Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

ASYLUM AID

The provision of legal advice and representation to people seeking asylum in the UK, lobbying and campaigning with the aim of achieving a fairer asylum process in the UK and advancing public and understanding of the position of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£1,723£1,203£520£47£1,058£7657.62412
31/12/22£883£640£243£26£538£4909.22812
31/12/21£708£480£227£22£295£2776.9190
31/12/20?£236£168£68n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/18£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/17£0£397£-397n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/16?*£1,215£999£217£82£397£2923.5120
31/03/15£1,010£889£122£142£181£1391.9130
31/03/14£724£1,068£-344£130£59£380.4170
31/03/13£1,156£1,055£102£101£403£4034.6170
31/03/12£1,125£1,048£77£115£302£1341.5170
31/03/11£1,000£1,010£-11£118£225£1121.3170
31/03/10£765£810£-46£107£235£1482.2160
31/03/09£708£736£-27£86£279£1652.7160
31/03/08£668£664£4£82£306£1432.6150
31/03/07£577£637£-61£65£302£1983.7160
31/03/06£753£608£145n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£618£550£68n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£754£676£78n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 28%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 7.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 34 years

www.asylumaid.org.uk

advice@asylumaid.org.uk

02073549631

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Justice Together Initiative£250,000
The Legal Education Foundation£211,784
Trust for London£163,950
Access to Justice Foundation£106,696
Barrow Cadbury Trust£50,000
London Legal Support Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF host 2024
£116,784 23/05/2024
A grant to Asylum Aid to fund one fellow trainee placement as part of cohort 11.
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2023
£10,000 28/12/2023
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice ....more
Trust for London - Asylum Aid
£57,700 22/06/2023
The funding is for Asylum Aid's Statelessness Project, including the salaries of the Statelessness Project Supervisor and caseworkers with statelessness cases. This will enable them to deliver legal ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2022
£10,000 22/12/2022
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice ....more
Justice Together Initiative - Increasing access to complex casework advice through training, supervision and peer support
£250,000 23/11/2022
To deliver in-depth training, supervision and support to three cohorts of up to 4 OISC level 2 advisers over the course of the project. Each cohort will be trained, supervised and supported by an ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,196 22/11/2022
Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
Trust for London - Asylum Aid
£1,250 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-06.10.2020-8779
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£95,000 15/06/2022
A grant to Asylum Aid to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2021
£10,000 14/12/2021
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice ....more
Trust for London - Asylum Aid
£50,000 09/03/2021
The funding is to provide legal representation for unaccompanied minors and survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence. This will reduce their risk of exploitation, which has been exacerbated ....more
Trust for London - Asylum Aid
£45,000 24/02/2021
This funding is for disbursement costs of its Statelessness Project, which delivers specialist, culturally and gender sensitive legal representation for vulnerable and at-risk stateless people. ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Asylum Aid
£50,000 14/10/2020
5
To respond to the increased need for legal support in the COVID pandemic
Trust for London - Asylum Aid
£10,000 19/08/2020
6
This funding is for organisational transition costs to permit vulnerable asylum seekerst to receive vital legal support to secure their protection in the UK, following a period of uncertainty, ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£94,500 11/08/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Cloudesley - Grant to Asylum Aid (now Consonant)
£6,000 24/09/2019
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant Awarded Sep 2019
Cloudesley - Grant to Asylum Aid (now Consonant)
£6,000 19/09/2018
Interim Welfare Grant (awarded Sep 2018)
National Lottery Community Fund - Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC)
£10,000 21/07/2016
12
The group will use the funding to set up an outreach service advising asylum seekers about the entitlement for children to register as British citizens. This will enable beneficiaries to access ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Provide legal advice and representation.
£15,000 26/04/2016
£15,000 towards legal advice and representation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Assisting young people with applications to register as British Citizens
£60,000 21/03/2016
18
This application is for the incubation of the Project for the Registration of Children as British Children (PRCBC) which is being hosted by Asylum Aid. PRCBC want to explore whether policy change ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Attitude Change and Empowerment (ACE)
£50,000 11/07/2015
24
To change Government policies to be more sensitive to the needs of vulnerable asylum seekers.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Asylum Aid
£59,382 10/06/2015
36
Asylum Aid is a legal advice and campaigning organisation supporting and representing asylum seekers with complex cases. It is seeking funding towards the salary of its solicitor specialising in ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Legal advice and representation for refugees
£15,000 28/04/2015
£15,000 towards Asylum Aid's legal services
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Asylum Aid
£90,000 25/09/2014
36
£90,000 over three years (£30,000, £30,000, £30,000) towards the salary of a legal advisor and associated costs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Asylum Aid
£180,000 24/06/2014
Towards core costs to provide high-quality legal representation to the most vulnerable and excluded asylum seekers, to improve legal access and to reduce gender discrimination in the asylum system.
AB Charitable Trust - Improving access to quality legal representation
£10,000 29/01/2014
£10,000 towards core costs
AB Charitable Trust - Improving access to good legal representation
£20,000 23/04/2013
£20,000 towards core costs
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Public Affairs & Communications
£50,000 26/01/2013
Public Affairs & Communications
Barrow Cadbury Trust - towards the salary costs of the Communications and Public Affairs Officer at Asylum Aid.
£61,000 04/08/2012
towards the salary costs of the Communications and Public Affairs Officer at Asylum Aid.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Asylum Aid
£45,000 29/03/2011
the salary costs of a Triage Caseworker, management costs, overheads and activity costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-79
  • CONSTANTINE PARTASIDES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Lawyyer
  • ELIZABETH ANNE MOTTERSHAW Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Barrister
  • JOHN SCAMPION Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Non Executive Director
  • KATHARINE LORENZ Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Executive
  • RUTH TANNER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Executive
  • SIR NICOLAS BRATZA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • YEHIA NASR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/07/1990, number: 328729
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/1990, number: 02513874
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR16: 130 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Asylum Aid
26 Westland Place
LONDON
N1 7JH

Objectives

2. Objects2.1 The Charity is established for the following purposes for the benefit of the Beneficiaries:2.1.1 to relieve their conditions of need, hardship or distress (including by providing them with legal advice and representation);2.1.2 to preserve and protect their physical and mental health;2.1.3 to advance their education and training so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community;2.1.4 to advance public education about the position of and issues relating to the Beneficiaries, including the situations which give rise to refugee movements; and2.1.5 assisting them in such other exclusively charitable ways as the Charity determines from time to time.2.2 In this Article 2, “Beneficiaries” means individuals who:2.2.1 are seeking asylum or other forms of protection in the UK;2.2.2 have already been granted refugee status, humanitarian protection or other forms of protection status by UK immigration authorities;2.2.3 have insecure immigration status or are stateless;2.2.4 are vulnerable to destitution, exploitation, abuse, trafficking or other forms of human cruelty including but not limited to those outside their country of origin; and2.2.5 the dependants of those mentioned in Articles 2.2.1 to 2.2.4 above.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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