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Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign

Annual Report & Financial Statement Period ended 30 June 2024 Registered Charity (CIO Foundation) in England: 1172836

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Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign

Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC) is a volunteer-led, Cambridgebased organisation providing a broad range of support, assistance, and activities for refugees and asylum seekers in our local communities.

CRRC c/o Friends Meeting House ∙ 12 Jesus Lane Cambridge CB5 8BA ∙ UK

Editor

Catharine Walston

Editorial assistant

Josh Abbott

Writers and contributors

Jan Ayton, Bob Brimblecombe, Rose Elgar, Lawrence Grasty, Cathy Lynch, Adrian Matthews, Faye Parker, Monica Poulter, Kay Powell, Sarah Santhosham, Sandie Smith, Andrii Smytsniuk, Sue Spencer, Catharine Walston.

Cover photo

Chris Cellier

Published

January 2025

Queries regarding CRRC should be directed to: info@cambridgerefugees.org

A warm thanks to everyone who has contributed to this report

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Contents

1. Organisational Information 4
2. Introduction 5
3. Who we are 6
4. Meeting our charitable objectives 7
5. Risks and strategy 8
6. Services 9
Family support 9
Gardening group 12
Donations and DIY 12
IT provision 13
Mobility 13
ESOL for adults 14
Educational support for children 15
Activities and culture 16
Cambridge4Ukraine 18
Communications and outreach 20
7. Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet 21
8. Independent Examiner’s Report 23
9. Donors 24

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Organisational Information

Board of Trustees as of 30 June 2024

Dan Ellis Ann Goodridge Adrian Matthews Heidi Radke Sarah Santhosham Andrii Smytsniuk Sue Spencer (Michael) Robert Turner Catharine Walston

Registered address

CRRC c/o Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Ln, Cambridge CB5 8BA.

Constitution

Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO – foundation, number 1172836) registered on 2 May 2017 with the Charity Commission for England, followed by a transfer of assets from the Unincorporated Association (UIA) of the same name on 1 July 2017.

Bank

Cooperative Bank, PO Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester M60 4EP

Report of the Trustees

The Trustees are pleased to present their annual report and financial statement for the year ended 30 June 2024. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out by the Charities Commission and comply with the charity’s constitution.

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Introduction

Welcome to CRRC’s Annual Report for the year ended June 2024. This was a challenging period for the refugee support sector with three changes of Home Secretary, each equally keen to demonstrate ‘toughness’ with regard to immigration. The Government’s Illegal Migration Act, passed in July 2023, imposed a duty on the Home Secretary to detain and deport anyone, even those seeking asylum, who had arrived in the UK by irregular means, in contravention of the UK’s international obligations under the Geneva Convention. This was followed by the Safety of Rwanda Act, which passed in April 2024, despite many politicians of all parties being deeply uncomfortable with designating a third country safe for asylum-seekers when the UK Supreme Court had ruled that it was not.

Locally, the Dolphin Hotel in St Ives, which housed around 70 men seeking asylum, some of whom had sought our help, closed in December 2023. Those who had not yet received a Home Office decision were moved to Peterborough or Nottingham. The Best Western Hotel at Bar Hill was opened for single women and for families seeking asylum in March 2023, housing around 240 people, over a third of whom were children. In the current year, we started to see these families being granted leave to remain and housed by South Cambridgeshire District Council. These families do not benefit from Government funding for refugee families on resettlement schemes and usually require our support. Similarly, Ukrainian families not on the Homes for Ukraine scheme have also required help to furnish their homes when offered Council housing.

We have continued to work closely with Cambridge City Council and with other local partners to ensure that we do not see the same levels of refugee homelessness and destitution reported in other areas.

As ever, we are extremely grateful to all our volunteers for their dedication, compassion and hard work. We’d also like to thank the many individuals, faith groups, trusts and foundations who have generously supported us.

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Who we are

Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC) began as a community group in 2015 before becoming an Unincorporated Association in March 2016. We registered with the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on 2 May 2017. CRRC is entirely volunteer-led and relies on volunteers’ time and donations to deliver its statement of purpose. It is led by the Board of Trustees, and its activities are coordinated by a Core Committee.

Areas of activity include family support, donations, DIY, education (children’s tutors), ESOL, gardening, IT provision, employability and mobility, activities, socials and holiday programmes. We have around 150 active volunteers.

We work closely with Cambridge City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, Huntingdon District Council, Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum, and a

range of other partners, including the East of England Strategic Migration Partnership, Anglia Ruskin University, University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Cambridge Foodbank and GYROS. CRRC has been a member of Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service since 2016.

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Meeting our charitable objectives

Over the reporting period, we have continued in our aim to facilitate the resettlement and integration of displaced people into our community. We accept referrals from refugees themselves or from other individuals, organisations, or authorities.

Refugees settling in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire are assisted by us in their settling-in process, while local communities are able to engage with our efforts to foster and promote diversity and social cohesion. Relevant statutory authorities, politicians, and others involved in policy-making and decisionmaking on issues affecting refugees benefit from our experience and are supported in the delivery of their statutory functions. We have also continued in our mission to engage and inform by giving talks to local groups and schools and promoting refugee-related issues and events on our social media.

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Risks and strategy

During the financial year ending June 2024, the trustees considered the major risks to which the charity was exposed. The main risks identified during this period were:

Service users

There has been a sharp increase in the number and needs of service users. Resettlement families receive support from Council caseworkers but usually have additional needs. They often find themselves in financial difficulties due to the imposition of the Benefit Cap on their Universal Credit payments and the high cost of living in our area. Those who have come through the asylum system receive very limited support from local government. There is a severe shortage of ESOL provision. The Regional College has no creche facilities, which restricts access for women with young children. Our strategy has been to remain responsive and flexible. We have sought to establish closer ties with other groups in order to signpost to specialist assistance and have offered hardship grants where necessary. We will look to address the issue of ESOL provision.

Financial Security of CRRC

Our principal source of funding is now through grants from charitable trusts and foundations. We also benefit from personal gifts, donations from faith groups and businesses, and payroll giving. The demands on our resources are increasing. We aim to maintain reserves of 3-6 months of annual spend to enable the orderly winding down of support services to families in the event of unforeseen changes in income or the operating environment.

Operational Risks

CRRC carries out risk assessments for all activities to ensure that risks are understood. CRRC has continued to review and update policies and procedures around some key risk areas including safeguarding and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

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Services

Family support

Over the reporting period there was a significant growth in the number and type of families CRRC supported. At the 1st of July 2023 - the start of the reporting period - CRRC had registered 60 families (excluding Ukrainians) on our main database over the 7 ½ years of the organisation's existence. These were mostly families resettled under Government schemes who arrive with accommodation ready for them and casework support from the local authority. By 30 June 2024 that number had increased to 91. Of the 31 new families registered with us, 23 were from Afghanistan. The number of Ukrainian families we assisted also increased significantly over the period from 25 to 60 families.

A distinct new trend in families registering with us from December 2023 was from former asylum seekers granted refugee status. In the six months to the end of June 2024 we had assisted 11 such families. Cambridgeshire has had two major asylum hotels – one accommodating single men and another accommodating families and single women. Asylum seekers are required to leave their hotel accommodation within a very narrow timeframe once granted refugee status. At risk of homelessness, families approach the local authority in

which they lived while seeking asylum and are generally housed in temporary accommodation in the first instance pending a move to a more settled tenancy.

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Families from Afghanistan

The Home Office completed a programme to end the use of temporary hotel accommodation for resettled Afghans by September 2023. In August 2023, we saw seven Afghan families who had been living in hotel accommodation in Eddington move into new build flats in north Cambridge. Over the rest of the reporting period, more families arrived into the county under the ARAP or ACRS schemes in addition to at least three families who had arrived as asylum seekers. While some were placed in Cambridge, others were housed in South Cambridgeshire villages including the new development at Northstowe.

Families and individuals from Ukraine

Ukrainian families assisted were mostly women with children and/or an elderly parent or elderly couples. Most of the women with children had arrived in the UK at the start of the war to live with a ‘host’ family under the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme and were moving on into their own accommodation, whether private rented, housing association or local authority. Elderly couples had often arrived to join younger family members already working or studying in the UK when the war broke out. We saw a distinct trend of elderly couples or individuals moving into sheltered or supported accommodation.

Following discussions with Cambridge City Council, a funding stream was found to provide Ukrainian families moving from Homes for Ukraine ‘hosted’ accommodation with basic white goods, beds and a sofa in their new accommodation. However, many household essentials (dining table, vacuum cleaner, curtains, carpet) were not included in the package and no funding at all was available to support those moving on from living with family members.

We took the opportunity offered by the Council to apply for a £5,000 grant to help Ukrainian families moving on with the costs of furnishing their accommodation. The grant funding was available from the end of October 2023, and by the end of June 2024 we had provided substantial help to 24 families. As well as purchases using the grant funding, we put out appeals for donations through social media and received huge local support in providing needed items, from tables and chairs to sofas, wardrobes, and even an electric piano. CRRC volunteers coordinated the collection and delivery of donated items to beneficiary families.

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Brampton / Huntingdon area support

At the start of the financial year there were eight CRRC-registered refugee families living in Brampton and two in Huntingdon, all from Afghanistan under the Government ARAP/ACRS schemes. Three more families arrived in July/ August 2023, two from Afghanistan, one from Georgia (the latter are still seeking LTR). With help from Cambridge Aid, we arranged visits to Emmaus for the Afghan families. In October 2023, one of the Afghan families emigrated to the US, but within a few months decided to return to the UK; the other families joined forces to help them settle back in the country (finding property, loans, a car, etc.)

Most of the men had part-time work (e.g., from working in restaurants, supermarkets and food delivery to self-employment and working in admin in a nearby prison) and/or were in training (e.g., to obtain UK medical qualifications, an MOT examiner certificate, a taxi licence).

All the women attended weekly CRRC-organised English Conversation Lessons until April 2024. For six women needing further lessons, CRRC organised private 1-to-1 tuition, with funding assistance from the local CofE church. These lessons were scheduled to end in July 24, as all the women had by then obtained a place on the Functional English course at Huntingdon Regional College.

Many families had acquired a car by June 2024, and one of women had started driving lessons. CRRC enabled the families to obtain CCF energy grants of £400 each in late 2023; only one family was unsuccessful, their current energy debt being too high.

Several families regularly attended CRRC socials at Mayfield School and most families joined the CRRC outings during the year. In May 2024, CRRC organised a day out at Buckden Towers for the women and their pre-school children.

Overall, the families settled in well during the year and grew stronger as a community, socially and in terms of mutual help. All the children appeared to flourish at school, and some moved on to college in Huntingdon or Cambridge.

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Gardening group

The gardening group visited 10 families during the reporting period, including four new families from Afghanistan and two from Sudan, and one Afghan family and three single parents they had previously assisted. After an initial visit and discussion with each new family, basic gardening tools were provided, according to need, and this typically included a push-mower, electric fly mower, spades, watering-cans, trowels and secateurs. Most of the families have been housed with large gardens, needing an electric mower which we were given or bought from Cambridge Freecycle. A lot of the families wanted to help us in the garden. We try to respond to specific requests such as potatoes, tomatoes, broad beans, courgettes, a range of herbs and flowers. We were given strawberry plants and different varieties of herbs from a local garden centre for a new family living in Saffron Walden. We also gave them lavender and jasmine which they helped to plant in their back garden.

We continued to help with the gardens of three single-parent families in the city. This has mostly involved mowing and clearing weeds plus providing seeds. Although our aim is for all families to become independent gardeners, this is unlikely to happen while each of these parents has so many other issues to manage. We regularly liaise with CRRC’s donations and DIY teams. We are fortunate that all the garden group are experienced and knowledgeable gardeners who have been prepared to turn up and work on a regular basis.

Donations and DIY

The donations team delivered practical support to refugees needing to furnish houses and flats. They visited refugees to audit requirements. Requests were then sent out across CRRC’s networks to source items. Donations were collected, delivered, and, sometimes, stored either in the CRRC garage or at any other available premises. Donations were laid out at CRRC’s social events and guests were encouraged to help themselves. Clothes and tableware, along with vases, pictures and more decorative items, proved to be i popular. The team helped with fixing broken drawers and wardrobes, installing gates and sheds, repairing doors, and hanging mirrors, TVs and curtain rails.

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IT provision

We delivered 70 laptops (45 to Ukraine refugees, 25 to those from elsewhere), 18 Chromebooks (14/4) and 20 mobile phones (15/5), as well as several dozen SIM cards. SIM cards were provided to us by Vodafone under their Communities Connected programme. The initial project of provision of IT for Ukrainians in 20222023 has now been incorporated into the general IT provision as new Ukrainian arrivals have slowed. We are particularly grateful to Emil Hovsepyan for managing the Ukrainian IT provision between April 2022 and May 2024.

All of these devices have helped our beneficiaries access essential services, complete schoolwork, apply for jobs, undertake training and stay in touch with wider family and friends. Sustainable Tech for Good (formerly Laptops for Learning) remain our supplier of choice, also partnering with us to allow donated tech to be securely wiped and re-used.

Mobility

Over the year, the demand for driving lessons increased. We assisted six service users to pass their tests, three Afghan men and three Syrian women. Driving is an important employability skill and necessary for large families, many of whom are now housed Hi Amanda, very good outside the city. Funding for a limited number today. Thank you again of lesson hours is made available once the help and support. applicant has passed their theory test. For experienced drivers, this is 10 hours, and for beginners, this is 20 hours.

For those within the city and for school-age children, we endeavour to source secondhand bicycles. Towards the end of the year, we established a new partnership with The Liberation Cycle, a local charity dedicated to maintaining the well-being of those in need on low incomes and to decarbonising local travel. In May and June 2024 alone, they supplied 12 bicycles to CRRC families. We are very grateful for their support.

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ESOL for adults

We continued to meet the needs of those (mainly women) who were unable to access formal English classes. In addition to the discrete initiative in Brampton, from September 23 until June 24, qualified English language volunteer teachers and child carers continued to provide targeted support for 8 women in a venue in central Cambridge. Two of the women had come to the UK to join husbands who already had leave to remain and had been referred to CRRC for language support. In the first part of the year, the focus for the group was on practical English conversation and vocabulary. It was a mixed ability group but all the students made some progress. As the year progressed, the focus moved to preparation for the relevant language and citizenship tests. Three learners successfully achieved their qualifications by the end of the academic year. There was less need for childcare support as most of the children from the previous year had progressed into school. Towards the end of the year only one learner with a child attended classes and provision of suitable childcare became problematic as child carers were no longer available. As in previous years, fares to the class were reimbursed so that lack of money was not a barrier to attendance.

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One to one support by a qualified ESOL teacher continued for two refugee doctors who needed to improve their English in order to work towards the required examinations. With the teacher’s support, both were able to transfer to funded language provision. The teacher also provided extended support with applications and interviews for one of the doctors, leading to his acceptance for a job as a Healthcare Support Worker. In the second case, there was a successful progression to a higher-level language exam.

A number of new families, particularly from Afghanistan, were located, or in some cases relocated, to less central areas of Cambridge. This made provision of language support challenging. Most of the women in this group had a beginner level of English and in one case a very low level of literacy. Some support was provided by experienced ESOL teachers teaching in the home, usually with young children present. This highlighted a need, as we go forward, to locate a suitable teaching venue, to recruit and support additional teachers, and re-establish a group of childcare volunteers. CRRC has also continued to support a project which provides daily online classes for Ukrainians.

Educational support for children

We have benefitted from consistent support for school-age children from a team of 20 experienced primary and secondary school teachers who provide subject-specific as well as language development. This is an important and much appreciated means of support for families. Many school-age children from CRRC’s beneficiaries have been enrolled in the one-to-one tuition programme provided by the CRRC children’s tuition team. Some pre-school children have also had support from tutors. CRRC volunteers were matched with the families and normally met the children once a week. The aim of this support is to help the children to develop language skills, encourage conceptual understanding, increase knowledge of their cultural community, and to build their confidence and self-esteem.

The one-to-one teachers supporting school-age children have often helped with liaising with a child’s school so that the child was supported in following the curriculum at the appropriate level. Many of the English tutors worked with different families.

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Activities and culture

The hard work put in by everyone involved in the activities team this year has been much appreciated. Many families have come along to the various events and all have said how much they enjoyed them. We are very grateful to The Evelyn Trust and Cambridgeshire Community Foundation for funding our activities.

Despite a very rainy August day, 43 adults and 57 children attended an excursion to Shepreth Wildlife Park, travelling on coaches from Cambridge and Huntingdon. The families were rewarded for their determination, as the rain abated in the afternoon, and explored the park to see the wide range of animals, from rabbits to tigers. The brave ones visited the bat room, where the bats flew freely around you! At lunchtime the children enjoyed the indoor play area and families were able to enjoy their picnics and catch up with one another.

The temperature rose to over 30C for our picnic on Jesus Green in September. 10 families joined us with the children enjoying the playground, some football and some tennis. Families chatted and shared food in the shade.

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In December there was a trip to the Cambridge Junction to see Hansel and Gretel, with thanks to the Junction who gave us free tickets and ice creams. In March we went to the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, where families learnt about how carnivorous plants feed on insects and saw some in real life. After the session, there was the opportunity to explore the Gardens. In May, we were invited by curator Dr Prerona Prasad to visit the Issam Kourbaj exhibition, entitled “You are not you and home is not home”, at Downing College’s Heong Gallery. Issam’s work is an artistic response in mixed media to the Syrian war and the experience of displacement.

Seven social afternoons were held at a large ia)ke J primary school in Cambridge organised by a small team of volunteers. Anywhere between ane { 10 and 30 families attended these socials, bringing food to share and taking advantage of = A ‘ the opportunity to chat. The children played games outside including football and generally ran around having fun. For the quieter ones, there were always indoor crafting activities. Volunteers coordinated the kitchen and set up a donations table so that families could take things they need. Volunteers also helped with transport.

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Cambridge4Ukraine (C4U)

Between July 2023 and June 2024, Cambridge4Ukraine had the privilege of completing our biggest project so far – Ukrainian Saturday School ‘Mriya’ (the Ukrainian word for a dream). This project would have been impossible without help from the Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign. It was financed by the Refugee Council through a £10,000 grant received by CRRC as a registered charity and administered by Cambridge4Ukraine.

Ukrainian School ‘Mriya’ had two stages: in the first, it worked as a regular school where each Saturday over 60 Ukrainian children divided into three age groups attended three hours of classes in Ukrainian language and enjoyed a meal with their peers. There were 54 hours of classes delivered in total in this stage. In the second stage, Cambridge4Ukraine organised 17 Saturday workshops in Ukrainian in areas such as art, crafting, Ukrainian traditions and songs, financial education, and workshops with the aim of developing social and emotional intelligence for children. These workshops were attended by over 200 people, including children and their parents. All workshops were delivered by displaced Ukrainians, which provided them with additional income, and for many, it was their first work experience in the UK. This gave teachers an opportunity to request references for their work at the Saturday school, helping those who could not get a reference letter in English from their previous employers. =) a * ’ ss he We were able to ws: #2) i | TE Une PS a provide recommendations to all teachers who requested them, and Se he tee ee many were able to secure employment in the UK.

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Overall, £10,271.41 was spent on most school activities - £8,037 was used to pay for teachers’ services and £2,234.41 was spent on school materials, most of which were donated to the students or teachers after the workshops. We were also able to raise funds independently to provide payment to the teaching assistants who were also recruited from a community of displaced Ukrainians.

Additionally, in partnership with the climbing school Urban Uprising and CRRC, we were able to provide a climbing course to 10 Ukrainian children. The money for this course was paid from our CRRC account.

These two projects provided Ukrainian children with educational opportunities, and most importantly, with socialisation. Many of the parents were worried as their children were often struggling to adapt to their life in the UK and to make friends with other children who spoke a language different from their mother tongue. By far, the most important achievement of these two projects is that the children and their parents had a space to meet their peers and make friends, which assisted their life in the UK.

C4U organised a number of events open to Ukrainian refugees. We organised a trip to a charitable polo tournament (in partnership with the Cambridge and Newmarket Polo Club), three music concerts, and three film screenings. The money raised at these events was transferred to Hospitallers Ukraine Aid (Charity No. 1200534).

In addition to this, we received a £1,980 grant from Cambridge City Council for welcome packs. This aid was provided in the form of sets of essentials such as food, stationery, hygiene and household cleaning products. We provided 74 welcome packs, costing a total amount of £1,988.03.

Cooperation with CRRC has been invaluable to C4U and has allowed us to raise funds and complete projects which we would not otherwise have been able to do.

Andrii Smytsniuk Chairman of Cambridge4Ukraine

Trustee of Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign

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Communications and Outreach

Our newsletter has continued to be published quarterly to almost 500 subscribers and is further disseminated through the City of Sanctuary Faith Groups network. Our Facebook group has 1,500 members and our Twitter/X feed is followed by 1,200 accounts. In common with other organisations in the sector, we have opened a Bluesky account and will be using this in preference to Twitter/X, which has seen a big increase in misinformation and harassment.

The dental survey work conducted in the previous reporting year provided evidence submitted to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health and Social Care in January 2023. This was cited in the Committee’s report on access to NHS dentistry, published in early July 2023.

We continued our support for national campaigns against the Illegal Migration Bill, the Safety of Rwanda Bill and the use of barges, barracks and hotels to house asylum seekers. We supported South Cambridgeshire District Council’s call for Christmas gifts for the 90 children in the Bar Hill hotel by organising a collection at Jesus Lane Friends Meeting House and then delivering to Bar Hill.

We encouraged some of our young beneficiaries to take part in a ONS/Refugee Education UK survey, while some of our trustees took part in a ICB-funded research project with Anglia Ruskin University, looking at barriers to accessing health care for refugees.

We were invited to give presentations to Ely City Amnesty Group and also to the Homerton Changemakers. Volunteers spoke to students at St Mary’s Primary School, Coleridge Community College and Comberton Village College. We were also asked to attend a symposium on ‘Migration, Identity and Memory’ at Pembroke College and to participate in a BBC Newsnight On the Road programme from the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

Trustees attended the launch of the Report by the Commission on the Integration of Refugees at the Woolf Institute in May, and Cambridge City Council’s Milestones and Pledges event in June, celebrating the city’s response to welcoming refugees.

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Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign

Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year to 30 June 2024

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds
2024 2024 2024 2023
£ £ £ £
Income
Donations and legacies 52,373 25,261 77,634 109,613
Total income 52,373 25,261 77,634 109,613
Expenditure
Charitable activities 48,789 28,061 76,850 95,101
Total expenditure 48,789 28,061 76,850 95,101
Net income for the year 3,585 -2,800 784 14,512
Balances at 1 July 53,988 18,175 72,219 57,650
Transfer between funds -1,793 1,793 - -
Balances at 30 June 59,364 13,582 72,946 72,162

All of the above funds are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above.

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Balance Sheet

as at 30 June 2024

Balance Sheet
as at 30 June 2024
2024 2023
£ £
Current Assets
Cash at bank and in hand 72,946 72,162
Net current assets 72,946 72,162
Total net assets 72,946 72,162
Funds
General reserve 59,364 53,988
Restricted funds 13,582 18,175
72,946 72,162

We acknowledge grants received from:

The Ann Docwra Area Meeting Fund The Hilden Charitable Fund National Lottery Awards for All Cambridge City Council United with Ukraine Cambridgeshire Community Foundation The Evelyn Trust Homerton Changemakers The Spectris Foundation Bauer Media Cash for Kids

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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (Charity number 1172836) on the accounts for the year ended 30 June 2024

The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:

My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:

I 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.

Hilary Seaward 9 Sherlock Road Cambridge, CB3 0HR

9 December 2024

We would like to extend our sincere appreciation and thanks to the following groups and individuals who have helped and supported us over the year:

Ann Docwra Area Meeting Fund Meltem Avcil Bango.com BEAM Cambridge Aid Cambridge Botanic Gardens Cambridge Carbon Footprint Cambridge City Council United with Ukraine Cambridge Econometrics Cambridge Junction Cambridge United Foundation Cambridgeshire Community Foundation Coleridge Community College Comberton Village College Computer Aid International CUPA Dorling Kindersley East Leightonstone Parish and Brampton Hub The Evelyn Trust Sue Gowling and Sustainable Tech4Good Great St Mary’s Church H.E.L.P. Hilden Charitable Trust Homerton Changemakers ILC Kalamna Dr Ed Kessler The Liberation Cycle Susan Mealing National Lottery Community Fund OUP Petit Ensemble Prerona Prasad and the Heong Gallery, Downing College St James’s Church, Cambridge St Mary’s Primary School Shoe Aid UK Vodafone

To volunteer, donate or otherwise offer support, please visit our website or email us at info@cambridgerefugees.org