Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

SAFE PASSAGE INTERNATIONAL 

We have a strategic legal focus, working to ensure refugees seeking asylum have material access to safe and legal routes to protection and a dignified life. We champion refugees' rights to legal safe passage through direct casework, strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building and community organising to effect systemic change in European refugee policy; with offices in UK, France and Greece
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 6 years

http://www.safepassage.org.uk

info@safepassage.org.uk

07542268434

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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
31/12/22£1,941£1,854£86£196£1,081£1,0296.73440
31/12/21£1,654£1,359£295£183£1,087£1,0289.12630
31/12/20£1,624£1,105£519£131£801£64772030
31/12/19£1,224£942£282£192£282£2132.72425
31/12/18£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 6.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • France, Greece, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 34 employees
  • 40 volunteers

Who's supporting 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
Comic Relief£267,000
Trust for London£193,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£105,000
The Bromley Trust£80,000
AB Charitable Trust£75,000
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£72,640
Access to Justice Foundation£38,196
The Childhood Trust£26,100
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Bromley Trust - Restricted grant towards work in the UK
£20,000 03/07/2023
Safe Passage uses strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building, and community organising, to open and defend safe, legal routes to sanctuary for those seeking asylum, especially children, and ....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.
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Safe Passage International
£8,640 19/10/2022
Towards cost of living crisis
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Safe Passage International
£20,000 23/08/2022
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards UK work (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Safe Passage International work to identify safe and legal routes for unaccompanied child refugees ....more
Trust for London - Safe Passage
£100,000 29/06/2022
The funding is for advocacy and campaigning to increase public and political support for safe routes for refugees to the UK. The grant will cover the salary costs of the Public Affairs and Policy ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Legal assistance for people seeking asylum from Afghanistan.
£5,000 02/03/2022
Expert legal assistance to children, vulnerable adults and separated families seeking asylum on the move in Europe from Afghanistan.
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Safe Passage International
£64,000 11/11/2021
Towards campaigns project
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Safe Passage International
£20,000 07/10/2021
A restricted grant of £20,000 per year for 3 years towards UK work (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Safe Passage International work to identify safe and legal routes for ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 07/10/2021
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Safe Passage International campaign for and support child refugees to access legal routes to safety. They support unaccompanied child refugees all over Europe with an established presence in London, ....more
The Childhood Trust - Delivering safe passage for child refugees
£22,350 22/06/2021
We help refugee children to reach a safe place without risking their lives, by using the law. We make the system fairer for more children and families in dangerous situations.
Trust for London - Safe Passage
£93,000 07/10/2020
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The funding is for an existing Press and Public Affairs Manager and a contribution to Youth Advocacy Organiser whose work is vital in challenging negative perceptions of young refugees.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£26,000 05/10/2020
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
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£60,000 14/07/2020
Safe Passage uses strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building, and community organising, to open and defend safe, legal routes to sanctuary for those seeking asylum, especially children, and ....more
The Childhood Trust - Helping asylum seeking children and their families
£3,750 03/07/2020
Help us to reach asylum seeking children in Europe reunite with their family members in the UK. There are thousands of children in refugee camps and on the streets of Europe who should be safe with ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Safe Passage International
£15,000 02/07/2020
A restricted grant of £15,000 towards their UK work. Safe Passage International works to identify safe and legal routes for unaccompanied child refugees to reunite with their families in the UK, ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Safe Passage International
£105,000 21/03/2020
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Keeping legal routes open for child refugees
Comic Relief - Securing routes to safety for more child refugees in Europe
£267,000 17/03/2020
Safe Passage carries out casework to help around 1600 refugees, mainly children, to navigate European legal frameworks to secure asylum in the UK each year. It also carries out advocacy and strategic ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Safe Passage International
£20,000 27/06/2019
A core grant of £20,000 restricted to UK activities. Safe Passage International provides legal support and advocacy to open safe and legal routes to protection for child refugees. This funding is ....more
Comic Relief - Opening routes to safety for child refugees in Europe
£250,000 19/07/2017
24
This proposal is a contribution towards Safe Passage's core and project costs to realise their ambition of reuniting and successfully integrating more children with their families in the UK through ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 21-70
  • LUSINE MANUKYAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Policy & Strategy Adviser
  • MAGID MAGID (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/08/2018, number: 1179608
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/01/2018, number: 11136659
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
5 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WOOD GREEN MENNONITE CHURCH TRUST on 29/03/2022
Main office

PO Box 79446
LONDON
E2 2HS

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, (IN SUCH WAYS AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS TO ACCESS SAFE AND LEGAL ROUTES TO SANCTUARY WITHIN AND BETWEEN COUNTRIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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