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2024-03-31-accounts

REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 08144361 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1152227

Report of the Trustees and

Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

for

Haringey Migrant Support Centre

J P B Harris & Co. Chartered Accountants Harmile House 54 St Marys Lane Upminster Essex RM14 2QP

Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

Page
Reference and Administrative Details 1
Report of the Trustees 2 to 11
Independent Examiner's Report 12
Statement of Financial Activities 13
Balance Sheet 14 to 15
Notes to the Financial Statements 16 to 23

Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Reference and Administrative Details for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

REGISTERED OFFICE 386 West Green Road London N15 3QL REGISTERED COMPANY 08144361 (England and Wales) NUMBER REGISTERED CHARITY 1152227 NUMBER INDEPENDENT EXAMINER J P B Harris & Co. Chartered Accountants Harmile House 54 St Marys Lane Upminster Essex RM14 2QP BANKERS Unity Trust Bank Four Brindley Place Birmingham B1 2JB Charities Aid Foundation 25 Kings Hill Ave Kings Hill West Malling ME19 4TA

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Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objectives and aims

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated 16 July 2012 and registered as a charity 31 May 2013. The Charity's operation is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 16 July 2012 (amended 14 May 2013).

The Charity's purposes, as set out in the Charity's memorandum of association, are:

HMSC welcomes all migrants, regardless of their immigration status, unless they are naturalised British citizens and therefore entitled to mainstream advice and support.

Public benefit

Haringey Migrant Support Centre carries out a wide range of activities as detailed in pursuance of its charitable aims. In setting our work programme each year the Directors have regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and ensure activities we undertake are in line with our charitable objectives and aims.

The Trustees are satisfied that the Company's activities throughout the year provided public benefit because:

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Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

The service

After a couple of years of flux owing to various covid lockdowns, HMSC's core services experienced a period of relative consistency in 2023-24. Both our advice and casework services (Immigration and Housing & Destitution) benefited from this clear routine and HMSC was able to focus on providing a consistent service to visitors. While our advisors and caseworkers remained available via telephone and video appointments, the vast majority of our services were delivered face-to-face at our office.

What did not return to pre-covid patterns was the way in which visitors made contact with HMSC. The New Enquiries (telephone) Line continued to be how visitors approached HMSC for support.

Demand for our services far surpassed the capacity we had, but a decision was made to open the New Enquiries Line every single week (rather than close on weeks when capacity was reached), even when this meant only accepting a limited number of cases. Those visitors who successfully made contact via the New Enquiries Line were offered an appointment for the following Monday's 'triage'. On Mondays, HMSC's caseworkers and triage volunteers assessed the needs of visitors, spending at least an hour talking and piecing together a relevant history for the visitor. Once a visitor's needs were assessed, a small number of people's issues were resolved on the day or they were signposted elsewhere, while the majority were given a time and date for a future advice appointment for either immigration or housing/destitution advice (or both).

During this period, HMSC's casework teams provided a consistent service to our visitors. In large part, this was thanks to our Services team's functional systems (Triage, New Enquiries Line, Catch-up Line). The complexity and intensity of work undertaken by casework teams only grew in response to the external challenges of an increasingly hostile social and policy environment.

HMSC continued to benefit from the engagement of volunteers during this period. Each week, 4-5 volunteers attended our triage sessions to assess the needs of visitors. We also relied on the work of a small and dedicated group of legal support volunteers, who gathered and prepared evidence for exceptional case funding applications and applications to the Home Office based on long residency in the UK. Other volunteers worked relatively independently, including a catch-up line volunteer, a healthy start volunteer, hardship grant volunteer and NHS charging volunteer, among others. When we opened a new Community Space in December, our Community Coordinator recruited upwards of twenty new volunteers - 50% of whom had lived experience of the hostile environment - to activities and kitchen roles.

External circumstances

The Illegal Immigration Act loomed large over the migration sector during this period, being introduced to parliament in March 2023 before being signed into law in July. Recognisable for its aim to stop 'small boat' crossings in the channel, the bill proposed that all irregular arrivals into the UK would have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible. Further, the act had significant implications for the way migrants would be detained and removed, and threatened to undermine modern slavery rules including regarding age assessments.

In fact, very little of the bill was ever enforced, but HMSC - like most other organisations in the sector - expended significant energy and capacity preparing for and reacting to the possible effects of the bill. All in all, in combination with the still-present threat of removals to Rwanda, this represented an unprecedented high-water mark in what has been an already historically hostile time for migrants in the UK.

Refugees and asylum seekers faced an even higher threat of street homelessness. A chaotic asylum support system meant asylum seekers were often moved from one accommodation to another, and incompetent Home Office record keeping led to applicants not receiving invitations to asylum interviews, and subsequently having their asylum application deemed withdrawn. This created more homelessness and work for the sector to challenge cases deemed withdrawn. Further, the UK government changed the way they enforced rules for asylum support meaning that recently recognised refugees could effectively have as little as one week to find alternative accommodation once granted leave to remain. Combined with the government's aim to make decisions on a large backlog of asylum cases, this meant that there was an unprecedented number of people living in asylum hotels - of which there were two in Haringey and many more in North London - facing street homelessness at the end of 2023 and into 2024.

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

The dearth of legal aid in the sector worsened further. As outlined in our report, 'Oceans of Unmet Need' (co-authored with the Public Law Project) the scale of the issue in the immigration sector was unprecedented and continuing to deteriorate. Firms that HMSC was previously able to rely on to represent immigration and asylum cases were effectively no longer available for our visitors' cases, and most of the visitors to HMSC had to wait for longer periods in order to find representation, if at all.

Meanwhile, local authorities continued their trend of gatekeeping housing and homelessness resources owing to long-term and systemic central government underfunding and a country-wide housing crisis particularly acute in London. One tangible demonstration of the impact of this at HMSC was that Enfield borough, where 18% of our visitors are based, began housing people outside of London - many in places as far away as County Durham.

Adding to this, people across the UK faced an ongoing cost of living crisis, with the price of gas and electricity peaking at unprecedented and historic highs at the start of the period in question. Food, bills, rental costs and the price of credit also hit historic highs during this period's inflationary environment. Government attempts to mitigate some of the worst impacts of this rarely filtered down to people deemed ineligible for statutory support.

Recruitment and internal staff changes

At the end of the calendar year 2023, HMSC's General Manager advised the trustees that they would commence a period of maternity leave in March 2023. This began an official process to find a suitable replacement. The result of this was an internal appointment and the new General Manager took over this role in mid-March 2024 for the period of the maternity leave.

Connected to the change in general manager (i.e. to address internal capacity lost elsewhere) HMSC chose to increase the capacity of the Services & Immigration team as well as the Housing & Welfare team. At the end of the financial year HMSC advertised for a full-time Senior Housing & Destitution caseworker (in part to replace the internal hire of the new GM) and a Services & Immigration Assistant. The net intention of these changes was to increase capacity in the Housing & Destitution team by 33% and by 40% in the Services & Immigration team. At the end of the year in question, two recruits agreed to join HMSC to fill these roles with their employment set to commence in April 2024.

On top of these changes, and owing to organisational decisions made in the previous financial year, in this period HMSC expanded the scope of its operations by making new hires in two new areas.

A Community Coordinator was hired in July 2023. This role had the responsibility of opening a Community drop-in once per fortnight (more below), as well as facilitating the work of HMSC's Experts by Experience group, plus coordinating volunteers as well as collating and disseminating signposting information.

In August 2023, a Policy & Campaigns Coordinator was hired to commence the work of providing a systems change outlet to the work of HMSC. It was previously determined that HMSC could increase its impact by channeling the experience of visitors into campaigns for social change.

Financial Support

HMSC continued to distribute hardship payments to visitors who were destitute or otherwise struggling to manage the cost-of-living crisis. In total, HMSC distributed £4,835 in supermarket vouchers (to 208 visitors) and £682 in cash (to 24 visitors). HMSC also distributed 34 SIM cards containing minutes and data that allowed HMSC visitors to stay in touch with their representatives and community.

HMSC was also able to rely on the hard work and expertise of a grants volunteer. They were able to apply to funds from organisations (such as the Heinz, Anna And Carol Kroch Foundation, Friends of the Elderly and Fund for Human Need) who, combined, provided 48 large grants to visitors with a total value of £6,500.

Advice and casework: what we achieved

HMSC worked on the cases of 544 different people, who had 477 dependent children, during this period. Of these, 311 people were assessed for a brand new issue. Islington Law Centre and HMSC's in-house OISC advisers together conducted a total 187 immigration advice sessions for these 311 people. On top of this, HMSC's Housing & Destitution caseworkers conducted 293 advice sessions.

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Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Immigration

Representing the largest cohort of people approaching HMSC for support, 27% of our visitors in this period had never been documented/were overstayers. 22% had Leave to Remain, while 19% were asylum seekers. A further 9% had Refugee status. The remainder of HMSC's visitors in this time were made up of those people with Indefinite Leave to Remain (5%) or a visa (5%), refused asylum seekers (4%) and nationals of European Economic Area countries (3%) amongst others. Underlying this, 63% of the visitors to HMSC had No Recourse to Public Funds.

Islington Law Centre continued to provide one-off immigration advice once per week. Their expertise in unpicking the complex circumstances of our visitors contributed significantly to the success of our referrals for representation. Other results include:

It is of note that, in the midst of a growing crisis of capacity in representation in the sector, the HMSC Immigration team were able to refer more cases successfully this year than the previous year.

In-house immigration work

The Immigration team was constituted of the Immigration Coordinator, Senior Caseworker, Assistant Caseworker, Immigration Caseworker and Senior Immigration Adviser (working a combined 1.4FTE). On top of this, the Legal Support Volunteer team was able to rely on the work of four volunteers, who focused their work on preparing ECF and 20-year applications.

HMSC continued to enjoy the expertise of two OISC 3 in-house immigration advisers during this period, who (combined) worked 3 days per week. As in previous recent years, the emphasis for these two roles was not direct representation but to advise on a one-off basis and work towards unpicking and referring very complex cases for representation elsewhere. Increasingly HMSC's advisers also lodged appeals and began assisting the preparation for these appeals in correspondence with the First Tier Tribunal.

During this period, the Home Office operated two asylum support hotels in the borough of Haringey. In response to this, Haringey Council's Resettlement Team began working with asylum seekers to address issues such as lack of legal representation, unsuitable accommodation and move-on issues once granted refugee status (or, if refused, potential street homelessness). The Resettlement Team approached HMSC to provide immigration expertise at one hotel in particular, where single men were living. Between autumn 2023 and spring 2024, our Immigration Caseworker worked with 32 remaining asylum seekers at the hotel to assess their circumstances, identify vulnerabilities and make representations to the Home Office.

In the context of the decreasing availability of advocates in the legal aid sector to represent migrants, increased numbers of migrants in the UK went for extended periods without a solicitor to defend their position. This placed additional pressure on HMSC's advisers to fill in the gaps where visitors were unrepresented but had active cases at the Home Office. HMSC continued to act responsively to address the needs of our visitors in these circumstances. In total, we assisted 32 visitors with their Home Office application, sometimes by making the application in-house. Some of the ways our in-house advisors responded to changing circumstances was:

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

ECF & 20y project

Caseworker,

ready to be submitted.

Housing, welfare & destitution

No statutory

in

changes

unprecedented

some HMSC visitors.

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Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

From the start of the period in question, a volunteer worked closely on making referrals to visitors to food and baby banks, and applied for Healthy Start vouchers for parents on low incomes. Another volunteer identified visitors who had received NHS invoices (having been identified by the NHS as having no recourse to public funds and therefore charged for secondary treatment) and did basic advocacy to support them to engage with NHS Trusts with a view to making payment plans.

Towards the end of the year, and in response to the myriad challenges faced by migrants with their housing, the general manager and trustees decided to increase the capacity of the Housing & Welfare team. As the financial year came to a close, HMSC hired an experienced housing caseworker to begin work in April 2024.

Some of our key outcomes in this area include:

Community

At the end of the previous financial year, funding was secured to hire a Community Coordinator, whose responsibilities are, amongst others, to put on a social day once every fortnight, at which visitors would have the opportunity to socialise, eat hot food and participate in activities. After hiring them in July of this period, in November HMSC opened our first Community Space day, and this continued every two weeks of the year thereafter for this period. The decision was taken for this space to run alongside our advice service, and so it was implemented as a place to build community rather than as a place to receive advice. In November HMSC hired a chef to run the kitchen once every fortnight. Here are some of the activities for this period:

The Community Coordinator set up a new Experts by Experience (EBE) group. The eight members of the EBE group are all current and former visitors to HMSC with lived experience of the hostile environment. The group met 7 times during this financial year, forming and developing their identity, and holding planning meetings on topics such as ways of working (group agreement), proposals for Community space activities and volunteering roles and training for community space volunteers. On top of this, discussions were held on access to HMSC advice service, the structural context of HMSC's work, and ideas for information workshops at the community space.

The Community Coordinator also recruited 39 volunteers across four different teams in the wider organisation: Triage, Legal support, Community space & kitchen, casework.

In their role on signposting, the Community Coordinator commenced on work to overhaul HMSC's signposting handbook, developed signposting resources and flyers to be shared at the community space, and visited and built partnerships with groups including London Catholic Worker, HomeGrown, Community CookUp, Hackney Winter Night Shelter, Haringey Welcome, Living Under One Sun, Haringey Council's Resettlement Team, Akwaaba, The Reader, LegalAliens, The Felix Project, FareShare, CitizensUK, London Renters Union.

Policy & Campaigns

HMSC also hired a Policy & Campaigns Coordinator in August 2023 as part of a new, three-year funding opportunity. This role was added to respond to the fact that visitors to HMSC would often face the same barriers - whether that be their route to settlement or issues with cyclical homelessness - but after their case was closed their experience would not go towards systems change.

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

The majority of this period was spent laying the foundations for the three-year policy project at HMSC - building relationships with HMSC's networks, engaging visitors, local community organising, engaging in collaborative research and policy work and joining sector campaigns. Of note was that the Policy & Campaigns Coordinator arranged for a conference to be held in June 2024, which was expected to be well-attended by caseworkers from across the sector.

Strategic litigation

In the previous period, HMSC was engaged in a strategic litigation project with the Public Law Project regarding the severe shortage of immigration legal aid representatives. This litigation was concluded in this financial year. After considering HMSC's role as a potential claimant in this case, the Public Law Project decided to continue the litigation as claimants themselves. A result of this litigation was that the Public Law Project published a report ('Oceans of Unmet Need') with HMSC as co-authors.

From September 2023 to April 2024, HMSC participated in another challenge brought up by the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) regarding the widespread long-standing issue of Home Office delay in complying with Subject Access Requests (SARs). HMSC's main contribution to the PILC challenge was to provide evidence. HMSC collected data for over 15 SARs following PILC-provided processes, noting delays in Home Office responses, documents missing from disclosed files, and failures to comply with requests. We also provided case studies that exemplified the HO's systematic failure to meet their duties under GDPR, placing vulnerable visitors at risk of harm and destitution.

A profile of HMSC Visitors

In 2023-24, HMSC welcomed 544 visitors in total. 24% of our visitors had been in the UK for 20 years or more, with a further 31% having been in the UK for 10-19 years. The visitors arrived in the UK from 63 different countries; the most common countries of origin were Ghana (30%), Nigeria (15%), Eritrea (8%) and Jamaica (3%) with the rest of our visitors spread across the remaining 59 countries.

Around 55% of visitors were women and 43% men. 43% of visitors had a dependent child or children in the UK. During 2023-24, 37% of our visitors were homeless and 48% were destitute (i.e., without adequate accommodation and/or unable to meet their other essential needs).

Safeguarding

As part of its commitment to a culture of safety for visitors, staff and volunteers, HMSC in this period invited Safer Foundations, a migration sector safeguarding organisation, to undertake a cross-sector training in November at which representatives from other organisations attended. HMSC also commissioned Safer Foundations to write a best practice guide that would be available in the summer of 2024.

ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE

Charitable activities

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated 16 July 2012 and registered as a charity 31 May 2013. The Charity's operation is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 16 July 2012 (amended 14 May 2013).

The Charity's purposes, as set out in the Charity's memorandum of association, are:

HMSC welcomes all migrants, regardless of their immigration status, unless they are naturalised British citizens and therefore entitled to mainstream advice and support.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

Financial Review

The charity made a surplus of £68,686 in the year (2023 - £112,922). £20,655 of that was in Unrestricted Reserves (that is, funds which are neither restricted nor designated) (2023 - £33,678). Total unrestricted funds at the year end increased to £113,901 at year end, up from £93,246 at the end of the previous financial year. This level of unrestricted reserves meets our aim to maintain unrestricted reserves sufficient to meet any redundancy payments and closure costs, and to maintain activity for 3 months.

Restricted grants and donations totalling £378,854 were received during the year. Not all of the restricted income was spent in the year and £181,876 of restricted funds was carried forward.

Reserves policy

Reserves are that part of a charity's unrestricted funds that is freely available to spend on any of the charity's purposes. HMSC maintains free unrestricted reserves:

The board of trustees will review the above criteria with reference to HMSC's strategy and business plans and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these.

The Board of Trustees will at times designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.

In line with guidance issued by the Charity Commission, trustees regularly review the reserves of the Charity and have adopted the following policy:

We aim to maintain unrestricted reserves sufficient to meet any redundancy payments and closure costs, and to maintain activity for 3 months.

Principal Risks and Uncertainties

The Company undertakes periodic reviews for different areas of risk including, insurance cover; health and safety policies in the workplace and whilst performing their duties; working with vulnerable people and young children; financial affairs; personnel practices; ICT technology.

In relation to these matters, and apart from matters completely outside the Company's control, the Directors consider that the risks to which the Company is subject have been mitigated to a satisfactory level.

FUTURE PLANS

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.

HMSC is a registered charity (number 1152227) and is constituted as a company limited by guarantee (number 08144361). Its objects, powers and other constitutional matters are set out in its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

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Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Recruitment and appointment of new trustees

The Directors of the Charity are the Trustees for the purpose of charity law. The minimum number of Trustees is three; there is no maximum number. As set out in the Articles of Association, at each annual general meeting one third of the Trustees must retire from office.

The Trustees have no beneficial interest in the Charity other than as members and all guarantee to contribute up to ten pounds in the event of winding up.

Organisational structure

The Trustees are responsible for the overall vision and strategic management of the Charity, whilst the day-to-day operation is delivered by a small team of staff supported by sessional workers on short term contracts, and volunteers.

At the end of the calendar year 2023, HMSC's General Manager advised the trustees that they would commence a period of maternity leave in March 2023. This began an official process to find a suitable replacement. The result of this was an internal appointment and the new General Manager took over this role in mid-March 2024 for the period of the maternity leave.

The Staff Team

General Manager (see above) Casework Coordinator Operations Coordinator (replacing, in large part, the previous role of Development Coordinator) Destitution Coordinator

Senior Caseworker (Housing and Immigration) Assistant Caseworker (Services and Housing) Community Coordinator (new role commencing July 2023) Policy & Campaigns Coordinator (new role commencing August 2023) Chef (hired November 2023)

Freelance support

Immigration caseworker Senior immigration advisor Bookkeeper Fundraiser

The Staff Team

General Manager Casework Coordinator

Development Coordinator (resigned February 2023, recruitment for replacement was ongoing in March 2023) Destitution Coordinator Caseworker Assistant Caseworker

Freelance support

Immigration advisor (freelance) Immigration caseworker (freelance) Bookkeeper (freelance) Fundraiser (freelance)

Volunteers

During this reporting period, the volunteer team comprised: Triage Volunteers, Legal Support Volunteers, a Catch-Up Line Volunteer and a Grants Volunteer.

Premises

HMSC has continued to rent office space from the Salvation Army, with the lease running until February 2025.

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Induction and training of new trustees

New Trustees are provided with copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, together with the most recent Directors' and Trustee Report.

All Trustees continue to maintain a good working knowledge of Charity and Company Law and best practice by studying Charity Commission newsletters, together with attendance at appropriate external courses.

Directors

The directors of the company are its trustees for the purpose of charity law but throughout this report are collectively referred to as the directors. The directors serving during the year were as follows:

Approved by order of the board of trustees on ............................................. and signed on its behalf by: ����������

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D M Rayns - Trustee

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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Haringey Migrant Support Centre ('the Company')

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

Since your charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a listed body. I can confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by Section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  2. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  3. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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A S Robinson FCA The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

J P B Harris & Co. Chartered Accountants Harmile House 54 St Marys Lane Upminster Essex RM14 2QP

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Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
2
14,212
Charitable activities
5
Charitable activities
23,915
Other trading activities
3
617
Investment income
4
42
Other income
500
Total
39,286
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
6
16,939
Charitable activities
7
Charitable activities
1,749
Total
18,688
NET INCOME
20,598
Transfers between funds
16
57
Net movement in funds
20,655
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
93,246
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
113,901		 Restricted
fund
£
915
377,939
-
-
-
378,854
9,715
321,051
330,766
48,088
(57)
48,031
133,845
181,876		 31.3.24
Total
funds
£
15,127
401,854
617
42
500
418,140
26,654
322,800
349,454
68,686
-
68,686
227,091
295,777		 31.3.23
Total
funds
£
41,846
299,541
1,533
-
122
343,042
31,384
198,736
230,120
112,922
-
112,922
114,169
227,091

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Balance Sheet 31 March 2024

Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets
13
1,953
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
14
200
Prepayments and accrued income
745
Cash at bank and in hand
137,187
138,132
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year
15
(26,184)
NET CURRENT ASSETS
111,948
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES
113,901
NET ASSETS
113,901
FUNDS
16
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
TOTAL FUNDS		 Restricted
fund
£
-
-
3,455
184,191
187,646
(5,770)
181,876
181,876
181,876		 31.3.24
Total
funds
£
1,953
200
4,200
321,378
325,778
(31,954)
293,824
295,777
295,777
113,901
181,876
295,777		 31.3.23
Total
funds
£
-
371
-
237,149
237,520
(10,429)
227,091
227,091
227,091
93,246
133,845
227,091

The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2024.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for

The notes form part of these financial statements

continued...

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Balance Sheet - continued 31 March 2024

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on ............................................. and were signed on its behalf by: ����������

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............................................. D M Rayns - Trustee

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

BASIS OF PREPARING THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The trustees confirm that at the time of approving the financial statements, there are no material uncertainties regarding the Charity's ability to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. In arriving at this conclusion, the Trustees have taken account of current and anticipated financial performance in the current economic conditions, its business plan and its reserves position. For this reason, the going concern basis continues to be adopted in the preparation of the Charity's financial statements.

INCOME

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:

Donations and grants are split between restricted and unrestricted funds in accordance with the terms of the grant or donation.

Donations and gifts are recognised in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Income from government and other grants is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred. Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified.

Bank interest is recognised on an accrual basis.

EXPENDITURE

Expenditure is included in the statement of financial activities on an accruals basis, inclusive of any VAT that cannot be recovered. It is recognised when there is a legal or constructive obligation to pay for it. Certain expenditure is directly attributable to specific activities and has been included in those cost categories. Certain other costs, which are attributable to more than one activity, are apportioned across cost categories on the basis of an estimate of the proportion of time spent by staff or resources used on those activities.

TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.

Fixtures and fittings - 33% on cost

Individual fixed assets costing £2,000 or more are initially recorded at cost.

TAXATION

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.

FUND ACCOUNTING

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

PENSION COSTS AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS

The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charitable company's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The only financial instruments held by the company are debtors and creditors. These are categorised as 'basic' in accordance with Section 11 of FRS 102 and are initially recognised at transaction price. These are subsequently measured at their transaction price less any impairment.

2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES

Donations
3.
OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES
Fundraising events
4.
INVESTMENT INCOME
Deposit account interest
5.
INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
Activity
Grants
Charitable activities
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
Awards for All
City Bridge Trust
Garfield Weston Foundation
London Legal Support Trust
The Mercers' Company
The Reel Fund
Refugee Action
Strategic Law Fund (ILPA)
Society of the Holy Child Jesus
The Henry Smith Charity
The National Lottery Community Fund
Together for London
Trust for London
Hornsey Parochial Charities
Hardship Fund
London Catalyst
London Churches Refugee Fund
Other Grants
Caritas
Haringey Council
Carried forward		 31.3.24
£
15,127
31.3.24
£
617
31.3.24
£
42
31.3.24
£
401,854
31.3.24
£
-
-
20,000
24,250
35,000
12,500
-
-
-
70,000
59,734
-
47,500
4,000
-
-
900
23,915
10,000
24,000
331,799		 31.3.23
£
41,846
31.3.23
£
1,533
31.3.23
£
-
31.3.23
£
299,541
31.3.23
£
9,925
22,500
20,000
8,000
35,000
3,000
1,800
9,446
20,000
30,000
55,445
10,000
47,000
4,000
50
1,750
1,000
20,625
-
-
299,541

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5.
INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - continued
Brought forward
Lipman-Miliband Trust
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Sisters of the Holy Cross
Clothworkers Foundation
6.
RAISING FUNDS
RAISING DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
Staff costs
Fundraising consultancy
Programme expenses
Allocation of support costs
7.
CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS
Charitable activities
8.
SUPPORT COSTS
Charitable activities
Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:
Wages
Social security
Pensions
Staff recruitment and training
Rent, insurance utilities
Office overheads
Volunteer costs
Professional fees
Independent examination
Allocation of support costs
Carried forward		 Direct
Costs
£
321,137
Other
£
686		 31.3.24
£
331,799
3,000
48,000
15,600
3,455
401,854
31.3.24
£
9,737
16,275
642
-
26,654
Support
costs (see
note 8)
£
1,663
Other 2
£
977
31.3.24
Charitable
activities
£
43,424
2,965
1,544
7,927
13,276
18,613
2,546
25,111
1,440
(116,160)
686		 31.3.23
£
299,541
-
-
-
-
299,541
31.3.23
£
6,753
16,350
895
7,386
31,384
Totals
£
322,800
Totals
£
1,663
31.3.23
Total
activities
£
40,896
1,979
1,413
2,382
10,847
6,131
595
24,422
1,440
(73,856)
16,249

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8. SUPPORT COSTS - continued

8. SUPPORT COSTS - continued
31.3.24 31.3.23
Charitable Total
activities activities
£ £
Brought forward 686 16,249
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets 977 383
1,663 16,632
9. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting):
31.3.24 31.3.23
£ £
Depreciation - owned assets 977 383

10. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2024 nor for the year ended 31 March 2023.

TRUSTEES' EXPENSES

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2024 nor for the year ended 31 March 2023.

11. STAFF COSTS

Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs
The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
Charitable activities		 31.3.24
£
203,993
13,477
7,018
224,488
31.3.24
8		 31.3.23
£
133,283
6,597
4,711
144,591
31.3.23
6

No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.

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12.
COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Unrestricted
fund
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
41,846
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
20,625
Other trading activities
1,533
Other income
122
Total
64,126
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
13,663
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
16,367
Total
30,030
NET INCOME
34,096
Transfers between funds
(418)
Net movement in funds
33,678
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
59,568
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
93,246		 Restricted
fund
£
-
278,916
-
-
278,916
17,721
182,369
200,090
78,826
418
79,244
54,601
133,845		 Total
funds
£
41,846
299,541
1,533
122
343,042
31,384
198,736
230,120
112,922
-
112,922
114,169
227,091

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13. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

13. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Fixtures
and
fittings
£
COST
At 1 April 2023 14,857
Additions 2,930
At 31 March 2024 17,787
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2023 14,857
Charge for year 977
At 31 March 2024 15,834
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2024 1,953
At 31 March 2023 -
14. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.3.24 31.3.23
£ £
Trade debtors 200 -
Other debtors - 371
200 371
15. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.3.24 31.3.23
£ £
Trade creditors 8,227 5,106
Social security and other taxes 4,982 1,795
Other creditors 15,672 327
Accrued expenses 3,073 3,201
31,954 10,429

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16. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

At 1.4.23 Incomingresou
rces		 Outgoingre
sources		 Transfer
s		 At
31.3.24
Awards for All 7,006 - (7,006) - -
Caritas - 10,000 (10,000) - -
City Bridge Trust 1,875 - (1,818) (57) -
Clothworkers Foundation - 3,455 (3,455) - -
Garfield Weston Foundation 15,000 20,000 (15,000) - 20,000
London Legal Support Trust 1,333 24,250 (24,834) - 749
Haringey Council - 24,000 (24,000) - -
The Henry Smith Charity - 70,000 - - 70,000
Lipman-Milliband Trust - 3,000 - - 3,000
The Mercers' Company 20,420 35,000 (33,627) - 21,793
The National Lottery Community Fund 29,426 59,734 (58.851) - 30,309
Passionists, The 3,000 - (3,000) - -
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - 48,000 (27,443) - 20,557
Reel Fund, The - 12,500 (12,497) - 3
Sisters of the Holy Cross - 15,600 (15,600) - -
Strategic Law Fund (ILPA) 8.853 - (8,853) - -
Society of the Holy Child Jesus 20,000 - (20,000) - -
Together for London 4,973 - (4,973) - -
Trust for London 15,538 47,500 (55,197) - 7,841
Hardship Fund - Covid-19 2,452 - (418) - 2,034
Hardship Fund - LCRF - 900 - - 900
Hardship Fund - London Catalyst 1,750 - (953) - 797
Hardship Fund - Solidarity Fund appeal - 915 (22) - 893
Hardship Fund - Hornsey Parochial Charities 2,219 4,000 (3,219) - 3,000
Total Restricted Funds 133,845 378,854 (330,766) (57) 181,876
General Fund
Total Unrestricted Funds 93,246 39,286 (18,688) 57 113,901
Total Funds 227,091 417,140 (349,454) - 295,777
At 1.4.22 mingresources ngresources ransfers t 31.3.23
Total Restricted Funds 54,601 278,916 (200,090) 418 133,845
Total Unrestricted Funds 59,568 64,126 (30,030) (418) 93,246
114,169 343,042 (230,120) - 227,091

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17. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2024.

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Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024
31.3.24 31.3.23
£ £
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Donations and legacies
Donations 15,127 41,846
Other trading activities
Fundraising events 617 1,533
Investment income
Deposit account interest 42 -
Charitable activities
Grants 401,854 299,541
Other income
Self earned income 500 122
Total incoming resources 418,140 343,042
EXPENDITURE
Raising donations and legacies
Wages 8,917 6,187
Social security 539 330
Pensions 281 236
Fundraising consultancy 16,275 16,350
Programme expenses 642 895
Allocation of support costs - 7,386
26,654 31,384
Charitable activities
Wages 151,652 86,200
Social security 9,973 4,288
Pensions 5,193 3,062
Programme expenses 38,159 22,084
No description 116,160 66,470
321,137 182,104
Support costs
Other
Wages 43,424 40,896
Social security 2,965 1,979
Pensions 1,544 1,413
Staff recruitment and training 7,927 2,382
Rent, insurance utilities 13,276 10,847
Carried forward 69,136 57,517

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31.3.24 31.3.23
£ £
Other
Brought forward 69,136 57,517
Office overheads 18,613 6,131
Volunteer costs 2,546 595
Professional fees 25,111 24,422
Independent examination 1,440 1,440
Allocation of support costs (116,160) (73,856)
686 16,249
Other 2
Fixtures and fittings 977 383
Total resources expended 349,454 230,120
Net income 68,686 112,922

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