Registered charity · Tooting Works
Caras Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers LTD
- 0 trustees
- Income £872k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
No individual trustees are listed on the register.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Amateur Sport, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Croydon, Lambeth, Merton, Wandsworth
- Website
- www.caras.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£872k£796k
- 2024£877k£705k
- 2023£599k£643k
Earlier years
- 2022£684k£632k
- 2021£569k£583k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.2 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.
Grants received
58 grants · £2,237,847 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 · £690,719 (7 grants)
- City Bridge Trust · £364,605 (4 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £242,840 (4 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £188,128 (2 grants)
- St Paul's Schools Foundation · £175,000
Most recent
Board analysis
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
5.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1124376
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 JANUARY 2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 19/01/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 06462487 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02087675378 · info@caras.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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