Registered charity (CIO) · London
United Kingdom for Unhcr
- 11 trustees
- Income £26m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Charlotte BoyleChair · since 2021
- Anita YuenTrustee · since 2025
- Claire Hajaj-CalestiniTrustee · since 2021
- Jonathan SparkesTrustee · since 2025
- Jonathan WilliamsTrustee · since 2024
- Katherine Mary StewardTrustee · since 2020
- Keith David FeltonTrustee · since 2019
- Lara BoroTrustee · since 2025
- Michael DysonTrustee · since 2025
- Sohail AliTrustee · since 2024
- Trinh TuTrustee · since 2024
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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina and more
- Website
- www.unrefugees.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£26m£25m
- 2023£31m£27m
- 2022£56m£46m
Earlier years
- 2021£18m£14m
- 2020£5.8m£5.5m
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
I. THE RELIEF OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND STATELESS PERSONS BY RAISING FUNDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN SUPPORT OF SUCH OF UNHCR'S PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMES AS ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE UNDER ENGLISH LAW.II. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, AND THE AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, ABOUT THE SITUATION AND THE NEEDS OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND STATELESS PERSONS WORLDWIDE.III. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY PREVENTING REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND STATELESS PERSONS FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, AND BY RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND STATELESS PERSONS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, "STATELESS PERSON" HAS THE MEANING GIVEN TO IT IN ARTICLE 1 OF THE 1954 UN CONVENTION RELATING TO THE STATUS OF STATELESS PERSONS AND "SOCIALLY EXCLUDED" MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR A PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; ILL HEALTH (MENTAL OR PHYSICAL); DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, RACE, DISABILITY, GENDER IDENTITY, SEX, OR SEXUALITY; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY; OR CRIME.
Grants received
16 grants · £693,700 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
- Comic Relief · £400,000
- SHAREGIFT · £217,000 (11 grants)
- EA Foundation · £71,950 (3 grants)
- Community Foundation in Wales · £4,750
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Charlotte Boyle Chair since 2021
- Anita Yuen since 2025
- Claire Hajaj-Calestini since 2021
- Jonathan Sparkes since 2025
- Jonathan Williams since 2024
- Keith David Felton since 2019
- Katherine Mary Steward since 2020
- Lara Boro since 2025
- Michael Dyson since 2025
- Sohail Ali since 2024
- Trinh Tu since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Keith David Felton since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Charlotte Boyle Chair since 2021
- Anita Yuen since 2025
- Claire Hajaj-Calestini since 2021
- Jonathan Sparkes since 2025
- Jonathan Williams since 2024
- Katherine Mary Steward since 2020
- Lara Boro since 2025
- Sohail Ali since 2024
- Trinh Tu since 2024
Portfolio (2)
- Keith David Felton since 2019
- Michael Dyson 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.
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
5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.6 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1183415
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 14 May 2019 as amended on 23 Sep 2019 as amended on 31 Oct 2019 as amended on 24 May 2021 as amended on 26 May 2021
- Contact on the register
- 02037618094 · supportercare@unrefugees.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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