Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group
Published 19 October 2022 Annual Report 2021 - 2022
available online at camcrag.org.uk/docs/annualreport2022.pdf
CONTENTS
| Introducton from the Chair of Trustees 3 Convoys 4 Donatons 5 Poncho Project 5 Fundraising and Events 6 The Winter Fair and Sleepout 7 Communicatons and Outreach 8 Financial Aid 10 Financial Accounts 11 |
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| CamCRAG Trustees (on 19 October 2022) Marissa Green (Chair) Elizabeth Stephan Terry Spencer Tony King Catharine Walston Ian Tod Ed Sexton Karam Alkatlabe Almudena Cano David Adamson Tugba Basaran |
Published 19 October 2022
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This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (FRS102) (effective 01/01/2016) and in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 .
Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group Registered Charity Number 1170180 c/o Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum 16-18 Arbury Court Cambridge
We arrange regular weekend volunteer convoys from Cambridge to France, helping local NGOs to help refugees. We also fundraise and provide financial support to groups supporting refugees across Europe and beyond, while raising awareness of the crisis in the UK. We have no employees, so all the money we raise goes towards providing aid to refugees or supporting our convoys.
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INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIR
We are delighted to be back running convoys, fundraising events, and new outreach initiatives now that pandemic restrictions have been relaxed. In 2021 and this year the situation for refugees in Europe has worsened, with anti-refugee rhetoric and policies from the UK Government and a new wave of refugees from Ukraine pushing Europe's compassion and coping ability to breaking point. CamCRAG ran 8 weekend convoys to Calais over the 2021/22 year, giving people a chance to volunteer directly with NGOs working with refugees in the area.
Our community projects, such as our Ponchos Project, continue to run and we also initiated and held our first Outreach event, inviting members of other refugee organisations and charities to connect with us. We hope to make more connections going forward and encourage even more dialogue between groups with different expertise.
Whether it's campaigning against the Government's new harsher initiatives, providing funds for NGOs on the ground, or collecting donations for distribution to refugees, our work is now more vital than ever. Whilst we saw a receptive nationwide response to welcoming Ukrainian refugees, we need to continue to ensure all refugees receive the support they need.
The Trustee Board and Executive Committee have begun a process of assessing CamCRAG’s Values and Missions. Our activities around material donations and financial aid increased while convoys were not possible during lockdown: Now that we are running successful and regular convoys again we need to rebalance our priorities.
A future planning working group was set up to lead this initiative and more information will be shared with our donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries in due course. In the meantime, we are looking to grow our outreach initiative and continue to be successful in our fundraising, volunteering, and donations efforts.
I would like to thank everyone involved in and associated with CamCRAG for their continuous dedication and hard-work fighting for the dignity, justice, and provision of basic needs for refugees. Keep in touch and get involved by signing up to our newsletter on our website and following us on social media. We have volunteering opportunities suitable for everyone!
Marissa Green
A word from our volunteer coordinator
CamCRAG has no paid employees, so none of the achievements detailed in this annual report would have been possible without our army of volunteers. They give up their weekends to go on convoys to Calais; they arrange and run our fundraising events; they collect, sort and pack donations of tents, sleeping bags and clothing; they sew ponchos for refugees; they salvage tents and sleeping bags after summer festivals; they bake cakes, hand out flyers, do all our admin, manage our communications and even do our accounts. We could not exist without them!
CamCRAG now has over 200 registered volunteers, and we always welcome more help. We need people with ideas for fundraising events, people to make those events happen, people to come on our weekend convoys to Calais, people with experience of and contacts in the media, people who love spreadsheets and websites, people willing to turn their hands to anything and everything.
If you register your skills and interests on our volunteer database (link on the website), we’ll contact you when we have a volunteering opportunity that we think you may like. Or you can email us directly at volunteer@camcrag.org.uk .
Volunteers on our April 2022 convoy to Calais: Register for the next one at camcrag.org.uk/convoys
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CONVOYS
2021 saw the welcome return of our regular weekend volunteer convoys to Calais, after the enforced break due to the pandemic the previous year. In the year to June 2022 we organised eight convoys, taking 113 volunteers to work with NGOs in Calais for two days – almost equivalent to one extra full time volunteer across the year. As one of our key objectives is to raise awareness of the refugee situation in Europe we were particularly pleased that for 39 volunteers it was their first CamCRAG convoy.
They were not, however, without challenges. In October 2021 our volunteers helped wind down operations at the former base in Calais and assisted Collective Aid in moving back into l’Auberge des Migrants' warehouse, the site of many NGOs in Calais since 2015. Since then CamCRAG has helped re-establish the warehouse’s infrastructure, systems and processes.
On December’s convoy our usual accommodation plans fell through and the team had to find a suitable alternative at the last minute. In addition the convoy team crossed the border shortly before new more restrictive measures were put in place on the channel crossing. Thankfully the convoy went ahead and all volunteers were able to help in the warehouse for Saturday and Sunday.
The March 2022 convoy coincided with the P&O scandal, resulting in much disruption and long delays: Some of our volunteers didn’t arrive in Calais until 1am on the Friday night.
Whenever possible we take boxes and bags of sorted donations to Calais in our convoy vehicles. This year we have also delivered hundreds of ponchos from CamCRAG’s Poncho Project, as well as 22,000 tea bags bought by the charity.
Volunteers on our convoy usually work with either Refugee Community Kitchen or Collective Aid. Mary, Collective Aid’s Warehouse Manager, is clear about the value our convoys bring:
“The presence of CamCRAG gives validation, through your constant support, to our efforts in the field. I personally came to know and appreciate so many brilliant individuals during these intense long weekends together, and it is always comforting to know that the situation in Calais is something that people deeply care about.”
After each convoy we invite volunteers to send us any reflections on their experience. These give great insight into the work and social aspects of the convoy. We publish some of these accounts on the news and convoys pages of the website, and in the e-newsletter.
We used to hold post convoy reflective meetings, but these have not been well attended since the pandemic so we are currently rethinking how to best provide post-convoy support. All our volunteers are encouraged to contact us with any concerns or queries after each convoy by emailing convoys@camcrag.org.uk
The amazing convoy team consists of Maggie and Sara, supported by Silvia (IT) and Maddy (accommodation booking). We would also like to thank Nina Brauner, Wendy Croft and Daniela Fernandez-Catherall, who helped run the post convoy reflective meetings.
Most of all we would like to thank all our convoy volunteers, and especially our drivers, without whom the trips would not be possible.
Want to spend a weekend helping refugees in Calais? See camcrag.org.uk/convoys for details of the next convoy and how to apply online.
We look forward to seeing you across the Channel!
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DONATIONS AND PONCHO PROJECT
During the pandemic we ran a hub system for donations, with volunteers around the region collecting aid in their houses and then bringing it to our Cambridge store for sorting. Over the past year we have been moving back to a system of targeted donation drop off days, as and when particular items are required by our partner NGOs.
In July 2021 we were still not able to run convoys and indoor group activities were discouraged, but we were able to hold an outdoor sorting party to process some of the donations received during the pandemic, resulting in two pallets’ worth of banana boxes of clothes for Calais.
In August we were able to run a very successful salvage operation at the We Out Here festival: We had to briefly hire a shipping container to store all the sleeping bags and tents! Storage for donations is always limited so we were very grateful to be loaned a garage in Great Eversden for this purpose. If you have a garage, shed or lock up in the Cambridge area that can be accessed without persons on site, please do email donations@camcrag.org.uk
As convoys restarted in September the turnover of donations increased, and so too did the workload, as we formed a new partnership with Free Shop Lebanon to send them clothing unsuitable for Calais, particularly women and children’s clothes. Over the
Christmas period we transported 278 banana boxes of clothing to the Aid Hub in Coventry, from where they were shipped to Lebanon. We also made a donation to the Free Shop for them to buy stock locally.
In addition to aid transported in volunteer convoy vehicles, we also sent four pallets of donations to Calais via Distribute Aid. After the last Covid restrictions were lifted in the new year, we decided to return to the pre-pandemic system of accepting donations only on donation days.
We were pleased to receive a large donation of clothing after the Cambridge Half Marathon in March, and ran our first revitalised donation drop day in May at St Andrew’s Church in Girton, to whom we are very grateful. We would also like to thank Please note that we are not currently taking donations at the Daily Bread Coop. those who gave up their front rooms, garages and sheds to collect Find out more about donating goods and donations during the pandemic, and to those who spent hours in money at camcrag.org.uk/donating the shed sorting them into boxes.
THE PONCHO PROJECT
Last year our team of 20 volunteers made 800 ponchos for refugees stranded in Calais. The ponchos were delivered to the Calais warehouse by volunteers on our convoys.
Cutting blankets took place at communal day events at Jesus Lane Friends Meeting House, and volunteers sewed at home. This system has continued to work well since the pandemic.
COVID affected the project, both in terms of deliveries to Calais and the availability of blankets to purchase, as supply chain issues meant our usual grey IKEA blankets were in very short supply.
We have made ponchos from blue and black blankets, with the latter proving popular with refugees, but neither’s fabric is as warm and robust as the grey blankets.
Over the year around two thirds of the Poncho Project’s funds came from our own fundraising activities and sales of ponchos and craft items made from blanket offcuts. The remaining costs came from CamCRAG’s main funds.
Find out more about the poncho project at camcrag.org.uk/ponchos
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FUNDRAISING AND EVENTS
With the end of Covid lockdown restrictions, our fundraising team were able to get active again and have done an amazing job over the past year, raising a record amount for the charity.
Our biggest event was the fourth annual winter fair and sleepout in early February. This raised an incredible £17,000 for CamCRAG, and £4,600 for our partner charity Cambridge Street Aid. Thank you to the many people who made the day and night possible, and to our sponsored sleepers.
Back in October and December 2021, we held stalls at Mill Road Saturdays, which generated interest in our work and raised nearly £600. In December we organised a Ceilidh for Calais at St Giles Church, featuring brilliant band The Jumping Beans, which raised over £500, as well as giving everyone an opportunity to dance and have fun together as part of the CamCRAG community.
On the following day we concluded a very successful online Auction of Promises, in which over 40 promises raised nearly £3,000.
In June we were delighted to be back at Strawberry Fair, a great chance to engage with the Cambridge community, and it also brought in over £300 in donations. Later in June we held our first ever Arts Fair at the Alison Richard Building, at which over 100 artists donated work for sale. Former Arts Minister Lord Chris Smith opened the event, and visitors were treated to stalls selling cakes, drinks and vintage clothes. In total we raised almost £4,000.
We would like to thank all the people who helped in many different ways with these events. We also receive donations from wonderful people who organise their own fundraisers: This year we would especially like to thank Gareth Heaney for £600 from his October half-marathon, Ank Rigelsford and Margaret Comer for £400 from two birthdays, and Searle Street Cake Club for £500 from sales.
If you have a fundraising idea, we would love to hear from you: Email fundraising@camcrag.org.uk
Clockwise from top: stall at Mill Road Saturday; vintage clothes sale at Strawberry Fair; refreshments at the Summer Arts Fair; the Winter Fair before the Sleepout
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THE WINTER FAIR AND SLEEPOUT
The fourth CamCRAG winter fair and sleepout on 5 and 6 February was an amazing success, raising record totals for the charity and our partner Cambridge Street Aid. Over £3,500 came from sales and donations at the fair, surpassing previous years’ totals, and over £18,000 was donated by supporters of the sponsored sleepout.
The fair began at 1pm with a jazz band in the church grounds, thankfully with mild weather, which also encouraged a constant stream of visitors to the fair throughout the afternoon. Along with information about the charity and our partner organisations student society Solidaritee and homeless support group Cambridge Street Aid, visitors were greeted with stalls selling soup, cake and tea, art, vintage clothes, books, and bags and crafts made by refugees in Greece.
At about 3pm visitors were treated to a performance from the choir, before the raffle prizes were drawn and the fair closed at 5pm.
Later in the evening Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner joined the sponsored sleepers for their group meal, before the sleepers settled down to a fairly noisy Saturday night in the front grounds of St Giles’. Thankfully the weather was mild, if windy, and both sleepers and tents survived unscathed to enjoy a 6am breakfast in the church before heading home.
We would like to extend a massive thank you to Liz, to the sleepout team for organising the fair and for running such a safe and successful event, to the many hundreds of members of the public who came to the fair and supported the event, but most of all to the sleepers and their sponsors for their amazing fundraising efforts. Special thanks are also due to St Giles church, for allowing us to hold the event once again.
In early March, a cheque for £4,600 was presented by CamCRAG Chair Catharine Walston and Trustee Liz Stephan to Cambridge Street Aid representative Sarah Steggles, in the company of Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner, Councillor Jenni Gawthrope Wood and Elaine Brown, who raised the most funds in sponsorship as one of the sleepers.
Could you spend a night outside in winter to raise funds for refugees and the homeless? Plans are already underway for our next Winter Fair and Sleepout in February 2023 - more details will be published on the website later this autumn.
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COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH
Our campaigning focus over the past year was on opposing the Nationality and Borders Bill, now sadly Act, which threatens the dismantling of our asylum system. Aimed at stopping channel crossings, deterring and punishing anyone seeking asylum, and breaking up people smuggling gangs by targeting their victims, this Bill provoked outrage among refugee support groups, legal experts, church leaders and those working in the field of human rights and asylum.
We worked with national and local groups on actions to combat the Bill up to and after its first reading in the House of Commons in July 2021. Members of CamCRAG attended the Together with Refugees Rally on Parliament Square in October, and we joined over 200 other organisations in signing a Joint Statement on Channel Crossings in November, in the wake of a mass drowning when the coast guard failed to assist thirty people in the water for two hours.
CamCRAG Executive Committee Chair, Catharine, spoke at a rally against the Bill outside Cambridge Guildhall in March 2022, ahead of its reading in the House of Lords. Despite being sent back by the House of Lords, the Bill passed into law in April. CamCRAG then signed a joint pledge to fight the new laws, developed by Asylum Matters and Refugee Action in partnership with a number of other organisations working on asylum and refugee issues, including: City of Sanctuary, Helen Bamber Foundation, Medical Justice, NACCOM, One Strong Voice, Rainbow Migration, Safe Passage, Student Action for Refugees, and Women for Refugee Women.
One of the worst products of the new legislation is the plan to send anyone who arrives by small boat, regardless of their reasons, to Rwanda. In June 2022 we joined the Rwanda protest on King’s Parade in Cambridge as the first flight was due to leave. Fortunately, the flight, which initially included Syrians and Afghans, was stopped after a last-minute legal challenge and the scheme has been paused pending a judicial review.
Since last year’s takeover by the Taliban, the number of Afghans attempting to cross the Channel has grown. The shocking scenes at Kabul airport last August led to a surge in interest in volunteering to help Afghan evacuees. One of our trustees took part in a public meeting in September 2021 aimed at explaining what the different refugee support groups in Cambridge do, and how people could help.
We have actively worked to foster cooperation between refugee support groups based in our area and organised a major networking event in April, hosted by Julian Huppert, Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College and a former Cambridge MP. Thirty groups attended to talk about their work and get to know each other.
We were also delighted to be able to hold a stall at Strawberry Fair again in June for the first time in three years. Like Mill Road Winter Saturdays, this offered a great opportunity to talk to people about what we do.
Our newsletter continues to be emailed to over 600 subscribers each month, a number that has remained more or less constant over the past two years.
Our social media presence has remained strong. The Facebook page – the official page for charity
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COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH
announcements and news – has gained about 200 followers over the year and now has 1,750 followers. Engagement and activity on the Facebook group, a forum for a wider discussion of refugee news and events, has also been good, and the group currently has about 2,750 members. Our Instagram and Twitter accounts have 1,100 and 1,400 followers respectively, the latter an increase of over 100 from last year. Traffic to the website picked up after the pandemic, and is now back to between 1,000 and 2,000 visits per month.
The communications team have also helped advertise and produce printed material for CamCRAG’s fundraising events, and we would like to especially thank Lucy for designing our posters and flyers.
We are always looking for people to join our comms team and help with the website, social media, coordinating campaigns with other organisations, press relations, designing flyers and posters, and publicising our events: Email volunteer@camcrag.org.uk
See links to press coverage at camcrag.org.uk/mediacoverage For press enquiries please email publicity@camcrag.org.uk Subscribe to our e-newsletter at camcrag.org.uk/newsletter
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Please note that we are not currently taking donations at the Daily Bread Co-operative. Find out more about donating goods and money at camcrag.org.uk/donating
Do you visit the CamCRAG website?
Have you ideas for how we can make it better?
Over the autumn of 2022 we are conducting an online survey to find out how our supporters use the website, and what we can do to increase its content and use. See camcrag.org.uk/websitesurvey
We would like to thank all of our volunteers and supporters. In particular we extend � special thank you to the following individuals and organisations who have helped us this year or with whom we have collaborated: Nina Brauner, Wendy Croft and Daniela Fernandez-Catherall Livia Bennett Amber Bauer from forRefugees Judith Weik Distribute Aid Collective Aid Refugee Community Kitchen The Calais Food Collective The Daily Bread Co-Operative Charitable Roots SolidariTEE 500 reasons Herts for Refugees Diana Kazemi Resound Choir Revd Ank Rigelsford, Sheila and all at St Giles' Church The Jumping Beans Elliot Harris and everyone at The Aid Hub UK
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FINANCIAL AID
When the UK’s exit from the EU stopped us sending clothes to Greece or taking food to Calais, we realised we could still help by giving grants to specific projects, particularly as our fundraising team have been so successful. We therefore set up a financial aid working group in July 2021 to research projects to support.
Our first grant was to Calais Food Collective for £3,000 to buy food locally. In October 2021 we supported LE Solidarity in Leicester in a bulk purchase of tents for Calais, which was sent with Distribute Aid. In December, we gave Collective Aid £2,000 to help with their running costs.
In January 2022 we sent £1,100 to Free Shop Lebanon to buy second-hand winter clothes for refugees in the Bekaa valley. We also sent £2,500 to support the reopening and equipping of a dignity centre in Ioannina, Greece, by Refugee Support Europe.
All the NGOs in Calais previously supported by Choose Love had their funding removed over the summer of 2021, and this was extended to many small projects in Greece at the end of the year. One such was CheerING’s football health project for Afghan girls in Malakasa camp. We were happy to support this project, which uses engagement in football as a starting point for general health education, encompassing menstrual health, sex education and learning the English words for fruit and vegetables.
In February we donated funds to Collective Aid to buy underwear for three months of distributions, and also donated more generally to the Calais Appeal, with funds being divided between the groups operating out of L’Auberge des Migrants.
Calais Food Collective launched their annual Ramadan appeal in March to buy culturally appropriate foods, to which we contributed £1,000. We were particularly interested in supporting legal aid for those trapped in Greece by the EU-Turkey agreement, and donated €3,000 to Fenix Legal Aid on Lesvos.
In May, we made our largest single donation of £3,300 to Chamomile Housing in Athens, which offers accommodation to vulnerable male asylum-seekers. This was to pay for food vouchers and phone credit. We were able to send money for two new wheelbarrows for Calais Food Collective in June, and our final donation of the financial year was to Charitable Roots in Dunkirk to help them with their warehouse costs.
Our response to the Ukraine crisis was to run an online fundraiser to send cooking oil and sugar to Ukrainian refugees in Moldova, a poor country hosting the largest per capita Ukrainian refugee population. We were able to send £1,300 to the Refugee Support Europe Dignity Centre in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, after food shortages made it impossible to source cooking oil in the UK. We then sent a matching amount to Calais Food Collective for food items in Calais.
Summary of grants made in the financial year 2021/22
| July 2021 | L'Auberge des Migrants | £3,000 | Food (locally purchased) |
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| October 2021 | LE Solidarity | £300 | Bulk tent purchase |
| December 2021 | Collective Aid (via forRefugees) | £2,000 | Running costs |
| December 2021 | forRefugees | £1,000 | The Big Give matchfunding |
| January 2022 | The Free Shop Lebanon | £1,100 | Winter clothing |
| January 2022 | Ioannina Dignity Centre (Greece) | £2,500 | Office and kitchen equipment |
| January 2022 | Malakasa CHEERing Girls (Greece) | £1,000 | Running costs |
| February 2022 | Collective Aid | £1,150 | New underwear |
| February 2022 | Calais Appeal | £1,000 | General donation |
| March 2022 | Calais Food Collective | £1,000 | Ramadan foods |
| March 2022 | Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid (Lesvos) | €3,000 | Running costs |
| May 2022 | Calais Food Collective | €150 | New wheelbarrows |
| May 2022 | Chamomile Housing (Athens) | £3,300 | Food vouchers |
| June 2022 | Charitable Roots (Dunkirk) | £3,000 | Running costs |
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FINANCIAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
Donations fell during the pandemic years of 2019/20 and 2020/21, but we were pleased that in the year to the end of June 2022 donations returned to 2018/19 levels, at £16,431. Approximately half of this amount came through our JustGiving page and other online platforms such as Facebook, Amazon and Donr. The remainder consisted of direct donations from generous individuals and organisations.
We also raised £1,300 through our fifty/fifty campaign to provide food for Ukrainian refugees in Moldova and those in Calais, and almost £2,400 in direct funding for the Poncho Project. This year we were able to claim back £5,721 in Gift Aid.
Thanks to this and the amazing work of the fundraising and events team we had a record income of £52,586, which allowed us to not only finance our convoys but also spend over £23,000 on direct aid for refugees, also a new record (see page 10 for more details on how this was spent). We also spent over £4,500 on shipping donations to France and Lebanon, and we are looking at ways to continue financing this operation.
While convoy costs for the year were relatively low (just over £8,000 for 8 convoys), it should be noted that they are now considerably more expensive than before the pandemic, a trend which is likely to continue given current economic conditions.
For this reason the Trustees set aside £5,000 at all times, to finance at least two future convoys already advertised and planned, as well as any administration costs, should for some reason donations cease.
As CamCRAG volunteers spent a total of over 1,000 hours working in Calais during the year, convoys remain not only vital for engaging people in the refugee crisis, but also a cost effective source of labour for the NGOs operating there.
For the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. All figures to the nearest £
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | 2020/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 | |
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| Funds | Funds | Funds | ||||||
| Receipts | ||||||||
| Donations (cash and bank transfers) | 16,431 | - | 16,431 | 8,474 | 11,416 | 16,895 | 16,303 | 23,435 |
| Fundraising events (organised by us) | 24,130 | 2,621 | 26,750 | 6,880 | 11,034 | 6,248 | 14,090 | 11,754 |
| Shipping refunds fr. other charities | 120 | - | 120 | 970 | - | - | - | - |
| Sale of cards & merchandise | 1,159 | - | 1,159 | 611 | 895 | 87 | 157 | 307 |
| Sale of ponchos & poncho fundraising | - | 2,376 | 2,376 | 560 | 306 | 1,799 | 890 | - |
| Gift Aid | 5,721 | - | 5,721 | 7,989 | 253 | 2,134 | - | - |
| Administration | 30 | - | 30 | 5 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Total Receipts | 47,590 | 4,996 | 52,586 | 25,484 | 23,909 | 27,166 | 31,480 | 35,630 |
| Payments | ||||||||
| Cost of fundraising & outreach events | 819 | - | 819 | 108 | 1,167 | 895 | 25 | 627 |
| Collecting & shipping material aid | 4,598 | - | 4,598 | 3,533 | - | - | - | - |
| Cost of cards & merchandise | 480 | - | 480 | 593 | 1,438 | 131 | 71 | 101 |
| Purchases of items for refugees | 23,467 | 1,300 | 24,767 | 3,326 | 18,909 | 12,132 | 22,692 | 20,139 |
| Convoy costs | 8,047 | - | 8,047 | - | 4,684 | 4,171 | 2,908 | 5,043 |
| Production costs for ponchos | - | 3,626 | 3,626 | 1,754 | 3,111 | 5,709 | 5,272 | - |
| Administration | 1,209 | - | 1,209 | 334 | 1,072 | 957 | 927 | 168 |
| Total Payments | 38,620 | 4,926 | 43,545 | 9,647 | 30,381 | 23,995 | 31,894 | 26,078 |
| Net of receipts / (payments) | 9,041 | 15,837 | - 6,472 | 3,171 | -415 | 9,552 | ||
| Cash funds last year end | 23,377 | 7,540 | 14,012 | 10,841 | 11,256 | 1,704 | ||
| Cash funds this year end | 32,418 | 23,377 | 7,540 | 14,012 | 10,841 | 11,256 |
The charity has no assets besides cash funds, and no liabilities.
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Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group registered charity number 1170180 Annual Report 19 October 2022
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We arrange regular weekend volunteer convoys from Cambridge to France, helping local NGOs to help refugees. We also fundraise and provide financial support to groups supporting refugees across Europe and beyond, while raising awareness of the crisis in the UK. We have no employees, so all the money we raise goes towards providing aid to refugees or supporting our convoys.
| Charity Name | No (if any) | |||
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| **Cambridge Convoy ** | Refugee Action Group 1170180 |
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| Receipts and payments accounts | CC16a | |||
| For the period from |
Period start date 01/07/2021 |
Period end date To 30/06/2022 |
Section A Receipts and payments
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 16.431 24.130 120 1.159 5.721 30 47.590 - - - 47.590 819 4.598 480 23.467 - 8.047 1.209 - 38.620 - - - 38.620 8.971 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - 2.621 - - 2.376 - - 4.996 - - - 4.996 - - - 1.300 3.626 - 4.926 - - - 4.926 71 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 16.431 26.750 120 1.159 2.376 5.721 30 52.586 - - - 52.586 819 4.598 480 24.767 3.626 8.047 1.209 - 43.545 - - - 43.545 9.041 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
| Donations(cash and bank transfer) | 16.431 | 8.474 | |||
| Fundraising Events(organised by us) | 24.130 | 6.880 | |||
| Shipping refunds from other charities | 120 | 970 | |||
| Sale of external merchandise | 1.159 | 611 | |||
| Sale ofponchos | 560 | ||||
| Gift Aid | 5.721 | 7.989 | |||
| Admin | 30 | - | |||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 47.590 | 25.484 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). | |||||
| - | |||||
| - | - | ||||
| Sub total | - | - | |||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 25.484 | |||||
Cost of events |
819 | 108 | |||
| Collection & shipping of material aid | 4.598 | 3.533 | |||
| Purchase of merchandise for sale | 480 | 593 | |||
| Purchases of items for refugees | 23.467 | 3.326 | |||
| Ponchos | - | 1.754 | |||
| Convoy Costs | 8.047 | - | |||
| Admin | 1.209 | 334 | |||
| - | - | ||||
| **Sub total ** | 38.620 | 9.647 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) | |||||
| - | |||||
| - | |||||
| **Sub total ** | - | - | |||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) |
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| 9.647 | |||||
| 8.971 | 71 | - | 9.041 | 15.837 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end
| Cash funds this year end | - | - | - | - 23.377 |
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| 23.377 | - | - | 7.540 | |||||
| 32.347 | 71 | - | 32.418 | 23.377 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets
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B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use
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| Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) In Unity Trust current account Details Details |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 32.347 - - 32.347 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs |
Restricted funds to nearest £ 71 - - 71 OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
15/11/2022
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B5 Liabilities
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ALMUDENA CANO 19/10/2022
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CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
15/11/2022
4
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group On accounts for the year 30/06/2022 Charity no 1170180 ended (if any) Set out on pages (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/06/2022. Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report 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 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
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the accounts did not comply with the applicable 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.
Signed: Date: 03/11/2022 Name: Charlotte Wilson Relevant professional ACA, ICAEW Qualified qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 112, New Cheveley Road, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 8BY
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Oct 2018
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Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
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Oct 2018
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