ASYLUM AID

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Sayer Vincent LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Having regard to these developments and the reserves held at the year-end both by Asylum Aid and the Helen Bamber Foundation, the Trustees consider it reasonable to expect that Asylum Aid has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the Trustees continue to adopt the 'going concern' basis in preparing the accounts.”

Significant events

• “2024 was a year of exciting change and consolidation for Asylum Aid. As the final year of working towards the 2022-2024 strategic objectives, we successfully delivered on our commitment to increase our own capacity to provide our much-needed expert legal representation to survivors, taking on 93 new clients across the year. We worked in partnership to increase capacity across legal deserts, partnering with legal advice providers from Devon to Manchester through our innovative model of training and remote supervision. We grew our statelessness project and our casework, enabling us to reach many more survivors.”
• “The first half of the year was dominated by the continuing fight against the previous government's plans to send people seeking protection thousands of miles away to Rwanda. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling at the end of 2023 that Rwanda would not be safe, the government persisted with its plan. It pushed through draconian legislation in the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024, which undermined the Rule of Law and tried to insulate the government from the scrutiny of the courts. Asylum Aid worked hard, together with our partners and clients, to challenge this horrendous policy through Parliament and in the courts. We were delighted when the new government scrapped the plan within days of being elected and finally, in response to our litigation, committed to repealing the legislation.”
• “We moved into the new Trauma Centre together with our sister charity, the Helen Bamber Foundation.”
• “WE ENSURED THAT THE SAFETY OF RWANDA ACT IS REPEALED”
• “WE CHALLENGED AND CHANGED POLICIES AFFECTING FAMILY REUNION FROM GAZA”
• “WE SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT FOR FAMILY REUNION OF STATELESS PEOPLE”
• “WE PROVIDED VITAL EVIDENCE ON THE HARM CAUSED BY ASYLUM HOTELS AND WETHERSFIELD CAMP”
• “WE PUBLISHED VITAL RESEARCH ON THE CRIMINALISATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +32%

  £1,723,495 → £2,275,078

  highest in 4 filed years

• Cash

  +3.7%

  £966,018 → £1,001,531

  highest in 4 filed years

• Net assets

  +58.6%

  £1,058,089 → £1,678,363

  highest in 4 filed years

• Employees

  +20.8%

  24 → 29

  highest in 4 filed years

• Wages

  +42.2%

  £686,357 → £976,128

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers