## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
For the period 19 July 2024 to 31 December 2025
**TortureID (TID)** Registered Charity Number: 1204023
_Identify · Document · Rehabilitate_
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## **PURPOSE & CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES**
TortureID (TID) works to improve early identification, documentation, and clinical responses for refugees and people seeking asylum who are survivors of torture and other human rights abuses, so that they can access healthcare and realise rehabilitation.
Refugees and people seeking asylum who are survivors of torture and other human rights abuses are frequently not recognised within UK health and safeguarding systems, and consequently routes into healthcare and rehabilitation are delayed.
As a result, survivors may experience prolonged and avoidable harm, including missed opportunities for protection, timely care, and recovery.
TID addresses this gap by strengthening healthcare practice so that survivors are recognised, supported, and able to access their wider right to rehabilitation.
## **Our Charitable Objectives**
TID operates under two formal charitable objectives as registered with the Charity Commission:
**1. To advance the health and rehabilitation** of adults and children in the UK who have applied for asylum and experience impaired physical or mental ill-health or disability as a result of torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.
**2. To promote human rights** (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) by:
- Monitoring abuses of human rights
- Relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse
- Contributing to the sound administration of human rights law
- Raising awareness of human rights issues
## **OUR DISTINCT CONTRIBUTION**
TID’s distinct contribution lies in responding to a persistent gap: refugees and people seeking asylum who are survivors of torture and other human rights abuses are often not recognised, asked about harm, or supported appropriately within routine healthcare.
TID’s health assessments, model what high-quality, trauma-informed enquiry, documentation, and safeguarding responses look like in real-world health settings. Learning from this clinical work is then used to inform training, develop practical tools, and build evidence, supporting the embedding of safe enquiry, documentation, and response within routine healthcare.
Through this approach, TID acts as a catalyst for systems change: strengthening mainstream health services so that trauma-informed assessment becomes a routine and equitable part of healthcare, and reliance on specialist services reduces over time.
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## **IMPACT AT A GLANCE (2024-2025)**
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100+ 4 899
Health assessments for survivors Sites across Northern England GP registrars trained
98%
51 IRCT
Trainees rated session
Assessments evaluated International membership secured
excellent/good
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- _“It helped me. You took it seriously.” “I really feel less burden on my heart.”_
— Patient feedback, TortureID health assessment (2024)
_“This session changed how I document safeguarding - I’ll use this in every clinic.”_
— GP registrar feedback, TID training (2025)
These activities reflect TID’s commitment to strengthening healthcare systems so that survivors of torture and human rights abuses are recognised earlier and can access the care and protection they need.
## **ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS**
## **1. Direct Service Delivery: Supporting Survivors**
## **Expanding Our Clinical Leadership and Delivery Team**
TID remains heavily dependent on our lead clinician, who has led the organisation’s clinical work since its inception. She has continued to develop the TID health assessment model, train new clinicians, mentor colleagues undertaking assessments, represent TID within NHS forums and at meetings with other medical human rights organisations, and develop the resources that underpin TID’s work. She has generously donated most of her time to TID as a volunteer in this period to free up funds to support the recruitment of additional clinicians.
During this period we also recruited a newly qualified GP (on a sessional, voluntary basis) who had previously worked with TID during her GP training in Huddersfield. Her skills and enthusiasm have been exceptional and she has played a leading role in developing and delivering training. We now have two doctors working with TID developing and delivering health assessments, designing training, mentoring clinicians, and contributing to clinical development work.
## **Expanding Assessment Capacity**
The Board decided to recruit additional clinicians to conduct TID health assessments so that more survivors of torture and human rights abuses could be identified and supported.
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As a result, TID’s services expanded significantly. We now have four clinicians regularly seeing patients, including two GPs, a psychologist and a psychiatry trainee.
## **Geographic Expansion and Service Delivery**
During the reporting period TID recruited three new clinicians and established new project sites in Liverpool, Leeds, and Manchester. Health assessments also continue in Huddersfield.
## **Current delivery includes:**
- Two projects in general practice in Huddersfield and Liverpool
- A project based at Refugee Action in Manchester
- A project based at Solace in Leeds
Across these settings, TID provided over 100 health assessments to people seeking asylum and recognised refugees. These assessments identify and document the physical and psychological effects of torture and other human rights abuses and make recommendations for treatment and follow-up care.
## **DIRECT SERVICE IMPACT**
- **88%** of survivors assessed had significant mental health needs.
- **66%** had no prior documentation of abuse in NHS records.
- **33%** started or changed mental health medication after assessment.
- **74%** said the assessment improved their health.
## _“Talking to someone always helps.”_ - Survivor, TID assessment (2024)
## **2. Building NHS Capacity**
A core part of TID’s work is supporting clinicians to recognise and respond appropriately to survivors of torture and human rights abuses within routine healthcare.
## **Training Healthcare Professionals**
In November 2025 TID delivered online training to 899 GP registrars across Yorkshire and Humber on recognising and recording human rights abuses in general practice.
## **TRAINING IMPACT (438 feedback forms)**
**~98%** rated the session excellent or good
**80%+** reported it changed how they approach safeguarding
**~98%** said they were likely to apply the learning
Participants particularly valued the practical guidance on documentation, communication strategies for asking about abuse, and case-based discussion of complex safeguarding situations. Further training is planned for Health Equity trainee GPs in early 2026.
TID also delivered training to primary care safeguarding leads in Kirklees and Calder Integrated Care Boards on safeguarding people seeking asylum and refugees in general practice.
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## **Developing Tools and Resources for Clinicians**
TID continued developing practical tools to help clinicians identify and document torture and other human rights abuses more effectively. These include:
## **Clinical IT Templates**
In partnership with Ardens (a health informatics company), TID developed a clinical template for GP electronic record systems (SystmOne and EMIS) enabling clinicians to record suspected human rights abuses systematically and generate safeguarding documentation.
## **Template Letters**
TID developed 15 template letters responding to common requests from people seeking asylum to GPs (for example relating to accommodation or information to take to an interview). These letters have since been taken up by Doctors of the World UK and published on their widely used clinical resources website, supported by a campaign event to promote their use among healthcare professionals.
## **Resources for Clinicians and Patients**
TID also developed:
**Patient information leaflets** explaining the purpose of health assessments, what patients can expect during the appointment, and how they may feel afterwards. These leaflets help asylumseeking and refugee patients understand the process and prepare for the assessment. They have been translated into six languages, are available on TID’s website, and have also been shared with medical human rights organisations.
**Guidance explaining terminology used in TID medical reports** , designed to support clinicians, asylum and human rights lawyers, and asylum decision-makers in understanding the clinical language used when documenting torture and other human rights abuses.
**An appendix and glossary accompanying TID medico-legal reports** , providing key information in an accessible format while meeting the requirements of the new Tribunal Practice Directions.
Together, these resources support survivors to better understand the assessment process and help clinicians, lawyers and decision-makers interpret clinical documentation accurately and appropriately.
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## **3. Evidence Generation: Demonstrating What Works**
Generating evidence about effective ways to identify survivors within routine healthcare is central to TID’s approach.
## **Commissioned Literature Review**
During the reporting period TID commissioned and published a literature review on the prevalence of human rights abuses among people seeking asylum. The review was undertaken to inform the development of TID’s work and to share learning with other UK medical human rights organisations.
## **Evaluation of Health Assessments in Primary Care**
TID also commissioned and published an evaluation of 51 health assessments conducted in a GP practice in Huddersfield, with the aim of understanding the impact of these assessments and the potential for using a similar approach in other settings.
All patients assessed disclosed human rights abuse. Nearly half reported torture and one in five reported rape or sexual abuse.
## **Most had significant health needs linked to this abuse:**
- 88% had mental health problems
- PTSD in over half; depression in over two-thirds
- 60% had physical findings consistent with abuse
## **Serious safeguarding concerns were identified, including suicide risk.**
- 8% were at significant short-term risk
- 45% showed indicators of increased risk
## **Evidence of Impact on Patients’ Health**
The evaluation also found that health assessments led to direct improvements in patients’ care:
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33% 15%
16%
Had medication for mental health Referred for physical health
Referred for psychological therapy
initiated or changed follow-up
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_Among those who provided feedback, 74% reported that their health had benefited from the assessment. Feedback suggested that the opportunity to discuss their experiences in a safe clinical setting could itself be beneficial, for example through emotional relief and a sense of being heard and validated._
## **Impact on Asylum Claims**
Health assessment reports also played a role in supporting asylum processes:
- 45% of patients shared their assessment letters with legal representatives or the Home Office directly (43% of patients did not have a solicitor)
- In all cases the reports were permanently available within GP records, which is increasingly important as the Home Office and courts rely more heavily on primary care documentation.
## **Under-identification of Abuse in Routine Healthcare**
The evaluation also revealed significant gaps in routine NHS care:
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## **66%**
Of patients had no previous record of their human rights abuse history in GP records
## **27%**
Of patients recalled ever being asked about human rights abuses by healthcare providers
## **Overall Conclusions**
The evaluation provided strong support for two important conclusions:
**1**
When asylum-seeking patients present to primary care, routine enquiry about human rights abuse is feasible and beneficial, and can lead to needed health interventions as well as potentially contributing to asylum decision-making.
**2**
Current routine NHS care does not adequately identify survivors of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and often fails to identify or treat the health consequences associated with this abuse.
## **Published Research**
During the reporting period TID also published a letter in the British Journal of General Practice relating to the use of GP records in asylum claims.
## **4. Strategic Partnerships and Recognition**
## **Membership of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)**
In January 2025 TID applied for membership of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), the largest membership-based organisation specialising in the treatment and documentation of torture. IRCT brings together 176 rehabilitation centres across more than 80 countries, working at the intersection of medicine and law to support survivors of torture and strengthen documentation practices worldwide.
Following discussions between TID’s clinical lead, chair of trustees and the IRCT Secretary General in May 2025, TID was accepted as a member organisation in July 2025.
_TID is now one of four IRCT member organisations in the UK - an important milestone in the organisation’s development._
IRCT’s Strategy 2026–2030 includes developing tools, expertise and e-learning to strengthen global practice in the documentation and investigation of torture. TID intends to contribute to this work by sharing learning from its approach to clinical assessment in primary care settings and aims to publish an article in the Torture Journal.
## **Engagement with Other Organisations**
TID clinicians have continued to engage with a range of human rights, healthcare and refugee-support organisations through meetings, professional networks and training events. These have included organisations working with survivors of torture and people seeking asylum such as Doctors of the World UK, Freedom from Torture, the Helen Bamber Foundation, Medical Justice, Solace, and Refugee Action, as well as participation in professional networks such as the North East and Yorkshire Migrant
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Health Network and the Medico-Legal Report Writers’ Network. TID also maintains links with the Royal College of Psychiatrists Working Group on Mental Health and Forced Migration.
Through these engagements TID has shared learning from its work on routine enquiry about human rights abuse in healthcare settings, its approach to conducting focused health assessments in primary care, and its model for producing concise clinical documentation that can support both healthcare provision and asylum processes.
These exchanges contribute to wider sector efforts to improve the identification and documentation of torture and other human rights abuses and to strengthen clinical responses to the health needs of survivors.
## **MEDICO-LEGAL REPORT WORK**
Producing medico-legal reports (MLRs) has historically been part of TID’s work but has become less central during this reporting period.
The Board decided that the organisation should prioritise expanding free health assessments and promoting routine enquiry within healthcare settings. It was decided that by taking this approach, more people seeking asylum who have experienced torture or other forms of human rights abuses would be identified and have their health needs documented and met.
This decision coincided with a reduction in referrals from Legal Aid funded lawyers, reflecting wider reductions in access to legal representation for people seeking asylum.
Despite producing fewer than 30 reports during this period, TID successfully adapted its reporting format to comply with new Immigration and Asylum Tribunal Practice Directions issued in November 2024. The Direction set out requirements for the format and length of expert reports presented in appeals before the Tribunal, stressing that reports should be concise and focused on the issues in dispute. TID already satisfied many of these requirements as our aim has always been to produce concise, easy to understand documentation detailing evidence of torture and human rights abuses.
TID would like to thank the clinicians who have volunteered their time to produce medico-legal reports, contributing both expertise and income to support the organisation’s development.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing Document**
TID is governed by its constitution as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
## **Trustee Recruitment and Appointment**
During the period the Board welcomed Petra Mäkelä, a rehabilitation physician and academic with particular interest in how health and care services can better work with survivors of human rights abuses. We said farewell to Dave Cooke who resigned from the Board during the year. The trustees thank him for his valuable contribution, particularly in relation to finance.
TID continues to work towards strengthening the diversity of its Board, including increasing representation of people with lived experience of human rights abuses and the UK asylum system.
## **Organisational Structure**
All trustees are committed to supporting TID’s work and contribute significant time and expertise. During 2025 the Board undertook an organisational review which highlighted the need to strengthen organisational capacity and reduce reliance on volunteer labour.
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In Spring 2025 the Board decided that it had to prioritise recruiting an employee to work with them on strategy, governance, finance and operational management. TID received 65 applications, shortlisted six candidates and in October 2025 successfully appointed its first employee - a Director on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
The Director brings extensive international experience in the non-profit sector, including a decade working for the Open Society Foundations, and has expertise in strategy development, programme management, communications and partnership development.
One of the Director’s first priorities in post was to undertake an organisational audit and lead a strategy consultation process with trustees, clinicians and partners. This work has involved reviewing all aspects of the organisation and refining TID’s vision, mission and strategic objectives for the next five years and beyond. It has resulted in the development of TID’s first five-year Strategic and Operational Plan (2026– 2030), providing a clearer long-term framework for the organisation’s mission, priorities and development.
TID also contracts with five clinicians on a sessional basis, delivering training and conducting health assessments.
At the end of 2025 the Board appointed a Quality Assurance and Evaluation Lead on a sessional basis to develop systems ensuring that documentation produced following health assessments is of a high standard and that relevant data are collected for monitoring and evaluation purposes. We were fortunate to recruit an experienced lawyer and researcher in the international human rights field for this role, bringing a strong understanding of both the needs of survivors of torture and human rights abuses and the workings of the UK asylum system.
## **Risk Management**
The trustees regularly review risks and have implemented appropriate controls and procedures.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
TID operates without a fixed office and maintains relatively low running costs. At the end of the reporting period the charity held reserves sufficient to cover approximately six months of operating costs.
During the year TID:
- employed a Director on a fixed-term contract
- contracted five clinicians on a sessional basis
- appointed a quality assurance and evaluation lead
## **BOARD FUNDING PRIORITIES**
Board priorities include securing funding to:
- Extend the Director’s role
- Maintain clinical contracts
- Support monitoring and evaluation
- Ensure core organisational roles are sustainably funded
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## **PUBLIC BENEFIT**
The trustees confirm that TID has carried out its purposes for the public benefit, having regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance.
TID works to improve the health of refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK who have experienced torture and other human rights abuses. Evidence shows that this group has significant unmet health needs, particularly in relation to the identification of past abuse and assessment of its physical and psychological consequences. These steps are often necessary for survivors to access appropriate treatment, safeguarding and rehabilitation.
Although many people seeking asylum have experienced serious human rights abuses, these experiences are not routinely enquired about within healthcare settings. As a result, many survivors remain unidentified and do not receive appropriate care. TID’s work seeks to address this gap. Evidence gathered through our activities, and referenced elsewhere in this report, demonstrates the scale of unmet need and the benefits of improved identification and assessment.
The charity benefits a section of the public - refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK, many of whom are experiencing poverty. In 2025 there were around 111,000 asylum applications made in the UK. The trustees receive no personal benefit from the charity’s activities.
The trustees have not identified any significant detriment arising from TID’s activities.
## **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
_TID would not have been able to achieve any activities highlighted in this report in this period if we had not had the invaluable support of our funders. We are extremely grateful to them. We also thank our individual donors._
## **OUR FUNDERS**
**The Evan Cornish Foundation The Allen Lane Foundation**
**LB Cadbury Charitable Trust Hilden Charitable Fund**
**Mears Network for Social Change**
_We extend particular thanks to all the experienced, skilled clinicians who have volunteered their services to TID, especially our lead clinician who has generously donated most of her time as a volunteer to free up funds for expansion. Their commitment enables TID to support survivors while strengthening systems for recognising and responding to torture and other human rights abuses._
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## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
**Charity Name:** TortureID (TID) **Registered Charity Number:** 1204023 **Principal Address:** 19 Church Avenue, Leeds, LS6 4JX
## **Trustees Who Served During the Period**
**Hermione McEwen** _Chair_ **Jude Boyles** _Vice-Chair_ **Ruth Heatley** _Treasurer_ **Alison Summers Peggy Mulongo Alice Nicolay Dave Cooke** _Resigned during period_ **Petra Mäkelä** _Appointed during period_
## **DECLARATION**
The trustees of TortureID declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
**Signature:**
**Name:** Hermione McEwen
**Position:** Chair, Board of Trustees **Date:** 23.03.26
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## TortureID
Charity number 1204023
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 July 2025
## TortureID
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 July 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 4|
|Examiner's report|5|
|Receipts and payments account|6|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|7|
|Notes to the accounts|8 to 9|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## TortureID
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 July 2025
## **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 Position Dates** Hermione McEwen Chair Judith Boyles Dr Judith Lythgoe Peggy Mulongo Ruth Heatley Alice Nicolay Dr Petra Makela Appointed 15 September 2025 **Charity number** 1204023 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address Bankers** 19 Church Avenue Cooperative Bank Leeds 1 Balloon Street LS6 4JX Manchester M60 4EP
## **Independent examiner**
Sarah Coates MAAT **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO** Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 19 July 2023 and is governed by a constitution.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
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## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 July 2025
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
1. To advance the health and rehabilitation of adults and children in the UK who have applied for asylum and experience impaired physical or mental ill-health or disability as a result of torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.
2. To promote human rights (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) by all or any of the following means:
- Monitoring abuses of human rights;
- Relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse;
- Contributing to the sound administration of human rights law; and Raising awareness of human rights issues.
## **The charity's main activities**
TortureID (TID) is a small charity responding to the needs of people who are seeking asylum in the UK and who report torture and other abuses of their human rights. We aim for everyone in this situation to have access to health assessments that can identify and document the health consequences of torture and abuse, make recommendations for their treatment, and through this support their rehabilitation.
## **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.
## **Achievements and performance**
- Recruiting a Director, our first employee, to lead TID’s development after the year end.
- Becoming a member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) – the largest membership-based organisation specialising in the treatment and documentation of torture.
- Expanding our Clinical Leadership Team – we now have 2 doctors working for TID developing and
- **•** delivering health assessments, designing and delivering training, mentoring new clinicians, evaluating and leading on clinical development work.
- Recruiting 3 new Clinicians to deliver TID health assessments and the establishment of project sites in 3
- **•** new geographical areas – Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. Assessments continue in Huddersfield.
- Providing over 100 free health assessments to people seeking asylum and refugees, identifying and
- documenting the effects of torture and human rights abuses and making recommendations for their treatment.
- Delivering free training to 899 trainee GPs on recognising and recording human rights abuses in General Practice.
- Delivering free training to primary care safeguarding leads in Kirklees and Calderdale ICBs on safeguarding people seeking asylum and refugees in General Practice.
- Commissioning and publishing a literature review on the prevalence of human rights abuses in people
- **•** seeking asylum to inform the development of TID’s work and to share with the other UK medical human rights organisations too.
- Commissioning and publishing a service evaluation of 51 TID health assessments conducted at a
- Huddersfield GP practice with the aim of understanding the impact of the assessment and the potential for using a similar approach in other settings.
- Publishing a letter in the British Journal of General Practice. GP records and asylum claims | British Journal of General Practice
- Continuing to offer medico-legal reports to solicitors (although referrals have decreased on previous years).
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## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 July 2025
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £26,923, including net receipts of £22,254 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £4,669 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £41,580.
Our minimum cash reserves should be sufficient to enable TID to continue to function in accordance with agreed plans for at least six months, w hich is approx. £14,000.
These reserves may be used to continue delivering health assessments with established partners beyond the period of secured funding, where further funding has not been secured and the Trustees deem this to be the best use of our unrestricted reserves. Reserves may also be used to manage unforeseen fluctuations in income, to support the controlled and responsible winding down of some or all services if required, and to meet potential future liabilities.
Approved by the board of trustees on 17/03/2026
Ruth Heatley (Trustee)
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## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of TortureID
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 July 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent 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 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 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.
Sarah Coates MAAT
19/03/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## TortureID
## Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 July 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
18,143
Fees and charges
17,273
Transfer from Torture ID Company
-
**Total receipts**
35,416
**Payments**
Freelance costs
7,251
Administration
73
Equipment
90
Insurance
223
Website and IT
1,059
Independent examination
528
Sundries
232
Travel, postage and stationery
592
Memberships and licences
2,302
Recruitment
375
Training
300
Venue hire
49
Telephone
88
Interpreting
-
Evaluation
-
**Total payments**
13,162
**Net receipts / (payments)**
22,254
**Fund balances brought forward**
19,326
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
41,580|2025
Restricted
funds
£
19,500
-
-
19,500
11,745
-
-
-
-
-
-
156
174
-
-
-
-
56
2,700
14,831
4,669
13,104
17,773|2025
Total
funds
£
37,643
17,273
-
54,916
18,996
73
90
223
1,059
528
232
748
2,476
375
300
49
88
56
2,700
27,993
26,923
32,430
59,353|2024
Total
funds
£
1,659
-
38,388
40,047
6,781
59
33
126
236
-
212
170
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7,617
32,430
-
32,430|
|---|---|---|---|
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## TortureID
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 July 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
41,580
**Total cash funds**
41,580
**Debtors and prepayments**
Debtors
**Liabilities**
Accruals|2025
Restricted
£
17,773
17,773|2025
Total
£
59,353
59,353
2025
£
1,452
1,452
2025
£
528
528|2024
Total
£
32,430
32,430|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 17/03/2026
Ruth Heatley (Trustee)
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## TortureID
## Notes to the accounts
## for the year ended 31 July 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 July 2025
|**2 Grants and donations**
Allen Lane Foundation
Evan Cornish Foundation
Hilden Charitable Trust
Donations
**3 Restricted funds**
Allen Lane Foundation
Evan Cornish Foundation
Network for Social Change
Mears
Hilden Charitable Trust|Balance b/f
£
-
-
12,960
144
-
13,104|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
18,143
18,143
Incoming
£
2,500
10,000
-
-
7,000
19,500|2025
Restricted
funds
£
2,500
10,000
7,000
-
19,500
Outgoing
£
600
56
12,960
141
1,074
14,831|2025
Total
funds
£
2,500
10,000
7,000
18,143
37,643
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-|2024
Total
funds
£
-
-
-
1,659
1,659
Balance c/f
£
1,900
9,944
-
3
5,926
17,773|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Fund name**
Allen Lane Foundation
Evan Cornish Foundation
Network for Social Change
Mears
Hilden Charitable Trust
## **Purpose of restriction**
To provide clinical assessments of female newly arrived asylum seekers and document any findings of torture/human rights abuses.
To provide clinical assessments of newly arrived asylum seekers and document any findings of torture/human rights abuses.
To offer free, specialist health assessments to newly arrived survivors of torture and other human rights abuses.
To offer free, specialist health assessments to newly arrived survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. To provide clinical assessments of newly arrived asylum seekers and document any findings of torture/human rights abuses.
## **4 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
During the year 1 trustee was paid a total of £35 in respect of travel, and 1 trustee was paid £562, for professional revalidation.(previous year: no trustees and £nil).
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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## TortureID
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of TortureID
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 July 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent 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 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 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: …………………………………… Name: Sarah Coates MAAT
19/03/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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