Registered charity · Suffolk
Suffolk Refugee Support
- 8 trustees
- Income £769k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Felicity Jane SzesnatChair · since 2021
- Carolyn Eugene CrabbTrustee · since 2025
- Emma Louise SheppardTrustee · since 2025
- James Dermot Wellesley WesleyTrustee · since 2024
- Lauren Jayne SmithTrustee · since 2026
- Lisa HilsonTrustee · since 2025
- Olena KushakovskaTrustee · since 2023
- Robert Stuart Mcwhinnie GordonTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Suffolk
- Website
- www.suffolkrefugee.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Suffolk Refugee Support
- Registered
- 2000
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£769k£806k
- 2024£753k£870k
- 2023£749k£705k
Earlier years
- 2022£641k£521k
- 2021£455k£378k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 36% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
A) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE RESIDENT OR WHO ARE INTENDING TO RESIDE IN SUFFOLK BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSON WITH ADVICE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING, TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING SERVICES AND OTHER ASSISTANCE IN MATTERS SUCH AS ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION, MONEY, DEBTS, WELFARE, BENEFITS, HOUSING, HEALTH, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENTB) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SUFFOLK AND INPARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE INHABITANTS WHO ARE REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THEIR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE
Grants received
77 grants · £3,578,575 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £2,356,235 (6 grants)
- Suffolk Community Foundation · £374,264 (45 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £185,000 (5 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £166,641 (3 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £114,508 (4 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
8 trustees on the board
- Felicity Jane Szesnat Chair since 2021
- Carolyn Eugene Crabb since 2025
- Emma Louise Sheppard since 2025
- James Dermot Wellesley Wesley since 2024
- Lauren Jayne Smith since 2026
- Lisa Hilson since 2025
- Olena Kushakovska since 2023
- Robert Stuart Mcwhinnie Gordon since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Felicity Jane Szesnat Chair since 2021
- Carolyn Eugene Crabb since 2025
- Emma Louise Sheppard since 2025
- James Dermot Wellesley Wesley since 2024
- Lauren Jayne Smith since 2026
- Lisa Hilson since 2025
- Olena Kushakovska since 2023
- Robert Stuart Mcwhinnie Gordon since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1078794
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/12/1999AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/10/2012
- Companies House
- Company number 03894990 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01473400786 · rcrerar@suffolkrefugee.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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