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Registered charity · Gloucester

Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire
Website
www.garas.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£947k£810k
  • 2021£534k£518k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 76% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS POVERTY AND DISTRESS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITH THE PARTICULAR AIM OF PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND OTHER MIGRANTS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

6 grants · £154,388 total

360Giving 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

Most recent

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

4.1y median 2.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 8Other services 2Education 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

26 from 16 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
78%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1082388
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 JULY 2000 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14 AUGUST 2000 AND 24 OCTOBER 2006. as amended on 07 Dec 2023
Companies House
Company number 04026398 · Active
Contact on the register
01452550528 · info@garas.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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