Registered charity · London
Action for Refugees in Lewisham
- 10 trustees
- Income £573k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Gareth Redmond-KingChair · since 2019
- Divaughn BurnettTrustee · since 2018
- Hasan KhalifahTrustee · since 2023
- Karleen RichardsTrustee · since 2022
- Kathleen Anne Bride CommonsTrustee · since 2021
- Kirsten Rebecca WildgooseTrustee · since 2022
- Lorna Sarah BarronTrustee · since 2022
- Margaret Ruth GravelleTrustee · since 2018
- Neil Denis WalkerTrustee · since 2022
- Welat Sardar Ahmed KurdiTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and more
- Website
- www.afril.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Action for Refugees in Lewisham
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£573k£522k
- 2024£483k£524k
- 2023£305k£284k
Earlier years
- 2022£240k£232k
- 2021£197k£198k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 21% · Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
4.1 TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF REFUGEES4.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF REFUGEES4.3 TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF REFUGEES.
Grants received
58 grants · £1,239,117 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
- Trust for London · £215,300 (4 grants)
- St Paul's Schools Foundation · £200,000
- Henry Smith Foundation · £192,990 (3 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £123,987 (3 grants)
- A B Charitable Trust · £113,675 (9 grants)
Most recent
- 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.
10 trustees on the board
- Gareth Redmond-King Chair since 2019
- Divaughn Burnett since 2018
- Hasan Khalifah since 2023
- Karleen Richards since 2022
- Kathleen Anne Bride Commons since 2021
- Kirsten Rebecca Wildgoose since 2022
- Lorna Sarah Barron since 2022
- Margaret Ruth Gravelle since 2018
- Neil Denis Walker since 2022
- Welat Sardar Ahmed Kurdi since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Gareth Redmond-King Chair since 2019
- Divaughn Burnett since 2018
- Margaret Ruth Gravelle since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Gareth Redmond-King Chair since 2019
- Divaughn Burnett since 2018
- Hasan Khalifah since 2023
- Karleen Richards since 2022
- Kirsten Rebecca Wildgoose since 2022
- Lorna Sarah Barron since 2022
- Margaret Ruth Gravelle since 2018
- Neil Denis Walker since 2022
- Welat Sardar Ahmed Kurdi since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Kathleen Anne Bride Commons since 2021
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.
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
2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1116344
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 MAY 2006
- Companies House
- Company number 05819537 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020882974111 · info@afril.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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