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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Refugee Legal Support

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £879k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England, Greece, France
Website
www.refugeelegalsupport.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£879k£682k
  • 2024£657k£650k
  • 2023£507k£497k
Earlier years
  • 2022£361k£315k
  • 2021£176k£85k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 3.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS, AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS WHO ARE INTERNALLY DISPLACED OR IN MIGRATION OR WHO ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS OR REFUGEES FLEEING SITUATIONS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) WAR, PERSECUTION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE AND THEIR FAMILIES AND ANY DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS (HEREINAFTER THE ‘BENEFICIARIES’); 3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN LEGAL RIGHTS PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE RELATED TO REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKERS 3.3 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THE BENEFICIARIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE BENEFICIARIES

Grants received

13 grants · £588,674 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.

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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

1.4y median 0y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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 1Other services 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£657k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.9 in 2021

13 from 10 in 2023
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1191680
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Oct 2020
Contact on the register
+447955423893 · CONTACT@REFUGEELEGALSUPPORT.ORG
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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