Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group
Published 20 October 2023 Annual Report 2022 - 2023
available online at camcrag.org.uk/docs/annualreport2023.pdf
CONTENTS
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| Introducton from the Chair | 3 |
| From our Volunteer Coordinator | 3 |
| Convoys | 4 |
| Donatons | 5 |
| Poncho / Snoods Project | 5 |
| Fundraising and Events | 6 |
| The Winter Fair and Sleepout | 7 |
| Communicatons and Outreach | 8 |
| Financial Report and Financial Aid Grants | 10 |
| Accounts | 11 |
| Fundraising and Events The Winter Fair and Sleepout Communicatons and Outreach Financial Report and Financial Aid Grants Accounts |
Fundraising and Events The Winter Fair and Sleepout Communicatons and Outreach Financial Report and Financial Aid Grants Accounts |
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| CamCRAG Trustees (on 20 October 2023) | ||
| Marissa Green (Chair) | Catharine Walston | Almudena Cano |
| Elizabeth Stephan | Ian Tod | David Adamson |
| Terry Spencer | Ed Sexton | Tugba Basaran |
| Tony King | Karam Alkatlabe |
Published 20 October 2023
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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 CB4 2JQ
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
During CamCRAG’s last financial year, the UK saw an undeniable increase in the anti-refugee narrative, both in our mainstream media and, more worryingly and impactfully, in our current government.
The proposal of sending refugees to Rwanda, the Illegal Migration Act further diminishing access to safe routes of passage, and the act of placing refugees, many of whom are traumatised by journeys at sea, on to barges not fit for human habitation, are the most prominent examples of what I perceive to be a lack of basic empathy and human compassion from our government.
The recent homophobic statements from the Home Secretary, stating that anti-gay discrimination should not confer a right to claim asylum, also highlight this sentiment. Pair this with her consistent votes against gay rights in the UK and we begin to see a strong intersectional discrimination which can only be combatted by promoting equality for all marginalised groups, including refugees.
In response to this growing national hostility, CamCRAG has increased its outreach work within the community, and refocused on our values and mission to identify how we can better support refugees in Calais, Dunkirk, and elsewhere overseas.
Whilst we only reach a limited number of refugees, we hope to continue to show human compassion and empathy by providing grassroots support. Alongside our pre-existing functions, such as our convoys, fundraising, and material aid donations, we hope our continued commitment to human empathy only enhances our work and the quality of support we can offer.
This year we have begun to campaign more in Cambridge, to raise awareness and garner support to combat discriminatory views, whilst partnering more with the University of Cambridge to try and build connections with academics who may be influential in policy making and activism. Our partnerships with the University have also led to an increase in student involvement in our organisation which we can only hope will encourage increased activism in the future.
Thank you to all of the compassionate people who have been involved in CamCRAG throughout the last financial year. Please visit www.camcrag.org.uk to find out more about our future events and opportunities to get involved.
Marissa Green
FROM OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Now that the restrictions in our activities during and after the pandemic are behind us, the last year has seen CamCRAG make up for the lost time with a range of well attended events and projects.
Convoys are going to Calais monthly, Donation Drops are happening again and we are sending much needed donations to Calais and the eastern Mediterranean. We have run a series of highly successful fundraising events (see page 6) and we are sending funds to NGOs on the ground to help them to provide for refugees living rough or in camps.
CamCRAG has no paid employees so we are completely dependent on our army of nearly 250 volunteers to make everything described in this report happen: But we always welcome more help. We need people with ideas for fundraising events, people with organisational skills, people with IT skills, people to come on our weekend convoys to Calais, people with media experience, people who can bake cakes, deliver flyers, mend sleeping bags, sort clothing and people willing to turn their hands to anything and everything. Whatever you want to do, we can probably find a job to fit, and usually it's a lot of fun.
If you register your skills, interests and the times when you are available on our volunteer database (see link below), we will contact you when we have a volunteering opportunity that we think you might like.
Currently we have vacancies in three key areas:
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Producing our monthly e-newsletter using Mailchimp
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Organising donation collection days every two months or so
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Arranging the onward transfer of donations to our partners overseas every few months.
If you are interested in helping with any of these tasks, or want to know more about what's involved, please email volunteer@camcrag.org.uk.
Want to share your skills with us? Register at camcrag.org.uk/JoinOurVolunteers Subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter at camcrag.org.uk/NewsletterSubscription
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CONVOYS
CamCRAG Convoys have continued to go from strength to strength: We ended the financial year with an extra large convoy in June 2023 of 36 participants!
We continue to regularly attract first time volunteers — a key objective in order to raise awareness — whilst also enjoying a high return rate of volunteers: From July 2022 to June 2023 we organised 10 convoys, attended by 236 people of which 95 were first time volunteers.
Our work in Calais has diversified. We continue to support the warehouse operations of Collective Aid and Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK). We have also been able to support Calais Food Collective distributing food items, the Calais Woodyard and the Refugee Women’s Centre.
In Dunkirk we have assisted Roots and Mobile Refugee Support (MRS): Roots provides WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygeine) facilities and phone charging, while MRS distribute non-food items.
Our teams have been out on litter picks in the camps at Grande Synthe and in Calais, and we have helped with reorganising and improving the l'Auberge des Migrants warehouse by building hoppers and shelving, and creating a mural as part of a livestreamed fundraiser.
Our convoy in September 2022 was focused on tent checking, cleaning and sorting: Over the weekend we prepared 672 tents for distribution. In January 2023 we spent £670 on new knives for RCK.
Our volunteers continue to engage in whatever tasks are needed: NGOs in Northern France have difficulty attracting long term volunteers, and our efforts to support
them continue to be much appreciated and invaluable in keeping the relief effort going.
"We’re not there to make ourselves feel better about the awful situation that continues over there. We’re there to make an impact, and we’ll jump right into whatever they need us to do."
The current convoy team consists of Maggie and Sara, our convoy coordinators, Maddy, who supports all French communications, manages accommodation and restaurant bookings, and Silvia who provides IT support.
We are also aided by psychologists Nina, Dani and Wendy, who are willing to offer one to one or group support to anyone wanting it following their volunteer experience.
Please do contact our convoy coordinators with any questions or suggestions you may have by emailing convoys@camcrag.org.uk
— Anna March 2023 convoy
Want to spend a weekend supporting refugees in Calais?
Provisional 2023 / 24 Convoy Dates
10-12 November • 15-17 December • 12-14 January • 2-4 February 15-17 March • 19-21 April • 17-19 May • 28-30 June
Registration for convoys usually opens 4 to 5 weeks before the convoy, and closes 2 to 3 weeks before the convoy.
See camcrag.org.uk/convoys for full details and how to apply online.
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DONATIONS & PONCHO/SNOODS PROJECT
Over the financial year we held two donation drop off days, where our supporters can drop off physical donations that our volunteers then take to Calais, or which we ship to other NGOs in Europe or the Middle East. The first was in January 2023 at City Church, off Newmarket Road, and the second was at St Mark's Community Centre in Newnham. We would like to thank both for letting us use their space, the many people who turned up and donated their clothes and other items, and to all our volunteers who helped sort and pack the donations.
We held sorting days throughout the year to process donated items, the largest of which was in November 2022 when we filled a van with boxed donations to go to the Free Shop in Lebanon: Thank you to Tanya for organising this, and to Alice for arranging the complicated shipment process. Unfortunately the goods were held up by Lebanese customs for several months, but they did eventually reach their destination in the summer of 2023.
Over the summer of 2022 we took part in two festival salvages, in which NGOs go around music festivals the day after the event ends to collect tents and any other items that have been left behind and are still usable. One was in conjuction with Herts4Refugees at Standon Calling, and the other at We Out Here festival at Abbots Ripton, near Huntingdon.
We will be holding more donation drop off days as and when required: In the meantime donations can be dropped off, by arrangement, at the Argyle Street Coop near the railway bridge on Mill Road. Please go to our website at camcrag.org.uk/donating to check that what you are donating is suitable, and email their office on office@ash.coop to arrange a suitable time. Please note that we no longer collect donations at the Daily Bread Cooperative or at the regional hubs we operated during the pandemic.
If you have a possible location for a future donation drop off day, or any questions about physical donations, please email donations@camcrag.org.uk.
THE PONCHO / SNOODS PROJECT
The poncho team faced a challenge in early 2022/23 when IKEA stopped selling the blankets we normally use to create our ponchos. An exhaustive search of other stores failed to find a similar product but, after some creative thinking, we came up with a partial solution: Thanks to the support of the Cambridge Fabric Company on Peas Hill, we were able to buy 500 metres of black polar fleece direct from the manufacturer.
This enabled us to make nearly 1500 snoods, which have been well received by the NGOs in France. Sadly, the material was not suitable for poncho-making, but we did manage to make many gloves, and some craft items which are sold at CamCRAG events to raise money for the project.
We are fortunate to have a large number of volunteers from a range of backgrounds helping with the project. Our sewing sessions were held at two venues this year, the Friends Meeting House on Jesus Lane and also in Hardwick. We also have what seems to be a small army of home sewers, who get on with the work in their own time.
Going forward we are facing two problems. Firstly, we need to find a new venue in central Cambridge as the Friends Meeting House is unavailable on the times and days we need it. Secondly, we need more people to help coordinate and manage the project. Despite these issues, we are confident that we can continue to make garments for refugees as we approach winter.
Find out more about the poncho project at camcrag.org.uk/ponchos or email ponchos@camcrag.org.uk
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FUNDRAISING AND EVENTS
This has been another busy but successful year for the CamCRAG fundraising team. We would like to thank everyone who helped organise or attended our events, and to the many fundraisers organised by other groups and individuals.
Our biggest event was the fifth annual winter fair and sleepout in February 2023 (see opposite), which raised over £16,000 for CamCRAG and over £4,500 for our partner homeless charity, Cambridge Cyrenians.
In October 2022 we held an amazing dance night at the NCI Club, which raised almost £600: We would like to thank Deep Blue for performing for free.
Our ceilidh for Calais at St Giles' Church in December 2022 proved to be very popular, and raised £1,250: Thanks to The Jumping Beans for the music. Also in December, we had our regular stall at Mill Road Winter Fair, which raised over £370 from donations and the sale of greeting cards and crafts.
In the run up to Christmas we ran our second annual Auction of Promises, which raised £1,260 and included a huge variety of gifts and promises, from cakes and artwork to private language lessons and exclusive tours.
We had a great deal of interest in the charity at our stall at Strawberry Fair, held in June, and also raised some money from gift and card sales.
Fundraisers run by others included £2,520 by John Beresford at his 18th beer festival, £2,095 by Anna Gomori at two discos in Coton last June and October, £7,808 from the University Catering Managers Charity Ball in January, £440 from the Searle Street Cake Club, £828 raised by students of Hills Road Sixth Form College in June, and £323 from a cake sale at St Giles church.
If you have a fundraising idea, or would like to be part of the fundraising team, we would love to hear from you: Email fundraising@camcrag.org.uk
Autumn 2023 events
9 November - 10 December Online Auction of Promises Do you have a gift or promise you could offer? more info at camcrag.org.uk/auction
7.30pm, 18 November Ceilidh at St Giles' Church advance tickets available from camcrag.org.uk/ceilidh
Could you spend a night outside in winter to raise funds for refugees and the homeless?
Plans are already underway for our Winter Fair and Sleepout on 10 February 2024.
More details will be published on our website in the autumn of 2023.
Top to bottom:
Deep Blue playing at the NCI Club; Ceilidh at St Giles' Church; Stall at Strawberry Fair
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THE WINTER FAIR AND SLEEPOUT
The winter fair and sleepout, our fifth since 2018, was held on 4 February 2023: Every year it keeps getting bigger and better.
On the Saturday afternoon everyone was invited to warm up at the winter fair inside the church, with stalls selling soup, hot drinks, cake, work by local artists, second hand clothes and books, and crafts made locally and by refugees in Europe. All proceeds went towards CamCRAG’s support for refugees.
There was also a performance by the ReSound Acapella choir, a raffle, and guest speakers from CamCRAG and local homeless support group Cambridge Cyrenians, our partner charity.
Then, after sunset and the end of the public fair, the sleepers enjoyed a meal together in the church before facing the night in tents or under tarpaulins.
After expenses, we made over £2,600 from sales and donations at the fair, and more than £18,000 was donated by sponsors of the people sleeping out.
On 15 April, a cheque for £4,516.75 was presented by CamCRAG Chair of Trustees Marissa Green to two Cambridge Cyrenians volunteers, Emma Richter and Kevin Majewski, in the company of Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner and sleepout participants, Shifaa Kweider and Peter Zahemszky.
We would like to extend a big thank you to all the volunteers who helped with the winter fair, to the sleepout team for running such a safe and successful event, to everyone who prepared food for the fair and sleepout, and 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.
Top to bottom:
Tents and tarpaulins ready for the sponsored sleepers; volunteers enjoy an evening meal before the sleepout; cheque presentation in April with Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner; the Winter Fair inside the church
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COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH
For the Communications team, the toxic public discourse around ‘illegal’ migration has meant more campaigns and more opportunities for collaboration with other groups. Against the backdrop of huge sympathy for the Ukrainian people, we have joined with many groups from across civil society highlighting misinformation and challenging the legality of Government proposals in an effort to turn the tide of public opinion on refugees and asylum-seekers.
We continue to point out that neither last year’s Nationality and Borders Bill, nor this year’s Illegal Migration Bill, nor the scheme to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, will make any significant impact to Channel crossings. The principal effect is to punish vulnerable people seeking sanctuary, while the people-smuggling gangs they are supposed to stop will continue to operate.
We supported a campaign to instigate a Sudanese Family Scheme so that those fleeing the civil war in Sudan could be offered a safe route to claim asylum in the UK, in the same way as is offered to Ukrainians. The majority of the population in the Calais camps is Sudanese, so we know alternatives have to be offered if more young people are not to drown in the Channel or die on French roads.
We also supported a campaign initiated by our friends at Reclaim the Sea to stop asylum-seekers who have made terrifying sea journeys being housed on what are effectively prison barges. In November 2022 we joined with 65 other cross-border groups to write to Le Monde about failings in search and rescue systems, on the anniversary of the drowning of over 30 people in the Channel in 2021.
Our social media presence continues to be strong, with over 1800 followers of our Facebook Page, 2700 members of our Facebook group, 1300 followers on Instagram and 1400 on Twitter (X). Our e-newsletter has continued to go out every month to over 600 recipients.
Locally, we have been delighted to establish closer links over the past year with student groups. Cambridge University (CU) Amnesty International Group kindly allowed us to join them on their stall at the Freshers Fair in October 2022, and we have got to know the newly formed CU Freedom From Torture group and, more recently, the re-constituted Student Action for Refugees (STAR) group.
Lexi Netty, who works for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and is CEO of student-led charity Solidaritee, spoke at our AGM in October 2022 and has since come on a convoy with us.
Our second AGM speaker was Steven Martin, founder of Channel Rescue, a humanitarian group monitoring small boat arrivals.
Cheque presentation from the Catering Managers' Charity Ball
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COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH
Outreach coordinator Ella gave a talk to Cambridge University group Freedom From Torture in the Lent term and several members of the group have joined us on a convoy.
We held stalls at Mill Road Winter Fair in December and at Strawberry Fair in June, as well as the Haymakers pub in Chesterton in April. Other committee members gave talks at the Catering Managers Charity Ball and at a Continuing Professional Development day for an urban design company in January.
Refugee Week in June saw CamCRAG members participate in round-table discussions and forums throughout the week, before our own film and concert evening on Saturday 24 June at Downing Place United Reform Church. We were proud to screen a film made on Samos by Cambridge journalist Fareid Atta when he was volunteering as a translator there. His film focussed on musicians he met among the refugee community so it seemed appropriate to round off the evening with a concert by West African musicians Bakk Lamp Fall, some of whose members are also refugees.
We are always looking for people to join our comms and outreach teams and help with the website, social media, e-newsletter, 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/newslettersubscription
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We would like to thank all of our volunteers Family of Simon Gibson
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special thank you to the following Searle Street Cake Club
individuals and organisations who have St Giles Church
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helped us this year, organised fundraisers,
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made large donations, or with whom we
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have collaborated.
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Collective Aid
Find out more about donating
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goods and money at
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SolidariTEE
Want us to let you know when we
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FINANCIAL REPORT
For the financial year 2022-23 donations were over £21,000, thanks to the generosity of our regular donors, individuals and groups who organised fundraising events for us, and also organisations who chose CamCrag as their charity of the year. We were able to claim over £5,000 on Gift Aid.
Our fundraising team managed to raise an amazing £19,000, bringing the total income for the year to £47,161, only slightly less than the previous year and an amazing achievement bearing in mind the current economic climate.
We successfully ran ten convoys at a cost of £13,962. We anticipated that convoy costs would increase dramatically compared to previous years, thanks to the increased cost of channel crossings and general inflation. However the increase in overall convoy costs is partly because of the high attendance on most of the year's convoys: The average cost per convoy participant across the year was about £60, which still represents good value for two days' work with our partner NGOs.
Over the year we have reduced our surplus cash funds by giving grants to small grass root organisations in France and Greece, focusing on projects where our money could have the most impact, totalling over £36,000 in financial aid.
Our administration costs continue to be low at about 2% of total outgoings.
We always keep £4,500 in reserves, to finance at least two convoys, as well as administration costs, should for some reason all donation ceases.
From CRIBS International: "Thank you to the wonderful people at CamCRAG for their grant of £4,000.
"This grant will cover five months' rent and utility bills for flats housing six women and their new-born babies.
"This support makes a huge, life-changing difference to mums and babies at this difficult time."
Summary of grants made in the financial year 2022/23
| Calais Food Collective | £1,321 | Calais, France | Food |
|---|---|---|---|
| £1,196 | Calais, France | Tea bags | |
| £500 | Calais, France | Volunteer sponsorship | |
| Collective Aid | £2,030 | Calais, France | New underwear |
| £1,000 | Calais, France | Van repairs | |
| £2,800 | Bosnia | Various non food items | |
| Charitable Roots | £500 | Dunkirk, France | Volunteer sponsorship |
| £2,000 | Dunkirk, France | Electricity | |
| Donate4Refugees | £2,500 | France | The Big Give matchfunding |
| Chamomile Housing | £2,000 | Athens, Greece | Food and telephone vouchers |
| £1,200 | Athens, Greece | Apartment repairs | |
| Refugee Community Kitchen | £671 | France | Knives |
| CRIBS International | £4,000 | Athens, Greece | Rent for two apartments for refugees |
| Fenix Legal Aid | £3,000 | Lesvos, Greece | Legal aid to support asylum claims |
| Habibi Center | £3,000 | Athens, Greece | Workshops for young people |
| Vents Contraire | £4,000 | France | WASH services for refugees in Caen |
| and Ouisthreham | |||
| Assist Chios | £3,000 | Chios, Greece | Legal aid to support asylum claims |
| Project Play | £500 | France | Volunteer sponsorship |
| Refugee Womens Centre | £500 | France | Volunteer sponsorship |
| Free Shop Lebanon | £2,000 | Lebanon | Family food packs |
| For a full and up | to date list | of financial grants made by the charity see camcrag.org.uk/grants |
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ACCOUNTS
Receipts
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Donations
£21,577
CamCRAG events
£19,294
Gift Aid
£5,246
Sale of merchandise
£1,035
Poncho fundraising
£122
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Payments
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Financial Aid Grants
£37,716
Convoys
£13,962
Merchandise
£413 Events Ponchos/snoods
£1,387 £1,726
Shipping material aid Administration
£158 £1,212
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For the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023. All figures to the nearest £
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funds | Funds | Funds | ||||||
| Receipts | ||||||||
| Donations (cash and bank transfers) | 21,577 | - | 21,577 | 16,431 | 8,474 | 11,416 | 16,895 | 16,303 |
| Fundraising events (organised by us) | 19,294 | - | 19,294 | 26,750 | 6,880 | 11,034 | 6,248 | 14,090 |
| Shipping refunds fr. other charities | - | - | - | 120 | 970 | - | - | - |
| Sale of cards & merchandise | 1,035 | - | 1,035 | 1,159 | 611 | 895 | 87 | 157 |
| Sale of ponchos & poncho fundraising | - | 122 | 122 | 2,376 | 560 | 306 | 1,799 | 890 |
| Gift Aid | 5,246 | - | 5,246 | 5,721 | 7,989 | 253 | 2,134 | - |
| Administration | 10 | - | 10 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 3 | - |
| Total Receipts | 47,161 | 122 | 47,283 | 52,586 | 25,484 | 23,909 | 27,166 | 31,480 |
| Payments | ||||||||
| Cost of fundraising & outreach events | 1,387 | - | 1,387 | 819 | 108 | 1,167 | 895 | 25 |
| Collecting & shipping material aid | 158 | - | 158 | 4,598 | 3,533 | - | - | - |
| Cost of cards & merchandise | 413 | - | 413 | 480 | 593 | 1,438 | 131 | 71 |
| Financial Aid Grants | 36,396 | 1,321 | 37,716 | 24,767 | 3,326 | 18,909 | 12,132 | 22,692 |
| Convoy costs | 13,962 | - | 13,962 | 8,047 | - | 4,684 | 4,171 | 2,908 |
| Production costs for ponchos/snoods | - | 1,726 | 1,726 | 3,626 | 1,754 | 3,111 | 5,709 | 5,272 |
| Administration | 1,212 | - | 1,212 | 1,209 | 334 | 1,072 | 957 | 927 |
| Total Payments | 53,527 | 3,046 | 56,573 | 43,545 | 9,647 | 30,381 | 23,995 | 31,894 |
| Net increase or decrease in funds | - 9,290 | 9,041 | 15,837 | - 6,472 | 3,171 | -415 | ||
| Cash funds last year end | 32,418 | 23,377 | 7,540 | 14,012 | 10,841 | 11,256 | ||
| Cash funds this year end | 23,128 | 32,418 | 23,377 | 7,540 | 14,012 | 10,841 |
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 20 October 2023
www.camcrag.org.uk
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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 Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group |
Charity Name Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group |
Charity Name Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group |
No (if any) 1170180 |
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | |||
| For the period from |
Period start date 7/1/2022 |
To | Period end date 6/30/2023 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 Receipts Donations(cash and bank transfer) 21,577 Fundraising events(organised by us) 19,294 Shipping refunds from other charities - Sale of cards & merchandise 1,034.90 Sale ofponchos/poncho fundraising Gift Aid 5,246 Admin 10 47,161 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - Sub total - Total receipts 47,161 A3 Payments Cost of events 1,387 Collection & shipping of material aid 158 Purchase of cards and merchandise for sale 413 Purchases of items for refugees 36,396 Convoy costs 13,962 Production cost forponchos Admin 1,212 - Sub total 53,527 - - Sub total - Total payments 53,527 Net of receipts/(payments) - 6,366 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 32,347 ## Cash funds this year end 25,981 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
to the nearest £ - - - - 122 - - 122 - - - 122 - - - 1,321 1,726 - 3,046 - - - 3,046 - 2,924 - 71 - 2,853 Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ 21,577 19,294 - 1,035 122 5,246 10 47,283 - - - 47,283.47 1,387 158 413 37,716 13,962 1,726 1,212 - 56,573 - - - 56,573 - 9,290 - 32,418 23,128 |
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21,577 | ||
| 19,294 | |||
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| 1,035 | |||
| 122 | |||
| 5,246 | |||
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| 47,283 | |||
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- | ||
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1,387 | ||
| 158 | |||
| 413 | |||
| 37,716 | |||
| 13,962 | |||
| 1,726 | |||
| 1,212 | |||
| - | |||
| 56,573 | |||
| - - - |
- | ||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | 56,573 | ||
| - 2,924 | - - - - |
- 9,290 | |
| - | - | ||
| 71 | 32,418 | ||
| - 2,853 | 23,128 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
| Details In Unity Trust current account Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ 25,981 - - 25,981 OK to nearest £ - - - - - - Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds |
to nearest £ Restricted funds |
|---|---|---|
| - 2,853 | ||
| - | ||
| - | ||
| - 2,853 | ||
| OK | ||
| to nearest £ Restricted funds |
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Last year
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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 1,209 8,047 3,626 - 43,545
43,545
9,041 - 23,377 32,418
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When due
Date of approval 10/24/2023
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
| Report to the trustees/ members of On accounts for the year ended Set out on pages Responsibilities and basis of report |
Charity Name Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group |
Charity Name Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group |
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| 30/06/2023 | Charity no (if any) |
1170180 | |
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| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/06/2023. As the charity's trustees, 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 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: 20/11/2023 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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