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2021-12-31-accounts

HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION GROUP

ANNUAL REPORT TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

Charity number: 1149652 Company number: 08186281

CONTENTS

CONTENTS
REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS 4
INTRODUCTION TO THE HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION 6
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 7
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT 8
A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO AND CHAIR OF TRUSTEES 9
HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION GROUP’S VISION, MISSION AND THEORY OF CHANGE 10
HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION GROUP’S ACTIVITIES 11
PART ONE: DELIVERING SERVICES — MOIC 14
PART TWO: CREATING SYSTEM CHANGE — RESEARCH, POLICY AND AND PRACTICE 24
OUR 2022-2024 STATEGY 33
FINANCIAL REVIEW 34
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES 37
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION 38

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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

FOUNDER

Helen Bamber OBE (1925 — 2014)

CHARITY NUMBER 1149652 COMPANY NUMBER 08186281

PRESIDENT

Emma Thompson DBE

TRUSTEES

Charlotte Seymour-Smith — Chair John Scampion — Treasurer Sir Nicolas Bratza Rebecca Hirst (resigned) Nina Kowalska Nancy McCartney Samantha Peter Professor Ian Watt HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY GROUP Sir Nicolas Bratza Shu Shin Luh Parosha Chandran

REGISTERED OFFICE AND OPERATIONAL ADDRESS

Bruges Place, 15-20 Baynes Street London NW1 0TF AUDITOR Sayer Vincent LLP Chartered Accountants & Statutory Auditors Invicta House, 108-114 Golden Lane London EC1Y 0TL

BANKERS

Coutts & Co, 440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0Q

MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES

Gareth Holmes — Fundraising and Communications Director Professor Cornelius Katona — Medical & Research Director Anne Muthee — Finance and Operations Director Kerry Smith — Chief Executive Officer

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ANNUAL REPORT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

Helen Bamber Foundation Group: Annual Report, for the year ended 31 December 2021

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INTRODUCTION TO THE HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION GROUP

Who we are

The Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) is a pioneering human rights charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers who are the survivors of extreme human cruelty. The people we work with have been subjected to many atrocities, including state-sponsored torture, human trafficking, religious and political persecution, forced labour, sexual exploitation, and gender-based and ‘honour-based’ violence.

The bravery and resilience of our clients is an inspiration to all the team at HBF. In the words of our founder:

We find our reward in the eyes of those to whom we owe nothing.

Helen Bamber, OBE (1925-2014)

The Helen Bamber Foundation provides expert support for survivors of torture and trafficking. Whatever is needed — be it therapy or education; legal or medical advice; housing or employment — our services enable survivors to thrive independently. However, our work does not stop there. We direct our influence to improve global best practice so that all survivors may lead better lives with confidence and in safety.

In 2020, HBF formed the Helen Bamber Foundation Group (the Group), welcoming Asylum Aid, another human rights charity focused on survivors, which was in danger of not being able to continue its work of providing legal advice and representation. In an environment where finding any legal help, let alone expert legal help, is increasingly difficult, the expanded group offers more survivors support that protects them from persecution. Asylum Aid works with separate individuals to those supported by the Helen Bamber Foundation, ensuring that as a Group we help more people.

Asylum Aid is a committed, professional and collaborative charity dedicated to protecting people from persecution by providing legal representation and access to justice for refugees and those seeking asylum. Asylum Aid concentrates on complex cases of people who would struggle to get appropriate legal representation elsewhere: survivors of trafficking and torture, stateless persons and separated children. It is a key change-maker, whose loss would have been keenly felt across the sector. The team also provides welfare advice to migrants and other vulnerable members of the community in Westminster, London.

Together we are innovative, ambitious and compassionate.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

It has been my privilege to have been involved with the Helen Bamber Foundation since it was founded by Helen in 2005, as a trustee and now as President. I am immensely proud of all that has been achieved in the mission to support survivors of human cruelty and in particular the many refugees and people seeking asylum who have been brutalised, tortured and trafficked in the most despicable way. But we still have so much more to do. As global violence escalates, the compassion our clients receive often lessens. Which is why, as well as offering vital direct support, we are determined to challenge the systems and practices that continue to leave survivors of torture and trafficking vulnerable to further abuse, unable to live and thrive as they deserve. The years ahead will be critical and I will be continuing to help in every way I can and welcome all others who join us in our mission.

Emma Thompson, President Helen Bamber Foundation Group

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

HBF’s staff & volunteers: a community effort

We can only provide the level of services required by our clients thanks to the dedication, professionalism and vision of our staff and volunteers. During 2021, on an average head count basis, 43 members of the Helen Bamber Foundation Group team handled the daily business of the charity, providing services directly to — and on behalf of — our clients. By the end of December 2021, the Asylum Aid team had 11 members. Our office remained open throughout 2021, except for a seven week period in February and March 2021 where we closed due to the stay-at-home advice of the Government. We did not stop any of our services during 2021 but delivered them in a hybrid of face-to-face and online sessions and appointments. The staff were supported by 81 volunteers, among them doctors, therapists, barristers, solicitors, administrators, artists, musicians and other specialists. We offer our heartfelt thanks to all our volunteers, without whom we would not be able to give the same breadth and depth of support to our clients.

Management and governance

HBF is an independent charity. We are developing a group structure to maximise impact for survivors of trafficking and torture by aligning efforts with other charities that also provide much-needed support. Asylum Aid became the first member of our Helen Bamber Foundation Group (the Group) during the pandemic, due to its own financial difficulties. We will be supporting Asylum Aid as a charity to sustainably grow its impact and increase its reach. The Asylum Aid Board continues to have oversight, but with alignment and efficiency created through a minority of shared board members, joint committees and back-office support, including finance, HR, volunteer management, facilities and fundraising. The intention is to continue this incubation over the next strategy period and therefore in May 2022, HBF became the sole member of Asylum Aid. HBF and Asylum Aid do not share clients to ensure independence as well as greater impact for the group. The Managing Executives’ day-to-day management of the Group continued with the introduction of a Management Group made up of the Chief Executive, Executive Directors, Directors and Heads of Teams. A Finance and Fundraising Committee, bringing together trustees and management team members, meets at least quarterly to provide financial and fundraising governance and oversight of both the HBF and Asylum Aid.

The HBF board of trustees, under the Chair, Charlotte Seymour-Smith, and supported by the Asylum Aid trustees, provided strong strategic oversight and governance of the Group throughout 2021. John Scampion is the Treasurer of both HBF and Asylum Aid. New trustees to both organisations are recruited externally, with their appointment approved by the Board of Trustees. A tailored induction follows, ensuring that each new trustee is briefed as required on the Group’s governance structure and decision-making processes, its obligations under charity law, the activities of HBF and Asylum Aid, and the Group’s financial performance. Trustee meetings are held every quarter and sequentially. In 2021 we recruited two Board Observers with Lived Experience, who started in their posts on 1st January 2022.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & CHAIR OF TRUSTEES

Starting 2021 with a lockdown made it abundantly clear that the Covid-19 pandemic would continue to disrupt our clients’ lives and recovery throughout the year. As a result survivors of trafficking and torture continued to suffer significant deteriorations in their mental and physical health. The risk of exploitation, abuse and retrafficking also continued to mount as ongoing isolation compounded our clients’ vulnerability.

It is with great pride therefore that apart from seven weeks during the second lockdown, the Helen Bamber Foundation Group’s doors remained open, providing a much needed permanent place of support for our clients. To name just one crucial difference this made, 41% of the therapy appointments we offered were trauma-focused therapy interventions, compared to 18% in 2020. We also grew our support of the wider sector by building partnerships and providing training to other organisations and statutory services, enabling them to deliver the trauma-focused care that survivors need. Our strategic commitment to improving the environment for survivors beyond those we support directly has only become more important as a result of the Afghan and Ukraine crises.

But it is clear that the impact of isolation and reduction of capacity across even the most critical safeguarding, health and support services has made survivors more vulnerable. This, coupled with a clearly failing asylum system and our current Government’s draconian response through the Nationality and Borders Act, means that demand for our services will only soar.

HBF and Asylum Aid’s new three-year strategy prioritises partnerships and shared learning as the route to offering survivors access to recovery and protection. In particular, we want to ensure that our expertise in countertrafficking is used to reduce the risks of survivors being re-trafficked, exploited and abused.

We also hope to welcome all of our wonderful supporters to a new Helen Bamber Foundation Group home in 2023, a home that will be a reflection of our clients, our values and our vision for the world. Finally, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the supporters who have helped us to get to where we are now. We wouldn’t be able to do any of our vital work without you, and we look forward to continuing our journey together.

Kerry Smith, CEO & Charlotte Seymour–Smith, Chair of Trustees, Helen Bamber Foundation Group

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HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION GROUP’S VISION, MISSION & THEORY OF CHANGE

We believe our society will be judged by how we care for those to whom we owe nothing. We are human rights organisations that focus on ensuring that survivors of extreme human rights abuses have everything they need to make a sustained recovery. We know that dignity restored is strength regained.

Vision

All survivors of trafficking, torture and extreme human cruelty have safety, freedom and power.

Mission

TO SUPPORT

Our Model of Integrated Care will directly or indirectly support survivors of trafficking and torture across the UK and beyond. We will also protect survivors from persecution, re-trafficking, exploitation and abuse.

TO ADVOCATE

As human rights advocates , we are uniquely placed as a result of our expertise, research and influence.We will bear witness to the suffering of survivors and fight for their rights.

TO COLLABORATE

We collaborate with others, especially those with lived experience, to find solutions to the challenges facing all survivors. We support the delivery of best practice to improve chances of recovery and prevent re-trafficking. We are a valuable partner for those seeking to influence UK, European and Global policy.

Theory of Change

POLICY

The survivors we reach through positive policy change

SHARING GOOD PRACTICE

The survivors we support and reach through shared learning with organisations and statutory institutions

DIRECT DELIVERY

The survivors we support directly

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HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION GROUP’S ACTIVITIES

Who do we work with — complex cases

As a result of their experiences, HBF Group clients have multiple and complex needs, and have often been let down by the system since their arrival in the UK. During 2021, we supported more than 700 survivors of trafficking and torture and more than 650 vulnerable individuals with welfare advice, of the latter over 80% of whom had backgrounds of migration or asylum or were people of colour.

Survivors typically suffer from acute psychological health conditions, severe physical injuries and medical conditions. Compounding this, and hindering their recovery, is a fear of persecution if returned to their country of origin or other countries where they have experienced harm. Additionally, the vast majority of our clients experience periods of destitution and homelessness, often multiple times, during their journey through the UK’s legal systems. In HBF’s experience,many refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of trafficking and torture have been unable to access the justice and representation they so desperately need. Cuts to Legal Aid in 2012 resulted in the decimation of Legal Aid advice providers, and chronic and growing delays in decision-making, which left several legal providers unable to take on new clients while waiting for cases to reach the next stage. The work of Asylum Aid, therefore, is critical to the recovery of survivors, and to our ability as the Group to reach them with transformative support.

Our clients are often dangerously isolated and marginalised. Fear, emotional withdrawal and multiple barriers (such as language challenges, the inability to work orto open a bank account), can stand in the way of survivors trying new experiences, developing vital life skills, enjoying practical and creative interests, and forming positive relationships. Furthermore, even though they suffer multiple physical injuries and illnesses (many as a direct result of their experiences), they often have only sporadic and ineffective engagement with statutory healthcare providers.

Finally, some of our clients have spent their entire childhoods in slavery, while others have been trafficked after fleeing from human rights violations. Sadly, due to the particular and prolonged impact of slavery, survivors are extremely vulnerable to being re-targeted for further trafficking, exploitation and harm if left unsupported.

As a human rights and clinical organisation, HBF helps survivors to gain certainty in a challenging environment and to confront and overcome the multiple and complex traumas they have suffered, to improve their mental health, and to move forward with their lives.

Despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic and the impact of isolation, we saw a clinical improvement of 60% among those clients where data is available.

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A necessary focus — the prevention of re-trafficking

All of the above situations describe the circumstances of the survivors of trafficking and torture that HBF works with. These situations are compounded by the inhumanity of the immigration system that puts them at further risk. In particular, the impact of social isolation, the loss of in-person support and safeguarding services, and the delays and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic provided opportunities for perpetrators to target, threaten and manipulate survivors — especially using online methods — giving rise to risks of re-trafficking, which our team had to manage. For example, a trafficker harassed and threatened a client and her daughter online, issuing threats and saying they had paternity rights over the child and would expose the client as a person who had been in prostitution in their country of origin. Other clients found that during the lockdown, traffickers had looked them up or contacted them on Facebook or other social media, which was concerning.

Clients are at the centre of everything we do. We share their stories to honour them and bear witness:

Chien’s Story

Chien was trafficked in a lorry from Vietnam when he was 16. The vehicle was intercepted by the police in the UK. He was scared to talk to them because he had seen Vietnamese police work closely with the traffickers, so he did not trust them enough to ask for help.

The immigration authorities didn’t believe that Chien was under 18 years old, and sent him to an immigration detention centre that should only hold adults. After he was released, he was taken to a train station and left alone. He knew very little English and had no possessions. After a night on the platform, a Vietnamese person approached Chien, offering to help.

They took Chien to a house where he was forced to work growing cannabis. He was beaten and tortured here. When the house was raided, Chien was detained again, this time charged with the crime of growing cannabis. Luckily, he was referred to a lawyer who secured his release and then referred him to the Helen Bamber Foundation.

We worked with Chien to gain trust, improving his accommodation, reducing his vulnerabilities, working to secure status and helping him recover from his trauma and reduce his risk of exploitation, abuse and retrafficking. Chien is now rebuilding his life and overcoming the trauma he experienced.

However, his journey did not have to take as long as it did. Although Chien had several touchpoints with the UK authorities prior to becoming our client, he was never identified as a victim of trafficking, and he did not get the appropriate support for someone who was still underage and vulnerable. Chien was re-trafficked because of failures in the system.

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A MODEL OF INTEGRATED CARE (MOIC)

We recognise the complexity of each client’s suffering and needs, which is why HBF offers specialist services within a Model of Integrated Care. This encompasses:

THERAPY MEDICAL ADVICE LEGAL PROTECTION COUNTER-TRAFFICKING SUPPORT HOUSING & WELFARE COMMUNITY & INTEGRATION

We craft a bespoke care plan for every individual we work with, designed to enable positive recovery, protection and integration. We provide support for as long as our services are needed. The goal of the Model of Integrated Care (MOIC) is to build a lasting and sustained recovery for each of our clients.

PROTECTION FROM PERSECUTION

At a time when securing quality Legal Aid representation is increasingly difficult for survivors, bringing Asylum Aid into the HBF Group has enabled us to support a further focus on protection from persecution. Asylum Aid works with separate individuals to those supported by the Helen Bamber Foundation, ensuring that as a Group we help more people. Asylum Aid ensures that these survivors are protected and can rebuild their lives in safety and with freedom by providing high quality legal representation for as long as it takes.

In 2021, Asylum Aid worked with 155 vulnerable individuals and secured grants of protection for 45 clients.

A UNIQUE VOICE

We estimate that across Europe, there are more than 1 million survivors who have experienced trafficking and torture. Prior to the pandemic, more than 8,000 survivors arrived in the UK each year. At the time of writing, the long-term impact of the wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine is unclear. However, our experience is that many vulnerable individuals will fall prey to traffickers who thrive in such crises. All these survivors would benefit from HBF’s Model of Integrated Care and Asylum Aid’s representation. However not all of them can become our clients. Therefore it is our responsibility to use the expertise we have gained through the time spent with and generosity of our clients to:

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PART ONE: DELIVERING SERVICES — MOIC

“At my first meeting with the Helen Bamber Foundation, I knew they were trying to understand me. I knew they cared about me. It saved my life.”

From the beginning of the pandemic, our team of expert doctors, psychologists, legal advisers and caseworkers acted to ensure that we could support our clients to weather the challenges and pre-empt risks where possible. This continued during 2021 where, apart from seven weeks in the second lockdown, our offices were open and we invited our clients to face-to-face appointments, as well as providing online and remote support where preferable for the client. Given the ongoing impact of the pandemic, we continued to:

It is important to highlight the positive contribution of, and send out particular thanks to, all of the volunteers who continued to support the Helen Bamber Foundation team and survivors we work with during the pandemic.

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Helen Bamber Foundation Services

THERAPY

The Therapy team supports survivors within a phased, recovery framework:

We work collaboratively with other departments to resolve associated challenges such as the destitution and legal adversity that affect mental health.

During 2021, the HBF therapy team offered survivors access to a range of evidence-based therapies for PTSD, including:

The pandemic threw many of the survivors we work with into crisis, and with many other public and charitable services having to shut their doors or reduce support (including key statutory services), our therapy provision and support continued to be a vital lifeline. Critically, during 2021 our offices remained open to deliver intensive evidence-based interventions face-to-face as many of our clients were unable to manage these remotely. We continued to provide symptom management and crisis management interventions remotely — and, where necessary, in person. Importantly, given the vulnerability of our clients, despite moving to hybrid and offering a greater number of face-to-face sessions, we maintained the high level of provision attained in 2020, providing essential support to 326 survivors with more than 1800 appointments. These included:

During the pandemic, we adapted to a ‘light touch’ approach for formal measures and monitoring, significantly reducing the assessment load for our clients.

Of a sample of 21 individuals who completed evidence-based trauma therapy in 2021, 95% showed clinically significant improvement in their trauma symptoms — a clinically significant reduction in their PTSD symptoms.

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Rashmi’s story

Rashmi was tortured by the police in her home country because of allegations that her family were involved in an anti-Government movement. Rashmi was detained, questioned, beaten until she couldn’t move and raped repeatedly over 4 days. After she was released, Rashmi fled and applied for asylum in the UK. Her solicitor recognised symptoms of trauma and referred her to the Helen Bamber Foundation. Rashmi suffered numerous symptoms of PTSD including deep seated distress, intrusive recollection and overwhelming anxiety.

At the Helen Bamber Foundation, Rashmi began a very difficult course of trauma-focused therapy which lasted 18 months. In therapy, Rashmi learned to acknowledge, confront and overcome her traumatic experiences. Whilst Rashmi was working with the Foundation’s therapy team, her progress was often disrupted by practical difficulties. Her welfare support was frequently interrupted, leaving her without any income for days. Rashmi’s claim for asylum was refused on the grounds that she did not disclose her experiences at the first opportunity. We worked with Rashmi’s solicitor to appeal this decision, explaining that Rashmi’s trauma was such that, without expert clinical support, she was not able to disclose her experiences. Whilst the appeal was in process, she was moved into unsuitable mixed gender accommodation where Rashmi, terrified, could not sleep and became increasingly distressed. We again worked with Rashmi’s solicitor, providing expert clinical assistance to request relocation to more suitable, self-contained accommodation.

Despite all her challenges, Rashmi was dedicated to helping herself and began studying GCSEs in Maths and English at college. With the support of a Medico-Legal Report, Rashmi’s appeal against her asylum decision was successful and she was granted refugee status. Our housing and welfare casework team worked intensively with Rashmi to secure safe, local authority housing. Once Rashmi was given permission to work, she was very keen not to be reliant on statutory support. Our volunteers worked with Rashmi, developing employability skills, identifying suitable opportunities, and preparing for interviews. Two months ago, Rashmi secured a part-time job in a supermarket, which allows her to continue her studies and her treatment whilst enjoying incredibly her well-deserved and hard-fought independence.

MEDICAL ADVICE

In 2021, the main parts of HBF’s medical advice services were seperated into two distinct strands: the Medical Advisory Service (MAS) and the Medico-Legal Report (MLR) writing medical services. The aim is to continue to develop the work of the Medical Advisory Service but to allow for the development of a stronger medical input into HBF’s medicolegal services, particularly in the supervision, training, retention and consideration of the wellbeing of the MLR writers.

The MAS service is run by our Head of Medical Advisory Service, who leads four volunteer GPs as well as a volunteer physiotherapist and psychiatrist. MAS’s routine work helps clients to understand, stabilise and improve their health by carrying out medical assessments and allowing time for comprehensive discussions and explanations of their health concerns, as well as liaising with external services, particularly the NHS, to support their needs. In 2021, MAS has continued to adapt and grow as it balances remote and face-to-face work with clients. It has continued to work with HBF’s clients to help them navigate issues relating to the Covid pandemic, including offering detailed advice around the Covid vaccination programme. During the course of 2021, MAS provided 373 appointments for 159 clients.

It also continued to work closely with HBF’s team of welfare volunteers to overcome the huge barriers to healthcare that remote working within the NHS — alongside language barriers and digital and phone poverty — created for our clients. In 2021,we started a project to develop a sustainable health education programme for HBF’s clients and those of other partnership organisations.

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LEGAL PROTECTION

The Legal Protection team works determinedly with other departments to ensure both that survivors are not returned to situations where they would likely suffer repeated human rights violations, and that they can access appropriate support. This year, due to the ongoing uncertainty regarding delays in decisions during lockdown, and delayed legal proceedings, the team worked tirelessly to provide support and advice to our clients, who were often very distressed.

We provided 412 survivors with legal protection services in 2021;

51 clients received legal protection such as refugee status, humanitarian protection or discretionary leave.

We continued to train expert clinicians in remote methods of examination, and produced 67 expert medico-legal reports for 57 clients, to support their claims for asylum.

During 2021, HBF’s Legal Protection Team continued to support survivors in their protection cases by:

In 2021, the Legal Protection Team also:

In 2021, the provision of medico-legal reports was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. These reports document the long-term physical and psychological impact of traumatic experiences and are used as evidence for international protection in the UK. Our expertise in preparing them continues to be recognised by the courts and tribunal and by the Home Office.

Our review of outcomes in 2021 showed that, following the provision of medico-legal reports in 2020, in 82% of cases the client was granted a form of leave to remain in the UK where the final outcome was known. This is compared with an average success rate of 71% for decisions made on initial claims and just under 50% successful on appeal in 2021.[1]

1 https://freemovement.org.uk/briefing-the-sorry-state-of-the-uk-asylum-system/ & https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data (year end 2021)

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HOUSING AND WELFARE

HBF’s specialist housing and welfare casework ensures that clients’ practical, everyday needs are met and that social deprivation, including street homelessness and destitution, are avoided through timely and often emergency interventions. Given the ongoing impact of the pandemic on our clients’ housing situations, the work of the Housing and Welfare department continued to increase — with 10% more interactions than in 2020 and 25% more than in 2019.

Thanks to our help, 307 people were able to avoid destitution and homelessness and were kept safe, often with prolonged, expert and extensive casework support.

In 2021, the Housing and Welfare team provided 281 letters, and during the pandemic, the team assisted survivors with issues including (but absolutely not limited to):

Over the course of 2021, as the commitment to address homelessness was dropped, instances of our clients being threatened with destitution increased by 475%, with homelessness by 337% and of being housed somewhere clinically unsuitable by 182%. During this year, the Housing and Welfare team provided 10,661 interventions for clients.

675 housing and welfare problems were resolved, of which:

y 42% with a short-term resolution were solved in under one month; and

y 55% were resolved with a long-term resolution within one month and 83% within 3 months.

A critical part of the Housing and Welfare team’s work has been to support survivors who get leave to remain or refugee status to transition to Universal Credit and mainstream accommodation. This poses significant challenges as it involves several long and complicated online forms and often mounting appeals against decisions, as well as continued gatekeeping from stretched local authorities with limited temporary accommodation. The cost of living crisis has exacerbated things for clients who are for the most part already living on a very low income. The wellknown issues with asylum support (financial and accommodation), including the very low rates of support and often inadequate and unsuitable accommodation, and within this, the long-term use of hotels, continue unabated.

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Samira’s story

Samira was trafficked to the UK and forced into sexual exploitation for many years. When the pandemic hit, she was living in a safehouse with her 2-year-old son and another baby on the way. She felt safe there but had been told that she couldn’t stay after giving birth as the room wasn’t big enough for all three of them.

Shortly after giving birth to her daughter the Home Office collected Samira and took her to her new accommodation. It was far away from anyone she knew, in a hotel with shared bathrooms. There were men living here too. Samira felt scared and unsafe, being around men reminded her of the abuse she had endured. She was flooded with memories of her traffickers, living in a state of anxiety, whilst trying to support her two young children.

Samira’s caseworker at HBF negotiated with the Home Office for Samira to be moved into a more suitable room with her own bathroom so that she could feed and bathe her baby. We also made sure she had money to buy essential clothes and nappies. After an extremely turbulent and distressing few months, Samira now has refugee status and has moved into long-term accommodation. She is finally able to look for a nursery place for her son and is living in an area of London she knows. Now Samira feels safe again.

COUNTER-TRAFFICKING

The HBF Counter-Trafficking Programme delivers intricate, intensive and person-specific contact and safeguarding for survivors to support them through the many difficulties they face. We ensured that we continued regular contact and evidential support throughout the pandemic, using video calls wherever possible to prevent social isolation and build confidence. The Counter-Trafficking department is also central to HBF’s strategy to prevent and end re-trafficking.

Our counter-trafficking programme work includes:

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We support to re-build their lives, emphasising their personal strength and resources to meet the many challenges they face including building self-esteem and agency for use against those who would re-traffick, exploit and abuse them. Due to the lack of overall specialist provision available for survivors of trafficking, in 2019 HBF set ourselves a target: up to 50% of all new clients would be survivors of trafficking. In 2021, we met that aim — 50% of all survivors supported by the Helen Bamber Foundation were survivors of trafficking. Across the Counter-Trafficking Programme:

During this high-risk period, the Counter-Trafficking team provided 1870 interventions for clients.

The pandemic created an additional set of risk factors for HBF’s clients in the Counter-Trafficking Programme. A main worry was an increase in online threats from both original traffickers and new potential perpetrators. Social isolation is a key risk factor in itself for re-trafficking, as well as it’s impact upon mental and physical health deterioration. It was vital to be in touch with each person and ensure that they had access to digital communications, a positive means of friendship and communication in which they could remain safe, rather than a lonely engagement which could result in re-trafficking and other risks, and were supported to access primary services. In response, the team applied a rota of ‘at risk’ individuals for contact calls, as well as ensuring that trafficking risks are noted and prioritised.

During 2021 the Counter-Trafficking team also continued to issue letters and/or witness statements for clients’ legal cases in the NRM and asylum applications.

COMMUNITY AND INTEGRATION

Through the Community and Integration Programme, our clients can engage in activities unrelated to their trauma and form safe and positive relationships with others in a similar position. They learn new skills and develop confidence and independence. This is a key part of our three-stage therapeutic model that ensures our clients have the strength to move on. In 2020, we moved all of our community groups online. The volunteers who run the different creative arts and skills groups surpassed themselves in adapting to online provision and imaginatively ensuring that our clients could still access a supportive community.

In 2021, HBF expanded its community and integration activities, supporting a total of 269 clients. Due to the pandemic, with many other social opportunities closed off, the team focused on providing access to further and higher education, resulting in:

The Community Group is a weekly group designed to support our most isolated clients to participate in a community where they can socialise regularly, gain useful information and skills, as well as increase their confidence and independence, in a fun and relaxed space. The pandemic has made this work much more difficult due to changing Covid rules, the need to provide a Covid-safe environment, and increased isolation and anxiety amongst our clients. However, by working in consultation with our clients, we have slowly been building attendance. In 2021, 38 clients attended our online Community Group. As well as an average of 30 clients a month attended yoga, textiles, English and photography, both online and, eventually, in-person

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PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT

Participation at HBF exists to recognise survivors’ expertise by experience, and we work to ensure that survivors have increased power in the face of the inequalities they experience. We amplify their voices so that they can participate in decisions that affect them. We are committed to supporting survivors to advocate for the policy changes that matter most to them, and to ensuring survivors can participate in the design and shaping of the service we offer. Over the last year, we have expanded our Community & Integration team to support these aims.

Ambassadors for Change

In 2021, we launched an Ambassadors for Change leadership programme, driven by a desire from the survivors we work with to challenge the harmful policies, practices, and public attitudes their community faces in London.

Service design

Since 2017, the Helen Bamber Foundation’s dialogue with survivors about service design has centered around a Service User Group, now called the Clients Voices Forum. Since the pandemic, we have ring-fenced capacity for participation work with clients, to actively engage survivors in service design and to ensure their views are considered by organisational decision-makers. Since the pandemic, recent matters on which we have consulted with survivors have included:

Between 2022 and 2024, we intend to conduct a comprehensive client-services review in tandem with the survivors HBF supports, to ensure that the client journey offered at the Foundation is fit for purpose. This will be coordinated to ensure the lived experience of survivors is included at each stage of the review.

We have also recently introduced two new Board Observer roles to our Board of Trustees. The Board Observers contribute their knowledge, experience, and skills as experts by experience to support Trustees’ strategic decision-making. This has provided much-needed direct insight, helping Board members to understand the potential impact of their proposals for the client group at HBF.

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Asylum Aid Services — protection from persecution

To increase the scope of our work and protect more people at a time when securing quality Legal Aid representation is increasingly difficult for survivors, bringing Asylum Aid into the HBF Group enables us to support our aim of increasing protection for survivors. Asylum Aid ensures that survivors are protected and can rebuild their lives by providing high quality legal representation for survivors in order to establish their safety and freedom. Asylum Aid works with separate individuals to those supported by the Helen Bamber Foundation, ensuring that as a Group we help more people.

In 2021, the team provided legal representation to 132 survivors of trafficking, torture and gender-based violence, refugees and people seeking asylum, and 23 stateless persons. Through the hard work of our expert team of caseworkers, 45 of our clients were granted protection during the year, and 11 clients were recognised as victims of trafficking.

Recognising that complex cases require time, the Asylum Aid team listen closely to every individual client to make sure we understand as much as we can of their experiences. As a result, we have an above average success rate for our clients, giving them the best chance of securing the protection they need.

At a time when the majority of decisions have been delayed, 58 international protection cases were resolved, with 45 successfully resulting in protection — an amazing 78% success rate.

The team also provided welfare advice to more than 670 individuals through the Westminster Advice Services Partnership. Asylum Aid’s welfare advice team specialises in providing advice to vulnerable migrant communities in Westminster, many of whom do not have English as a first language. Our advisers and volunteers are multilingual and we work with volunteer community interpreters. In 2021, 80% of those receiving welfare support from Asylum Aid were either migrants and/or people of colour and more than 40% had a disability or long-term ill health.

Across the year, Asylum Aid secured over £360,000 in additional support for its clients.

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Partnership and Collaborations

Our work is collaborative- we strengthen,and are strengthened by, the work of others. HBF is continuing to work in partnership with Young Roots to support hard-to-reach separated asylum-seeking children and young people, who often face greater barriers in accessing mental health and other support, with assessments, stabilization interventions and evidence-based therapy. During 2021, the HBF team also consulted young people in hotel accommodation about their mental health, concluding that drop-in spaces that enable connections, the reduction of isolation, and an immediate means of contacting family back home on arrival, were important.

The lack of access to vital mental health services during the pandemic was challenging for many organisations. Given the ongoing impact of the pandemic, we continued our partnership with Women for Refugee Women to offer clinical support to the women in their network. We provided clinical assessments that facilitated access to mental health services; delivered training and support to their team and provided therapeutic interventions to help women stabilize and manage their mental health.

Baran’s story

Baran is an Iranian woman and a survivor of multiple forms of violence and abuse, sustained over many years. She was isolated and in a precarious financial and legal position. Baran contacted Women for Refugee Women (WRW) over lockdown as her mental health had deteriorated, and she had started to experience active suicidal ideation.

Baran was seen for a mental health assessment by a clinical psychologist through the WRW/HBF partnership where she revealed that she was suffering from very serious problems with her physical health for which she was not accessing treatment and that she had not disclosed the deterioration in her mental health to her GP. Baran was very fearful of engaging with the NHS as she reported having previously encountered negative and stigmatizing responses from certain services. Baran presented with PTSD and her symptoms included nightmares, fearfulness, hypervigilance, guilt and shame.

The psychologist undertook extensive liaison work with Baran’s GP, mental health services and a caseworker at Notre Dame Refugee Centre to resolve the multiple barriers to Baran’s engagement with NHS services.

Baran herself worked hard with the psychologist to overcome her fears about engagement. Baran was also provided with extended initial phase trauma focused therapy stabilization. Baran re-engaged with the treatment that she needed to address her physical health and, once stabilization sessions were finished, she successfully engaged with further trauma focused therapy supported through her GP. Baran started to attend the WRW groups that met remotely over lockdown and was referred to, and accepted by, HBF for a medico-legal report to assist with her asylum claim.

In December 2020, University College Hospital piloted and hosted an integrated model of NHS care for newly arriving asylum seekers, delivering services either directly into initial or contingency accommodation or indirectly to primary care practices in Camden, Islington and Barnet. With our experience of integrated care for asylum seekers, the HBF clinical team has been able to provide a series of training sessions to frontline healthcare professionals. The therapy team were subsequently invited to provide psychological consultation to a series of fortnightly multi-disciplinary meetings, helping clinicians to identify appropriate services and providing suggestions about the timing, relevance, and delivery of mental health interventions. This work is ongoing. Thoughtful prioritising of interventions is frequently a focus, as is promoting choice with families: in one, case a family member was supported to advocate effectively for the right support for a child.

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PART TWO:

CREATING SYSTEM CHANGE — RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE

Our vision is a world where all survivors of torture, trafficking and extreme human cruelty have safety, freedom and power . We therefore use our combined expertise to deliver meaningful policy and practice change that improves the asylum and trafficking systems and ensures that all survivors receive the appropriate standard of care from government services nationally and internationally. We are excited that the group structure and our new strategy will enable us to have much greater impact on the systems that should be giving survivors of trafficking and torture the protection and support they need.

We do this by:

Strategic Legal Work

HBF engages in strategic legal work where it seeks to improve the legal systems (for international protection and trafficking), further the rights of our clients and increase their access to justice.

Due to the ongoing effects of the pandemic, it became clear that continued engagement in strategic legal work was going to be critical to ensuring the safety and protection of our clients. In 2021, we were involved in six strategic litigation challenges. The majority of the evidence we provided was in the form of witness statements, with input and oversight from the Director of Legal Protection, which concerned challenges to the fairness of various aspects of the asylum and National Referral Mechanism system for survivors of trafficking.

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A significant case, given this UK Government’s desire to expand the use of detention and accelerate decisionmaking processes, is that of TN Vietnam[2] — a joint intervention with Detention Action in the Supreme Court about the poor identification of vulnerability in the detained fast-track, and how negative decisions taken under that unlawful process should be treated now. Our intervention included a witness statement from Cornelius Katona, Medical and Research Director, with input from Rachel Witkin, Director of Counter-Trafficking and Publications. Whilst the overall challenge was unsuccessful in striking down all appeal decisions made within the Detention Fast Track (a system already found to be unlawful), the Supreme Court highlighted our joint evidence as helpful and reiterated the need for a case-by-case assessment of whether the appeal decision had been affected by the systemic failings within the Detention Fast Track.

We supported the successful legal challenge brought to challenge the use of barracks accommodation at Napier, Kent. A witness statement was provided by Professor Katona and has since been relied upon in further prospective litigation regarding the use of contingency accommodation as further issues remain (see below).

The court found the Home Office’s decision to house people in barracks as both unlawful and irrational having regard to adequate accommodation standards and the deprivation of liberty of those held in the barracks. As a result of the challenge a large number of individuals were rehoused in suitable accommodation.

The continuation of our strategic litigation work, either as an intervener or in providing witness statement evidence of our experts, is key to holding the government to account and ensuring that survivors have access to justice and are safe. With the Nationality and Borders Act coming into force, plus the incoming Bill of Rights and other bills tabled that restrict human rights, there will be greater need for strategic litigation and sector collaboration. We also provided evidence in:

At a time when the right to challenge executive power through the rule of law is being actively undermined by this Government, the Helen Bamber Foundation Group is committed to ensuring scrutiny of government policy and practice when there are negative impacts upon the survivors we work with.

2 https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2020-0031.html

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Policy and best practice

In 2021 we launched our new policy strategy, setting out how we would use our authoritative medico-legal expertise, alongside evidence from our frontline work and research, to secure ongoing policy change, and work collaboratively with others in the sector to deliver systems change. Our advocacy focusses on four key areas — legal protection, a safe and supportive environment, recovery and integration, and preventing re-trafficking.

Much of our focus in 2021 was on responding to the government’s New Plan for Immigration and the subsequent process of bringing into legislation the new Nationality and Borders Act, which is set to increase the suffering and distress of survivors by creating an even more unfair and inhumane asylum system and by increasing barriers to identification and support for survivors of trafficking. This government’s hostile narratives about channel crossings, the ‘migrant crisis’ and the role of charities and ‘activist lawyers’ are proving difficult to dismiss and will have a profound impact on the environment in which we work to support the recovery and protection of our clients.

We set out our concerns in detail in our response to the consultation on the New Plan for Immigration, provided evidence on the Bill to the Public Bill Committee and Joint Committee on Human Rights, and then briefed parliamentarians throughout the passage of the Bill about the devastating impact that it would have on survivors in the following areas:

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1. LEGAL PROTECTION

Through ongoing engagement with the Home Office, we worked to improve the current system to ensure that: survivors of trafficking and torture are identified; asylum decisions are quicker and of a better quality; and all survivors have fair access to protection with quality legal advice.

We successfully improved the Asylum Process Instruction on Medical Evidence in Asylum Claims and helped secure the introduction of a code of conduct for Home Office Presenting Officers in appeal hearings.

We also urged the Home Office to consider granting status on the papers; took part in an expert roundtable on ‘Exploring barriers to asylum seekers accessing legal service’; and raised concerns about decision-making on survivors’ asylum claims when they have been referred into the National Referral Mechanism.

‘ ’ We co-authored a report, Bridging a Protection Gap: Disability and the Refugee Convention , with support from the UNHCR and Garden Court Chambers, which was launched in April 2021. A shorter analysis of Home Ofce refusal decisions of disabled clients was shared with the Home Office for response and taken forward through the Strategic Engagement Equalities Subgroup (which we co-chaired), alongside the issue of mental capacity and referral into the NRM.

We also collaborated to raise urgent concerns about Home Office delays for young people seeking asylum, which was covered in the media.

2. A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT

It is critical that our clients have access to trauma-focused treatment and are supported in a trauma-informed way. We continued to work collaboratively with Medical Justice, Doctors of the World, the Humans for Rights Network and Jesuit Refugee Service, to highlight the harm caused to survivors housed in the Napier Barracks in Kent. We provided oral and written evidence to the APPG on Immigration Detention’s inquiry into Quasi-detention, and our evidence was cited in a parliamentary debate on asylum seekers’ mental health in April. We published a briefng drawing on our research on the impact of accommodation centres on the health of people seeking asylum.

We were delighted that the Napier Barracks legal challenge was successful and our evidence accepted as part of that challenge.

Our medical experts also conducted a systemic review of the effect on health of institutional accommodation.

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In May, the Home Office introduced secondary legislation that would result in more survivors of trafficking being placed in immigration detention. We subsequently took on the role of chair of the Taskforce on Victims of Trafcking in Immigration Detention (‘Taskforce’), with Focus on Labour for Exploitation — a coalition of 13 expert organisations working with, or for, victims of trafficking that aims to ensure none of them are detained under immigration powers. Our first action was a joint statement raising concerns about the introduction of a new decision-making body for the purpose of identifying victims of trafficking: the ‘Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority’ (IECA). The statement was supported by a further 17 organisations and shared with the relevant Ministers and civil servants. The Taskforce continued to work together to highlight how the IECA and the Nationality and Boarders Bill would result in survivors of trafficking being detained and removed before they are formally identified. HBF continued to work with the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration to feed into his third annual inspection of ‘Adults at Risk in immigration detention”’.

The Summer saw the calamitous roll-out of ASPEN cards, resulting in thousands going without asylum support due to administrative errors. we ensured that formal Through joint lobbying of the Home Office, escalation routes were put in place to help our clients

However, the ASPEN roll out process was still disastrous for many survivors – we therefore provided evidence for the subsequent Asylum Matters report ‘Lessons Learned? How government contracts failed people seeking ’ asylum, again . We also prepared a detailed submission to the Home Office’s annual asylum support rates review, highlighting the impact of low asylum support rates on our clients’ emotional, material and physical wellbeing and calling for them be raised to more realistically reflect the needs of asylum seekers.

3. RECOVERY AND INTEGRATION

HBF submitted a detailed response to the Greater London Authority consultation on adult education, training and employment, which included the direct views of 17 HBF clients, highlighting the need for the acquisition of English language and other basic skills to be seen as a priority and for further steps to address the structural and financial barriers that often prevent survivors from participating in learning. We were pleased to see he final GLA ‘roadmap’ include a strong commitment from the GLA to improve coordination of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) and fully fund courses for asylum seekers, both of which we called for in our recommendations. We also played an active role in the Home Office Mental Health Steering group, with representatives from the NHS, devolved administrations, third sector, Home Office and Department for Health and Social Care, working on developing a “trauma-informed and culturally competent framework” for organisations engaging with asylum seekers.

In July, we co-drafted a letter with the Da’aro Youth Project to Nadine Dorries MP, then Minister for Suicide Prevention, highlighting concerns regarding the high number of suicides amongst teenagers who arrived in the UK as unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Many of the young people died after they had aged out of care (at 18 or 19 years old) and there was no process by which to undertake a review of what had happened to them.

In response, the Department for Education agreed to expand the to include requirement for local authorities’ Serious Incident Notifications all deaths of care-leavers up to the age of 25 years old.

This is wonderful news but there is further work to do and we continue to push for coroners’ data collection on deaths by suicide to include ethnicity.

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4. THE PREVENTION OF RE-TRAFFICKING

HBF’s has delivered key international and national publications, research projects, as well as the developing of a wider counter-trafficking community of practice with national and international experts from fields connected to counter-trafficking.

Alongside our work on part five of the Bill, HBF submitted detailed evidence to the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and Rights Lab on the prevention of re-trafficking, which was reflected in a powerful report published in November.

We also submitted a number of recommendations to the Modern Slavery Strategy Review, including an overarching call for the strategy to more clearly recognise that preventing individuals from becoming victims must include the prevention of re-trafficking of persons who have previously been trafficked.

In addition, throughout 2021 our Director of Counter-Trafficking & Publications, Rachel Witkin, was a lead consultant and author for the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) revised handbook on National Referral Mechanisms, working with a panel of international trafficking experts, including survivor leaders. Our clinical and medical experts across the HBF team also worked collaboratively to deliver the health information chapter.

The NRM Handbook was published in January 2022 and distributed widely to governments and all relevant stakeholders in the 57 OSCE member states.

The UK is facing many changes in responses to modern slavery, particularly with the introduction of the ‘Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority’, which will make vital decisions on trafficking cases that impact the lives and futures of survivors. The Nationality and Borders Act also conflicts with the need to address victims’ vulnerability and ignores the difficulties of disclosure and the need for trauma-informed methods of working. Internationally, the Director of Counter-Trafficking is engaged with OSCE projects to provide and monitor standards of care and legal rights for victims of trafficking in the OSCE participating States and has worked with Anti-Slavery International and the International Survivors Advisory Council (ISTAC) on projects relating to survivor leader participation at all levels of anti-trafficking work.

The Medical Advisory Service team spends a significant amount of time engaging with sector-wide (both NGOs and statutory service) policy, guidance and training on asylum and counter trafficking health matters. This has been focused primarily on health-related counter-trafficking issues.

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Training

HBF provides training across three broad areas:

Our training programme continues to expand, partly due to the willingness post pandemic to receive and deliver online training. In 2021, we delivered training to more than 500 individuals in statutory services and more than 150 individuals in non-statutory services. Highlights from our training programme and outreach, which has expanded due to the willingness to receive training online, included:

We trained therapy professionals in working with complex trauma through several modules provided to psychology doctoral training programmes. One participant described it as “the best training I’ve received across my entire doctorate”.

‘The Trauma-Informed Code of Conduct for All Professionals Working with Survivors of Trafcking and Slavery’ (2021) (TiCC), authored by Rachel Witkin and Dr Katy Robjant and published in 2018, was updated in 2020 to include further information on working with ‘cultural mediators’. It was then re-published and re-designed to include safe and trauma-informed methods of working online. It has been widely shared across the UK and global sectors, prompting frequent requests for training. Training on Trauma-Informed Code of Conduct (TiCC) is delivered for stakeholders across the anti-trafficking sector nationally and internationally. It has been delivered to sectors including the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, UK Home Office, Care Quality Commission, safe houses and services operating under the victim care contract.

In particular, we are proud of the adoption of the TiCC by St. Mary’s University, London for its short course ‘Identifcation, support and care of victims of modern day slavery’ — which provides professionals in health and social care, law enforcement and criminal justice, civil society organisations, education or local and national government with the skills to support survivors of modern slavery.

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Internationally, TiCC training has been delivered through OSCE forums including International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Committee, Border Guards and Government departments (for example, Govt of Georgia).

The TiCC is a simple, accessible guide for all professionals who may find themselves working with survivors of trafficking. It has a firm basis in the combination of specialist trauma care and experiential multi-faceted and multidisciplinary work with survivors of trafficking. TiCC is concise and easy to follow for busy people, enabling them to:

This training has been seen as very helpful to many of the statutory professionals we have provided it to. One police officer gave the following feedback:

“I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for taking the time to deliver such an information session. I’ve had a few conversations with people today and they found it really useful. In particular, some of the more experienced officers also commented on how practical it was and a good reminder of being more mindful. A few commented on how it’s the little things that can make a huge difference. Really grateful for your time and I look forward to working with you in the near future.”

Research and dissemination

We spoke at several conferences during the year. Critically, our feasibility and pilot study of Narrative Exposure Therapy in the treatment of survivors of trafficking has been published. The results provide strong support for a full-scale trial.

We currently have the following projects ongoing:

We are also involved two key research projects funded by the Modern Slavery PEC: The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set, a Delphi-based, survivor-led project to establish uniform expectations and core outcomes for all stakeholders involved in service delivery for survivors; and a project on British Survivors who are victims of domestic trafficking in the UK.

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In 2021, we also published the following articles:

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OUR 2022-2024 STRATEGY

Continued strategic review is essential to ensure improvements for our clients. In 2021, we embarked on a comprehensive review of our strategy, all the more relevant in a post-pandemic world. We found that our strategy continues to deliver against the complex needs of our clients, with the goal of ensuring that all survivors of trafficking, torture and extreme human cruelty have safety, freedom and power. In 2022-2024 we will continue to:

However, we also know that survivors of trafficking are significantly vulnerable to further abuse, exploitation and trafficking. That even when survivors are in contact with the services who are supposed to help, they remain frighteningly vulnerable to predators who seek out those who can be controlled and manipulated. We are now in the position to challenge the systems that either allow or enable this to happen. Specifically because the Helen Bamber Foundation Group works with survivors of trafficking over the long term, we are uniquely placed to understand and tackle the factors contributing to the continued vulnerability of survivors of trafficking to exploitation, abuse and re-trafficking, even after seeking help. These include:

Therefore, in 2022-2024 strategy, we will drive forward a programme dedicated to the Prevention of Re-Trafficking focussing on: increasing successful early interventions that reduce survivors’ vulnerability in the UK and globally; curtailing the risk of re-trafficking in the UK by increasing access to legal protection; improving understanding and awareness across services in the UK; and driving international system changes to improve protection globally.

“They’ve never made me feel guilty or judged. Instead, I feel that I am not alone. Whatever I go through, they go through with me.”

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

Financial Framework

Policies relating to reserves and the need to generate an annual operating surplus together provide a financial framework within which HBF seeks to function.

Reserves policy

Forming part of our reserves, the unrestricted general fund is the working fund of the charity. Unlike the other funds, it is not restricted or designated for a defined purpose. The unrestricted general fund provides for activities not funded by earned income or restricted funding and for the general administration of the charity. It also provides working capital for operations and helps to provide resources to ensure that the charity is able to continue with its obligations.

Our Group policy is to maintain an unrestricted general fund of between three (£676,663) and six months (£1,353,326), of gross expenditure for the next financial year. Given the importance of being confident that the group can maintain its support to our very vulnerable clients, the trustees aim to increase the sum in the unrestricted general fund.

In December 2021, Helen Bamber Foundation Group ended the year positively with unrestricted reserves of £705,122, after allowing for designated funds (note 15 a) which is equivalent to 3.13 months cover.

Summary of results

In 2021, activities resulted in a surplus of £92,946, a fantastic result given the difficult fundraising environment due to the Covid-related lack of event income. This was due to the quick response of funders to help charities meet the ongoing challenge. The organisation continued to focus on expenditure to make sure we could adapt our services to the needs of our clients as well as make savings and efficiencies where possible.

HBF ended 2021 in a good financial position with a total unrestricted fund of £1,189,760 (£1,173,654) in 2020. The Trustees have set up a New Premises Move designated fund of £250,000 in order to meet planned expenditure during 2022 and 2023 on securing an exciting new premises from which to increase our impact upon survivors of trafficking and torture. Additionally £209,849 relating to casework in progress has also been moved to designated funds, leaving unrestircted general funds of £705,122 (£1,140,379 in 2020). The casework in progress is an asset which we have reasonable expectation will become convertible into cash at a future date but have not included it in the free reserves due the timing uncertainty. The unrestricted general fund is £648,204 below the top end of the current target level of reserves of about £1,353,326, although above the bottom end of the target range. A budget showing a surplus has been set for 2022.

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Risks

The significant risks to which the HBF group is exposed, as identified by the trustees, have been reviewed and systems have been established to mitigate these risks. Among the risks identified, the most significant are considered to be:

These risks are mitigated in part through close operational monitoring and application of the reserves policy.

Subsequent events and going concern

The pandemic has had a profound impact on all aspects of life, including the activities of the HBF group. By adaptingto hybrid working, we ensured that over the course of 2021, our offices were only closed for seven weeks.

The trustees have put in place measures to mitigate the risks to the HBF group from the ongoing delays in decision-making by the Home Office and by the courts, which has pushed back the closure of cases and therefore income from the Legal Aid Authority for work done. The trustees have focused on fundraised income during this period, and kept an eye on the risingcost of living that has had an impact on renumeration, retention and recruitment. They have set up a renumeration and benefits task group to examine this challenge.

Having regard to these steps and the reserves held at the year-end by the Helen Bamber Foundation Group, the trustees consider it reasonable to expect that HBF has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the trustees continue to adopt the ‘going concern’ basis in preparing the accounts. The trustees and senior management have increased the regularity of financial forecasts in both the short and medium term. We continue to strengthen our financial processes and systems so we can monitor financial risk, and where required, take appropriate management action.

Remuneration policy

The objectives of HBF’s remuneration policy are to:

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Remuneration is reviewed on an annual basis and agreed by the Board of Trustees. When setting pay levels, the charity gives consideration to external benchmark comparators, changes in the national average earnings index, affordability and other internal and external pressures, including recruitment and retention. The policy applies to all staff, including the charity’s executive team. The total remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer and four directors, including employer’s NI and employer’s pension contributions, was £278,455.

Fundraising

HBF’s fundraising team produces an annual Income Generation Strategy against which performance is regularly monitored by senior management and trustees. In 2021, HBF continued to adapt to the challenging fundraising environment due to the pandemic, and successfully raised £1,668,836 thanks to the generosity of our supporters.

HBF’s fundraising approach reflects the principles published on the HBF’s website www.helenbamber.org . The charity’s fundraising programme is delivered using internal resources and in 2021 did not involve external professional fundraisers or commercial participators. HBF does not generate merchandise for fundraising purposes.

HBF is registered with the Fundraising Regulator. Registration represents a commitment to the highest standards of practice and ensures that all fundraising activity is open, legal and fair. As a registered participant, HBF commits to the Board’s Codes of Fundraising Practice, which is the standard set for fundraisers in the UK. Registered participants also commit to abide by its Fundraising Promise, which is based on six key pledges that reflect the core values of respect, honesty, accountability and transparency. HBF is stronglycommited to recognised sector standards and is actively working to protect vulnerable people and other members of the public from behaviour which:

HBF has received no complaints in regard to its fundraising activities in 2021.

Public benefit

In setting HBF’s objectives and planning its activities, the Board of Trustees has given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. In particular, the Board of Trustees considers how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set. The benefits that HBF brings to the public are:

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also directors of the HBF for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

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

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Members of the charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at 31 December 2021 was seven (2020: eight). The trustees are members of the charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.

Auditor

Sayer Vincent LLP was re-appointed as the charitable company’s auditor during the year and has expressed its willingness to continue in that capacity.

The trustees’ annual report has been approved by the trustees on 8th August 2022 and signed on their behalf by

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Charlotte Seymour-Smith, Chair of Trustees

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Helen Bamber Foundation (the ‘parent charitable company’) and its subsidiary (the ‘group’) for the year ended 31 December 2021 which comprise the consolidated statement of financial activities, the group and parent charitable company balance sheets, the consolidated statement of cash flows and the notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion, the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the group financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group and parent charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on Helen Bamber Foundation's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the

relevant sections of this report.

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Other Information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ annual report, other than the group financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the group 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. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the group financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of 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 this gives rise to a material misstatement in the group financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

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

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and the parent charitable company and their environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustees’ annual report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 and Charities Act 2011 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

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Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the statement of trustees’ responsibilities set out in the trustees’ annual report, the trustees (who are also the directors of the parent charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the group’s and the parent 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 group or the parent charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed auditor under the Companies Act 2006 and section 151 of the Charites Act 2011 and report in accordance with those Acts.

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

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud are set out below.

Capability of the audit in detecting irregularities

In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and noncompliance with laws and regulations, our procedures included the following:

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Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

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

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 and section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and regulations made under section 154 of that Act. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Joanna Pittman (Senior statutory auditor)

8 September 2022

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Date

for and on behalf of Sayer Vincent LLP, Statutory Auditor Invicta House, 108-114 Golden Lane, LONDON, EC1Y 0TL Sayer Vincent LLP is eligible to act as auditor in terms of section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Consolidated statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)

For the year ended 31 December 2021

For theyear ended 31 December 2021
2021 2020
Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total
Note £ £ £ £ £ £
Income from:
Donations - legal protection 2 - 147,080 147,080 - 262,013 262,013
Donations - therapy and casework 2 - 142,113 142,113 - 283,526 283,526
Donations - community integration 2 - 94,912 94,912 - 59,906 59,906
Donations - counter trafficking 2 - 19,653 19,653 - 43,259 43,259
Donations - research, policy, dissemination 2 - 55,961 55,961 - 28,915 28,915
Donations - general 2 1,230,973 15,701 1,246,674 1,196,894 92,370 1,289,264
Charitable activities
Fees from medical legal reports - Legal
protection 85,190 - 85,190 81,364 - 81,364
Other legal services 255,799 - 255,799 - - -
Westminister ASP - 61,306 61,306 - 30,653 30,653
Other income 61,307 - 61,307 62,027 15,158 77,185
Bank interest 81 - 81 1,136 - 1,136
Total income 1,633,350 536,726 2,170,076 1,341,421 815,800 2,157,221
Expenditure on:
Raising funds 3 175,678 - 175,678 254,273 - 254,273
Charitable activities
Legal protection 3 659,069 201,746 860,815 189,079 272,495 461,574
Therapy and casework 3 436,712 102,984 539,696 227,083 343,073 570,156
Community integration 3 35,091 82,224 117,315 54,703 78,380 133,083
Counter trafficking 3 127,305 17,479 144,784 91,478 61,733 153,211
Research, policy and dissemination 3 183,388 55,453 238,841 201,433 47,389 248,822
Total expenditure 1,617,244 459,886 2,077,130 1,018,050 803,070 1,821,120
4
Net income for the year 16,106 76,840 92,946 323,371 12,730 336,101
Net income and movement in funds
16,106 76,840 92,946 323,371 12,730 336,101
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward 1,173,654 17,730 1,191,384 850,283 5,000 855,283
Total funds carried forward 1,189,760 94,570 1,284,330 1,173,654 17,730 1,191,384

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 15a to the financial statements.

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Company no. 08186281

Balance sheets

As at 31 December 2021

As at 31 December 2021
Balance sheets		 Company no. 08186281 Company no. 08186281
Note
Fixed assets:
8
Current assets:
11
Liabilities:
12
15a
Total unrestricted funds
Total Net Assets
Debtors
Funds:
Restricted income funds
Unrestricted income funds:
Designated fixed asset fund
General funds
Designated Casework-in-Progress
Designated- New Premise Fund
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Net current assets
Cash at bank and in hand
Tangible assets
Casework-in-progress
Total funds		 2021
2020
£
£
24,789
33,275
24,789
33,275
247,557
110,267
209,849
-
1,028,766
1,373,480
1,486,172
1,483,747
(226,631)
(325,638)
1,259,541
1,158,109
1,284,330
1,191,384
94,570
17,730
24,789
33,275
209,849
-
250,000
-
705,122
1,140,379
1,189,760
1,173,654
1,284,330
1,191,384
The group		 2021
2020
£
£
23,856
32,003
23,856
32,003
336,067
125,031
-
-
772,269
1,183,530
1,108,336
1,308,561
(142,949)
(217,087)
965,387
1,091,474
989,243
1,123,477
76,429
17,730
23,856
33,275
-
-
-
-
888,958
1,072,472
912,814
1,105,747
989,243
1,123,477
The charity
24,789
247,557
209,849
1,028,766		 33,275
110,267
-
1,373,480		 23,856
336,067
-
772,269		 32,003
125,031
-
1,183,530
1,486,172
(226,631)		 1,483,747
(325,638)		 1,108,336
(142,949)		 1,308,561
(217,087)
1,259,541 1,158,109 965,387 1,091,474
1,284,330 1,191,384 989,243 1,123,477
94,570
24,789
209,849
250,000
705,122		 17,730
33,275
-
-
1,140,379		 76,429
23,856
-
-
888,958		 17,730
33,275
-
-
1,072,472
1,189,760 1,173,654 912,814 1,105,747
1,284,330 1,191,384 989,243 1,123,477

Approved by the trustees on 8 August 2022 and signed on their behalf by

John Scampion Treasurer

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Consolidated statement of cash flows

For the year ended 31 December 2021

For the year ended 31 December 2021 For the year ended 31 December 2021 For the year ended 31 December 2021
Note
£
£
Net income for the reporting period
92,946
(as per the statement of financial activities)
Depreciation charges
18,309
(Increase) / decrease in debtors
(137,291)
Increase in casework-in-progress
(209,849)
(Decrease) / increase in creditors
(99,006)
Net cash provided by operating activities
(334,891)
(9,823)
(9,823)
(344,714)
1,373,480
a
1,028,766
Analysis of cash and cash equivalents and of net debt
At 1 January
2021
Cash flows
£
£
Cash at bank and in hand
1,373,480
(344,714)
a
Total cash and cash equivalents
1,373,480
(344,714)
Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of fixed assets
2021
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the
year
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year		 £
£
336,101
16,547
109,408
-
181,083
643,139
(9,602)
(9,602)
633,537
739,943
1,373,480
Other non-
cash
changes
At 31
December
2021
£
£
-
1,028,766
-
-
1,028,766
2020
(334,891)
(9,823)
(344,714)
1,373,480		 643,139
(9,602)
633,537
739,943
At 1 January
2021
£
1,373,480		 Other non-
cash
changes
£
-
-
1,028,766 1,373,480
Cash flows
£
(344,714)		 At 31
December
2021
£
1,028,766
1,373,480 (344,714) - 1,028,766

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

1 Accounting policies

a) Statutory information

Helen Bamber Foundation is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is incorporated in the United Kingdom.

The registered office address is Bruges Place, 15-20 Baynes Street London NW1 0TF.

b) Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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) - (Charities SORP FRS 102), The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

These financial statements consolidate the results of the charity and its subsidiary Asylum Aid on a line by line basis. Transactions and balances between the charity and its subsidiary have been eliminated from the consolidated financial statements. Balances between the two entities are disclosed in the notes of the charity's balance sheet. A separate statement of financial activities, or income and expenditure account, for the charity itself is not presented because the charity has taken advantage of the exemptions afforded by section 408 of the Companies Act 2006.

Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy or note.

In applying the financial reporting framework, the trustees have made a number of subjective judgements, for example in respect of significant accounting estimates. Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The nature of the estimation means the actual outcomes could differ from those estimates. Any significant estimates and judgements affecting these financial statements are detailed within the relevant accounting policy below.

Comparatives are not directly comparable due to acquiring Asylum Aid in August 2020.

c) Reporting period

The financial statements cover the year to 31 December 2021.

d) Public benefit entity

The charitable company meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102.

e) Going concern

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

f) Recognition of income

Recognition of income takes place in accordance with applicable accounting policies and results are presented in accordance with the SORP. All incoming resources are included in the Statement of financial activities when the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably. Grants and donations are recorded in the period in which they are received or the charity is entitled to the income.

Donations receivable for the general purposes of the charity are credited to Unrestricted funds and donations tied to a particular purpose are credited to Restricted funds.

Revenue grants are credited to the Statement of Financial Activities when received or receivable, whichever is earlier. Where unconditional entitlement to grants receivable is dependent on fulfilment of conditions within the charity's control, the incoming resources are recognised when there is sufficient evidence that conditions will be met. Where there is uncertainty as to whether the charity can meet such conditions, the incoming resource is deferred. When funding received is designated by the donor to be used in a specific future period, income is deferred. Income from medico legal reports is recognised when the report has been completed and submitted to the customer and an invoice has been raised.

Contractual income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably. Work in Progress is valued at the average hourly rate paid by the Legal Aid Agency. Provision is made where necessary for irrecoverable amount of work in progress.

All other income, such as training fees, is recognised in the period in which the charity is entitled to receipt and the amount can be measured with reasonable probability. Legacies are included when there is reasonable probability of receipt, amount and timing.

Where income is received in advance of its recognition, it is deferred and included in creditors. Where entitlement occurs before income is received, the income is accrued and included in debtors.

Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item or received the service, any conditions associated with the donation have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), volunteer time is not recognised so refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their contribution.

On receipt, donated gifts, professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis in the period to which the cost relates and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Resources expended include attributable VAT which cannot be recovered. Where costs cannot be directly attributable to particular activities, they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of the resources. Overheads, salaries and governance costs are allocated between the activity headings on the basis of attributable employment cost, and an element of judgement is involved. Costs of raising funds are those costs, including fundraising expenditures, incurred by the charity to obtain funds. Support costs are those costs incurred which are not directly an output of the charitable activity. Governance costs are those incurred in connection with enabling the charity to comply with external regulation, constitutional and statutory requirements and in providing support to the Trustees in the discharge of their statutory duties.

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Only individual assets costing £250 or more and not forming part of a larger project are capitalised. This level is periodically reviewed, along with the need for a formal impairment review.

Provision is made for depreciation of fixed assets, at rates calculated to write off the cost, less the estimated residual value, of each asset over its expected useful life. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over 3 years and other fixed assets over 4 years.

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

1 Accounting policies (continued)

j) Cash at bank and in hand

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

k) Recognition of liabilities and constructive liabilities

Liabilities, including constructive obligations, are recognised at the point at which the charity is deemed to have entered into a binding commitment. Provisions are recognised when there is a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefit will be required to settle the obligation, and a reliable estimate can be made of the obligation.

l) Leases

Rental costs under operating leases are charged to expenditure as incurred. Lease incentives received by the charity are released on a straight line basis to the Statement of Financial Activities over the period until the first break clause or, in the case of leases already existing, until the rent review.

m) Pensions

The charity contributes to a stakeholder pension scheme on behalf of its staff, and the cost is recognised as incurred.

n) Taxation status

As a charity, Helen Bamber Foundation is exempt from taxation of income and gains falling within Section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent these are applied charitably. No tax charge has arisen in the year.

o) Funds

The charity's financial statements are a consolidation of individual funds. These divide into two distinct categories: unrestricted and restricted.

Unrestricted funds

The use of these funds has not been restricted to a particular purpose by the donor. The unrestricted funds comprise the General fund and Designated funds.

General fund

The General fund is the working fund of the charity. It is not tied or designated as are the other funds for use for a particular or defined purpose. The General fund has to provide for the net deficit of any activities that have inadequate income of their own and for the general administration of the charity. It also provides working capital for operations and helps to provide resources to ensure that the charity is able to continue with its obligations in the event of a shortfall in income or unexpected upturn in expenditure. The current target level for the unrestricted general fund is between three and six months of the higher of projected gross income or gross expenditure for the next financial year.

Designated funds

Designated funds are those which have been allocated by the charity for particular purposes. The Fixed Asset reserve represents the net book value of the investment by the General fund in fixed assets. Restricted funds

These are income funds tied to particular purposes. They include gifts made to the charity to be used in accordance with the wishes of the donors. Until funds are expended, they are placed on deposit or held in cash.

p) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due, after provision for doubtful debts.

2 Income from donations

Income from donations
Donations - trusts and foundations
Donations - individuals
Donations - corporate
Other		 Unrestricted
£
855,576
221,106
116,733
37,557		 £
403,420
-
72,000
-
Restricted		 2021
Total
£
1,258,996
221,106
188,733
37,557		 Unrestricted
£
683,904
313,085
98,926
100,978		 £
705,981
34,858
29,149
-
Restricted		 2020
Total
£
1,389,885
347,943
128,075
100,978
1,230,973 475,420 1,706,393 1,196,893 769,988 1,966,881

The "other" donations comprise income from community fundraising and a fundraising campaign comprising one main event in 2021.

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Helen Bamber Foundation

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-		 2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-		 2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-		 2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-		 2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-		 2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-		 2
2021
2020
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
The A. B. Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Access for Justice Foundation
-
31,000
31,000
-
74,300
74,300
Allen & Overy Foundation
-
-
-
-
10,000
10,000
Anti-Slavery International
-
2,026
2,026
-
2,000
2,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
-
-
-
99,750
99,750
The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust
-
-
-
2,000
-
2,000
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
-
-
-
5,000
-
5,000
City Bridge Trust
-
-
-
-
37,666
37,666
Comic Relief
-
123,601
123,601
-
95,556
95,556
Eva Reckitt Trust Fund
-
2,500
2,500
-
2,500
2,500
The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
The Evan Cornish Foundation
-
12,000
12,000
-
12,000
12,000
ORR Mackintosh Foundation
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
20,000
Robert Luff Foundation
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
Susan Gibson
2,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
The Edward Gostling Foundation
-
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
The Harkness Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
The Henry Smith Charity
-
12,500
12,500
-
50,000
50,000
ILPA
-
-
-
-
5,259
5,259
The Leigh Trust
-
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
9,000
The London Community Foundation
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Marwyn Trust
16,728
-
16,728
7,434
-
7,434
The McCartney Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
-
50,000
Moynitrust
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
The National Lottery Community
Fund
91,667
-
91,667
-
100,000
100,000
Oak Foundation
120,000
-
120,000
150,000
-
150,000
McPhail Trust
-
40,000
40,000
-
-
-
Samworth Foundation
80,000
83,759
163,759
-
-
-
Pilkington Charities Fund
3,000
-
3,000
-
-
-
Postcode Equality Trust
125,000
-
125,000
250,000
100,000
350,000
Schroder Charity Trust
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable
Trust
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,000
The Souter Charitable Trust
10,000
-
10,000
3,000
-
3,000
British Humane Association
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Trust for London
50,000
20,000
70,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
Transport for London
-
30,000
30,000
-
-
-
The United Nations Voluntary Trust
Fund on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery
-
10,590
10,590
-
11,625
11,625
Wellcome Community Support Fund
-
10,000
10,000
-
5,000
5,000
William Brake Charitable Trust
-
2,000
2,000
-
7,000
7,000
The Wright Family Foundation
-
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
Britford Bridge
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
Bloomberg
110,000
-
110,000
-
-
-
Adfal Trust Culver House Farm
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-
Harkness Family
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
Volant Charitable Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
-
-
London Legal Support
20,000
-
20,000
-
-
-
Other trusts - Trusts under £2,000
19,181
6,444
25,625
2,470
6,425
8,895
Anonymous
-
-
-
94,000
34,900
128,900
Total
855,576
403,420
1,258,996
683,904
705,981
1,389,885
Income from donations (continued)
Restricted and unrestricted donations from trusts and foundations of £2,000 or greater in 2021 were as follows:-
855,576 403,420 1,258,996 683,904 705,981 1,389,885

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

3a Analysis of expenditure (current year)

Charitable activities

Staff costs (Note 5)
Legal protection
Therapy and casework
Community Integration and creative arts
programme
Counter Trafficking
Education, policy and research
Fundraising costs
Premises costs
Audit
Trustee expenses
Office and supplies costs
Irrecoverable VAT
Depreciation
Movement on doubtful debt provision
Support and Governance costs allocation
Total expenditure 2021
Total expenditure 2020		 Cost of
raising
funds
£
125,614
-
-
-
-
-
10,445
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Legal
protection
£
621,908
42,755
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Therapy and
casework
£
342,974
-
88,547
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Community
Integration
£
81,210
-
-
10,491
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Counter
Trafficking
£
106,992
-
-
-
4,046
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Research,
policy and
dissemination
£
158,725
-
-
-
-
30,054
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Support and
Governance
costs
£
86,022
-
-
-
-
-
-
190,007
15,265
253
103,244
49,198
17,970
(8,591)		 2021 Total
£
1,523,445
42,755
88,547
10,491
4,046
30,054
10,445
190,007
15,265
253
103,244
49,198
17,970
(8,591)		 2020
Total
£
1,195,997
75,150
116,661
19,186
7,087
27,559
32,246
187,174
12,100
-
83,491
63,864
16,547
(15,942)
136,059
39,619		 664,663
196,152		 431,521
108,175		 91,701
25,614		 111,038
33,746		 188,779
50,062		 453,369
(453,369)		 2,077,130
-		 1,821,120
-
175,678 860,815 539,696 117,315 144,784 238,841 - 2,077,130 1,821,120
254,273 461,574 570,156 133,083 153,211 248,822 -

Governance costs are included above under audit fees and trustees' expenses.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

3b Analysis of expenditure (prior year)

Charitable activities

Staff costs (Note 5)
Legal protection
Therapy and casework
Community Integration and creative arts
programme
Counter Trafficking
Education, policy and research
Fundraising costs
Premises costs
Audit
Trustee expenses
Office and supplies costs
Irrecoverable VAT
Depreciation
Movement on doubtful debt provision
Support and Governance costs allocation
Total expenditure 2020
Total expenditure 2019		 Cost of
raising
funds
£
161,049
-
-
-
-
-
32,246
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Legal
protection
£
280,295
75,150
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Therapy and
casework
£
328,946
-
116,661
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Community
Integration
£
82,616
-
-
19,186
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Counter
Trafficking
£
105,992
-
-
-
7,087
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Research,
policy and
dissemination
£
160,495
-
-
-
-
27,559
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Support and
Governance
costs
£
76,604
-
-
-
-
-
-
187,174
12,100
-
83,491
63,864
16,547
(15,942)		 2020 Total
£
1,195,997
75,150
116,661
19,186
7,087
27,559
32,246
187,174
12,100
-
83,491
63,864
16,547
(15,942)		 2019
Total
£
1,018,865
51,136
137,160
68,154
11,386
50,698
36,385
189,479
8,400
743
68,129
64,392
12,754
4,662
193,295
60,978		 355,445
106,129		 445,607
124,549		 101,802
31,281		 113,079
40,132		 188,054
60,768		 423,838
(423,838)		 1,821,120
-		 1,722,343
-
254,273 461,574 570,156 133,083 153,211 248,822 - 1,821,120 1,722,343
241,972 268,630 577,344 192,781 154,845 286,771 -

Governance costs are included above under audit fees and trustees' expenses.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

This is stated after charging:

e year ended 31 December 2021
Net income for the year
This is stated after charging:
2021 2020
£ £
Depreciation 18,309 16,547
Operating lease rentals:
Property 141,919 145,049
Auditor's remuneration (excluding VAT):
Current year audit 9,975 9,500
Independent examination of Asylum Aid 2,725 2,600

Staff costs were as follows:

Staff costs were as follows:
Salaries and wages
Redundancy costs (paid as at 31.12.21)
Social security costs
Employer’s contribution to defined contribution pension schemes
Recruitment costs
Interim staffing costs		 2021
£
1,327,067
119,924
49,130
9,918
10,062
7,344		 2020
£
1,027,058
80,742
36,396
8,001
36,624
7,176
1,523,445 1,195,997

One employee earned between £60,000 and £70,000 during the year (2020: one).

The total employee benefits, (including pension contributions and employer's national insurance) of the senior management executive were £278,455 (2020: £185,939).

The Trustees were not paid or in receipt of any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2020: £nil). No Trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2020: £nil).

The Trustees were not paid or in receipt of any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2020: £nil). No Trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2020: £nil).

£218 Trustee expenses were incurred by the charity in the year and relate to online training for one new Trustee (2020: nil).

6 Staff numbers

The average number of employees based on the average headcount employed during the year was as follows:

Fundraising
Support
Governance
Charitable activity		 2021
No.
4.0
32.0
5.0
2.0		 2020
No.
4.0
25.5
5.0
2.0
43.0 36.5

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

7 Related party transactions

There were management charges of £77,451 relating to HBF staff costs recharged to AA in 2021 (2020: £26,430).

There were no donations from related parties which were outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties. The total amount of donations received in 2021 from Trustees or parties related to them was £55,000 (2020: £10,144).

Tangible fixed assets
Cost
Depreciation
Net book value
The group
Disposals in year
At the end of the year
At the start of the year
Eliminated on disposal
At the end of the year
At the end of the year
At the start of the year
Charge for the year
At the start of the year
Additions in year		 Leasehold
Improvement
£
113,376
-
-		 Fixtures and
fittings
£
34,163
-
-		 ICT and
medical
equipment
£
56,969
9,823
-		 Total
£
204,508
9,823
-
113,376 34,163 66,792 214,331
108,904
2,922
-		 25,289
4,909
-		 37,040
10,479
-		 171,233
18,309
-
111,826 30,198 47,519 189,542
1,550 3,965 19,274 24,789
4,472 8,874 19,929 33,275

All of the above assets are used for charitable purposes.

Cost
Depreciation
The charity
At the start of the year
Additions in year
Disposals in year
At the end of the year
At the start of the year
At the start of the year
Charge for the year
Eliminated on disposal
At the end of the year
Net book value
At the end of the year		 Leasehold
Improvement
£
113,376
-
-		 Fixtures and
fittings
£
34,163
-
-		 ICT and
medical
equipment
£
55,612
9,823
-		 Total
£
203,151
9,823
-
113,376 34,163 65,435 212,974
108,904
2,922
-		 25,289
4,909
-		 36,955
10,139
-		 171,148
17,970
-
111,826 30,198 47,094 189,118
1,550 3,965 18,341 23,856
4,472 8,874 18,657 32,003

All of the above assets are used for charitable purposes.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

9 Subsidiary undertaking

The charity controls the subsidiary, Asylum Aid, a company registered in England. The company number is 2513874 and charity number is 328729. The registered office address is that of the parent company. It is a subsidiary of the Helen Bamber Foundation ( parent company) as the parent company board have majority control of Asylum Aid.

The subsidiary is used for the primary purpose of providing legal representation and access to justice for refugees and those seeking asylum. All activities have been consolidated on a line by line basis in the statement of financial activities.

A summary of the results of the subsidiary is shown below:

Total Income
Other trading activites
Net income for the year
Charitable Activities
Total Expenditure
Raising funds
Expenditure on:
Total funds brought forward
Total Funds carried forward
Legal income
Income from:
Donations and legacles
Charitable Activities		 Resricted
123,000
-
-
-		 Unrestricted
267,401
45,950
61,306
209,849		 2021
£
390,401
45,950
61,306
209,849		 2020
£
198,652
6,720
30,653
-
123,000
-
104,859		 584,506
21,859
353,613		 707,506
21,859
458,472		 236,025
17,783
150,335
104,859 375,472 480,331 168,118
18,141
-
18,141		 209,034
-
209,034		 227,175
-
227,175		 67,907
-
67,907

10 Parent charity

The parent charity's gross income and the results for the year are disclosed as follows:

11
Trade debtors
Prepayments & other debtors
Gross income
Result for the year
Debtors
Amounts due from group undertakings
Accrued income		 2021
2020
£
£
47,861
29,163
-
-
13,798
44,445
185,898
36,659
247,557
110,267
The group		 2021
2020
£
£
47,861
29,163
-
-
13,798
44,445
185,898
36,659
247,557
110,267
The group		 2021
£
1,462,570
(134,229)		 2020
£
1,891,070
268,194
247,557 110,267 336,067 125,031

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

12 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Other creditors
Accruals
Deferred income (note 13)
Taxation and social security
Trade creditors		 2021
2020
£
£
80,184
23,141
34,339
27,534
48,146
79,556
-
138,139
63,962
57,268
226,631
325,638
The group		 2021
2020
£
£
70,574
11,865
26,025
21,080
37,916
77,003
-
107,139
8,435
-
142,949
217,087
The charity
226,631 325,638 142,949 217,087

13 Deferred income

Deferred income relates to three restricted donations. Income is deferred as it relates to future periods

Balance at the beginning of the year
Amount released to income in the year
Amount deferred in the year
Balance at the end of the year		 2021
2020
£
£
138,139
61,666
(138,139)
(61,666)
-
138,139
-
138,139
The group		 2021
2020
£
£
138,139
61,666
(138,139)
(61,666)
-
138,139
-
138,139
The group		 2021
2020
£
£
107,139
61,666
(107,139)
(61,666)
-
107,139
-
107,139
The charity		 2021
2020
£
£
107,139
61,666
(107,139)
(61,666)
-
107,139
-
107,139
The charity
- 138,139 - 107,139

14a Analysis of group net assets between funds (current year)

Analysis of group net assets between funds (current year) ar)
General
unrestricted
£
-
955,122
955,122
General
unrestricted
£
-
1,140,379
1,140,379
Net assets at the end of the year
Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets
Net current assets
Net assets at the end of the year
Analysis of group net assets between funds (prior year)
Tangible fixed assets		 General
unrestricted
£
-
955,122		 £
24,789
209,849
Designated
funds		 Restricted
funds
£
-
94,570		 Total funds
£
24,789
1,259,541
955,122 234,638 94,570 1,284,330
£
33,275
-
Designated
funds		 Restricted
funds
£
-
17,730		 Total funds
£
33,275
1,158,109
1,140,379 33,275 17,730 1,191,384

14b Analysis of group net assets between funds (prior year)

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

15a Movements in funds (current year)

e year ended 31 December 2021
Movements in funds (current year)
Legal protection
Therapy and casework
Community integration
Research, policy and dissemination
Counter Trafficking
Westminster ASP
Total restricted funds
Total designated funds
General funds
Designated fixed asset fund
Unrestricted funds:
Other
Designated Casework-in-Progress
Designated- New Premise Fund
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds
Restricted funds:		 £
7,992
4,738
-
5,000
-
-
-
At 1 January
2021		 £
147,080
142,113
94,912
55,961
19,653
61,306
15,701
Income &
gains		 £
(133,552)
(99,467)
(79,417)
(53,561)
(16,882)
(61,306)
(15,701)
Expenditure &
losses		 £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Transfers		 £
21,520
47,384
15,495
7,400
2,771
-
-
At 31
December
2021
17,730 536,726 (459,886) - 94,570
33,275
-
-		 -
209,849
-		 (17,970)
-
-		 9,484
-
250,000		 24,789
209,849
250,000
33,275 209,849 (17,970) 259,484 484,638
1,140,379 1,423,501 (1,599,274) (259,484) 705,122
1,173,654 1,633,350 (1,617,244) - 1,189,760
1,191,384 2,170,076 (2,077,130) - 1,284,330

The narrative to explain the purpose of each fund is given at the foot of the note below.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

15b Movements in funds (prior year)

e year ended 31 December 2021
Movements in funds (prior year)
Legal protection
Therapy and casework
Community integration
Research, policy and dissemination
Counter Trafficking
Westminster ASP
Total restricted funds
Total designated funds
General funds
Restricted funds:
Designated fixed asset fund
Other income
General
Strategic Investment Fund
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds
Unrestricted funds:		 £
-
5,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
At 1 January
2020		 £
262,013
283,526
59,906
28,915
43,259
30,653
15,158
92,370
Income &
gains		 £
(254,021)
(278,788)
(59,906)
(28,915)
(43,259)
(30,653)
(15,158)
(92,370)
Expenditure &
losses		 £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Transfers		 £
7,992
9,738
-
-
-
-
-
-
At 31
December
2020
5,000 815,800 (803,070) - 17,730
40,220
-		 -
-		 (16,547)
-		 9,602
-		 33,275
-
40,220 - (16,547) 9,602 33,275
810,063 1,341,421 (1,001,503) (9,602) 1,140,379
850,283 1,341,421 (1,018,050) - 1,173,654
855,283 2,157,221 (1,821,120) - 1,191,384

Purposes of restricted funds

Legal protection

The restricted funds for protection work are to fund legal protection and advocacy support work; providing refugee and asylum seeking clients with a fair chance at seeking justice against the perpetrators of the interpersonal violence they experienced, international protection from the government and appropriate welfare support and housing provision. This includes legal staff salaries, client travel and interpreter costs and any other associated costs of administrating and providing legal protection and advocacy support to clients.

Therapy and casework

The restricted funds for therapy and casework are to fund our therapeutic care for survivors of gross human rights violations, helping individuals and families to overcome the psychological impact of interpersonal violence and achieve sustained recovery from acute trauma symptoms, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other resultant mental health issues. This includes clinical staff salaries, client travel and interpreter costs and associated costs of administrating referrals for our services and providing tailored support and counselling for clients.

Community integration

The restricted funds for community integration are to assist clients to become valued members of society and combine work from different areas. Mind and body work are to fund therapies which use the mutual influence of body on mind, and mind on body to facilitate healing and recovery from trauma. The programme includes acupuncture, cranio-sacral therapy, hakomi and internal family systems, movement, pilates, yoga (including pre- and post-natal), massage, breathing training and osteopathy. The restricted funds are for clinical staff salaries, equipment, volunteer costs and client travel.

The restricted funds for social wellbeing work are to fund the Creative arts programme, which includes language and skills classes and artistic and social groups for clients of the Foundation, to break isolation and aid recovery. This includes the costs of materials, client travel, volunteer expenses and the salary of the coordinating staff member.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

Purposes of restricted funds (continued)

Research, policy and dissemination

These restricted funds are to fund work on research, policy and dissemination.

Counter Trafficking

The restricted funds for counter trafficking are to enable the foundation to fund a model of integrated care for victims of human trafficking. This includes clinical staff salaries, client travel and interpreter costs and associated costs of administering referrals for our services and providing tailored support and counselling for clients.

Westminster ASP

Westminster Advice Services Project (WASP) is a consortium led by Westminster Citizens Advice, which Asylum Aid has been a member of since 2016. It is a consortium put together by NGOs based in Westminster and funded by Westminster council on a 3-5 year rolling contract, to provide advice and support services on welfare legal matters. Asylum Aid’s USP input to this project is a multi-language volunteer advisor system, in which we train and supervise local people to interpret for us when providing advice to Westminster residence for whom English is a second language. The yearly funding covers the cost of two specialist advisors (part time), and rental costs for Derry House from where we provide outreach and drop in advice services as well as associated costs of administering our services.

Other income

We continued our partnership with Young Roots , an organisation that supports hard to reach separated asylum seeking children and young people, who often face greater barriers in accessing mental health and other support. The funds (£9,266) were for clincal staff time who provided assessments, stabilisation interventions and also treatment.

We formed a new partnership with Women for Refugee Women to offer clinical support to the women in their network. The funds (£5,892) were for clincial staff time who provided clinical assessments that facilitated access to mental health services, as well as delivering therapeutic interventions designed to help women to stabilise and manage their mental health.

Purposes of designated funds

Fixed assets fund

A designated fund has been established to represent the net book value of the charity's fixed assets.

Casework in progress fund

Value of work in progress relating to legal cases as year-end as this is a relatively illiquid asset.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2021

New Premise fund

A desginated fund to meet planned expenditure on securing new premises over 2022 and 2023.

16 Operating lease commitments payable as a lessee

The group's total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases is as follows for each of the following periods:


the following periods:
Two to five years
Less than one year		 2021
2020
£
£
185,716
185,716
270,183
412,102
455,899
597,818
Property
455,899 597,818

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