SOLllOARll TEE UK Registered Charity 1182195 SOLIDARITEE ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25 ACADEMIC & FINANCIAL YEAR Our Year at a Glance Our volunteer community was made up of 200 volunteers across 24 university teams Our education and outreach events included PALESTINIAN DISPLACEMENT conferences poetry evenings quizzes and our fundraising and community- building events included yoga sponsored hikes painting events across one united movement. We supported eight partner organisations providing legal information court mental health representation support Who were able to reach people living in closed refugee camps, detention centres, and other unsafe situations with vital services in support of safety, peace and freedom for those who have experienced persecution. Clients supported by our partners, programmes shared messages including: ' This knowledge expanded my brain. Before I thought that I should do just one-word answers, like 'yes' or 'no'. Now I know I should talk, and answer the questions properly. This has expanded my mind, I feel empowered and confident to tell my story tomorrow. I really appreciate it, it makes such a difference, it's really really helpful. Now l understand everything, it makes it more clear and it makes the interview seem not too much or stressful" Client who attended a legal empowerment session with Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid Thank you! l am very grateful to the lawyer. She saved my life and my child's future. I will never forget what you did for me and all the other women. Client from Somalia, supported by Irida's legal team for her asylum application and interview, and her child custody case •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Introduction: SolidariTee in the 2024/25 academic and financial year Dear all, Thank you for taking the time to read SolidariTee's annual report for the 2024/25 academic and financial year. Our reports are the most in-depth method we have to communicate the details and realities of our movement with our supporters, and with others interested in learning more about our work. We hope you will find it interesting, informative and encouraging. Each year, there are different key moments and defining features, as can be expected from a volunteer-run movement supporting organisations in a very complex operating environment. For the 2025/26 academic year, the word that I feel best reflects our strategy is perseverance. As we share this report, in 2026, we have two important milestones to celebrate. Since registering as a charity in 2019,1 am delighted to say that SolidariTee has provided more than half a million pounds in funding to grassroots NGOS. Almost all of this funding has come directly from the power of student community organising and fundraising,. just a small proportion of our income is received through direct donations or other funding sources. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• During this time, our partners have been providing legal assistance •• •• •• connected with mental health support, and other vital related services such as interpretation, protection support, and advocacy, reaching tens of thousands of people who are refugees in Greece. •• In addition, by March of the 2025/26 academic year, we have received more than l 000 applications to join the team. This reflects a level of interest that we haven't seen in any period since the 2020/21 academic year, marked by Covid and largely off-campus activities. However, in the 2024/25 academic year, there were moments when such achievements seemed far off. We spent much of this year grappling with the consequences of a downturn in engagement with refugee issues, as student energy and attention was directed elsewhere. Our 2024/25 volunteer community was the smallest it had been For many years. We received significantly fewer volunteer application5 than we were expecting, though not for lack of effort or proactive outreach by the student leadership team. Reduced capacity resulted in fewer events and initiatives took place across the teams that were set up. We remain conscious that today's first year uni students have grown up with more than a decade of increasingly hostile media and political messaging about refugees. In addition, the impacts on today's young activists of watching the i nternational community fail to intervene in a live-streamed genocide in Palestine are wide- reaching. For some this spurred powerful mobilisation that hadn't been seen on university campuses since Occupy 2011 , for other mounting feelings of helplessness. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• With a model where the funding available to our partners is directly i• •• •• linked to volunteer activity in 'real-ti me,, as could be expected, despite all best efforts, the funding that we were able to raise to support our partner NGOS was also lower than expected. This was a particular blow in a year where international cuts to humanitarian aid funding were already creating ripple effects for frontline organisations supporting refugees in Greece and beyond. We were forced to have difficult conversations with our partners about the fact that we would not be able to provide pledged funding on the origi nal ti meline. Beyond that, we explored very real questions about the future of our fundraising model, and the impact we could create in future years. Overwhelmingly, though badly in need of funding, our partner organisations were incredibly affirming of the value of SolidariTee's work. They expressed that even relatively smaller amounts OF funding, when provided by an organisation such as SolidariTee that enables them to use it f lexibly to support their core operations, is incredibly valuable. They also reminded us that to be partners doesn't mean engaging only when funding is readily accessible, but believing in the value of each others, work through ebbs and flows. Fi nally, they told us to focus on the longer-term, recognising that other sources of funding for refugees are only likely to dry up further. They reminded us that by simply existing in the years to come, we'll be able to double down on our cumulative impact. After •• all, what at First glance seems like small drops of water becomes •• •• part of an ocean when it's sustained. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• In response we adapted our partnership agreements to ensure that •• future dips in fundraising don't contribute to mismatched •• expectations about payment timelines. We also decided to focus on communicating the why behind SolidariTee's mission as strongly as possible to new students, continuing our work with many positive achievements. •• •• •• Conferences, partnerships, coalitions, and ceilidhs all contributed to our overall strategy: support for people seeking safety at Europe's borders in the here and now, and education that supports culture change for years to come. The academic year started in the immediate aftermath of chilling racist riots of summer 2024, fuelled by harmful anti-migrant, islamophobia and widespread misinformation. It ended with weeks of anti-migrant protests in 2025, causing unimaginable harm to people who have newly arrived to the UK in search of safety, as well as to migrant communities who have built homes and communities for decades. In 2025, research into the UK'S charity sector also found that almost half of small charities feared closure within the next year due to their financial situation. Against this backdrop, people reaching Greece's refugee camps following experiences of human rights abuses and persecution in •• places such as Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria and Somalia continue to •• receive shockingly little media attention or public understanding. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Ten years on from the height of the 'reFugee crisis, in 2015 and •• •• 2016, where public engagement piqued, many of todals students simply don't know that refugee camps in Greece and elsewhere exist at all, let alone about the legal minefield that surrounds applications for international protection. •• •• •• In April 2025, as part of a partner visit, I met with some of the people living in Lesvos, refugee camp at a legal empowerment session hosted by our partner Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid. One of these people was Zahra. a woman from Afghanistan in her early 20s, who was attending an information session run by one of our partner organisations. Zahra was pregnant at the time, and yet still living in a container without any additional support From the state- run camp authorities. She expressed that she was feel ing fearful about what would happen when it was time to give birth to her baby, and about life raising her child in a camp, alone with no family around her. Within the space of a single day, our partner was able to provide her with personalised legal advice based on their previous research about people seeking asylum who are pregnant, and also arrange for urgent referrals to be made to services supporting refugee mothers. She received a combination of expert legal guidance, mental health first aid, and support to access practical forms of support that would lead to safety and protection for both Zahra and her baby. Without legal aid, this would have been impossible. We continue to focus on creating a vehicle to channel funding for •• vital services like this, whilst also providing education about the •• •• need for compassionate, rights-based change to the asylum system •• •• •• •• li.the UK and Euro e as a whole. •• •• •• •• •• •• In the coming pages, you can read more about the amazing work •• that we fund, as well as the student community who are the driving force behind our strategic pillars. •• •• •• If you would like to learn more about our work, please don't hesitate to contact us at comms@solidaritee.org.uk, and we would be delighted to share more. In solidarity, Alexa Nety {volunteer CEO) and the SolidariTee Board of Trustees I have heard it said we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother's voice, over the tide, and she whispers in my ear, 'Oh, but if they saw, my darling. Even halF of what you have. If only they saw. They would say kinder things, surely., Quote from Khaled Hosseini s 'Sea Prayerf, a book written after the death of three year old Syrian refugee Alain Kurdi •• in 20 75. The short story is made up of a father's words to his •• •• •• •• •• •• •• son as they embark on a journey across the ocean. •• Who we Support In the 2024/25 academic year, we supported eight organisations who had previously been selected to receive SolidariTee Funds throughout 2024, and in most cases, 2025. We recognise that multi-year, unrestricted funding is the most beneficial type of support that organisations can receive. Unearmarked funding enables NGOS to do what they do best. to be adaptive, to listen to their communities, to react quickly, and to underpin their projects With funding for core costs such as salaries and office running expenses which are often seen as 'not fundable, by traditional donors. These organisations work throughout Greece, and each have a specific area of focus and expertise. Some partners are particularly expert in supporting people who have been persecuted as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identity; others support self-identifying women, unaccompanied children and young peope, and survivor5 of gender- based violence. Other organisations focus specifically on people who struggle to access support from other NGOS because they don't fit into traditional vulnerability classifications. Some OF our partners work inside refugee camps, whilst others focus on people trapped in detention centres or living in urban areas of Greece who are often not reached by other services. Underpinning all of this is the vital work that many of our partners engage in, often in deeply challenging conditions, to speak out and denounce violations of international law by the Greek government, bring strategic litigation cases to the European Court of Human Rights, and produce researched reports documenting conditions for reFugees at Europe's borders. Our Partners "MobileT7oYeam "MIT'S work is built on core pillars: We woA( alongside people disadvantaged by displacement or migrntion in Greece to navigate complex legal systems by providing accessible informalion and tailored case support, empowering them to Q55ert their riahts. We use our daily interactions with people to advocate for systemic change ot national and EU leve15, amplifying the voices of those affected by exclusionary policies and campaigning for a just asylum and migration system. Frtyn JuDuwy. Odobor 2025 More than 5000 enquiries We￿ on$wered vio Mobile Info Team's WhalsApp and Facebook hortines in muhiple languages, supporting more than l 000 people with bespoke information lo address concerns. 800,000 people were reoched ocross social MOBILE rn￿10 through inFomialion posts in OFO TEAM different longuages "Everyone deserves - - many are forced to flee to find this. Fenix accompanies people on a critical Step of their journey with a unique form of legal aid: holistic, trouma-informed and 5trength-based. enix umanitarian Legal Aidi • a From August 2024- Jvly 2025.1 Fenix supported... 2000 Since our founding in 2018 we have witnessed how people who seek Safety are challenged by systems that are designed to humiliate, disempower, mistrust and deny their right5. In this context, we see a need to move away from traditional charity and refugee aid models k) models that respect each individuals. Jency, res nce, and ioice-makins. vniqve individuals thrwdh grovp and/or individual information sessions and I counselling 59 people of morginalised gender ond/or sexuol identity through o holi51ic, in-depth programme of legal ond psychoswiol support to promote long" term wellbeing otKI occess to rights FENIX Our Partners Equal Legal Aid 'We believe that every displaced person fleeing persecution has: From January- September 2025, ELA'5 work iftcl￿.. The right to seek asylum 7he right to request legal and pr(Kedural guidance during the asylum procedure The right to dignified living conditions 500 in-depth legal consulknlions provided appeals lodged on bd)olF of people who ho4 been unjusdy ros We have made it our mission to enable displaced persons to take informed decisions in the course of their asylum procedure. To successfully carry out this mission, legal aid must be provided in a flexible, mobik and accessible way. 47 legal clinics organised by the ELA coordinator ond volunteer Iwer5 in community centres near camps EQUAL LEGAL AID "In the first and sole fe community space for women in Northern Greece, women receive the support they need to addre55 their challenge5, find solutions, and achieve long-losting p051tive change. Al Irido, Irom January. Ocknber 2025... self-identifying women Furticipoted in group psYchos￿la1 sessions led by o guolifi psycholo9iSt, kcused on Iroumo-sensilive opprooches to w¢lSbeing and monaging 5tre55 99 14 kwted through Through :asework, legal, psychological )upport. . . services, women have access to space for learning* making responsible decisions for their lives, and pursuing opportunities for personal and professional growth." women were sv lyl ossislonce to SLKcesshJlly obtain o Fwmit 25 reco9nised retugees received knrther and ongoing le9ol support, enobling them lo rMJvigote knreavcrolic borriers and occess the rights and service5 thol they or8 enh1￿1 b, sUPPOrting lashng intregralion Our Partners "Our work centres around a safe space in central Athens for youna k)eople aaed 16-30 vears old, which offers range of services as well as support to access services delivered by parlner organisations. Velos Youth , From August 2024. Sep￿& 2025... 13 ro w)pltr recei￿ l•gol represenbtion instance appeols lyery diNiculF Procau￿5 o lirsl oppeol hos olwdy bw rejectsdl yovng were Ily represert￿ by o l£wryer within their asylum applicohons We work with young people to help them reimagine their futures, and take the next steps towards achieving their goals and aspirations. 42 youn9 pwle Support￿ to D￿. or kn be issued, with 9$59ntiol documents b li ond work stsfe￿ in Greec• withoui Fear of orie31 We are a response to the evolving needs of newly arrived young people in urban Athens and a place where they can come together as persons - not profiles - to understand and practice both difference and unity." yovng p￿e who were dekiined by Greek outhoritie5 kr seekin9 sofety wwe representsd kj secure their rdwsg ond occess lo rights VELOS Besides conlinuou5 and direct 5UPPQrt, the Legal Centre works towards collective justice and struclural change as part of local and international movements: documenting violations of migrants, rights and engaging in advocacy and strategic litigation to hold the Greek government, Member States of the European Union, and European inslitutions to account. Legal-centre'lesvos Au055 2025... 650 pee*)le tho hod neth affived to the islond OF Lesvos received legol oss1ston￿ in relolion to oC￿sing registrahon and 05ylum p￿￿edu￿5 in Greece. Itgal c¢$e5 broughi behre the European Court of Hvmon Rights Fwile supported by LCL were ucquitta of c¥iminal charges relatin9 to cousing 5hipwTrcks or 5mugglin9 In addition, we advocate for equal access to tnigroTion in Greece, Europe and 300 people received legal inforniotion relaliftg b the rights o105ylvm seekers through inkrniatéon Sessions. globally. Our Partners Detence for C ren International - Greece Defence for Children International - Greece {DCI-Greece) provides specialised support k) displaced -K', young peoplr ￿nd faiiiiiir) in Athens and LesVO5. Alongside legal support, DCI-Greece implements holistic protection programmes for childreni young mothers and survivors of violence, combining Psychosocial care, casework, language learning and skills development towards integration and 5elf-sustainability. We aim to offer a safe Space where children, young people and families on the move can rebuild their dignity, claim their rights and develop the confidence and skills needed to shape their fulure." Auoss Athens and iesvos in 2025... 397 displaced people includsng their childr8n re￿1 $P8cialised legrjl support, including legol counselling, PT8paralton kr 05ylum interyi8W5, 901 suknissions, appeols, sUbwL￿1 oppltcolions and krni reUnikahC￿ prrKdure5. 72 mothers amended empowerment ond guIdan￿ sessions. chtlknn ptsrliciputsd 82 . ych050cial ond In ps educati￿01 {￿1vIl¢e5. DEF&¥CE Foft CHILDIEII INTERNATIO￿L "Witne55ing olation5 of our clients, on laily b our internalional team of human rights lawyers and advocates relies on legal means to defend and protect the dignity and equality of every person in need, regardless of their individual background. Equal Rights Beyond Borders A¢r0$5 2025... chiklren wkn urrivd to Grepce withryJl were PTovided ¢hild-frielldly o¢commtrdotion. ERBB d50 rePreSEn￿ Urt￿C¢￿￿Punld min¢xs hdd ', &￿Thh(M to ensure thetr rdeose. We ;tand with people on the move in the fight agoin5t undignified living conditions on the Greek mainland and in the island camps, against unlawful detention, and ogain5t illegal deportations. A special focus of ours is legal advice in from all over the woAd. In addition to individual legal aid, we engage in STraTeglC IITIC on, researcn ' advocaci 'please note that all partners receive multiple sources OF funding, and as such, achievements documented in this report cannot generally be directly attributed to any single funder 1000 people were SLKCe55kn11y reunited in Fornity reunifi'¢otion funded a conference hosted by (B)OrderS Workshop: Vulnerabilities, the Queen Mary's University of London Special Procedural Needs and the EU IBIOrderS Centre for the Legal Study of New Pact on Migration Borders, Migration and Displacement in March 2025. The event focused on how the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum would i mpacl people with additional vulnerabilities, such as children, LGBT+ people, and survivors of iorlure within the asylum system. SolidariTee's c￿PresIdent Tenley Fuentes Lema delivered the event's opening speech, and Nanlina Tsekeri, our partner DCIGreece's executive director, gave a keynote talk. Drag Down the Borders Collal)oration In Morch 2025, SolidariTee were selected to be one of the or9anisalions supported through Drag Down the Borders fundraising event. DDTB puls on shows full of queer joy and solidarity, showcasing incred ible drag, burlesque, cabaret and DJ talenl. They run fundraising nights with raffles and clothing collections, lo raise money in 501idarity with migronls, people seeking asylum and refugees. These funds go lo people focing cruel i mmigration policies and to organisalion5 resisting and dismantling these policies and borders. SolidariTee were invited to host a slall at the event alongside other grassroot5 refugee ond migrant support chorilies, and our CEO Alexa 9ave a talk durin9 the intermission about the impact of legal assistance in Greece. SAT 22 MARCH 7PII- I MATCHSTICK PIEHOUSE ,,IllIll￿P￿l iJiSFAITITt4W,_ msMoTKRPHUCKER :, . !.11.CiIYTIJJMU%GD2.,.iLICKIAIIIIKNEh ' l.'I DRAG DOWN THE BORDERS RAG KINGS QUEENS & THlliG5 SJPPO4 i THE;,IIGRAlilS IST08E4NNOUACEOI UDMEE&SOUwffM￿￿>JW With support from a generous long-time Big Give Christmas SolidariTee supporter, we were able to Challenge2024 secure a £1,000 pot of match funding to participate in the Big Give Christmas challenge. This set of matched knnds was then doubled by another Big Give supporter to become a total of £2,000 available to be matched by donations during a one-week period. In this time, every £1 donated by supporters would be doubled until match funding ran out. We were thrilled to exceed our goal and raise a total of over £4,000 in a single week! In addition to providing a vital boost to our partner organisations at a critical moment in the year when annual budgets are typically running thin, we were also able to connect with a number of first- time supporters of our charity, building relationships to be continued in the future. Thank You! every￿ dts)o*d b our Bi9 Gwe ChalWe Together, we roised £4,229.04 £OI..IDARI TEE i • té eP•'•'_ YO EVERYONE WHO HAS Df)NATED £1126 £4,000 ill b• WUSiED hr Sdw. University Chosen Charity Partnerships Through a vote from the student body, we were delighted that SolidariTee was chosen as international charity of the year for the University of St Andrews Charities Campaign for the 2024/25 academic year. USACC raised phenomenal £81 ,000 through student-body fundra ising during the year, divided between three chosen charities. We received these funds in the subsequent academic year. We were also chosen to be the charity partner for the University of Edinburgh Fashion Society, raising over £2,000 in a single event. Thank you to everyone who made these partnersh ips possible! £81503a5111 ,I,I,rr'i)I i*•(,Summep in Switzepland 41 5thotyl Leysin American School Summer Programme SolidariTee's CEO Alexa Netty was invited back lo deliver workshops at the Leysin American School's Summer in Switzerland programme in June 2025. Connecting with studenls from oll across the globe aged 9-16, Ihe sessions focused on building empoihy with refugees and people seeking safety, exploring ihe concept of human rights, and vnderslanding what it means lo be accountable to people in crisis in an age-appropriate way. One of the sessions involved students working in groups to design a flood_resistent 5helier for an imaginary community who had been displaced from their homes, and involved mock interviews with community members to gather information about the needs and priorities of different members of the village. This opened the door to discussions about gender considerations, power dynamics, budgetary constraints and sustainability in humonitorion response efForls. We linked this bock lo issues affecting refugees and other displaced people, and also provided opporlvnilies to build communication and advocacy skills through projects designing t-shirt stalls and charity 'elevator pitches, connected to different audiences. Alongside Ihese sessions, the funds raised from bespoke LAS x SolidariTee summer camp l-shirt5 helps to make the provision of legal and menlal health support for people on the move in Greece possible. Thank you the LAS leam for inviting us to be parl of the 'magic mountain, grateful to have this opportunity to connect with young changemakersl we are very Rights'ln Exlle Platform Rights in Exile: SolidariTee legal researcher cohort Following the closure of AMERA Internationol, one of SolidoriTee's previous partner organisations, their Rights in Exile plarform was transitioned lo being hosted by Swis5 charity AsyLex. Rights in Exile is a global resource hub working to promote and strengthen access to justice and legol prolection of refvgees worldwide, which includes an online database searchable by country with information about the legal processes relating to migration and asylum, as well as a directory of legal organisations that could be approached for support. To support the transition and ensure adequate capacity to maintain the site in its first year of being h05ted under a new organi5ation, SolidariTee managed a cohort of volunteer legal researchers, primarily composed of graduate and previous slvdent volunteers looking for a way lo stay connected wilh the movement. "During our colloborotion with the AsyLex teom on the Rights in Exile plotForm, our SolidariTee volunteer cohort ha5 worked on over 50 legal information pages which support both people seeking a5Oum ond the legal proclitioners helping them k) understand the legal context and assistance available in countries around the world. This has been not only a fantastic opportunity for our graduate volunteers to keep contributing to the Solidonlee mission once they've left campus, but olso o brillionl woy for the wider sector to benefit from our volunteers, commitment to supporting those forced io flee iheir homes and knowledge of asylum principles. Most importandyi il's creakd another roule for our movemenl to provide direct support lo people seeking sofety - our volunteers hove been very proud to see iheir work on ihe platForm ready for people to use as they begin rebuilding their live5." Jess Molyneux, Rights in Exile x SolidariTee Coordi nator Where We Rise A Call to Fund Bold, Frontline Solidarity 'STEPS collective > old In the summer of 2025, SolidariTee participated in the Where We Rise movement, the initial idea of fellow refugee support charity Collective Aid. In an era of fvnding cuts, with many of the smallest organisations we work alongside in Greece and beyond being forced to scale back their operotions or close their doors entirely, the idea was simple,. lo work 109ether to call for increased attention and support for people on the move with one strong voice, amplifying each others, messaging as opposed to competing for funding. ASYUIM Spu￿5 I P40HTHÉAN UGNTS AIO FENIX ipsia klTrkAktiv EN SolidariTee played a leading role in the central coordination unil throughoul the period that the movement wos active. #iM¥•l• Ofj•••bl•4 fDrRelus¥e ZUAIC Together, participating organisations all agreed that we feli closer logether as a sector, and knew more about the work of each others, orsanisctions. raised a modest amounl of funding for each organisation once divided by 30, and also created opportunities for people already engaged in supporting people affected by displacement to connect with other organisalions doing si milar work through cross-posting, orsan isation spotlights, and Instagram live discussions. We arg o cryjlihon OF 30 civil society or9tsnisahons standing Icgathèr in supwrt of people who 0￿ Forced to move in Yulnerable situolions. Your knution will knlp 9rt15sroots orgonisalions ocross Evrope to continue stonding ogoinsl hostrile borders ond righis viololion5, providing vitol services to peoplg on the move. Fund5 roi5ed through this camptsign could 5L*PPOrt essonliol infrostruclure, svch os mobile old, volvntreer CoCAit￿tion, o&ocacys (md emergency response ol Evrope'5 Ix)rders. From the UK lo Greece, and from the Balkan region to Calais, all OF our orgonisotions ore needed, ond need each other, to achieve our vision. We are grateful to all who participated I .bJndoni Donak hday lo rnake soiidarity un5toppoble. whertrwtrrise RISE SolidariTee x Velos Youth Freedom t-shirt collection At the start of the academic year, we connected with our partner Velos Youth, who support young people who are refugees or otherwise new to Greece aged 16-30 in Athens. What followed was a t-shirt designing workshop involving a number of the young people who make up Velos, community, who were invited to create designs that represented a story or message that they would want to tell young people and other supporters in the UK. We have long believed in the power of our t-shirts as conversation sparks, and an awareness-raising and empathy-building tool in their own right, so this felt like an important next step in keeping the values behind the t-shirts at the heart of their purpose. At the end of 2024, we were delighted to launch our Freedom t-shirt collection, featuring a design produced during the workshop by a young person named Abdul Basir Salarzai. Abdul was 18 at the time, and had arrived in Greece having left AFghanistan as a young unaccompanied teenager. In addition to having received SolidariTee-funded legal support, Abdul also participates in the other activities, community-building spaces, and educational classes on offer at Velos. For hi5 design, he drew birds flying over the mountains of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. He describes this as the last mental picture that he has of the country he grew up in before he left. Abdul expressed that he felt good about having the opportunity to do something that would help Velos, and the other partners who would receive SolidariTee funds, as opposed to being the one who is helped on this occasion. The t-shirts carry the word 'Freedom', or EA8ue8pia in Greek, a word chosen by the Velos team to reflect their aspiration for each young person in Greece. li 11 11 LIAHI Looking Ahead strengthening our team and ways of working Pillar four of our strategy focuses on 'resilient organisationally sustainable ways of working,. By working with student volunteers, we have a naturally high turnover OF team members each academic year, which needs careful consideration to ensure that institutional knowledge and lessons learned can be retained year-on-year. We also want to make sure that our reach and ability to create impact aren't excessively lied to the capacity of a small number of individual volunteers. This is because overreliance on specific roles without any backup poses risks for the organisation, and for the mental wellbeing of the student leadership team. It's also important to us because our value system is based around the multiplier effect of collective impact, and we wanted to create opportunities to build on this at all levels of the team. As such, during the 2024/25 academic year, we expanded the number of positions available on a core '5tudent leadership team,, along with creating new opportunities for people who were not current students to join the team. In doing so, we are demonstrating to young activists that individualism and burnout are not prerequisites for working in this space. Meet some of our student leaders Hannah Fuchs, 24/25 shop manager and 2025/26 Secretary Can you tell us about yourself, and what roles you have been involved with on the team. I'm a final year medic and this year's Secretary (and if I'm noi busy with either you'll probably find me baking cinnamon buns, going For a run, or knitting another pair of socks). I first heard about SolidariTee when the team at my uni had a stall. I then joined the leam, initially as a general member focusing mostly on spreading the word land tees) far and wide. Because I loved the tees so much and what they stand for, i then joined the central team as the Online Shop and Logistics Manager, working behind the scenes to keep the posting team running, and to provide all of our teams with t shirls! For my final year of university, l applied to join the Student Leadership team as the Secretary. What made you wont to take on the secretary role on the Ipndership leam? As much as I love the t-shirts and stock spreadsheets, I really wanted to get involved more directly in the hbulous work thot our Regional Teams do. In my previous role, some of my kjvourite aspects were working with all our team leads, so I wanted this to be the focus of my role. As admin is something I'm good at land I genuinely love making spreadsheets) the Secretary role seemed like the perfect fit, and it really has been! I've been able lo work wilh all parts of the Central Teom and and all our Regional Teams, providing so much variety and I have learned so much this yearl One OF the main things I've focused on this year is to estoblish lots of resources and struclures for the Central Team to help everything run smoothly for this year and future years to come. You a￿ also SolidariTee's student wellbeing focal point. Can you tell v5 more obout thol and what it mean5 to you. We live through difficult times, and for myself and many of our volunteers SolidariTee is a space to Find community and support. I think it's helpful to have someone with an open ear to reach out to when things get especially difficult. l also think it's important to cultivate a team culture OF mutual support and respect, and to support our team leads to create inclusive spaces, and I see that as part of my role's responsibility too. Welfare" roles can be a bit tokenislic, and I won't be recommending a welfare walk to deal with structural inequalities lalthough of course movement and green spaces have many beneFilsl, so we focus instead on practical guidance, especially to our volunteers in leadership roles (for example during indvctionl, creating a culture where everyone is welcome to speak their mind and bring their ideas and worries to the table, information and skills sharing {for example o recent newsletter on preventing burn outl as well as having a mental health first aid trained focal person who can be contacted by anyone in the team. Eva Hennell, 2024/25 Edinburgh Team Lead and 2025/26 Student President 66 I first came across SolidariTee when I returned to Edinburgh after spending a couple of years abroad. I was looking for a greater sense of community on campus, but I wanted to do something to address some of the injuslices faced by people ft)rced to flee their homes,. and supporting access to legal aid Felt like a really important part OF thot. One OF the highlight5 of being team lead in Edinburgh was a poetry night my team organised, where Edinburgh-based Palestinian poets came to share their work. 11 really reminded my team and me how events like these con bring people together in solidarity and conversation. As president this year, I'm really looking forward to helping more young people come together to learn about the injustices affecting refugees, build ihe conFidence to speak about these issues, and Find the same sense of community through SolidariTee that I did. Al a time when the climate around refugees and migrants can Feel increasingly hostile - in the UK and beyond it's easy to feel powerless. And that's exactly why it's so imporlant thai SolidariTee continues to reach students in 2026 and beyond. As I see it, SolidariTee gives young people a way to leorn, lo connect wilh others who care oboui these i55ues, and to show that compa55ion and 501idority 5ti11 have a place on our campuses. One of the most important roles we added to the team during this period was the role of Networks Coordinator, currently held by Rebecca (Bexl Kerr. Designed to be a role held by someone who is not a current sludent, this role exists to help coordinale the volunteer community as a whole, svpport the student president in decision-mokingi and help to deliver on our wider mission to promote educotion ond engagement with refugee issues beyond stvdent-run events themselves. As part OF this, comprehensive induction sessions over the summer were planned and delivered, alongside an increased emphasis in the role of connecting with academic deparlments. Image: Eva Ileftl alongside Ne￿orkS Coordinator Bex Irighil •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Risks, Reserves and Recruitment Risk Identification and Management The SolidariTee trustees have developed a risk register which identifies key operational, governance, financial and contextual risks facing the chority. With anti-migrant protests and an increasingly constrained environment for peaceful protest in the UK, we continue to monitor the risks that individual team members associated with the charity could face as a result of public-facing events and campaigns. Other risks that are relevant to SolidariTee specificolly include the risks of an unmanaged loss OF key personnel and associated institulional memory, which we work to continuously reduce by investment in volunteer mental health and wellbeing, documentation of key procesess and lessons learnt, and an organisational culture that celebrates new ideas year-on-year as opposed to relying solely on repeating post ways of doing things. We also recognise the challenges, both for us and for our partners, that a constrained fundraising environment will continue to bring. We communicate extensively with our partner organisations, and our new model means that we tronsfer funds raised as we have them, without a pre-pledged timescale. whilst this has some downsides in terms of partners, ability to plan how to use these Funds, it avoids the key risks that are associated with inability to deliver on particular timescales, and means that SolidariTee'5 funds can do what is perhaps the most vital job of replenishing an organisalion's core funds, as a complement to their other hjndraising efForts. By keeping our own overhead costs low, we are also able to remain agile, and continue to operate in a way that can expand and contract according to the environment at the time. Finally, at the end OF the 2024/25 academic year, we placed a ￿neWed focus on attracting new volunteers and gaining student attention, which has proven very successKI as discussed in the introductory Section of this report. Reserves Policy In line with our wider operaling model, which includes a lack of paid staff or office space, and the environment we find ourselves in following a period of reduced fundraising scale within our own operations, and where the need for SolidariTee funding is greater now than ever, our policy is to send funds to our partners a5 directly as possible, only retaining those funds necessary to ensure our own continuity. •• •• •• •• •• As such, our policy is to maintain at least three months, reserves for our core operations, which generally translates to at least £600. In future, we will consider whether building our reserves more substanlially would help us to achieve our goals. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Trustee Recruitment Policy No new tru5tee5 were brought onto the SolidariTee board of trustees in the 2024/5 academic year. Trustees are selected to join the board with a focus on ensuring a diversity of skills and lived experiences, ranging from personal and family experience of migration in challenging situations through to knowledge OF sludent activism, and OF workin9 for grassroots legal aid orgonisations. Trustees receive comprehensive onboarding and are kept up to date on the charity's activities through meelings which occur quarterly at a minimum. They are involved in setting policy relating to safeguarding and risk management, in addition to ensuring that our focus remains on delivering against our 2024-26 strategy. Thank you The trustees would like to extend their thanks to the community of inspiring, dedicated volunteers who kepl conversations regarding a reimagened asylum system alive despite every pressure to the contrary this year. In particular, we would like to thank student cfrpresidents Tenley Fuentes Lema and Hannah Rand, and social media lead Beth Huges, for your dedication, courage, and creativity in bringing SolidariTee's mission to life. You have been a joy to work with and your fresh ideas, clarity of principles, and commitment to making what others said could not be done possible is nothing short of inspiring. We wish you every good thing for your futures, and remain grateful to you and to the entire SolidariTee community for your efforts. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Our Theory of Change IEI ,Al Ihose lryced lo flee theif home$ a¢rosg borders ore Iregtsd wilh di9nity. rtrspe¢l ofid ¢¢mpossion, Relws seeking 501eV in Europe hove acce55 10 holislK. IraumO￿nIOrffl•d ivpporl s•rvic•s Sncluding o¢¢¥ss lo1•991 ossislutt¢•. Young people across Ihe UK disploy Jolidarity w¢th ' Long-terni rekn9e•s oftd tonlinvtslly odv¢wlt 090insi Ihv hoslile environmenl in the UK and Europe, conlribuling to vision pvblic Pf¢s$vr• and policy ¢hang• in l¢vour ol a mor• ¢ompossionot•. w•l¢omln9 so¢i•ty lowuiJs wlvg••5. Rdug¢e$ Greece hove 9ittsl•r ovailobility ol. ond occess lo, tfr)uma4nlorm¢d legok aid anJ m•rtkJl h•o1th suppxl s•r¢icès, wh*ch is ol ors in¢f•u•lngly high gvolity. SfvdenTrs and yovng people or• •Mpov￿rOd wilh aC¢Vfol¢ inloimr21iofj uboul rfrFu9e•s, oDd with improv•d opportuniti85 to d8¥elop skills rd*vont lo o¢livi$m, ¢hority & humonilorion work ihal supports relvgeel and mi9ranls. Thor* aro gr•oler connec15ons and in¢r¢osed opp¢rlunili¢s for idea.shoring and copacity-buildifig a¢ross lh• r•lv9eo supporl ond l•8ts1 old spoce in the UK. Gre•ce ofid b•yot)d. Humonilorian a¢lot5 in Gr••c• b•#of ¢quipped and 5uppoiled lo r•spond to shccks, conlintwjlly impfOV* th•ir ser¥K•s. ond rnainlain soF•, qtsoltty programmirva Tangible Chonges Portrwthip with NGOJ wtivid1￿ leg01 old ufid meThlol health support ielvgwe$ by. hidwuolity. I•xib Ivtsdity It*VUJW4x41 NG04 pttyidw t¢p¢Ki￿lI1•Wth•M1ha, rdinwknn & 9w•mgrK• suppon ShKl•nl Fundrai$ing Volvnle•r trolnin9 & copo¢ity bvildifig Conlw•nc•s. Adivihes Jlrtoch & s￿•al medio •v•nls Strategy 2024-26 Strategy 2024 - 2026 Ik¥r I: 11ry 2: (kn•ach, Educali•n & Conv•n•ng Pimar 3: Yry Adi¥i5ts W• will p10vid• hiowlity inlufflq I0￿1n8, eornpoJsionale solvlioni to lup￿rt poopl• Fort•d lo fl•• th•ir hon¥os. Spocificolty, w• We will conlinue k¥ incT*a* oNd improv• lh• provilion OF l•gd Wo will •mpower p•opl• with 9kills QAd W4 ond Dwln*in 0144Dr*iry thoi Pp￿, lor r•Kw$, asylurn J••kws. ond migronli nwobh iilu¢>lioni tn , afid •quip th•m qboul rokng•os and migronls roiw #waron•¥s 01 whol Ihtr 'hos iironm•nV 1$, ¢￿￿ importon¢• ol ondiDg 11 Fal4• aworerio55 01 Ihe imporlan¢è ol Incr￿11ft9 ovo*l*Jb¢lity Of Joh ond I￿1%11¢ iupport lor t•￿90*$ whor• approprial•, convon• oth•i odors in suppotl tsl th•¥• •Florts. ood ¢ontribulty lo oth•r rnllobw&i to 0dv0¢0￿ for t•lw• figh1$. Wa will ¢onlinu• lo u•#h a ¥•hid• Ihrough SdidariT•• throtsgh whKh ytyjvq F•opl• con wtrilwAb ** lh• sffo*iC iuppNt ltyol oi UK ond b*￿a to ilr•Fwthon ity t• odopl lor r•lugp* QfKI 11 mSgranls in ¥uln*ro& •• •• A detailed version OF our strategy document is available on our website for •• •• •• those who would like to read more about how we deliver on each pillar. SolidariTee Independent examiner's report to the trustees of SolidariTee I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025, which are set out on pages 37 to 39. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{511bl of the Act. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1 the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 2 the accounts do not accord with those records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed.. 28104126 Name.. Rachel Cooper FCA Date: Welbeck 29 Welbeck Avenue Southampton S017 1ST SolidariTee Re91$te￿¢ Char ty No 1182195 Receipts and payments accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025 Receipts and payments Restri¢ted fvThds Total fuhds ￿e￿iPtS Generll donations #hd 51uderti events Ih¢onl& Donations from subsidiary Grant income JO,*62 9.850 3D.962 9.850 10.8 3B.047 Z4,4 Sub total &2,447 A58et and iTwe5trnent￿le5 L¢an t¢ 5olidaiiTee- briolg1Thg SuRyort Iorwrtn¢rs 12. 12.0 Sub total 12,( 12.U Totalreceipts 62,447 P¥ymÈnts GrantS￿Idt0 N& 13 SUD 69,743 Prolegsional D￿&1￿Ment. TheYa*utic Legal Oth£T FundTr151ry COS IndBpBnd8nt F AdminiStr3trvè Expenses 79J I,m6 49) 1.5Q6 1,506 Sub total 99,3Q5 80,47Q Asset afftd ihv¢StM¢nt purthè*s Sub total Totalpayments 59.305 61.105 80.47 Net olreceiots/loaYmentsi Transfetsb¢tweehlunds Cath funds lastyèarend 1ts.023 &33 633 18,&56 633 Cash funds this vearend 3,139 Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Cash funds Cash * bènk ènd In hand Totalcash fvnds Unrostrittèd Amounts owing 10 the chariiy and oiher monetary Jsseis Fufidto which Amount du@ Grantsav¢ardEd. Paya￿ewhen funds 51gned byontrv5teE bEhèlf ol ?11 the tru51ee5 Si9n*ure Print Nème D*eof ippiovèl Alexa NeiiyVeiNqB 3110312026 SolidariTee Notes to the accounts continued forthe year ended 31 July 2024 1 Grant making 2025 2024 Funding paid durin9 the year to partner NGOS Mobile info Team (Stichting Mushkila Kabiral Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid Velos Youth Irida Wc>men's Center Equal Rights Beyond Borders Legal Centre Lesvos Equal Legal Aid Defence for Children International. Greece AMERA International Totsl 12,459 4,984 4,984 4.984 7.974 9.967 9.967 9,957 19,914 9,?62 9.962 9.967 10,000 69,763 55,317 Note.. all partners received fundin9 according to dIfFe￿nI payment timelines, and these ligures do not rellect total amounts pledged under previous 2 Related party transactions Trustee expenses Trustees received r¢imbur5em¢nt of expen5e5 of £55512024". E4001 Trustee remuneration and benefits No trustee received aDy rernuneration or benelit dunng this orthe previou5 year. SolidariTee Trustees, report for the year ended 31 July 2025 The narrative report on pages 1 to 36 along with the formal details below form the trustees, annual report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025. Thi5 year the trustees have adopted the Receipts and Payments Accounts format for the presentation of the charity's affairs as they believe this is more appropriate for the size and nature of operations. The numbers for the prior year have therefore been restated to be consistent with this presentation. Reference and administrative details of the charity. its trustees and advisors The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were.. Name Alexa Netty Isabella Ponsonby Louisa Cowell Robert DLJrgut Mulumbeni Phiri Sara Poursafar Nausikaa Reimers Dara Snead Jordan Gardner (appointed 16 Feb 20261 Sarah Davidson (resigned 31 Dec 20241 Maya Kerbellec (resigned 31 Dec 20241 Rebecca Young Iresigned 31 Dec 20241 Charity number 1182195 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address SPACE4 Bankers The Co-operative Bank PIC PO Box 250 113 Fonthill Road N4 3HH Skelmerdale WN86 Independent examiner Rachel Cooper FCA Welbeck 29 Welbeck Avenue Southampton S0171ST Structure, governance and management Solidaritee is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, charity number 1182195, its members are its trustees. Its governing document is a constitution registered 25th February 2019, and amended 1 Aug 2021. Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees Trustees are appointed for a term of two or three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the existing trustees have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. Public benefit statement In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of education and human rights, and relief of poverty. This is achieved through our awareness raising activities here in the UK, as well as our work to enable refugees and asylum seekers to access legal aid. In doing so, our work ensures that refugees are able to access their rights and are prevented from falling into destitution and poverty after receiving unjust rejections on their asylum claims or receiving inadequate mental health support following the persecution and traLJma that a great many asylum seekers have faced. It also ensures that the public are informed about refugee issues in the UK and worldwide. Statement of trustees, responsibilities The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. Approved by the board of trustees on 3110312026 Signed.. (Trusteel Name.. Alexa Netty VetMB 4Pp 4Q Thank you for taking the time to read about our work. To learn more or make a donation, please visit www.solidaritee.org.uk printed on recycled paper PA9 •&)