Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group
Published 23 October 2024 Annual Report 2023 - 2024
available online as a PDF at camcrag.org.uk/annualreport2024 ~~ns~~
CONTENTS
| Introduction from the Chair From our Volunteer Coordinator |
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| Convoys | 4 |
| Material Donations | 5 |
| Fundraising and Events | 6 |
| The Winter Fair and Sleepout | 7 |
| Communications and Outreach | 8 |
| Financial Grants | 10 |
| Accounts | 11 |
CamCRAG Trustees (on 23 October 2024)
Ian Tod Almudena Cano Edward Sexton Birgit Federle Elizabeth Stephan Terry Spencer Elena Pascal Tony King Tugba Basaran Catharine Walston
Published 23 October 2024
Small Company Charity Provisions
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 We arrange regular weekend volunteer Registered Charity Number 1170180 convoys from Cambridge to France, c/o Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum helping local NGOs to help refugees. 16-18 Arbury Court We also fundraise and provide financial Cambridge CB4 2JQ support to groups supporting refugees across Europe and beyond, while raising CAMBRIDGE CONVOY awareness of the crisis in the UK. We have no employees, so all the money we raise goes towards providing aid to www.camcrag.org.uk refugees or supporting our convoys.
www.camcrag.org.uk camb4calais
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INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIR
The past year has been a challenging period for everyone in the refugee support sector as the populist right achieved greater influence over policy on both sides of the Channel, while media attention turned away from the situation at our borders to focus on conflict zones in Gaza and Eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, as we learned from Sahar, one of our speakers at last year’s AGM, the conflict in Sudan has been getting steadily worse, explaining the big influx of young Sudanese men to Calais, hoping to reach friends and family in the UK.
This rather bleak picture was made worse by the continuing efforts of three Home Secretaries in a row to weaponise the issue of Channel crossings and bring in ever more punitive legislation. Optimism that sanity would prevail after the Supreme Court ruled the Rwanda ‘deal’ unlawful in November 2023 was soon quashed by the introduction of the Safety of Rwanda Bill. This Bill allowed Parliament to simply deem Rwanda safe for people seeking asylum, regardless of the judgment of the Supreme Court, and strained the loyalty of even Government supporters, because, as former Conservative Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke said, “parliament apparently, claiming the sovereignty of parliament, can claim that the colour black is the same as the colour white, or dogs are cats.” Despite its absurdity, the Bill passed in April, ironically on the same day as another mass drowning was reported off the coast of Northern France.
Yet there has been a lot of light in the gloom: We have received wonderful support from local businesses who donated to our online auction or provided free pizzas for our ceilidh; from Anna Gomori, who organised fundraising discos for us; from Deep Blue and The Jumping Beans; and from St Giles’ Church and Downing Place URC, to highlight just a few examples. We were especially touched to receive a donation in memory of Simon Gibson of Simon’s Ciders, who died last year.
Adversity also produces solidarity and we have been very happy to establish and maintain warm relations with Emmaus Cambridge, with Herts for Refugees (with whom we went festival salvaging again locally) and with the University of Cambridge’s STAR group.
We were delighted to be invited to a conference at Pembroke College where we met Lord Dubs and we have contributed to national campaigns, Stop the Flights (launched by Freedom from Torture) and Together with Refugees. Most of all, we are grateful for the support of so many different sections of the local community and to our amazing volunteers. Your support enables us to offer practical help as well as morale-boosting encouragement to our partner NGOs in France and elsewhere in their efforts to ensure a minimum standard of human dignity for desperate people .
FROM OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
CamCRAG’s volunteers are a wonderful group. Aged anywhere between 18 and 80+ and with a wide variety of backgrounds, skills and interests they can usually cover the wide range of tasks requested by our Convoy, Fundraising, Outreach and Donations Teams.
But we can always use more help and we welcome new drivers and passengers to come on our weekend convoys to Calais, new volunteers with ideas for fundraising events, people with media experience, organisational, IT and/or presentational skills, people who can bake cakes, deliver flyers, carry heavy boxes, mend sleeping bags, check tents, sort clothing, play an instrument or people willing to turn their hands to anything and everything. Whatever your skill set and interests, we can probably find a job for you.
If you register your skills, interests and the times when you are available on our volunteer database, we will contact you when we have a volunteering opportunity that we think you might like. You can do this via our website.
Currently we have vacancies in two key areas:
· Joining our Fundraising Team
· Organising our storage facility and arranging regular donations sorting sessions for small groups of volunteers.
If you are interested in either of these roles, or want to know more about what's involved, we’d love to hear from you. Email volunteer@camcrag.org.uk and we’ll arrange to talk.
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
The NGOs operating in northern France have become used to the need to shift and adapt their approach in response to an ever-changing situation. This inevitably brings with it a complex set of challenges in meeting the needs of their service-users effectively. Securing funds and a stable workforce have become significant challenges requiring some downsizing, refocus and closer collaboration between NGOs to avoid duplication of effort. CamCRAG has always been keen to review and evaluate what we are offering to ensure that we are meeting needs and using funds raised and donated monies in the best way possible.
This past year has seen significant changes to our longest established convoy format in response to the changes on the ground in Calais. We are still finding our way, but will endeavour to ensure smooth and effective processes so that our monthly convoys provide a ready workforce to boost NGOs on the ground.
During this past year we have continued our engagement with Collective Aid on a much smaller scale as they wound down their warehouse operations and established The Wash Centre to offer laundry and personal hygiene facilities. They also continue to need tents and sleeping bags and offer links with local French groups with whom we have worked on litter picks.
Refugee Community Kitchen continue to provide healthy nutritious meals for distribution and we support them with mass food preparation and deep cleaning jobs.
Refugee Women’s Centre focus operations on women and children and request our support with donation sorting and tent checking.
The Woodyard, a winter project run by the Auberge des Migrants, always appreciate extra hands on deck to support their mission to provide firewood for distribution for heating and cooking.
The Calais Food Collective deliver dry food goods, offering the dignity of agency to cook, and we support them by donating and delivering approximately 17,000 teabags a month, cleaning their IBCs (water containers) and joining the litter picks they organise.
Roots in Dunkirk have welcomed regular input from our volunteers who have cleared an absolute mass of litter, making a huge difference to the well-being and dignity of
those living rough. Litter picking around water and food distribution points is crucial for maintaining cleanliness and preventing the spread of diseases. We have also supported Roots with making bins and cleaning water containers and portable showers.
Care4Calais is a large, well established NGO who are the biggest distributor of material aid; namely clothing, tents, sleeping bags and hygiene items. We have sent groups of volunteers to join them in warehouse sorting and morning preparation ahead of going out on distribution. Their distributions of clothing and non-food items also involve the provision of services such as bicycle repairs, a hairdressing station, hot drinks, English lessons, games, football, phone charging, music and sewing repairs. "it did feel that we
"it did feel that we made some difference to the day to day lives of some people. I will, without a shadow of a doubt, be coming back"
Want to spend a weekend supporting refugees in Calais?
Provisional 2024 / 2025 Convoy Dates
22-24 November • 13-15 December • 24-26 January • 28-30 March 25-27 April • 16-18 May • 27-29 June
Registration for convoys usually opens 4 to 5 weeks before the convoy, and closes 2 to 3 weeks before the convoy.
— Nicky June 2024 convoy
See camcrag.org.uk/convoys for full details and how to apply online.
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CONVOYS
During the period of September 23 to June 24 we ran ten convoys with approximately 185 volunteers of whom 73 were volunteering with us for the first time.
As an organisation we value the importance of introducing new people and raising awareness of refugee issues. We continue to enjoy a diverse volunteer sign up. It is very important to CamCRAG to provide a positive volunteering experience and our feedback speaks highly of the camaraderie, shared purpose and satisfaction of being able to meaningfully engage with this situation just 26 miles from our own shores .
I would like to take the opportunity to thank Maddy who works in the background to manage accommodation and restaurant bookings and Silvia who helps with organisation of the data .
You can read more about our convoys, including reports from previous volunteers, at camcrag.org.uk/convoys.
If you have any questions please email Maggie, our Convoy Coordinator, at convoys@camcrag.org.uk
MATERIAL DONATIONS
In March, we waved goodbye to Olivia Ronna as she left Cambridge. Olivia had been very efficiently running operations in CamCRAG’s shed, where all our material aid donations are sorted and stored. We would like to thank her for a great deal of hard work and for keeping donations flowing so smoothly.
Since Olivia’s departure, we have been seeking three new volunteers to take over the three different aspects of our Donations Operation – organising donations collections, sorting donations in the shed and organising the onward transfer of the donations going to refugees in the eastern Mediterranean. Happily, Rachel Blunt has just taken over donations collections and Daniel Kam is now organising onward transfer. A very warm welcome to Rachel and Daniel! We are still looking for someone to take over organisation of the shed. If you might be interested and would like to know more about this role, please contact volunteer@camcrag.org.uk.
Despite all these changes, we have still managed to collect lots of tents, sleeping bags, blankets and clothing, both through regular collections in and around Cambridge and through some generous gifts - for example, one hundred sleeping bags from Emmaus Cambridge. Thank you to everyone who has helped with our donations collections and with sorting in the shed and to everyone who has given us donations, however large or small. They all contribute to making life a little more tolerable for refugees surviving in very challenging circumstances.
We would also like to thank The Wakeham Trust for a grant of £700 we received in January 2024, which paid for the storage of material aid scheduled for shipping to Lebanon. Our shipments have faced persistent customs delays in Beirut, but we are pleased to learn this summer that they are now all on their way to their intended recipients.
Find out for about material donations at camcrag.org.uk/donating
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FUNDRAISING AND EVENTS
This year CamCRAG raised over £15,000 from our own events, with thousands more coming through the amazing efforts of our supporters.
This includes £600 from the Deep Blue dance night in September, £1,040 from Anna Gomori who organised discos in Coton, and £168 from Emma Caroe’s half marathon in April.
At the end of June we raised over £1,400 at Voices of Hope and Compassion, organised by Historyworks, at which Michael Rosen performed some of his poetry.
Our biggest event this year was the annual winter fair and sleepout in early February. This raised over £8,500 for CamCRAG funds, plus a donation of £2,833 to our partner charity Emmaus Cambridge.
In December, we organised a very successful ceilidh for Calais at St Giles' Church, with ceilidh band The Jumping Beans, which raised nearly £2,000.
We held our usual stall at the Mill Road Winter Fair in December where we got to speak to many people about the charity and received a small amount in donations. The month also saw the conclusion of our third annual Auction of Promises, which raised £2,000.
In June we raised £250 in donations at Strawberry Fair. Also in June, as part of Refugee Week, we supported the Cambridge Refugee Hub in organising a summer arts fair at Cambridge University's Alison Richard building. This comprised music and poetry performances, pottery and other workshops, sales of artwork, and Syrian refreshments, and raised over £1,000 for CamCRAG funds.
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
Top to bottom:
Soul and funk band Deep Blue; Voices of Hope and Compassion; Eritrean pottery workshop; Ceilidh at St Giles' Church
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THE WINTER FAIR AND SLEEPOUT
This year was our sixth annual Winter Fair and Sponsored Sleepout since 2018, and was held once again at St Giles' Church, on 10 February 2024. This was organised with our partner charity Emmaus Cambridge. Over 65 CamCRAG and Emmaus volunteers helped with the event, with Rotary Club support on the day.
Visitors approaching the church for the Winter Fair on Saturday afternoon were welcomed by our guest bagpiper Neill. Inside the church we had stalls selling soup, hot drinks, cakes and other homemade produce, vintage clothes and books, and crafts made locally.
There were several musical performances, including a pop-up performance by members of the ReSound Acapella choir, a raffle, and guest speakers from CamCRAG and local homeless support group Emmaus Cambridge, our partner charity.
After the end of the Fair, the sleepers enjoyed a meal together in the church before facing a wet night in tents or under tarpaulins.
After expenses, we made over £1,600 from sales and donations at the Fair, plus £9,700 of sponsorship for the people sleeping out.
In April, a cheque for £2,833 was presented by Cambridge mayor Jenny Gawthrope to Emmaus Cambridge CEO Donna Talbot. All other proceeds went towards funding CamCRAG’s support for refugees.
We would like to extend a big thank you to all the volunteers who helped with the Winter Fair, to the Sleepout Team for organising the Fair and for running such a safe and successful event, to Emmaus Cambridge for their hard work and cooperation, 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.
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COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH
The CamCRAG Comms and Outreach team has seen some changes this year. In January, Hannah took over editing our monthly newsletter and Mimi has taken charge of Instagram, supporting Lucy, who runs our Twitter/X feed. Olivia joined Ed in managing our website and began work on an overhaul. Our Outreach Coordinator, Ella, left in April to set off across Central Asia and is replaced by Kate.
The team has used our social media outlets to promote convoys, encourage volunteering and advertise job opportunities and events, both our own and those of partner organisations, including the University’s Refugee Hub, Solidaritee, RCK, Vents Contraires, Convoy4Ukraine and other Ukraine-fo™~ cussed groups, and Herts for Refugees. We have avoided comment on the Israel/Gaza crisis ourselves as this is not within the scope of our charitable activities but have advertised fundraisers to help people trapped in Gaza.
Tragically, we have seen a big increase this year in the number of HelloAsso pages set up to fundraise for funeral costs for people drowned in the Channel. The only way to stop these fatalities is to offer asylum seekers safe alternatives so we continue to join campaigns aimed at changing policy: Fair Begins Here campaign for a better deal for refugees from Together with Refugees, Safe Passage’s Rally with Refugees, Stop Rwanda, Water for All in Northern France, and JCWI’s Not in Our Name against the Illegal Migration Act.
Our Facebook group has 2,700 members and our page is followed by 1800 accounts. Our Instagram feed is followed by 1543 accounts and attracts around 130 likes a month. Our most popular post is about volunteering in Calais. We are seeing a drift towards Instagram and away from Twitter/X as many groups are abandoning it due to its lack of regulation and perceived promotion of extremism. Over 600 people subscribe to and received the monthly newsletter, with an average open rate of 52.3% across the last 12 month period. According to Mailchimp's own data, the average open rate in our sector (non-profit) is 40%, so we're performing strongly against the average.
Our two major outreach events were the Mill Road Winter Fair and Strawberry Fair. We also held information stalls at fundraising events for the new CALM stage at Strawberry Fair. In March, Ella went to talk to an enthusiastic cub scout group in Trumpington who sent us a beautiful ‘thank you’ card afterwards and we are very happy to have established a positive
relationship with Emmaus Cambridge as a result of our work together on the annual sponsored sleepout.
In March Catharine attended a conference at Pembroke College called Migration, Identity and Memory, where she was able to hand out leaflets and discuss the Safety of Rwanda Bill with Lord Dubs and Chris Smith.
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 ~~TTT~~ Subscribe to our e-newsletter at camcrag.org.uk/newslettersubscription
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COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH
Autumn 2024 events
16 November Ceilidh at St Giles' Church
28 November Open Mic Night at The Blue Moon ticket details will be published on our website by November see camcrag.org.uk/events for all our upcoming events
Do you know WordPress?
The CamCRAG website team always welcome new people to help keep camcrag.org.uk updated. Could you write and post news articles, update our events section, and other pages as required? Email ed@camcrag.org.uk
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 8 February 2025.
More details will be published on our website in the autumn of 2024.
If you would like to get involved with the planning and running of the Fair or Sleepout we would love to hear from you!
Email fundraising@camcrag.org.uk
www.camcrag.org.uk
camb4calais
We would like to thank all of our volunteers and supporters. In particular we extend a special thank you to the following individuals and organisations who have helped us this year, organised fundraisers, made large donations, or with whom we have collaborated.
Please note that we no longer take donations at the Daily Bread Co-operative.
Find out more about donating goods and money at camcrag.org.uk/donating
Want us to let you know when we have volunteering opportunities that suit your interests and skills?
Join 150 other volunteers on our volunteer database at camcrag.org.uk/JoinOurVolunteers
CU Amnesty STAR Just Love Freedom from Torture HistoryWorks Deep Blue The Jumping Beans Emma Caroe Anna Gomori Grill House Restaurant Downing Place United Reform Church Emmaus Cambridge St Giles' Church Jesus Lane Quaker Meeting House Herts for Refugees Collective Aid Care4Calais Roots Refugee Community Kitchen The Calais Food Collective Simon's Ciders
A list of recent donors to the charity is available at
camcrag.org.uk/donors
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FINANCIAL GRANTS
Demand for grants remains strong as all refugee charities face the same fundraising challenges, but thanks to our fabulous fundraising team and a couple of productive years during and after the pandemic, we have been able to sponsor more volunteers, contribute to The Big Give matchfunding drive, and support important projects run by partner groups in France, Greece and Lebanon.
We sponsored two volunteers with Offene Arme to alleviate a workforce crisis on Chios in January, an Arabic-speaking volunteer to work with Collective Aid in France for a month in December, and a volunteer to work with Roots on water and wash services in Dunkirk in March.
We donated £1025 to forRefugee’s Big Give matchfunding in December and £450 to an appeal by Mobile Refugee Support to buy warm coats in Dunkerque. A dedicated grant from the Wakeham Trust enabled us to pay for a lock-up storage container to store boxed donations for Free Shop Lebanon.
We were also able to contribute to shipping costs to Lebanon and electricity costs for Free Shop Lebanon's premises there. Grants were made in Greece to One Happy Family in Athens for volunteers on an employability programme, to Mobile Info Team in Greece for advocacy at detention centres on Kos and on the mainland, and to Refugee Legal Support for rent for its Athens Human Rights Project. In Calais and Dunkirk, we always ensure a supply of teabags goes with each convoy for Calais Food Collective and washing liquid for the Wash centre.
We also contributed £750 to the purchase of a new van for Roots, £1000 to Collective Aid to pay for alterations to the Wash centre to bring it up to standard for fire regulations and £1000 to Youth Kaleidoscope to buy materials for their psychosocial art and music sessions.
Summary of grants made in the financial year 2023/24
| Calais Food Collective | £1,731 | Calais, France | Tea bags and washing powder |
|---|---|---|---|
| £306 | Calais, France | 2 Intermediate Bulk Containers | |
| Collective Aid | £1,000 | Calais, France | Support for WASH project |
| £500 | Calais, France | Volunteer sponsorship | |
| Charitable Roots | £724 | Dunkirk, France | Support for new van |
| £500 | Dunkirk, France | Volunteer sponsorship | |
| forRefugees | £1,025 | France | The Big Give matchfunding |
| Refugee Womens Centre | £1,000 | France | Tents |
| Free Shop Lebanon | £1,500 | Lebanon | Shipping costs |
| £3,500 | Lebanon | Electricity costs | |
| One Happy Family | £1,000 | Greece | Volunteer sponsorship |
| Mobile Refugee Services | £450 | France | Clothing |
| Mobile Info Team | £2,987 | Greece | Support for legal advice |
| Refugee Legal Support | £1,500 | Greece | Support for rent |
| Youth Kaleidoscope | £1,000 | France | Materials for youth activities |
| Offene Arme | £430 | Greece | Volunteer sponsorship |
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
Payments
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Donations
£13,833 Financial Aid Grants
£19,152
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£15,173
Convoys
Gift Aid £13,952
£3,497
— £15,173 Merchandise ds
£136
Admin £111
Events
Shipping refunds Ponchos/snoods
£700 Shipping material aid £1,430 £2,006
£804
Administration
Sale of merchandise £1,151
£823
Poncho fundraising
£195
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For the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. All figures to the nearest £
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | 2022/23 2021/22 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 | 2022/23 2021/22 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 | 2022/23 2021/22 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 | 2022/23 2021/22 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 | 2022/23 2021/22 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 | |
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| Funds | Funds | Funds | ||||||
| Receipts | ||||||||
| Donations (cash and bank transfers) | 13,833 | - | 13,833 | 21,577 | 16,431 | 8,474 | 11,416 | 16,895 |
| Fundraising events (organised by us) | 15,173 | - | 15,173 | 19,294 | 26,750 | 6,880 | 11,034 | 6,248 |
| Shipping refunds fr. other charities | - | 700 | 700 | - | 120 | 970 | - | - |
| Sale of cards & merchandise | 823 | - | 823 | 1,035 | 1,159 | 611 | 895 | 87 |
| Sale of ponchos & poncho fundraising | - | 195 | 195 | 122 | 2,376 | 560 | 306 | 1,799 |
| Gift Aid | 3,497 | - | 3,497 | 5,246 | 5,721 | 7,989 | 253 | 2,134 |
| Administration | 111 | - | 111 | 10 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Total Receipts | 33,435 | 895 | 34,330 | 47,283 | 52,586 | 25,484 | 23,909 | 27,166 |
| Payments | ||||||||
| Cost of fundraising & outreach events | 1,430 | - | 1,430 | 1,387 | 819 | 108 | 1,167 | 895 |
| Collecting & shipping material aid | 104 | 700 | 804 | 158 | 4,598 | 3,533 | - | - |
| Cost of cards & merchandise | 136 | - | 136 | 413 | 480 | 593 | 1,438 | 131 |
| Financial Aid Grants | 19,152 | - | 19,152 | 37,716 | 24,767 | 3,326 | 18,909 | 12,132 |
| Convoy costs | 13,952 | - | 13,952 | 13,962 | 8,047 | - | 4,684 | 4,171 |
| Production costs for ponchos/snoods | - | 2,006 | 2,006 | 1,726 | 3,626 | 1,754 | 3,111 | 5,709 |
| Administration | 1,151 | - | 1,151 | 1,212 | 1,209 | 334 | 1,072 | 957 |
| Total Payments | 35,925 | 2,706 | 38,631 | 56,573 | 43,545 | 9,647 | 30,381 | 23,995 |
| Net increase or decrease in funds | - 4,300 | -9,290 | 9,041 | 15,837 | - 6,472 | 3,171 | ||
| Cash funds last year end | 23,128 | 32,418 | 23,377 | 7,540 | 14,012 | 10,841 | ||
| Cash funds this year end | 18,828 | 23,128 | 32,418 | 23,377 | 7,540 | 14,012 |
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 23 October 2024
www.camcrag.org.uk camb4calais
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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| to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts Donations(cash and bank transfer) 13,833 - - 13,833 21,577 Fundraising events(organised by us) 15,173 - - 15,173 19,294 Shipping income from other charities - 700 - 700 - Sale of cards & merchandise 823 - - 823 1,034.90 Sale ofponchos/poncho fundraising 195 - 195 122 Gift Aid 3,497 - - 3,497 5,246 Admin 111 - - 111 10 Sub total(Gross income for AR)33,435 895 - 34,330 47,283 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total receipts 33,435 895 - 34,330 47,283 ~~== ====~~ ~~——__————~~ |
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| A3 Payments | ||||||
| Cost of events | 1,430 | - - 1,430.27 |
1,387 | |||
| Collection & shipping of material aid | 104 | 700 - 803.97 |
158 | |||
| Purchase of cards and merchandise for sale | 136 | - - 135.61 |
413 | |||
| Purchases of items for refugees | 19,152 | - 19,152.37 |
37,716 | |||
| Convoy costs | 13,952 | - 13,952.13 |
13,962 | |||
| Production cost forponchos | 2,006 - 2,005.63 |
1,726 | ||||
| Admin | 1,151 | - 1,150.67 |
1,212 | |||
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- | ||||
| **Sub total ** | 35,925 | 2,706 - 38,631 |
56,573 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total payments 35,925 2,706 - 38,631 56,573 Net of receipts/(payments) - 2,490 - 1,810 - - 4,300 - 9,290 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 25,981 - 2,853 - 23,128 32,418 Cash funds this year end 23,492 - 4,664 - 18,828 23,128 ~~—————=~~ ~~SS SS S$S44~~ |
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period |
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| B1 Cash funds | 23,492 - 4,664 - - - - - - - 23,492 - 4,664 - In Unity Trust current account Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments ~~——~~ |
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities |
- - - - - Date of approval 24/10/2024 Print Name ALMUDENA CANO Signature ~~———~~ |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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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 30/06/2024 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 30/06/2024. 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:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or 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: 30/10/2024 ~~[~~ |
Date: 30/10/2024 ~~[~~ |
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| Name: | Charlotte Wilson | ||
| Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): |
ACA, ICAEW Qualified | ||
| Address: | 112, New Cheveley Road, Newmarket, Suffolk | ||
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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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