations are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recognised once Migrant Voice has been notified of the donation, unless performance conditions require deferral of the amount. Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid or deeds of covenant is recognised at the time of the donation.

Legacies are recognised on receipt or otherwise if the Migrant Voice has been notified of an impending distribution, the amount is known, and receipt is expected. If the amount is not known, the legacy is treated as a contingent asset.

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

1 Accounting policies

(Continued)

1.5 Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total of direct costs and shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs which contribute to more than one activity and support costs which are not attributable to a single activity are apportioned between those activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. Central staff costs are allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges are allocated on the portion of the asset’s use.

Liabilities are recognised as resources expended as soon as there is an obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category.

1.6 Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses. The charity has a minimum value for all assets costing more than £350 capitalised.

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

Fixtures, fittings & equipment

25% on straight line basis

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is recognised in the statement of financial activities .

1.7 Impairment of fixed assets

At each reporting end date, the Migrant Voice reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any ) .

1.8 Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.

1.9 Employee benefits

Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the Migrant Voice is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.

1.10 Retirement benefits

Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

2 Critical accounting estimates and judgements

In the application of the Migrant Voice’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 that are considered to be relevant. 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.

3 Donations and legacies

Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds funds
2021 2020
£ £
Donations and gifts 12,940 5,903

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

4 Charitable activities

Direct costs Direct costs
2021 2020
£ £
ARM Trust - 10,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust 26,300 21,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust/The National Lottery
Community Fund COVID-19 Support Fund 48,500 -
ERDF - UIA - MiFriendly Cities 49,941 79,703
Esmee Fairbairn Covid-19 fast response grant 84,252 -
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation 60,504 60,504
Esmeee Fairbairn Grants Plus - 6,000
Impact Funding Partners (formerly Voluntary
Action Fund) 9,992 9,992
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - 7,500
London Churches Refugee Hardship Fund - 700
Moneygram 3,612 10,846
Paul Hamlyn Foundation including Covid-19
emergency grant 55,000 35,000
The National Lottery Community Fund -
Coronavirus Community Support Fund 95,253 -
University of Birmingham (Eurochildren) 1,451 3,000
Income from charitable activities 434,805 244,245
Other income
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds funds
2021 2020
£ £
Other income 26,485 12,015

5 Other income

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

6 Charitable activities

Staff costs
Depreciation and impairment
Charitable expenditure heading 1
Share of support costs (see note 7)
Share of governance costs (see note 7)
Analysis by fund
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
Support costs
Support
costs
Governance
costs
£
£
Support cost
35,535
-
Accountancy
-
2,012
Governance costs
-
-
35,535
2,012
Analysed between
Charitable activities
35,535
2,012		 2021
£
195,522
3,471
82,091
281,084
35,535
2,012
318,631
2,383
316,248
318,631
2021
£
35,535
2,012
-
37,547
37,547		 2020
£
188,284
3,494
34,100
225,878
32,237
10,713
268,828
20,156
248,672
268,828
2020
£
32,237
3,400
7,313
42,950
42,950

7 Support costs

Accountancy / Governance costs is payments to the independent examination of £1,440 (2020: £1,200). Incuded in the Wages and salary is payment to the internal book-keeper of £2,514 8 Trustees

None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration or benefits from the Migrant Voice during the year.

There was no reimbursement of expenses paid to trustees during the year (2020 - £ 1,576) .

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

9 Employees

The average monthly number of employees during the year was:

Full time employees
Part time employees
Total
Employment costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs		 2021
Number
3
5
8
2021
£
180,652
10,579
4,291
195,522		 2020
Number
3
5
8
2020
£
173,293
11,774
3,217
188,284

There were no employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000.

10 Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets
Fixtures, fittings & equipment
£
Cost
At 1 April 2020 26,670
Additions 1,190
At 31 March 2021 27,860
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 April 2020 20,297
Depreciation charged in the year 3,471
At 31 March 2021 23,768
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2021 4,092
At 31 March 2020 6,372

Restricted funds represent amounts received for specific purposes, which have not yet been fully spent on those purposes at the year-end. Barrow Cadbury Trust £567, UIA - MiFriendly Cities £3,423 and Impact Funding Partners £99 relates to the net book value of fixed assets which would be written down to nil in subsequent years.

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

11 Debtors
2021 2020
Amounts falling due within one year: £ £
Prepayments and accrued income 93 158

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

12 Movement in funds
Funders
Balance at
1 April 2020

£
ARM Trust
10,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
10,889
Barrow Cadbury Trust/The National
Lottery Community Fund COVID-19
Support Fund
-
Big Lottery Fund - Awards for All
(England)
205
Big Lottery Fund - Awards for All
(Scotland)
228
Comic Relief
189
ERDF - UIA - MiFriendly Cities
(6,592)
Esmee Fairbairn Covid-19 fast response
grant
-
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
36,309
Hardship fund
15
Impact Funding Partners (formerly
Voluntary Action Fund)
197
London Churches Refugee Hardship
Fund
700
Moneygram
(3,623)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation including
Covid-19 emergency grant
32,533
The National Lottery Community Fund -
Coronavirus Community Support Fund
-
Trust for London
-
University of Birmingham (Eurochildren)
(1,451)
79,599
Incoming
resources
Resources
expended
Balance at 31
March 2021
£
£
£
-
10,000
-
26,300
27,312
9,877
48,500
10,914
37,586
-
205
-
-
228
-
-
189
-
49,941
73,474
(30,125)
84,252
19,663
64,589
60,504
55,467
41,346
-
-
15
9,992
9,992
197
-
175
525
3,612
(11)
-
55,000
34,989
52,544
95,253
72,148
23,105
-
1,506
(1,506)
1,451
-
-
434,805
316,251
198,153

Our income from the The National Lottery Community Fund - Coronavirus Community Support Fund, includes £44,228 that we as the lead partner will transfer to our partner organisations for the Resilience project, to be spent in accordance with the grant agreement. In this financial year, £39,805.20 of this amount was transferred to partners, with the remaining transferred in 2021-22.

MIGRANT VOICE

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

13 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Accruals and deferred income
14
Analysis of net assets between funds
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
2021
2021
£
£
Fund balances at 31
March 2021 are
represented by:
Tangible assets
-
4,092
Current assets/(liabilities)
60,734
194,063
60,734
198,155		 TotalUnrestricted
funds
2021
2020
£
£
4,092
-
254,797
23,691
258,889
23,691		 2021
£
4,483
Restricted
funds
2020
£
6,372
73,227
79,599		 2020
£
1,547
Total
2020
£
6,372
96,918
103,290

15 Related party transactions

During the year Migrant Voice entered into the following transactions with related parties:

We were subcontracted by the University of Birmingham to deliver partner activities as part of the ‘EU families and ‘Eurochildren’ in Brexiting Britain’ project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Prof Ferdinando Sigona who led the project and works for the University of Birmingham is a trustee of Migrant Voice.