Trustees Annual Report 2023-2024
01 September 2023 to 31 August 2024
Rebuilding lives
Renewing hope
Charity registration number: 1168176
PARTNERSHIP
Principal address." Parish Office, 8 Castle Street, High
Wycombe HP13 6RF
Objectives and Activities
Purposes: To prevent and relieve poverty among refugees and asylum seekers and
people granted humanitarian or discretionary leave to remain, together with their
dependents by providing advice / access to: interpreting. translating. advocacy.
health, housing, employment and education in the High Wycombe area.
Summary of main activities: This year we supported 50 refugee and asylum seeking
families in High Wycombe which consisted of 212 beneficiaries (114 adults and 98
children). This support included providing befrienders for orientation to the town and
introduction to the amenities, services and opportunities here; help with English language
access with one-to-one English support also given to 14 individuals,. supporting access to
all levels of education for children and young people. We organised sporting and cultural
activities for children to encourage integration and familiarity with opportunities in the UK.
We also provided support and links to local support for job seeking. We provided help in
finding private housing, and, where applicable, help with applications for social housing,
alongside provision of household items and fumishings, and the inevitable papenvork
related support for setting up a home in the UK.
Rising costs of living impacted asylum seeker families with school children particularly
hard. As this group have no access to public fvnds and most are not allowed to seek
work we have continued providing additional support in the form of supermarket
vouchers to supplement their £50 per head per week which is the Home Office allowance
meant to cover everything beyond basic housing.
Refugee families starting to be temporarily housed here by west London councils came to
our notice early in 2024. This trend has continued, increasing in the number of councils
temporarily housing refugees here and in the total number of people. During the year, we
supported 13 temporarily housed families, totalling 21 adults and 28 children.
The emergency accommodation, owned by the Chiltem Area Quaker Meeting,
was maintained and used by three individual refugees and one refugee family as a
halfway house on the way to finding viable work and more permanent accommodation.
We continued to receive grants and donations to sustain this work and confinn
that the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission guidance on
public benefit.

Grant making: Our funds are for the direct support of beneficiaries living within our local
area. Apart from administrator support equivalent to one full time employee
all our work is voluntary.
Befriending, English language teaching, educational support and tutoring, paperwork
support. helping transition to independent housing once refugee status has been granted,
and encounters with statutory authorities were handled by over 60 volunteers. During the
year we updated our safeguarding training and held three in-person safeguarding training
sessions for our volunteers.
Social investment: Successful projects to improve community integration included
coffee mornings for women with provision for preschool children, which continue monthly
at Wycombe Museum funded by a grant from Marlow Refugee Action. In December, 22
women visited Hughenden Manor exploring the twelve days of Christmas decorations.
An activities programme for school age children continued with the popular weekly
skateboarding sessions thanks to Wycombe Wanderers Football Club.
Swimming lessons. football and taekwondo opportunities were also enjoyed by various
individuals with our support. Families with children attended a day outing to Odds Farm
Park and children were welcomed for musical activities at Vache Baroque and two
Introduction to Music days.
Achievements: We continued working in partnership with many local organisations to
restore hope and rebuild family life for those who had escaped life threatening
situations in their home countries.
We continued with a team of paid administrators and they set up a new Charitylog
management and recording system for use by our volunteers and trustees.
We strengthened our networks by becoming affiliated to the No Accommodation Network
(NACCOM) and we achieved the Charity Excellence Quality Mark.
One of our success stories is of a young woman who came from Iraq aged 16, with
determination to become a lawyer. She passed her GCSE English at the fourth attempt to
secure a place to study in London. Now in her third year still achieving top marks she
intends to become a barrister.
Finance
Position at end of the year:
Our total income was £54,980 and expenditure, including loans, was £69,135.
Cash balance being £80,686 leaving us in a steady state with adequate resenies.
The only financial resources are in our current bank accounts.
Our reserves policy cover is to hold enough funds to meet six months, salaries
for our administrators and for resettlement costs for at least three families.
The reserves level was set at £30,000.
During the year our principal sources of funds were gratefully received from:
The Rothschild Foundation
Buckinghamshire Council Community Boards & Heart of Bucks
ASDA Foundation
Edith Maud Ellis Charitable Trust
Gt Missenden Parish Church
Marlow Refugee Action
Little Kingshill Baptist Church

Individual donors
Principal risks facing the charity are significant changes to government
immigration policy and a loss of trust held by our individual donors, grant making
bodies and volunteers.
Governance and management: Our goveming document is the Charity Commission
model constitution creating a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered in July
2016. New trustees are appointed by the existing trustees. who are required to stand
down after nine years in post. The only voting members are the trustees.
Charity Trustees:
Dr Michael Bowker Chairman
Dr Stephanie Rybak Retumed January 2024 after sabbatical
Dr Saleema Burney On sabbatical year from June 2024, retumed June 2025
Dr Tanveer Choudhary
Dr Nasheeda Mariyam
Mr Razwan Baig
Treasurer
Mrs Susanne Butler Vice-chair wef January 2024
Mrs Elizabeth Sheppard
Mr David Jones wef 1 March 2025
The Trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:
Signature:
Full names: Susanne Helen Butler

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Wycomb? Refvg•e Partnershlp
1168176
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For th• period
from
1rnrd023
To
3118r2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unr•strictgd
funds
Restrlctgd
funds
10 tho nurE•t£
Endowment
funds
Totsl funds
Last yoar
to Ih nearest £ toth• nMr•st£
to the n•arn¥t£
A1 Recei
Donations
Gran15
GiftA
Fundraltsing
Heifway House R8nt•l I￿orne
Other Income
21,126
21.385
3.107
22.171
21.385
3,107
33.290
33.492
698
loo
2.099
1,368
50.130
1.000
4143
Sub total(Gross income forAR)
A2 As8•t and Investmont sales.
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Loan Repaym8ntB
7.088
74.868
45,987
4.150
4.850
1.450
Sub total
1,450
44987
76.111
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Halknay House Exp8n8e$
Fundraising Expens88
Support for Rèfuooes & A$￿u[r￿Se6kfjr￿
Admln Sa18rfe8 & Exwn
Compliance
Advètlslry
In8ur8
24,298
20
252
618
20
2S2
616
616
Sub tota
50.385
81,233
A4 Asset and Investment
urchases
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Loans Mat
Cash Advance
7,902
Sub tola
&500
7,902
01,135
Net of re¢eipts/(payments) -
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year •nd
Cash fiinds thls yearen
9,898
8.993
905
6,983
56,B66
46,968
24,725
33.718
74,607
81,590
80,686
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
Unrestricted
funds
Restrlcted
fund$
to n襕¥t£
Dètails
Endowment
fund5

B1 Cash funds
at Bar
31718
Total cash funds
968
33.7te
Unrestrlcled
funds
Restricted
nds
Endowmenl
funds
Details
to ￿￿1￿*1 £
to n•8rost£
to nHr•¥t£
B2 Othor monetary assets
29.316
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Co* lopuona
Cvtr•nt volu•
lon•1
B3 Investment asset8
Dotails
Fund to wA4eh
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B4 Assets rotalned for the
charlty's own use
Cost Iopiiunoll
Curr•nt v•lu•
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Amount du•
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Signed by one or trustees on
behalf of all trustees
Signaiure
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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of WRP Trust** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of WRP Trust (‘the Trust’) for the period ending 31 August 2024. 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

As the charity trustees of the Trust 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 Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act 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** 

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

1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

2. The accounts do not accord with those records. 

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. 

Ali Mian C.A. I.C.A.S. Membership No: M26670 146 Cressex Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP12 4UA 

21[st] June 2025