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2025-04-01-accounts

Hull Help for Refugees Annual Report April 2024/2025

We have concentrated on collecting clothing and household items to distribute to asylum seekers and refugees housed locally. We have also raised money to buy clothes vouchers for newly arrived asylum seekers. Hull is a dispersal city, and people arrive here straight from the small boat crossings, usually with very few possessions, very little suitable clothing, and sometimes no shoes.

We have been busy fundraising as well as collecting and sorting items. This means we have also been able to support 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 continued to work jointly with local charities, especially Welcome House, (an asylum seeker and refugee support organisation,) and CIAC .

We continue to attract 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 .

Riots in Hull

August 3[rd] 2024, there were riots in many northern towns, targeted at cities which had hotels housing asylum seekers. The riots in Hull lasted around 16 hours and resulted in many arrests. The local hotel was targeted, and also the local mosque. Shops in the city centre were looted, cars set on fire and bricks thrown. A local garage owned by a

person of a different ethnic origin was threatened and car tyres set alight. It was extremely stressful and dangerous for local asylum seekers who were in the hotel and the mosque at one point housed 500 people seeking safety. 100’s of local people gathered the following day to help clean up the litter in the town centre streets.

We received a big increase in donations following the riots, and 3 local people held fundraisers for us, which resulted in over £5000 being donated. We decided to give £500 to the local mosque to help with their costs of feeding so many people over 2 days and a £10.00 voucher to each of the men in the local hotel as a small acknowledgement of the severe stress which they had been under. Many asylum seekers were too scared to leave their houses over the following weeks, and some of our volunteers helped with shopping. Local law firms helping asylum seekers were threatened, which increased anxiety for local charities assisting asylum seekers. The trustees of Hull Help for Refugees decided to ask the Charity Commission for dispensation for their names not to be publicly available.

Main activity April 2024/April 2025.

Fundraising and donations

Our total income for 2024-2025 is £34,000 of which £10,000 was income from events, such as car boot sales, market stalls etc. This is less than the previous financial year, however, we received a large donation of £12,000 from the Church of the Latter Day Saints very soon after the end of the financial year.

Donations:

We were very pleased to receive grants from some local organisations as well as individuals:

we were also able to claim £2,300 Gift Aid in relation to these individual donations.

Events:

We have been very successful in holding events to fundraise and raise awareness. We raised a total of over £10,000 during this period. These are examples of some of our major fundraisers. We also have a regular stall at local car boot fairs and a monthly stall at a local market.

Expenditure

We continued our involvement with Hull based asylum seeking families, and single asylum-seeking men housed at local hotels, the numbers of men in the hotel in Hull doubled after the decision for the men to share rooms, there are now approximately 250.

We provide a 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, their weekly allowance of £9.95 is not sufficient to purchase clothing.

We also provided clothing vouchers to asylum seeking families housed in a hotel.

Major Expenditure:

Working with Other Organisations.

We work very closely with other relevant organisations in the city: Welcome House, which provides help and support to asylum seekers and refugees. We use a room at Welcome House twice weekly, www.welcomehousehull.org.uk to distribute donated clothing.

CIAC, https://www.ciacadvice.com/

(Community Integration and Advocacy Centre), and use their premises for meetings etc. We did apply for joint premises with CIAC to Hull City Council, but unfortunately were unsuccessful.

We have also provided support to homeless charities and organisations providing support to deprived families.

Conclusion

Our accommodation is provided free by Hull City Council www.hullcitycouncil and we spend very little in operating expenses. We use this accommodation for storing and sorting clothing. We have no paid staff and rely solely on our hardworking volunteers.

We can only exist with the good will and energy of our many volunteers, and people and organisations 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) Hull Help for Refugees 1176555 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 2/4/2024 1/4/2025

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
14,530
12,784
2,356
4,500
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-
34,170
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-
34,170
44,543
3,027
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47,570
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47,570
- 13,400
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18,390
4,990		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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funds
to the nearest £
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to the nearest £
14,530
12,784
2,356
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4,500
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34,170
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34,170
44,543
3,027
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47,570
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47,570
- 13,400		 Total funds
to the nearest £
14,530
12,784
2,356
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4,500
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34,170
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34,170
44,543
3,027
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47,570
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47,570
- 13,400		 Last year
to the nearest £
Donations 14,530 7,845
Events 12,784 11,282
Gift Aid 2,356 2,000
Other income -
Release of deferred income -
Grants & Other Corpdonations 4,500 20,000
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 34,170 41,127
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
41,127
Donationspaid out 44,543 44,128
OperatingExpenses 3,027 3,209
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**Sub total ** 47,570 47,337
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
47,337
- 13,400 - - - 13,400 - 6,210
- - - - -
18,390 - - 18,390 24,600
4,990 - - 4,990 18,390

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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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 £
3,780
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1,210
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4,990
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OK
OK
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funds
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funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
Unrestricted
2,392
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
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Print Name
Leonne Griggs		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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Current value
(optional)
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Current value
(optional)
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
Leonne Griggs

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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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 Refugees On accounts for the year ended 01-April-2025 Charity no (If any) 1176555 Set out on pagas I report to the trusteès on my examination of the accounts of th8 at)ove charty rthe Trust.) for the year ended 0110412025. Rèsponsibllitles and As the Charity trustees of th8 Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basi8 of rèport of the accounts in arxordance with the requlrements of the Charities Act 2011 ('Ihe Acf). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts Carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my exarnination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(51(b) of the Act. I have comp18ted my examination. I confimi Ihat no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me caus8 to believe that in, any material respect: accounting re¢ords were not kept in accordance with se¢tion 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with Ihe accounting records I have no con¢ems and have come across no other matters in Connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Independont examiner's statement Signed: Date: 2817125 Name: stephen Hirst Relovant professlonal qualiflcation(s} or body (rf any): ACMA- CIMA Addrèss: 7 Wilson Close North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire HU14 3BW Section B Disclosure Only complele rf the examiner needs to highlighl matters of wncern (see CC32. Independent examination of charity a¢counts= directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018

Glve here brief details of any itoms that the examinerwishes to dlsclose. IER October 2018