Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 15
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

ACTION FOR REFUGEES IN LEWISHAM 

AFRIL aims to relieve the poverty of refugees, asylum-seekers and vulnerable migrants, advance their education and advocate for their rights. We work with our service users by providing them with the tools they need to improve their own lives and fulfil their potential as members of the community and society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/05/23£305£284£21n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/05/22£240£232£8n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/05/21£197£198£-1n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/05/20£223£166£57n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/05/19£142£166£-23n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/05/18£152£133£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/17£139£99£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/16£81£76£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/15£78£49£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/14£30£43£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/13£41£76£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/12£110£99£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/11£113£108£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/10£84£68£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/09£50£36£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/08£24£21£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.afril.org.uk

info@afril.org.uk

020882974111

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£192,400
Trust for London£68,900
AB Charitable Trust£60,000
National Lottery Community Fund£33,028
Indigo Trust£22,000
Greater London Authority£17,502
The London Community Foundation£10,263
The Childhood Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Indigo Trust - Plus One Grants Programme- Unrestricted funding to support AFRIL's work
£20,000 30/04/2024
12
Plus One Grants Programme- Unrestricted funding to support AFRIL's work
London Catalyst - Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) - 11
£1,500 14/11/2023
Hardship Fund
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£16,500 21/08/2023
An unrestricted grant of £16,500 per year for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years)This grant includes a 10% cost of living uplift. Action for Refugees in Lewisham supports ....more
The Childhood Trust - Food For Thought Feeding young minds of the future
£3,750 20/06/2023
Help AFRIL?s Food for Thought project support young minds. Our food bank will combine food vouchers, vegetables and fruit to support healthy eating. Artmaking will inspire young imaginations and give ....more
Greater London Authority - Allotment of Refuge - an Eco Community Hub
£17,502 02/12/2022
This project will introduce climate-friendly practices to their Allotment of Refuge food growing space. The project will provide training opportunities for people from refugee, asylum seeker and no ....more
London Catalyst - Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) - 10
£1,500 15/11/2022
Hardship Fund
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£15,000 06/10/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 per year for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Action for Refugees in Lewisham supports people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants ....more
The Childhood Trust - C-59050
£3,750 28/06/2022
Help AFRIL's the right to eat right project combine healthy food parcels from our foodbank with fresh vegetable and fruit grown by families at our allotment to reduce food insecurity, support healthy ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£3,500 14/06/2022
A restricted grant of £3,500 for expenditure to support staff wellbeing. Action for Refugees in Lewisham support people seeking asylum, vulnerable migrants and refugees in south east London with a ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL)
£72,400 17/05/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for refugee, asylum seeker and vulnerable migrant families, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in the London Borough of ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£15,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Action for Refugees in Lewisham support people seeking asylum, vulnerable migrants and refugees in south east London with a focus on families.
The Childhood Trust - Food to Grow AFRIL refugee foodbank & allotment
£2,500 22/06/2021
Help AFRIL's Food to Grow project combine food parcels from our foodbank with food grown by families at our allotment to support healthy eating and reduced food costs. Refugee/asylum seeker/migrant ....more
London Catalyst - Action for Refugees in Lewisham - 9
£1,000 11/05/2021
Hardship Fund
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£120,000 04/02/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to refugee, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrant families in South East London.
Trust for London - Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£65,000 07/10/2020
24
The funding is for a joint project with Southwark Law Centre (SLC) to support particularly hard to reach groups to resolve complex immigration issues that severely restrict their access to justice ....more
CAF - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£3,500 18/06/2020
3
Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - AFRIL - COVID response
£33,028 18/06/2020
6
The funding will be used to expand their support to asylum seeker refugee and migrant families through a foodbank; advice and advocacy service; and supplementary school for children aged 4-11.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£2,750 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund technical equipment for young refugees and asylum seekers to access supplementary school sessions. They are isolated at home due to Covid-19 and these funds will ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,750 28/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Action For Refugees in Lewisham
£10,263 06/05/2020
The funding is for reorienting our services to better support asylum seeker, refugee, and NRPF families struggling to overcome crisis and resolve longer-term issues during and beyond Covid-19 ....more
Trust for London - Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£3,900 07/04/2020
3
The funding is for grants and additional support for asylum seeker, refugee, and migrant families in South London in response to the COVID19 emergency.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 07/02/2020
Office Manager / Core Cost Application
Indigo Trust - Supporting refugees and their families in Lewisham Borough
£2,000 10/12/2019
Unrestricted funding.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards support costs of female advice workers
£1,000 19/11/2019
Towards the support costs of female advice workers to assist isolated refugee women with Section 17 support services.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£5,895 15/11/2019
We want to supplement our food bank food packages with non-perishable supplies and reimburse our users for travel expenses.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£10,000 10/10/2019
A restricted grant of £10,000 towards the General Manager post. Action for Refugees in Lewisham supports Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Lewisham including through developing skills, ESOL, a ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£120,737 26/06/2019
36
This project will offer young people who may be refugees or asylum seekers a fun supplementary school each week. Children will benefit from improved literacy, numeracy, confidence, knowledge and ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,000 25/04/2019
towards the Headteacher salary for the Rainbow Club, a supplementary school for children from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£9,900 29/03/2019
Discovering Stories
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£19,880 25/03/2019
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£3,000 05/03/2019
purchase of office equipment for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Lewisham
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£6,862 19/11/2018
With funding we can continue to rent a venue, hire teachers and provide food, equipment and trips out for the kids.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£10,000 03/07/2018
£10,000 towards a weekly food bank. Action for Refugees in Lewisham aim to provide comprehensive support for families and individuals through advice & advocacy and education. This grant is ....more
Trust for London - Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£45,000 04/10/2017
36
The funding is towards AFRILs advice service provides non-judgemental, professional advice from qualified bilingual advisers in a range of languages to refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Rainbow Club Leadership Development Programme
£9,780 02/08/2017
12
This project will run a leadership development project for parents of children from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds. Parents will be trained to take over responsibility for a range of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Action for Refugees in Lewisham
£11,900 09/11/2016
12
The grant will support the costs of two consultants to develop a fundraising strategy as well as monitoring and impact measurement systems.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards salary costs of the volunteer co-ordinator
£1,000 04/11/2016
Towards salary costs of the volunteer co-ordinator to train volunteering asylum seekers and transport costs of the trainees.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the wages of a volunteer co-coordinator for refugee service
£1,000 09/02/2015
Towards the wages of a volunteer co-coordinator for a refugee service in Lewisham and the surrounding area.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-48
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2006, number: 1116344
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2006, number: 05819537
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LEE OASIS on 01/08/2022
Main office

F3 Leemore Community Hub
Bonfield Rd
LONDON
SE13 5ES

Objectives

4.1 TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF REFUGEES4.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF REFUGEES4.3 TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF REFUGEES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. LEWISHAM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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