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Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT 

In solidarity with people on the move, we promote access to justice via the provision of legal support, casework, outreach, training and partnerships. We support advocacy and strategic litigation aimed at protecting legal rights and promoting a respectful migration experience
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Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

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

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
30/09/22£361,000£315,000£46,00035
30/09/21£176,368£84,772£91,59610
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

https://www.refugeelegalsupport.org

coordinator.uk@refugeelegalsupport.org

07955423893

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Poverty relief
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • France, Greece, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 35 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - RLS Leadership: delivering our new strategy for impact and resilience
£180,000 06/03/2023
Refugee Legal Support (RLS) are a group of UK and EU asylum lawyers acting in solidarity with refugees in Greece. They provide free legal support to those seeking sanctuary in Greece or reunification ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Refugee Legal Support
£20,000 06/10/2022
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards UK work. Refugee Legal Support provides free legal advice and support to displaced people seeking sanctuary or reunification with their family members in the UK ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Refugee Legal Support
£5,000 18/07/2022
A restricted grant of £5,000 towards the Calais Outreach Project. Refugee Legal Support provide free legal advice and representation to refugees and those seeking asylum hoping to reunite with ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Refugee Legal Support
£20,000 10/11/2021
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards the Legal Director role and associated costs. Refugee Legal Support provide free legal support to refugees and those seeking asylum hoping to reunite with ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 07/10/2021
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Refugee Legal Support (RLS) are a group of UK and EU asylum lawyers acting in solidarity with refugees in Greece. They provide free legal support to those seeking sanctuary in Greece or reunification ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Influencing family reunion procedures
£50,000 08/03/2021
Refugee Legal Support (RLS) are a group of UK and EU asylum lawyers acting in solidarity with refugees in Greece. This grant supports RLS to influence the post-Brexit replacement of the Dublin family ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/10/2020, number: 1191680
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

Refugee Legal Support
61 Mansell St.
London
E1 8AN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 3.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS, AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS WHO ARE INTERNALLY DISPLACED OR IN MIGRATION OR WHO ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS OR REFUGEES FLEEING SITUATIONS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) WAR, PERSECUTION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE AND THEIR FAMILIES AND ANY DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS (HEREINAFTER THE ‘BENEFICIARIES’); 3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN LEGAL RIGHTS PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE RELATED TO REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKERS 3.3 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THE BENEFICIARIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE BENEFICIARIES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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