Charity registration number: 1152621
## Project Seventeen
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
Community Accounting Plus Units 1 & 2 North West 41 Talbot Street Nottingham NG1 5GL
## **Project Seventeen**
## **Contents**
|Reference and Administrative Details|1|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|2 to 6|
|Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities|7|
|Independent Examiner's Report|8|
|Statement of Financial Activities|9 to 10|
|Balance Sheet|11|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|12 to 20|
## **Project Seventeen**
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
**Trustees** Timothy Bull, Treasurer Mary Awoniyi Elizabeth Fry Clare Jennings Gwawr Thomas, Chair Claire McGuinness Olaitan Abiola Stephanie Kleynhans Jessie Porter **Senior Management Team** Abigail Brunswick, Director **Principal Office** St Joseph's Hospice Mare Street London E8 4SA **Charity Registration Number** 1152621 **Independent Examiner** John O'Brien, employee of Community Accounting Plus Units 1 & 2 North West 41 Talbot Street Nottingham NG1 5GL
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Trustees' Report**
The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Trustees and officers**
The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
Trustees:
Kamena Dorling (resigned 28 September 2024) Timothy Bull, Treasurer Mary Awoniyi Elizabeth Fry Clare Jennings Gwawr Thomas, Chair Claire McGuinness (appointed 15 June 2024) Olaitan Abiola Stephanie Kleynhans Jessie Porter (appointed 15 June 2024)
## **Structure, governance and management**
## _**Nature of governing document**_
The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted 18th May 2013.
## _**Recruitment and appointment of trustees**_
Advertising externally and among relevant groups and bodies; reviewing CVs and cover letters; interviews with the Chair and Director; shadowing trustee meetings; voting to join the board.
## **Objectives and activities**
## _**Objects and aims**_
The relief of financial hardship amongst migrants with no recourse to public funds living in the UK by the provision of free advice and assistance to such persons.
For the public benefit to advance education of the public in the needs of migrants with no recourse to public funds by providing training and advice to other relevant agencies.
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
Project 17 works to reduce homelessness and severe poverty among families excluded from mainstream welfare by their immigration status.
Ultimately, we want to see laws and policies that do not perpetuate poverty and inequality. Until then, our specialist focus is around working with families experiencing exceptional poverty to improve their access to support from social services under a law called section 17 Children Act 1989.
We believe that all children have the right to a home and enough to eat, regardless of their parents’ immigration status. To achieve our vision, we provide advice, advocacy and support for individuals. We build capacity in other organisations and we campaign for the improved implementation of statutory support.
Project 17 works towards ensuring that local authorities comply with the duties imposed on them by Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need. Section 17 enables local councils to provide accommodation and financial support to avoid children being taken into the care of the local authority.
This duty exists even if the family has no right to work, no access to welfare benefits and social housing and no leave to remain in the UK. Project 17 exists to ensure that individuals eligible for support under Section 17 are able to access it effectively.
The formal objectives set out in our governing document are:
•The relief of financial hardship amongst migrants with no recourse to public funds living in the UK by the provision of free advice and assistance to such persons.
•For the public benefit to advance education of the public in the needs of migrants with no recourse to public funds by providing training and advice to other relevant agencies
## _**Objectives, strategies and activities**_
Advice and advocacy: working directly with families with no recourse to public funds to improve access to accommodation and financial support under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 and related support.
Capacity building: working with organisations to improve their ability to work with families with no recourse to public funds. This includes training, case advice for professionals, and online resources.
Systemic change: ultimately, we believe that everyone should be entitled to a welfare safety net. Until then, our strategic work addresses systemic problems with the implementation of section 17 support and other issues affecting people with no recourse to public funds. Activities include engaging with local and national government, campaigns and litigation. We also resource and facilitate a group of people with personal experience of poverty caused by no recourse to public funds to build solidarity and work towards strategic change.
## _**Public benefit**_
a) Reducing homelessness and destitution among migrant families with no recourse to public funds. b) Increasing awareness of rights and entitlements among individuals, professionals and the wider public. c) Improving the implementation of support for migrant families with no recourse to public funds. d) Improving public awareness of the issues facing families with no recourse to public funds.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## **Achievements and performance**
Advice and advocacy:
We provide frontline advice, advocacy and casework to families facing homelessness and severe poverty because they have no recourse to public funds. We also provide emergency practical support, such as grants and support in kind.
In 2024-25, we worked with 440 families, including taking on 191 new clients.
56% of our clients were undocumented when we started working together, and 15% had limited leave to remain on the family life route. We also worked with families on health and social care, student and visit visas, and with small numbers of refused asylum seekers and people with pre-settled status.
93% of our clients were women, and 79% were lone parents.
We worked with clients from 58 different countries. 42% were Nigerian and 15% were Ghanaian.
We worked with families living in 70 local authorities across England, although 69% of clients lived in London.
62% of clients had tried to access support under section 17 before they approached us, but they came to Project 17 because they had been refused (67%), or because the support they received was inadequate or was being terminated (33%). Families who had been turned away from social services experienced a wide range of problems, including inadequate housing and homelessness, not having enough money, domestic abuse, threats to safety and exploitation.
62% of families had been destitute for more than 3 months when they approached us, and 28% had been destitute for more than a year.
With our support, 63% (278 families) accessed support under section 17 Children Act 1989. 56% accessed financial support, and 43% accessed accommodation. 46% accessed both.
We continue to be concerned about the adequacy of support provided by local authorities. 31% of families receiving financial support were given less than the lawful minimum, and a further 8% received vouchers instead of cash. Only 20% of those accessing accommodation found it to be suitable, with many housed in hotels and HMOs, far away from schools and support networks.
94% of families benefitted from at least one positive outcome following our intervention. Alongside section 17 support, 59% accessed emergency financial support from our Destitution Fund, and 33% accessed larger grants. 69% used foodbank vouchers. We funded emergency hotel stays for 5%. Other outcomes included Healthy Start vouchers, nursery placements and free prescriptions.
54 clients provided feedback about the service via an anonymous online form. 80% of respondents had their first appointment within a week of contacting us. 87% said their advisers helped them to understand their options ‘very well’. 77% said their situation was ‘a lot better’ after working with us, and 80% rated their experience as 10/10. Comments included ‘Project 17 is the best organization I have ever seen’ and ‘I am grateful for the help I received from Project 17. I had tried everywhere to find support but was turned down, until I contacted Project 17 and received the help I needed.’
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## Capacity building:
We build knowledge and expertise in other organisations, supporting them to work with families with no recourse to public funds (“NRPF”) more effectively. Our capacity building work includes training; case advice for professionals; and online factsheets, booklets and letter templates.
This year, we delivered 24 training sessions to a range of voluntary sector staff and social services teams, reaching over 400 participants. We delivered a range of sessions, including joint training with Southwark Law Centre and the Care Rights Project. Four sessions were designed and delivered in collaboration with United Impact, the solidarity and action group we support.
We responded to 399 calls on our advice line for professionals, providing advice on individual cases. This represented a decrease on the previous year, driven by a change to our triage system that now filters ‘out of scope’ calls at an earlier stage.
35 callers provided feedback, and 88% found the advice ‘very helpful’. One caller wrote: “have called on multiple occasions to seek some advice around clients and getting s17 support from the council. On each occasion I think it has been successful when I have called them, and the council have provided accommodation under s17. The advice provided is always extremely detailed and clear for anyone to understand”.
This year we updated our online resources and improved their accessibility by moving away from downloadable factsheets to resources embedded in the site. These pages were visited over 5000 times this year.
## Strategic work:
Our strategic work calls for an end to NRPF and the dismantling of the hostile environment. We use our specialist expertise and data to address systemic problems with section 17 support and demonstrate the need for wider reform through influencing, complaints and litigation.
In 2024-25 we worked in collaboration with 5 other organisations to form a Migrants Rights Group, which has been awarded core participant status in the last module of the Covid Inquiry, enabling us to put forward evidence on experiences of families with NRPF during the pandemic.
We also contributed evidence on the harms of NRPF to a sector-wide report for the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ahead of the UN’s examination on the UK this year. Our previous evidence led to the UN making recommendations on NRPF for the first time in 2023.
We resource and facilitate United Impact, an action group made up of around 60 clients. They speak out against the discrimination and disadvantage they experience and participate in social change work. Last year they gave evidence to the government’s Child Poverty Taskforce, and designed and distributed 3000 copies of a leaflet they created to raise awareness of support options for people with NRPF. Around 40% of United Impact’s time to devoted to wellbeing and training, acknowledging the importance of solidarity and knowledge when building power.
## Looking ahead:
Towards the end of the year, we started work on our 2026-29 strategic plan. Our most significant plan is to expand our remit to incorporate work under the Care Act 2014. The Care Act gives local authorities powers to support adults with care needs by providing care, accommodation and financial support, even if the adults have no recourse to public funds. We intend to incorporate Care Act work into all areas of our work and will fundraise for additional staff posts to make this possible.
We also plan to review our mission and vision to be more explicitly anti-racist and be more ambitious and explicit about the change we want to see in the world. We intend to recruit a new Advice Support Officer to support the advice service. We will continue to critically reflect on how personal experience of NRPF is represented in the organisation.
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## **Financial review**
Project 17’s total income for the year was £482,167, a decrease compared to the prior year comparative of £520,139. Total expenditure for the year was £423,300 compared to £402,408 for the year ended 31 March 2024. Overall, this resulted in net income of £58,867 for the year, compared to net income of £117,731 for the year ended 31 March 2024.
Despite a decrease relative to the prior year, Project 17’s income continues to reflect the strong recognition from funders around the importance of the work carried out by Project 17. Consistent with the prior year, Project 17 continues to be reliant on unrestricted funding to support the work of our restricted funds. This is evident through the designations of unrestricted funds in the current year, where funds will be required to support our restricted funds in the current year.
## _**Policy on reserves**_
Project 17’s reserve policy states that unrestricted funds should be maintained at a level equivalent to three to six months of expenditure. At this level the Trustees feel the reserves appropriately support Project 17’s resilience against the key financial risks facing the organization, being the unforeseen loss of funding or incurring unforeseen expenditure, and are sufficient to cover associated expenditure commitments were Project 17 to be wound down. The reserves policy is reviewed by the Trustees on a regular basis, at least once a year.
At 31 March 2025, reserves were £195,187, equivalent to less than five months of Project 17’s total budgeted expenditure for the following financial year and consistent with Project 17’s reserve policy.
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
11/10/2025 Approved by the trustees of the charity on .................... and signed on its behalf by:
......................................... Gwawr Thomas Trustee
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Project Seventeen**
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Project Seventeen**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Project Seventeen (the Charity) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the Charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
Since the Charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member and Fellow of the Association of Charity Independent Examiners, 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 that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair' view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
......................................
John O’Brien MSc, FAIA, FCIE, employee of Community Accounting Plus Fellow of the Association of Charity Independent Examiners
Units 1 & 2 North West 41 Talbot Street Nottingham NG1 5GL
03/11/2025 Date:.............................
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2025**
|**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
Total Income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
5
Total Expenditure
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
11|**Unrestricted**
**£**
136,970
13,732
150,702
(30,196)
(30,196)
120,506
238,388
358,894|**Restricted**
**£**
-
331,465
331,465
(393,104)
(393,104)
(61,639)
219,307
157,668|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
136,970
345,197
482,167
(423,300)
(423,300)
58,867
457,695
516,562|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
129,440
390,699|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||520,139|
|||||(402,408)|
|||||(402,408)|
|||||117,731
339,964|
|||||457,695|
All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods. The funds breakdown for the period is shown in note 11.
The notes on pages 12 to 20 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 9
## **Project Seventeen**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
## **These are the figures for the previous accounting period and are included for comparative purposes**
|**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
Total Income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
5
Total Expenditure
Net income
Gross transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
11|**Unrestricted**
**£**
129,440
200
129,640
(35,022)
(35,022)
94,618
(95,000)
(382)
238,770
238,388|**Restricted**
**£**
-
390,499
390,499
(367,386)
(367,386)
23,113
95,000
118,113
101,194
219,307|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
129,440
390,699|
|---|---|---|---|
||||520,139|
||||(402,408)|
||||(402,408)|
||||117,731
-|
||||117,731
339,964|
||||457,695|
The notes on pages 12 to 20 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 10
## **Project Seventeen**
## **(Registration number: 1152621) Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025**
|||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**Note**|**£**|**£**|
|**Current assets**||||
|Debtors|8|1,264|1,239|
|Cash at bank and in hand|9|516,798|458,096|
|||518,062|459,335|
|**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**|10|(1,500)|(1,640)|
|**Net assets**||**516,562**|**457,695**|
|**Funds of the charity:**||||
|**Restricted income funds**||||
|Restricted funds|11|157,668|219,307|
|**Unrestricted income funds**||||
|Unrestricted funds||358,894|238,388|
|**Total funds**|11|516,562|457,695|
The financial statements on pages 9 to 20 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on .................... and signed on their behalf by: 11/10/2025
......................................... Timothy Bull Trustee
The notes on pages 12 to 20 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 11
## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Statement of compliance**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the second edition of the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice issued in October 2019, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis of preparation**
Project Seventeen meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.
## **Exemption from preparing a cash flow statement**
Under the exemption available to smaller charities the Board of Trustees has chosen not to include a Statement of Cash Flows within the financial statements.
## **Going concern**
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.
The trustees assess whether the use of going concern is appropriate i.e. whether there are any material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the ability of the charity to continue as a going concern. The trustees make this assessment in respect of a period of one year from the date of approval of the financial statements.
## **Income and endowments**
Voluntary income including donations, gifts, legacies and grants that provide core funding or are of a general nature is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## _**Donations and legacies**_
Donations and legacies are recognised on a receivable basis when receipt is probable and the amount can be reliably measured.
## _**Grants receivable**_
Grants are recognised when the charity has an entitlement to the funds and any conditions linked to the grants have been met. Where performance conditions are attached to the grant and are yet to be met, the income is recognised as a liability and included on the balance sheet as deferred income to be released.
## **Expenditure**
All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregates similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
## _**Charitable activities**_
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
## **Taxation**
The charity is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes.
## **Trade debtors**
Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for merchandise sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the charity will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
## **Borrowings**
Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the over the period of the relevant borrowing.
Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.
Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.
## **Fund structure**
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees' discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds and resources set aside for specific purposes at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
## **2 Income from donations and legacies**
|Donations and legacies;
Donations from companies, trusts and similar
proceeds
Donations from individuals
Grants, including capital grants;
Grants from other charities
**3**
**Income from charitable activities**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
Grants
-
Training income
13,707
Sundry income
25
13,732
**4**
**Grants and donations**
Client Grant Partners
Reaching Communities
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Trust for London
Groundwork UK
Mercers
Smallwood Trust
Masonic Charitable Fund
Awards for All
John Ellerman
Legal Education Foundation
Baring Foundation
BBC Children in Need
Hillcote Trust
Metropolitan Migration Foundation|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
6,700
5,951
124,319
136,970
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
331,465
-
-
331,465
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
13,334
5,000
27,000|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
6,700
5,951
124,319
136,970
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
331,465
13,707
25
345,197
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
4,558
60,380
66,000
21,216
5,644
25,000
10,000
5,000
20,000
21,000
56,000
30,000
6,667
-
-|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
-
3,401
126,039|
|---|---|---|---|
||||129,440|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
375,766
14,256
677|
||||390,699|
||||**Total funds**
**£**
4,558
60,380
66,000
21,216
5,644
25,000
10,000
5,000
20,000
21,000
56,000
30,000
20,001
5,000
27,000|
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
|CAF
Keystone Fund
Anonymous
Unity Trust
General donations
**5**
**Expenditure on charitable activities**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,000
38,985
35,000
6,700
5,951
136,970|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
331,465|**Total funds**
**£**
5,000
38,985
35,000
6,700
5,951|
|---|---|---|---|
||||468,435|
|||||
|Client grants
Clinical supervision
Equipment
Insurance
Interpreting costs
Office supplies
Other expenses
Printing
Rent
Wages, Tax & NI
Solidarity group expense
Staff expenses
Subscription
Telephone, internet & fax
Training
Trustee expenses
Venue hire/ events
Volunteer expenses
Website and database
Legal & professional fees|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
-
5,565
455
650
-
70
1,697
-
1,431
16,822
-
-
35
179
971
749
-
-
72
1,500
30,196|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
16,571
-
2,021
-
3,596
1,119
262
1,066
12,877
344,388
6,996
56
45
1,610
299
-
-
-
2,198
-
393,104|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
16,571
5,565
2,476
650
3,596
1,189
1,959
1,066
14,308
361,210
6,996
56
80
1,789
1,270
749
-
-
2,270
1,500
423,300|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
15,555
4,545
978
595
2,356
1,919
4,236
1,062
13,669
338,360
8,566
216
202
1,944
5,504
255
150
126
2,170
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||402,408|
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
## **6 Trustees remuneration and expenses**
During the year the charity made the following transactions with trustees:
## **Claire McGuinness**
£345 (2024: £Nil) of expenses were reimbursed to Claire McGuinness during the year.
Trustee was reimbursed travel and childcare costs.
## **Mary Awoniyi**
£632 (2024: £470) of expenses were reimbursed to Mary Awoniyi during the year.
Trustees travel and child care costs were reimbursed. They are also part of a client group where they receive compensation.
## **Jessie Porter**
£205 (2024: £Nil) of expenses were reimbursed to Jessie Porter during the year.
Trustees travel and child care costs were reimbursed. They are also part of a client group where they receive compensation.
## **Kamena Dorling**
£25 (2024: £Nil) of expenses were reimbursed to Kamena Dorling during the year.
Trustees travel and child care costs were reimbursed.
## **Olaitan Abiola**
£253 (2024: £375) of expenses were reimbursed to Olaitan Abiola during the year.
Trustees travel and child care costs were reimbursed. They are also part of a client group where they receive compensation.
No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year.
## **7 Staff costs**
The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:
|**Staff costs during the year were:**
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs|**2025**
**£**
310,973
37,416
12,821
361,210|**2024**
**£**
296,898
29,514
11,948|
|---|---|---|
|||338,360|
The monthly average number of persons (including senior management team) employed by the charity during the year was as follows:
|Monthly paid staff|**2025**
**No**
9|**2024**
**No**
9|
|---|---|---|
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
9 (2024 - 9) of the above employees participated in the Defined Contribution Pension Schemes.
Contributions to the employee pension schemes for the year totalled £12,821 (2024 - £11,948).
No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 during the year
The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £52,374 (2024 - £50,299).
## **8 Debtors**
|**8**
**Debtors**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Prepayments
**9**
**Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash at bank
**10 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Other creditors
**11 Funds**
**Balance at 1**
**April 2024**
**£**
**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
**Unrestricted funds**
**_General_**
General fund
238,388
150,702
**_Designated_**
Advice Designated
-
-
Capacity Building
Designated
-
-
Policy Designated
-
-
-
-
**Total unrestricted funds**
238,388
150,702|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(30,196)
-
-
-
-
(30,196)||**2025**
**£**
1,264
**2025**
**£**
516,798
**2025**
**£**
1,500
**Transfers**
**£**
(163,707)
100,000
28,707
35,000
163,707
-||**2024**
**£**
1,239|
||||||**2024**
**£**
458,096|
||||||**2024**
**£**
1,640|
||||||**Balance at**
**31 March**
**2025**
**£**
195,187
100,000
28,707
35,000|
||||||163,707|
||||||358,894|
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
|**Restricted funds**
Advice
Capacity Building
Policy
Destitution Fund
Hotel Fund
Small Grants Fund
Client Grant
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**Balance at 1**
**April 2024**
**£**
93,875
45,529
48,888
12,333
7,060
11,622
-
219,307
457,695|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
120,829
49,278
151,800
1,667
1,667
1,667
4,558
331,466
482,168|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(177,462)
(58,926)
(140,146)
(7,303)
(2,253)
(2,457)
(4,558)
(393,105)
(423,301)|**Transfers**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|**Balance at**
**31 March**
**2025**
**£**
37,242
35,881
60,542
6,697
6,474
10,832
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||157,668|
||||||516,562|
The specific purposes for which the funds are to be applied are as follows:
**Advice:** to provide direct advice and advocacy services to migrant families with no recourse to public funds;
**Capacity building:** to build capacity in other organisations working with migrant families with no recourse to public funds;
**Client grants:** to facilitate the provision of direct financial support to clients in cash or in kind;
**Destitution fund:** to provide emergency financial support to clients for food or other urgent essential items;
**Hotel fund:** to provide funding for short term stays in emergency accommodation for families left street homeless by a refusal of local authority support;
**Policy:** creating systemic change to improve the implementation of support for migrant families with no recourse to public funds, through engaging with local and national government, campaigning and strategic litigation;
**Small grants fund:** to provide direct financial support to clients in cash or in kind.
||||||**Balance at**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Balance at 1**|**Incoming**|**Resources**||**31 March**|
||**April 2023**|**resources**|**expended**|**Transfers**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||||
|**_General_**||||||
|General fund|238,770|129,640|(35,022)|(95,000)|238,388|
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
|**Restricted**
Client Grants
Advice
Capacity Building
Policy
Destitution Fund
Hotel Fund
Small Grants Fund
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**Balance at 1**
**April 2023**
**£**
-
59,412
7,444
16,656
4,340
5,453
7,889
101,194
339,964|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
5,258
154,461
63,444
148,708
8,417
3,794
6,417
390,499
520,139|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(5,258)
(164,998)
(55,359)
(131,476)
(5,424)
(2,187)
(2,684)
(367,386)
(402,408)|**Transfers**
**£**
-
45,000
30,000
15,000
5,000
-
-
95,000
-|**Balance at**
**31 March**
**2024**
**£**
-
93,875
45,529
48,888
12,333
7,060
11,622|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||219,307|
||||||457,695|
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## **Project Seventeen**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)**
## **12 Analysis of net assets between funds**
## **Unrestricted**
|Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets|**General**
**£**
196,687
(1,500)
195,187|**Designated**
**£**
163,707
-
163,707
**Unrestricted**
**General**
**£**
240,028
(1,640)
238,388|**Restricted**
**£**
157,668
-
157,668
**Restricted**
**£**
219,307
-
219,307|**2025**
**Total funds**
**£**
518,062
(1,500)|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||516,562|
|||||**2024**
**Total funds**
**£**
459,335
(1,640)|
|||||457,695|
## **13 Related party transactions**
There were no related party transactions in the year.
## **14 Independent examiner's fees**
During the period, the fees payable (excluding VAT) to the charity’s independent examiner Community Accounting Plus are analysed as follows:
|Independent examination|**2025**
**£**
1,250
1,250|**2024**
**£**
1,200|
|---|---|---|
|||1,200|
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