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Refugee Action receives funding from a variety of sources:
Government funding
In common with other national refugee agencies, Refugee Action recieves funding from the Home Office to provide core services to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
This funding allows us to provide vital practical advice and support to newly-arrived asylum seekers and also to work with refugee community organisations so that they can provide services to refugees in their communities. Our Government funding allows us to carry out very specific parts of our work and we are not allowed to use this money for any other purpose.
Funding from trusts, foundations and individuals
Along with government funding we rely on grants and donations from trusts, foundations and individuals. This funding allows us to provide specialist projects that meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable clients. They may be more vulnerable because they are isolated, or because they are young and here without parents. Or perhaps they are women looking after very young children. Our independently-funded projects address the needs of clients for whom there is little other specialist help available.
This funding also allows us to carry out much-needed research and to campaign for refugee rights. It also helps us to plan ahead and ensure that we can help future refugees forced to flee.
We receive funding from the Big Lottery Fund, charitable trusts and foundations, as well as a small base of individual donors.
Trusts and foundations that support us:
Big Lottery Fund
Brian and Annabel Foster Foundation
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund
Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
E L Rathbone Charitable Trust
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
HACT
The Jill Franklin Trust
Lankelly Chase Foundation
Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales
The Mirianog Trust
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Pilkington Charities Fund
The Tinsley Foundation
The Tudor Trust
Puri Foundation
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