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    DETENTION ACTION 

    Established: 27 years
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    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/22£642£691£-49£0£222£2023.51365
    31/03/21£674£547£127£0£272£2695.91065
    31/03/20£358£481£-124n/an/an/an/an/a70
    31/03/19£394£382£12n/an/an/an/an/a84
    31/03/18£344£345£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£404£312£92£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£276£265£10£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£314£261£53£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£261£223£38£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£235£211£24£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£228£230£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£193£189£4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£147£150£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£113£122£-10£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08*£120£117£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£127£109£19£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£82£96£-13£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£87£55£32£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£76£115£-39£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation£333,000
    Esmee Fairbairn£214,500
    Trust for London£177,500
    Joseph Rowntree Foundation£150,000
    Barrow Cadbury Trust£125,000
    The Bromley Trust£60,000
    Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£50,000
    AB Charitable Trust£45,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Detention Action
    £12,000 20/02/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Consolidating expansion and gains in systemic reform
    £18,000 18/01/2023
    Detention Action defends the rights and improves the welfare of people in detention by supporting individuals and campaigning for change. This grant supports Detention Action to present a lived ....more
    Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Detention Action
    £50,000 24/11/2022
    Towards Rwanda strategic litigation project
    Trust for London - Detention Action
    £2,500 29/09/2022
    This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.06.2019-8115
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Detention Action
    £15,000 17/06/2022
    An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). Detention Action provide practical and emotional support to people detained in the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook, and ....more
    The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
    £60,000 17/01/2022
    Detention Action is a national charity that seeks to defend the rights and improve the welfare of people in immigration detention by combining support for individuals with campaigning for policy ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Detention Action
    £180,000 20/10/2021
    36
    Towards unrestricted core costs to end indefinite immigration detention and combat injustice in the UK asylum system.
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Detention Action
    £15,000 14/06/2021
    An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Detention Action provide practical and emotional support to people detained in the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook, ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Consolidating expansion and gains in systemic reform
    £240,000 17/05/2021
    Detention Action defends the rights and improves the welfare of people in detention by supporting individuals and campaigning for change. This grant supports Detention Action to present a lived ....more
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - Detention Reform Project 2021-24.
    £75,000 23/01/2021
    36
    To support Detention Action's advocacy and campaigning work.
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Detention Action
    £50,000 07/10/2020
    6
    To expand frontline services in response to the pandemic.
    Trust for London - Detention Action
    £25,000 02/09/2020
    6
    The funding is to develop its advocacy work at a crucial moment for detention reform. Following Covid19 the number of people detained is at its lowest level for many years. However, the indications ....more
    Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Detention Action
    £150,000 10/07/2020
    36
    Core costs
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Detention Action
    £15,000 02/07/2020
    An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Detention Action provide practical and emotional support to people detained in the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook, ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
    £50,000 03/06/2020
    12
    Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Detention Action
    £22,500 05/05/2020
    6
    towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
    £20,000 09/04/2020
    3
    Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
    £5,000 24/03/2020
    1
    Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
    Trust for London - Detention Action
    £150,000 02/10/2019
    36
    The funding is for an integrated advocacy programme aimed at achieving a statutory prohibition on indefinite immigration detention in London and nationally; contributing to the establishment of ....more
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Detention Action
    £20,000 24/01/2019
    £20,000 towards core costs. Detention Action supports people held in immigration detention in Colnbrook, Harmondsworth and Morton Hall detention centres. They provide practical & emotional ....more
    The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted Grant
    £30,000 09/01/2019
    36
    Detention Action is a national charity that seeks to defend the rights and improve the welfare of people in immigration detention by combining support for individuals with campaigning for policy ....more
    The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
    £10,000 01/02/2018
    12
    Detention Action is a national charity that seeks to defend the rights and improve the welfare of people in immigration detention by combining support for individuals with campaigning for policy ....more
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Detention Action
    £15,000 23/01/2018
    £15,000 towards core costs. Detention Action supports people held in immigration detention in Colnbrook, Harmondsworth and Morton Hall detention centres. They provide practical & emotional ....more
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - Detention Reform Project 2018-2021
    £60,000 21/10/2017
    36
    To achieve radical change for irregular migrants and asylum-seekers at risk of indefinite immigration detention
    The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
    £10,000 07/06/2017
    12
    Detention Action is a national charity that seeks to defend the rights and improve the welfare of people in immigration detention by combining support for individuals with campaigning for policy ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Community Support Project
    £142,000 08/05/2017
    36
    The Community Support Project will continue to work with the Home Office to enable the release from indefinite detention of young ex-offender migrants, and will provide intensive one-to-one case ....more
    Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Detention Action
    £112,500 18/03/2017
    36
    Alternatives to detention advocacy
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Detention Action
    £15,000 24/01/2017
    £15,000 towards advocacy and casework. Detention Action supports people held in immigration detention in Colnbrook, Harmondsworth and Morton Hall detention centres. They provide practical & ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Detention Action
    £91,800 10/03/2016
    12
    towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of the 'Colnbrook and Verne Advocacy Project', supporting immigration detainees
    AB Charitable Trust - Defending rights of migrants in detention
    £10,000 26/01/2016
    £10,000 towards core costs
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Detention Action
    £225,000 09/12/2015
    60
    Towards Detention Action's strategic campaigning for reform of the immigration detention system.
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Detention Action
    £30,000 11/06/2015
    12
    over one year as continuation funding towards the running costs of an organisation providing casework to detainees at Colnbrook and Verne detention centres
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - Campaign for detention reform
    £60,000 24/01/2015
    36
    To enable Detention Action to build on its success to date in campaigning for a fairer detention system.
    AB Charitable Trust - Support and campaigning for immigration detainees.
    £10,000 21/10/2014
    £10,000 towards core costs
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Detention Action
    £29,600 29/01/2014
    Detention Action supports migrants held in detention and campaigns for welfare improvement and policy change . This request relates to their practical and emotional support services for individuals ....more
    AB Charitable Trust - defending the rights of immigration detainees
    £10,000 29/10/2013
    £10,000 towards core costs
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Detention Action
    £76,600 12/09/2012
    36
    towards three years' continuation funding of an advocacy and support project for detainees at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow Airport
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Detention Action
    £75,000 18/07/2012
    Towards core costs while the organisation pursues policy change around the unlawful detention of immigrants.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/10/1997, number: 1065066
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    20 returns made; AR08: 6 days late,
    Main office


    Objectives

    THE OBJECTS OF DETENTION ACTION ARE FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND OTHERS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN DETAINED IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE AND WHO ARE RESIDENT OR WHO ARE INTENDING TO RESIDE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH EDUCATIONAL, PRACTICAL OR OTHER SUPPORT.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    LONDON AND ELSEWHERE

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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