# REFUGEE ACTION

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 283660
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [01593454](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01593454)
- **Registered:** Dec. 10, 1981
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=283660


## Contact

- **Address:** Refugee Action, Society Building, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London
- **Postcode:** N1 9RL
- **Phone:** 07725 638218
- **Email:** farrahj@refugee-action.org.uk
- **Website:** www.refugee-action.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BECOME DISPLACED PERSONS OR REFUGEES FROM THE COUNTRIES OF THEIR ORIGIN OR DOMICILE BY REASON OF HOSTILITIES, PERSECUTION, OPPRESSION, DISCRIMINATION, NATURAL DISASTERS OR OTHER LIKE CAUSES, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

**Activities:** We provide reception, advice and information to refugees and asylum seekers and other displaced people; promote the development of refugee communities as distinctive parts of wider British communities; improve access to employment and mainstream services, and enhance opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers; raise awareness of refugee issues, influence policy, and campaign for refugee rights.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Other Defined Groups



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** UNDEFINED
- Throughout England





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **Nankunda Katangaza** | Chair | Feb. 9, 2026 |
| Caroline Gormley |  | July 13, 2023 |
| Halyma Begum |  | May 17, 2023 |
| Kim Oanh Beach |  | Oct. 17, 2025 |
| Lucy Branwen Vidal |  | Dec. 11, 2024 |
| Mark  Richard Nowottny |  | Feb. 5, 2024 |
| Sahar Khan |  | Feb. 5, 2024 |
| Salem Ibrahimi |  | Oct. 17, 2025 |
| Ximena Alejandra Valenzuela |  | May 27, 2025 |
| Yagoub Matar |  | Nov. 21, 2023 |




