Registered charity · Kent
Kent Refugee Action Network
a. To support and relieve the needs of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced persons and ethnic minorities principally in Kent, particularly by (a) providing advice and information; (b) providing education and life skills training and (c) offering...
- 11 trustees
- Income £929k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Rupert BrownChair · since 2021
- Anna Di MascioTrustee · since 2025
- Bashir AbdulrahmanTrustee · since 2026
- Caroline BeardTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Richard Lee WarrenTrustee · since 2022
- Hardy KerimTrustee · since 2026
- Hilary AdamsTrustee · since 2026
- Nicola RobbinsTrustee · since 2021
- Patricia Carole EdwardsTrustee · since 2016
- Sally WeatherallTrustee · since 2022
- Tim JudgeTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Kent
- Website
- kran.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Kent Refugee Action Network
- Registered
- 2003
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£929k£858k
- 2024£624k£732k
- 2023£732k£638k
Earlier years
- 2022£558k£547k
- 2021£620k£469k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 17%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
a. To support and relieve the needs of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced persons and ethnic minorities principally in Kent, particularly by (a) providing advice and information; (b) providing education and life skills training and (c) offering support for wellbeing. b. The promotion of human rights, through improving racial harmony, equality and diversity in our local communities by (a) using our position, experience and knowledge to amplify the voices of people with lived experience (b) promoting awareness, informing policy and influencing practice for public benefit and for the refugees and asylum seekers we seek to support and serve.
Grants received
57 grants · £2,850,313 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 · £1,285,105 (12 grants)
- The Tudor Trust · £300,000 (3 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £265,000 (5 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £241,455 (7 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £215,251 (3 grants)
Most recent
Board analysis for researchers
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Rupert Brown Chair since 2021
- Anna Di Mascio since 2025
- Bashir Abdulrahman since 2026
- Caroline Beard since 2024
- Dr Richard Lee Warren since 2022
- Hardy Kerim since 2026
- Hilary Adams since 2026
- Nicola Robbins since 2021
- Patricia Carole Edwards since 2016
- Sally Weatherall since 2022
- Tim Judge since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Patricia Carole Edwards since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Rupert Brown Chair since 2021
- Anna Di Mascio since 2025
- Bashir Abdulrahman since 2026
- Caroline Beard since 2024
- Dr Richard Lee Warren since 2022
- Hardy Kerim since 2026
- Hilary Adams since 2026
- Nicola Robbins since 2021
- Patricia Carole Edwards since 2016
- Sally Weatherall since 2022
- Tim Judge since 2025
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
0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.3 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1097886
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 APRIL 2003 AS AMENDED 8 JUNE 2005 as amended on 18 Feb 2021 as amended on 01 Sep 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 04738880 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01227 634320 · razia@kran.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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