CHOOSE LOVE
Charity Number: 1177927
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
In both emergency disaster relief and protracted crises, Choose Love works to identify, close and prevent gaps in support displaced people around the world. We provide grants and other assistance to frontline partners along key migration routes and in countries experiencing conflict, persecution climate change and other drivers of forced displacement.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income: £304,208
Total expenditure: £347,085
People
9 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia And Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Canada
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- Serbia
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United States
Governance
Registration history:
- 12 April 2018: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
- HELP REFUGEES (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
9 Trustee(s)
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| Geoffrey Cordell | Chair | 07 March 2024 |
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| Julfikhar Farhaz Khan KC | Trustee | 22 April 2024 |
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| EYINMISAN HOPE HARRIMAN | Trustee | 22 April 2024 |
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| Dzikamai Jonathan Chibafa | Trustee | 07 March 2024 |
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| Andrew Purkis | Trustee | 07 March 2024 |
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| Hassan Elmasry | Trustee | 07 March 2024 |
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| Oliver Segal KC | Trustee | 07 March 2024 |
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| Jessica Mills | Trustee | 21 December 2023 |
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| Tracey Seaward | Trustee | 12 April 2018 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £0 | £41.80k | £85.71k | £62.13k | £304.21k | |
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Total expenditure | £0 | £0 | £83.43k | £0 | £347.09k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 31 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 31 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 18 January 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 18 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 30 January 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 30 January 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 30 January 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 30 January 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |