Registered charity · London
Asylum AID
2. Objects2.1 The Charity is established for the following purposes for the benefit of the Beneficiaries:2.1.1 to relieve their conditions of need, hardship or distress (including by providing them with legal advice and representation);2.1.2 to...
- 8 trustees
- Income £2.3m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.asylumaid.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Asylum AID
- Registered
- 1990
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£2.3m£1.7m
- 2023£1.7m£1.2m
- 2022£883k£640k
Earlier years
- 2021£708k£480k
- 2020£236k£168k
Charitable objects
2. Objects2.1 The Charity is established for the following purposes for the benefit of the Beneficiaries:2.1.1 to relieve their conditions of need, hardship or distress (including by providing them with legal advice and representation);2.1.2 to preserve and protect their physical and mental health;2.1.3 to advance their education and training so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community;2.1.4 to advance public education about the position of and issues relating to the Beneficiaries, including the situations which give rise to refugee movements; and2.1.5 assisting them in such other exclusively charitable ways as the Charity determines from time to time.2.2 In this Article 2, “Beneficiaries” means individuals who:2.2.1 are seeking asylum or other forms of protection in the UK;2.2.2 have already been granted refugee status, humanitarian protection or other forms of protection status by UK immigration authorities;2.2.3 have insecure immigration status or are stateless;2.2.4 are vulnerable to destitution, exploitation, abuse, trafficking or other forms of human cruelty including but not limited to those outside their country of origin; and2.2.5 the dependants of those mentioned in Articles 2.2.1 to 2.2.4 above.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Elizabeth Anne Mottershaw since 2022
- John Scampion since 2020
- Katharine Lorenz since 2022
- Novide Refahi since 2025
- Ruth Tanner since 2022
- Shahd Mousalli since 2025
- Sir Nicolas Bratza since 2020
- Yehia Nasr since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- John Scampion since 2020
- Sir Nicolas Bratza since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Elizabeth Anne Mottershaw since 2022
- John Scampion since 2020
- Katharine Lorenz since 2022
- Ruth Tanner since 2022
- Shahd Mousalli since 2025
- Sir Nicolas Bratza since 2020
Portfolio (2)
- Novide Refahi since 2025
- Yehia Nasr since 2022
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
3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.9 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 328729
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/06/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/02/2005 as amended on 20 May 2022 as amended on 15 Sep 2022 as amended on 15 Sep 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 02513874 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02073549631 · advice@asylumaid.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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