2023-04-01-accounts

Hull Help for Refugees Annual Report April 2022/2023

• This year marked our 8th anniversary as an organisation, and 5[th] year as a charity.

• We have continued our main focus this year on helping locally based asylum seekers and refugees. We have provided regular cash support to two projects abroad.

• We have continued to focus on fundraising and raising awareness.

• We have continued to expand and have about 50 very active volunteers and are followed by nearly 5000 people on our Facebook page.

• We raised nearly £70,000 this financial year.

• Donated £12,000 to other organisations working with asylum seekers abroad.

We have focussed on collecting clothing and household items to distribute to asylum seekers housed locally. We have also raised money, to buy a basic set of new clothes for newly arrived asylum seekers. Often people arrive in this country with nothing, and very little suitable clothing, and often no shoes.

We have also been busy fundraising as well as collecting and sorting items. This means we have been able to continue to support Anne in Athens, (Anne is one of our volunteers based in Athens) and a sewing machine project in Bangladesh, which relies on our funding to provide sewing machines to local women and provide them with training, in order for them to seek employment.

We have worked jointly with local charities, especially Welcome House, an asylum seeker and refugee support organisation. We have a room in their building, and distribute clothing from there, twice weekly.

We have moved to new premises, and attracted new volunteers, many of whom are asylum seekers. We have utilised the skills of some recently arrived asylum seekers, some of whom have professional backgrounds.

We collected and distributed bicycles, which are useful to asylum seekers, however, this proved to be quite costly in terms of repairs, so we decided to stop this activity towards the end of the year.

We enabled asylum seeking volunteers to participate in a local PATT scheme, which grows food for food banks, and plants trees. We provided transport and general support This means that they can gain valuable voluntary work experience, and references for when they are in a position to seek employment. This activity stopped towards the end of the year.

Additional accommodation for 200 single male asylum seekers has been recently established nearby and we are working with local church groups to provide basic essential clothing.

We took part in the salvage of tents and sleeping bags from the Leeds festival, and arranged for the washing and cleaning of thousands of sleeping bags to take to Calais, to help people trying to claim asylum in the UK to cross the channel.

Main activity April 2022/April 2023.

Fundraising and donations

Our total income for 2022-2023 is £76,138 of which £10,873 was income from events.

Donations:

• Lord Mayors charity for the year.

• We were lucky enough to be one of the Lord Mayor of Hull’s charities for the year, this gave us a great deal of publicity and we also gained £6000 in fundraising by the Mayor.

• We received a donation of £20,000 from a bequest

• We attracted some large donations from local groups:

• £1000 from Mother Humber

• £10,000 from The Church of the Latter Day Saints

• £1000 from UNISON

• Regular donations: we receive regular monthly donations of £400, and we received £6000 from individual donations

Events:

• We have been very successful in holding events to fundraise and raise awareness. These are examples of some of our major fundraisers. We also have a regular stall at a local car boot fair and a monthly stall at a local market.

• We participated in a yard sale which raised £1400

• A meal cooked by volunteers: £1200

• Carol singing £400

• Art exhibition which raised £1000

Expenditure

As lock down ended we continued being more involved with Hull based asylum seeking families, and single asylum-seeking men housed at the local hotel. Towards the end of the year, we introduced a system of providing a £50 voucher from a local clothing store to give to newly arrived asylum-seeking men to the city. Usually men in this position have only the clothes which they are wearing and we had been providing a set of basic clothing. However, it made more sense for the men to choose their own clothes. They are provided with a leaflet with a list of clothing, and pictures of the items, a translation app is used to explain about the use of the vouchers. We keep a careful record of who has had a voucher, so there is only one given out per person. It is explained, that they will need to use that to buy shoes and a coat. Feedback from this system is very positive. The men can also access the donated clothing, which is distributed at Welcome House.

We were able to use a room at Welcome House, www.welcomehousehull.org.uk a local support charity supporting asylum seekers and refugees, to distribute clothing both new and used. We also organised a trip to the seaside for asylum seeking families.

We received a grant of £5,000, from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, specifically for clothing for the men housed at the local hotel. Many of whom arrived here with no possessions or clothing. They also gave a grant of £5000, to buy clothing for the 200 men housed in in a village nearby.

Expenditure

• We spent £7700 on new clothing for the young men housed at the local hotel. In addition we spent £6400 on vouchers. We also spent £1548 on new rucksacks to distribute.

• We spent £4,500 on clothing and other items for the families housed locally.

• We donated £3740 to Anne in Athens. Anne provides nappies, baby food, food and other essential items to some destitute asylum seeking families based on Athens.

• We donated £4640 to a project in Bangladesh which provides sewing machines and training for women, for them to gain an income.

• We donated £2717 to Care for Calais.

Other Activity

• We salvaged over 1000 sleeping bags along with numerous tents from the Leeds festival, working with Jubilee Church and Raise the Roof homeless charity. We were supported by Hull College and given the use of their industrial washing machines. Local volunteers washed the remainder of the

sleeping bags. In partnership with Yorkshire Aid the majority of sleeping bags were transported to Care4Calais to be distributed to those sleeping rough while fleeing conflict. We also donated sleeping bags to local homeless charities including Emmaus and Raise the Roof.

• We were donated toys from Viking FM www.vikingfm.co.uk Cash for Kids at Christmas. We provided some of these to the Refugee Council for their Christmas party, and distributed the others to families in Hull.

• Our online quiz has continued to generate income of around £150 a month

• We discovered from a group of young Afghan asylum seekers that they went out to play cricket every day in a local park, using plastic equipment. They told us how they’d grown up playing cricket with tape-covered tennis balls. We facilitated four of the young men to attend Cottingham Cricket Club’s training sessions, and before long the club signed them up. HHfR provided the men with t-shirts, shorts and trainers as well as a new cricket bat, balls, cricket helmets, gloves and protective wear that they needed to participate in training. While the club provided their ‘whites’ for league matches, HHfR also bought each of the four spiked cricket shoes. They went on to complete an entire season with the club, and one has even won a trophy for his bowling.

Working with Other Organisations

We have worked very closely with other relevant organisations in the city, especially Welcome House, which provides help and support to asylum seekers and refugees. We have provided support to homeless charities and organisations providing support to deprived families. UNISION www.unison.org.uk has been a major support to use, letting us use their premises for storage and distribution.

Conclusion

Laws and policies regarding asylum seekers have been tightened, which has made life more difficult for people seeking asylum, who are housed in the city.

We have been involved in supporting a local faith based group who are providing clothing to asylum seeking men, housed in a village near to Hull. There were over 200 men housed there during this period. Another hotel in a different nearby village housed 95 single asylum seeking men, we have been financially supporting the local group who have been buying and supplying clothing to these men.

We have found ways to be flexible and still achieve our objectives. Our income has increased substantially this year, due to a large bequest and some large grants.

We anticipate that our income through donations will be less next year. Our number of volunteers has also increased, which means that we can continue to provide clothing and support and develop our activities in other areas.

We have moved accommodation to a large disused warehouse. Our accommodation, is provided free by Hull City Council www.hullcitycouncil and we spend very little in operating expenses.

We can only exist with the good will and energy of our many volunteers, and people who support us financially. It is clear that the situation for people seeking asylum globally is continuing to worsen, and we are keen to play a part, albeit very small in helping people in desperate circumstances both home and abroad.

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Charity Name		No (if any)
1176555 Hull Help for Refugees
Receipts andpayments accounts				CC16a
For the period from	Period start date 02/04/2022	Period end date To 01/04/2023

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 41,933 10,873 6,279 17,053 - - 76,138 - - - 76,138 59,617 6,479 - - - - - - - 66,096 - - - 66,096 10,042 - 14,558 24,600	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £ 41,933 10,873 6,279 - - 17,053 - - 76,138 - - - 76,138 59,617 6,479 - - - - - - - 66,096 - - - 66,096 10,042		Last year to the nearest £
Donations	41,933		- - - - - - - - -	41,933		29,447
Events	10,873			10,873		8,584
Gift Aid	6,279			6,279		410
Other income				-		234
Release of deferred income				-		1,000
Grants & Other Corpdonations	17,053			17,053		-
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Sub total(Gross income for AR)	76,138			76,138		39,675
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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Total receipts A3 Payments
			-	76,138		39,675
Donationspaid out	59,617		- - - - - - - - - -	59,617		24,462
OperatingExpenses	6,479			6,479		3,605
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**Sub total **	66,096			66,096		28,067
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
			-	66,096		28,067
	10,042	-	-	10,042		11,608
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	14,558	-		14,558		2,950
	24,600	-	-	24,600		14,558

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds	Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Cash at Bank Cash at PayPal Less Deferred Income Details Details Container Details Signature	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 22,073 - 2,527 - - - 24,600 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Unrestricted 2,392 - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Leonne Griggs	Endowment funds to nearest £
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Hull Help for RefLyees On accounts for the year ended 01-Aprik2023 Charlty no (rf any) 1176555 Set out on pages I reprKt to Ihe trustees on my examination of the accounts of Ihe above charity {-the Trust") for the year ended 0110412023. Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ih8 Act"). I report in resped of my examination of the Trust'5 accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in Ca￿Ing out my examinatlon. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5Xb) of the Act. I have completed my examinatK)n. I confim that no material matters have )m8 to my attention (other than that disclosed below ") in connection wlth the examination giv8s me cause lo believe that in. any material respecl= accounliro records wer8 not kept in accordance with sectron 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with Ihe accounting r8cords Independent examlnerfs statsment I have no COn￿mS and have come acros5 no other matters in connection with the examination to vthich attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the bV(Yds in Ihe LYack8ts if thay do not apply. Slgned: Date: Zo? Name: ALO Relevant professional quaiificatlon{s) or body (If any): CITM aGfvl￿,ACfft Aft 2cL I Address: h¢UJe KeE Section B Disclosure Only cmiplete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32. Independent examination of charity ac{￿unts. directions and guidance for examineT5). IER October 2018

Give here brief details of any iterns that the exarniner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018