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Bail for Immigration Detainees is an independent charity that exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. We work with asylum seekers and migrants in removal 20 years supporting over centres and prisons, to secure their release from detention. Annual Report 2019 45,000people in detention Challenging Immigration detention in the United Kingdom

Bail for Immigration Detainees

“Over the course of our inquiry, we have found serious problems with almost every element of the immigration detention system. People are being wrongfully detained, held in immigration detention What is immigration What does Specifically, we: when they are vulnerable and detained for detention? BID do? Anyone subject to immigration BID’s vision is of a world free • Run a telephone helpline four too long… too often the Home Office has control in the UK can be of immigration detention, mornings a week to deliver legal detained. It is an administrative where people are not deprived advice and information and not a criminal process. of their liberty for immigration shown a shockingly cavalier attitude to • Deliver legal advice sessions and There are none of the safeguards purposes. We aim to challenge workshops in detention centres and that there should be when immigration detention in the prisons the deprivation of human liberty and the depriving someone of their UK through the provision liberty. First, the decision to of legal advice, information • Prepare, update and disseminate protection of people’s basic rights.” detain an individual is taken by and representation alongside self-help materials on detention and an immigration officer and not research, policy advocacy deportation so that detainees have the (Home Affairs Select Committee 2019 Report overseen by a court. Second, and strategic litigation. tools to represent themselves if they on Immigration Detention) there is no automatic legal don’t have a lawyer advice or representation. Third, there is no time limit. Given • Prepare court cases for release on bail and deportation appeals these three factors, people can be detained for weeks, months • Carry out research, gather evidence and even years. People can also from casework, and prepare reports be re-detained, but the Home and briefings for civil servants, Office treats these as separate parliamentarians and the general periods of detention and does public about different aspects of not count cumulative lengths immigration detention of detention. Many people experience repeated periods of • Refer cases for unlawful detention detention. actions • Act as a third party intervener, or provide evidence to the higher courts on detention policy and practice

• Raise awareness of immigration detention with the wider public

“BID really supported me a lot while I was in detention because they literally went to represent me for bail lots of times. Which was really, really helpful. Having people like that is going to allow more people to be able to fight for their rights.” Client

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Chair’s Report Director’s report

At a time when less and oral and written evidence. less seems to shock, it is BID has spent twenty years A range of different articles still unbelievable that the carefully documenting and appeared in the press, including UK exposes fellow human researching every aspect of a week’s focus on immigration beings to the degradation immigration detention policy detention in the Guardian, as of immigration detention. and practice, becoming an well as the tireless work carried Despite all the uncertainty acknowledged expert in the out by Amelia Gentleman in around Brexit, BID continues, field. BID staff through the exposing what had happened as it has done for 20 years, to years have briefed journalists to the Windrush generation. support those left vulnerable and politicians, worked BID worked behind the scenes by immigration detention. I tirelessly to influence civil to brief journalists and to assist know from the comments we servants and have borne witness with information and contacts receive from clients how much to some tangible changes – for wherever possible, and yet they appreciate what BID has example with the ending of again, BID appeared in the press done to help them at their time the detention of children in an impressive number of times. of need. The nature and range 2010. Notwithstanding the The reduction in numbers of our work is becoming more very real political difficulties of people being detained complex as we broaden the type that the country currently faces, also meant a corresponding of support we give to clients Amid all the political BID continues to for reduction in the number of beyond basic bail advice and turbulence with which we were those who are detained and people that BID was able to the team continues to amaze all surrounded during 2018/19, continues to hope for, and support, but this also resulted with the quality of the work it a significant anniversary took strive for, a brighter future in providing a more in-depth delivers. place. 2019 marked twenty – our vision is for a world service to those clients who years of BID’s existence. without immigration detention were representing themselves On behalf of the Board I would Chair of Trustees Sandeep Katwala at our Anti-Birthday event marking BID’s 20th Anniversary For those inspirational and and those who work for, and who we were unable to take on like to thank Pierre Makhlouf committed people who volunteer for BID combine their for our represented service. for standing in so ably while founded BID, it must have energies to this end. Celia recovers from illness been unimaginable that the Whatever the future holds for and also to all the other staff “In the quarter until 4 February 2018, organisation would continue One of the noticeable changes the UK, BID will continue and volunteers who work so only 45 per cent of those leaving to be around twenty years in the last year was the to push for an end to the incredibly hard to support our from then. At the heart of the reduction in the numbers of barbaric system of immigration clients. I also want to thank the detention estate were removed founders’ approach was the people being detained. While detention that has caused the Board who freely give their from the country – the rest were idea that they would not only the cynic in us feared that this so many such suffering and time and energy to support get people out of detention, might be an attempt to “clear hardship. Thank you to all of BID. And finally, none of this is released. While I welcome the overall but in conjunction with that, the decks” in preparation for you who have assisted us in the possible without the financial decrease in the numbers of those would persuade politicians that the detention of EEA nationals journey so far – we hope we and broader support you, our immigration detention was in the event of the UK leaving can count on you to continue supporters, give to BID. Thank detained, these figures continue to not only cruel and inhumane, the EU, we also hoped that to support us in the future. We you. call into question the extent to which but utterly unnecessary in the it was in response to greater need you. operation of an asylum and public scrutiny – particularly Sandeep Katwala, Chair the current use of detention is cost immigration system. Sadly, in parliament, but also in Celia Clarke, Director despite BID consistently the media – of immigration effective or necessary.” advocating for an end to detention. Condemnation for  Assessment of government progress in implementing detention, the system expanded the system was wholehearted the report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, and became ever more from both the Home Affairs entrenched over the years, with Stephen Shaw, July 2018 Select Committee and the Joint an expansion of the so-called Committee for Human Rights, detention “estate” along with its to which BID had given both privatisation.

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Bail casework and outreach

Comments A sample of clients’ comments

In the past year BID staff and Until this last year our “DIY” volunteers have supported a scheme (helping detainees apply Achievements total of 4,161 people. Most for bail themselves) scheme clients receive legal advice with provided advice and support a smaller proportion being to help detainees improve directly represented by BID. their own bail applications by “BID got me out of detention Staff and volunteers prepared sending them advice letters. after paying £700 to [another] “No words could ever express 522 bail applications. Of these, In the last year we have begun lawyer. never how thankful I am.” 375 were heard in court and to help people by preparing 4161individuals provided with assistance 222 of resulted in a grant of bail their grounds for bail and applied for bail.” with an overall success rate of gathering evidence so that they 59%. A total of 107 workshops/ are better prepared to represent legal advice sessions were themselves. This has been delivered to 1,208 people in very positively received and 6 prisons and 7 immigration we are now opening a higher 525bail applications prepared, 375 actually heard; 222 removal centres (IRCs). percentage of files for our DIY released on bail “They are lovely, We try and keep track of people clients than we have done respectful, kind people. who we have advised although previously. “Very, very, very helpful.” this can be difficult as they are Thank you.” sometimes moved, or removed. A minimum of 510 people 59%success rate for represented cases provided with assistance from “Everything was BID were released. We also provided deportation advice to perfect.” 121 people and have 19 current ‘BID is excellent in any advice.” active deportation cases. Government statistics showed 510people who had received assistance from BID were released that in 2018, 24,748 individuals entered the detention estate, “From the start to the 10% fewer than the previous end they were clear and “Respect for Human Rights year and the lowest level understandable.” since comparable records and no fear of power.” began in 2009. We are glad 107legal advice sessions delivered to 1208 people in 7 to see the total numbers of IRCs and 6 prisons people requiring our support decreasing and have adapted to “BID provides an excellent this change by deepening the “Thank you very much for service throughout. I am happy to level of support we provide to 121Individuals provided with deportation advice your help and support.” each client. tell everyone. Thank you.”

“96% of those who returned feedback forms “The help and advice “I don’t know about the law but the help that BID gave me, it is truly a great help.” from our casework and our legal advice sessions changed my life.” rated our work as either “excellent”/“very helpful” (83%) or “helpful” (13%).

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Prisons’ project Separated families’ project

Our prisons’ project focuses on Peterborough, HMP Wormwood Adults who have dependent the provision of legal advice and Scrubs and HMP High Down. ‘Thank you from the bottom children can be detained ‘The bail grounds [were] exceptionally well representation to time-served of my heart. My family is filled on the same basis as adults presented. A few weeks ago I felt hopeless and prisoners detained in prisons Feedback from clients was very without children. However, the under immigration powers positive (100% pronouncing with gratitude’ Home Office has a legal duty wasn’t even going to apply for bail, however I and facing deportation action. them either “helpful” or “very to safeguard and promote the discovered BID by chance and it’s nice to know As well as corresponding and helpful”): 78% ‘very helpful’, welfare of children and to take all advising prisoners by post and 22% ‘helpful’. 100% of the ‘A big thank you to all the staff its decisions which affect children am not abandoned here as some people really care (they have no access to mobile clients who were represented by behind the scene. You are having regard to whether or about liberty and human rights’ phones), the legal adviser makes the project rated the preparation not that decision is in the best prison visits about once a of their case as either “good” or appreciated. Your good work interests of the children. At BID month to deliver legal advice to “excellent”. and charitable deeds will no we do not believe that separating ‘I would never have got bail if not for their advice. I prisoners and training to prison doubt go rewarded.’ children from their parents solely felt so happy that some people are actually doing staff. Through this process, cases for immigration purposes can are identified for representation ever be in their best interests. everything in their power to help me voluntarily.’ or referral, either internal or ‘Complete professionalism with Our project provides legal advice external. There is significant and representation to parents crossover and collaboration knowledge’ held in immigration detention to ‘Excellent. Did there excellent best where others between this project, BID’s enable them to be reunited. didn’t. Makes me feel more in control.’ Separated Families’ Project, We supported 138 parents and our Article 8 Deportation CASE STUDY separated from their 272 Advice Project. Evidence from children. 116 bail applications these projects also feeds into A was detained in October 2018 following completion of a criminal sentence. were heard, and 73 were our policy work and helps with During his sentence he was assessed by his offender manager as posing a very successful. 27 cases were referred preparing witness statements for low risk of reoffending and it was acknowledged by the sentencing judge that it for unlawful detention challenges strategic litigation. The project appeared to be a one-off incident, for which it was clear he was remorseful. His or immigration-related claims. also refers cases out to other wife lived in the UK and suffered from a degenerative and terminal lung condition. lawyers to mount unlawful At the time of the A’s initial detention under immigration powers his wife had fallen Feedback from clients showed detention challenges. According into a coma and was being treated in intensive care in hospital. However despite that 90% rated the service to responses to FOI requests, being served with a deportation decision while in prison he was unable to afford “excellent” with the remainder the Home Office pays out private legal advice and he did not have access to a legal aid lawyer. “good” or “satisfactory”. approximately £4 million a year in compensation for unlawful When we applied for bail on A’s behalf the Home Office disclosed that he had detention. been assessed a month previously as unfit to fly due to a serious heart condition. ‘BID worked very The assessment was categorical and stated that the client was at sudden risk The project assisted 368 people in of death, required hospital attention and was unfit to fly. He was granted bail well and was CASE STUDY the past year. 72 bail applications immediately and released to his home address. Subsequent to his release A has excellent. The were prepared, of which 62 were received advice on a potential claim for unlawful detention and has instructed a A client with a wife and four children in the UK and who had been reporting actually heard. 29 were granted to assist with an application to revoke his deportation order with the help communication was for eight years without issue was detained on reporting after his deportation bail. 42 referrals were made for of Exceptional Case Funding. spot on.’ appeal was dismissed. In fact the deportation decision had been served on judicial reviews for unlawful his previous representatives. He lodged an out of time appeal but the Home detention or for advice on their Had A not contacted us, it is quite likely that he would have remained in detention Office insisted that they could deport him. Bail was initially refused after the substantive immigration matters. despite the fact that the Home Office was aware that he could not be removed Home Office gave assurances, without presenting any evidence (e.g. a travel 1,208 people were advised at and had a serious heart condition. Unfortunately it is typical that many of the document or details of a removal date) that deportation would take place. We workshops in the following people we represent have very little or no access to legal advice in prison and applied for bail again which was granted and the client was reunited with his prisons: HMP Pentonville; HMP are often self-represented throughout the deportation process, despite having wife and children. Bronzefield; HMP Downview; compelling and meritorious cases. HMP Wandsworth; HMP

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Article 8 & Deportation Advice Project (ADAP)

The project provides advice and representation to people Judicial Review Exceptional Case Deportation Self-help facing deportation from the referrals Funding Project trends materials UK. Under the provisions of the UK Borders Act 2007, any foreign national with a criminal We made 7 referrals for The Legal Manager has been We are seeing the continued We prepared a new self-help conviction of 12 months or judicial review. These were a responsible for running BID’s deportation of EEA nationals guide on applications to more is subject to automatic combination of challenges to newly set up “Exceptional Case for relatively minor offending. revoke deportation orders for deportation, regardless of certification under Regulation Funding (ECF) project that “Certification” of their cases non-EEA nationals as well as length of residence in the 33 of the EEA regulations which works in partnership with four under the ‘deport first, appeal a new leaflet on how to reply UK. Until 2013 when legal allows the Home Office to commercial legal firms who are later’ regulations has caused remove an EEA national before drafting the applications for many EU nationals difficulties, to a Home Office ‘One Stop aid cuts removed deportation Notice’. from scope of legal aid, it was the appeal had been finally funding under the supervision particularly those without possible to get legal aid to argue determined, refusals to accept of our Legal Manager. Cases access to legal advice as to how that a private and family life representations as amounting to have been selected which require a removal pre-appeal may be had been established in the UK a fresh claim and refusals of the expert evidence, such as an legally challenged. We have and that deportation would be Tribunal Service’s decisions not Independent Social Work report seen that such returnees may be disproportionate. However, with to grant a fee waiver for appeals. or expert mental health report. destitute on return if they have the passage of two Immigration This partnership aims to refer no family or support network to Acts (2014 & 2016) together 24 cases (6 cases per firm). The turn to. This significantly affects with the removal of legal aid, signs so far are positive with 13 their capacity to prepare their it is now very difficult to win referrals having already been appeal cases and to return to the a deportation appeal. The made, and the project serving UK to attend their hearings. project prioritises long-term UK as a useful resource to feed into residents with British families BID’s policy work. The Legal We have seen increasingly harsh and those with particularly Aid Agency has expressed an interpretations of immigration compelling circumstances. It interest in learning from the law in some judgments from the also prepares and disseminates a feedback from our outcomes and higher courts, particularly in range of self-help leaflets about the experience of our volunteer relation to the meaning of the deportation. lawyers who have assisted on the ‘unduly harsh’ test as it is applied project. to children who face separation 121 people were provided with from a parent and what amounts advice or representation in the to ‘very compelling reasons’ as last year. A further 28 people to why a person should not be attended workshops at HMP deported. This is likely to be Huntercombe, HMP Pentonville, a focus for policy work in the HMP Peterborough and HMP coming year. Wandsworth. We lodged 7 full deportation appeals of which 5 were heard at the First Tier Tribunal, 3 were CASE STUDY successful and 2 were refused but have onward appeals to the John is an EEA national who arrived in the UK as a minor. All his close Upper-tier Tribunal pending. We also had 13 Case Management family were in the UK. John had appealed against a decision to deport Review hearings. him but could not pay for a private lawyer. We took on John’s case and won at the First tier Tribunal. The Home Office did not appeal. Without BID’s representation, he would have been forced to prepare his case and represent himself at the appeal with no real understanding of the legal tests that he was required to meet.

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“Advice and support from BID is simply Research and policy brilliant. BID does unique services, they know the law well. I will recommend BID to every foreign national; BID is the only effective bail medium in the UK.”  Client

which proposes judicial oversight meeting we raised concerns Parliamentary and a time limit on immigration BID’s Legal Advice Consultation Bail Accommodation regarding Schedule 10 detention. Crucially, if the Survey responses accommodation, post-sentence amendment were to become law supervision and rehabilitation it would require the Home Office BID submitted evidence to of foreign national offenders, BID contributed significant to bring every detainee before a BID has continued to carry BID took part in a meeting evidence to two parliamentary the Tribunal Procedure Rules with the Home Office that the Adults at Risk policy and court within 96 hours and provide out six-monthly surveys into Detention Gatekeeper process, committees that carried out legal advice in immigration Committee with regards to the included the Criminal Casework evidence that the individual was Government’s request that new the automatic bail process, research into immigration appeal rights exhausted, had been detention. These surveys Directorate, Immigration detention – the Joint Committee fast track rules be introduced Bail Policy Team and officials travel documentation issues, served removal directions and had reveal the devastating impact and concerns about the general on Human Rights and the of the cuts brought in under for people held in immigration working on bail accommodation a travel document. If the Home detention who are appealing use of detention as a deterrent Home Affairs Select Committee. Office were unable to satisfy these the Legal Aid, Sentencing and to raise our serious concerns After our first submission of a Home Office decision. regarding obstacles placed before and the fact that in the majority conditions the judge would be Punishment of Offenders Act of cases detention is not used evidence the Joint Committee on 2012, which removed non-asylum We argued against the people in detention who require required to order release. BID reinstatement of an expedited for the purpose of removal Human Rights asked us for two organised a meeting with NGOs immigration work from the scope Home Office accommodation additional briefings on specific procedure for processing in order to apply to be released and its necessity has not been and lawyers where the legislation of legal aid and the obstacles to demonstrated. issues surrounding release people in prisons from being the appeals of detained on bail. The discussion also was discussed and finalised and asylum seekers. We were accommodation, and detention helped to shape the amendment to able to access legal advice. In the formed part of our engagement of EEA nationals, and invited us one of seven organisations with the Bail Policy Team on We continue to expand our strengthen the bail provisions. last year the results of our legal work in prisons where people to give oral evidence before the advice survey have been covered to submit evidence, all of this and other issues. The issue committee. Both committees which were strongly critical of bail accommodation is one held under immigration powers in articles in Free Movement and face the greatest problems produced reports that were The Justice Gap. of the proposals. After the that BID will continue to focus condemnatory of almost every consultation period the upon this year focusing attention accessing legal advice on aspect of the Home Office’s committee agreed with our on engagement with the Home their immigration matters. Meetings with the Our surveys exposed a number We participated in a meeting management of immigration Legal Aid Agency of issues including the blocking position and has decided not to Office, collecting evidence detention and made strong introduce the new rules. arising from its research and attended by the Prison Reform of websites by IRCs and a decline Trust, the Prison Advisory recommendations including in the quality of legal advice considering possible avenues of judicial oversight of the decision BID contributed evidence to litigation. Service and Detention Action We arranged two meetings with since the expansion of legal aid where we explained the legal to detain and a time limit on the Legal Aid Agency to discuss immigration firms providing the Windrush ‘lessons learned’ detention. review and we met with Wendy advice services that we provide concerns that we have about advice in IRCs under new to people facing deportation access to justice for immigration contracts which commenced Williams who is in charge Alongside Medical Justice of the review. We submitted Stakeholder who are held in prisons under detainees. We raised concerns in September 2018. Evidence immigration powers. The Prison and Freedom from Torture, about the lack of immigration from our surveys, along with evidence to the government’s Meetings BID attended a meeting with review of the Legal Aid, Reform Trust has informed us legal advice for detainees held in casework evidence, has been used that they are using some of our the clerks of both committees prisons, the poor quality of legal by Public Law Project in a legal Sentencing and Punishment to discuss how we can work of Offenders act 2013. We also BID attended various NASF on-line resource materials and advice in IRCs, the bail merits challenge to the Home Office’s we are reviewing one of their together to scrutinise the test, and the need for legal aid submitted evidence to the meetings including the removal windows policy. At the Detention Sub-group and the publications that seeks to help government’s response after advice under the automatic bail interim relief hearing for that Independent Chief Inspector reports written by both of Borders and Immigration Asylum Support Sub-group. We people with immigration issues. regime. We will continue to raise case it was found that the policy Our Article 8 Deportation Advice committees made strong concerns through this avenue as concerning the adults at risk use these forums to bring issues had to be suspended, and around to the attention to the Home Project (ADAP) also produced recommendations regarding well as looking at opportunities 70 removals had to be cancelled policy; and to the Home detention reform including strict Office’s consultation on the Office and seek resolution. an additional advice leaflet and to engage in strategic litigation immediately. we now have a range of 8 advice judicial oversight and statutory on the issue. Alongside engaging Detention Centre Rules. After the Immigration Minister time limit on detention. We also and the Director General of leaflets for people who have with the Legal Aid Agency we served criminal sentences and attended the launch of the All produced a witness statement Immigration Enforcement Party Parliamentary Group on gave evidence before the Home who are facing deportations, but for a legal challenge brought by who have human rights claims Immigration Detention which Duncan Lewis concerning lack Affairs Select Committee we has 14 members from across the wrote a letter expressing a based on their Article 8 rights to of access to justice and legal aid a family life or a private life. political spectrum. advice for immigration detainees number of concerns about the held in prisons. evidence they had provided. BID signed up to an amendment The Director General of to the Social Security Co- Immigration Enforcement ordination (EU withdrawal) Bill agreed to meet us and in the

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Research and policy

also came at a time when G4S BID also provided a witness Vulnerable adults Strategic Litigation announced its decision not to statement for Duncan Lewis Media and renew its contract at Brook House in a case that seeks to Communications and to withdraw from providing challenge the Legal Aid Agency services at Immigration Removal and the Funding Adjudicator’s We have continued to cultivate Following our report on the DN (Rwanda) Centres. BID was represented decision to refuse funding “Adults at Risk” policy published BID was granted permission by Waleed Sheikh and Benjamin in a case challenging the relationships with journalists at last year we have continued to to intervene by way of making Burrows of Leigh Day solicitors, discriminatory nature of legal aid The Guardian, The Independent, scrutinise this issue. We have written submissions in the case along with Jon Turner QC and funding arrangements for people The Observer, and The Financial repeatedly raised concerns with of DN (Rwanda). We focused on Nikolaus Grubeck of Monckton held in IRCs compared to those Times. On 9th October last year the Home Office in stakeholder one central question: how and . held in prisons. we worked with the Guardian forums, and BID along with at what stage does an unlawful who produced a series of articles other NGOs met with the Home decision in an immigration We provided a witness statement focusing on immigration detention Grant from Strategic Litigation including a front page piece. This Office and Dr Alan Mitchell, a matter that has been relied upon Fund (SLF) in support of Medical Justice’s doctor of Dungavel IRC, who to authorise detention render The SLF agreed to support BID claim relating to the Home was predominantly based on the has been commissioned by the the detention itself unlawful. and Bhatt Murphy’s proposal to Office’s Chapter 60 policy and data we had given to them. BID Home Office to look into reform This case may have far reaching prepare evidence in order to apply the 3 month notice period staff have written articles for Free of Rule 35 (for reporting claims consequences for people detained to intervene in the case of MSM v during which the Home Office Movement and the Justice Gap. of torture, ill-health or for people under the Immigration Acts. SSHD. The aim was to use BID’s suspends its 72 hour notice We continue to work with Diane at risk in detention) and the Allen and Overy LLP solicitors casework experience to evidence period for obtaining advice prior Taylor of The Guardian on a long- Adults at Risk policy. We used are our instructed solicitors who the difficulties that people in to removal. The Public Law term research project regarding this opportunity to feed in our are kindly acting for us pro bono. detention face when seeking Project has been successful in enforced removal from the UK. concerns and followed this up in Also kindly acting pro bono is accommodation and support getting that policy suspended We had 64 media mentions in writing. leading counsel, Raza Husain under paragraph 9, Schedule pending further developments in the last 12 months. We have seen QC as well as Eleanor Mitchell 10 of the 2016 Act. The Home the case. significant audience growth across We also submitted evidence to of , and Laura Office subsequently introduced all of our communication channels the Independent Chief Inspector Dubinsky of Doughty Street a new process for applying for BID has also successfully including our mailing list and of Borders and Immigration’s Chambers. this support for people who challenged the refusal to grant social media pages. 27,219 people review into the Adults at Risk have not been convicted of a two separate appellants with visited our website in the past year, policy, and to UNCAT’s review of criminal offence and made other families a fee remission to allow up from 22,314 in the previous the UK’s implementation of the G4S year and we now have 9,714 twitter BID has finally settled its claim amendments to its bail policy them to proceed with their Convention against Torture. that led to the case of MSM being Article 8 appeals. The challenge followers and our tweets were seen of judicial review in our claim 2.3 million times last year. against the cabinet office as to settled. BID is now seeking to use led to a commitment on the whether or not G4S should be its evidence in another case where part of the Ministry of Justice to designated a “High Risk Strategic it can raise its concerns regarding review how such applications are Supplier” (pursuant to the the continued failure of the considered when they are made Government’s Strategic Supplier Schedule 10 accommodation bail by people whose family members Risk Management Policy), policy to meet the needs of people are reliant on benefits. in relation to its provision of seeking bail accommodation. detention services. This followed BID thanks Janet Farrell of Bhatt With all this work, and other the Panorama programme that Murphy solicitors for all her hard cases not mentioned here, we exposed G4S staff’s ill-treatment work on this project. are grateful for the efforts of the of detainees at Brook House. campaigning legal aid lawyers Settlement was agreed after the who are indefatigable in their Government informed us that commitment to people held in the Cabinet Office has decided to immigration detention, and for replace its Strategic Supplier Risk bearing in mind the needs of the Management policy with a new unrepresented when considering Memorandum of Understanding the systemic problems that and associated policies. While people in detention face. we were advised by our lawyers that in the circumstances we should agree to settle the case this

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Voi ces fro m Det ention Cu lture o f disbe Many detainees we spoke to felt tlhiaet dfoctors and nurses often don’t take their problems Challenging Immigration detention in the United Kingdom seriously or don’t believe them.

“…the medical staff treat us like we are making things up…. They think that you are pretending, they do not take us seriously.”

- a voice from Harmondsworth

“…don’t get ill in here because it’s the worst thing that can happen, they do nothing about it, it takes 2-3 weeks just to see the doctor. I seen some people who are in a bad condition and the doctor did nothing.”

- a voice from Morton Hall

Report: “Nothing “One other detainee is here with us and she just came back from there and she said that the medical staff said that if she wants to do something to herself, like kill herself, that she can because she is an adult, that they can do nothing….if you can’t help her, that is not right to say that.”

good comes from - a voice from Yarl’s Wood

“…healthcare they laugh at you, you know, chec them first, they shouldn’t assume."

k detention” - a voice from Yarl’s Wood

In April 2019 BID published “The staff they treat the “I’ve been injured in the head in “They just give me Paracetamol “I think prison is better than a report based on in-depth detainees like slaves, they want 2016, and was treated in Royal 25 Voices from Detention but I’ve got a hernia. I’ve been here, this place is like mental interviews with current and command of us.” Hospital. When the surgery “They held me there 2 years for not signing on. I taking it for so long it will torture – some people here don’t missed just one month and I had a good reason.” former detainees. During 9 years - a voice from Harmondsworth was done there was a blood clot. - a voice from Brook House, detained at damage my liver.” know when they’re going to get the six month period from IS THE LONGEST PERIOD OF the time of Panorama footage IMMIGRATION DETENTION ON I’ve given the details to the Home RECORD. SOURCE: LINCOLN PRISON “…A few people got violent, because they’ve been - a voice from Morton Hall deported or released. Detention December 2017 to June 2018 we INSPECTION 2012 here for a long time, and also about the food. And Office and also have had a Rule the fax machine doesn’t always work properly. is far worse than prison because interviewed 89 individuals who “They been rude, because Lots of stress and anger, and people feel powerless.” 35. I still have health problems. I He found that among the individuals that “For me being a disabled you know when you’re going to were either detained at the time they think you’re an illegal were detained at the very end of 2017, 305 - a voice from Brook House, after had been held under immigration powers in Panorama of their interview with BID or immigrant, who are you going am on medication and I have had excess of six months, compared with 275 detainee, I have health issues, get out.” when he took the same measurement in “In the detention centre, some of these people are January 2016.[34] The number of asylum detained for more than 15 months. I’ve seen too had previously been detained. to complain to…” a CT scan in detention healthcare. seekers that had been held for more than six many people detained for such a long time. And if mental health as well, before - a voice from Colnbrook you do this to people, people are going to go crazy. months had almost doubled, from 35 People get angry and violent, and this gives me We recorded their verbatim individuals in January 2016 to 64 Yarl’s Wood I wasn’t on After the doctor saw the scan he more stress." - a voice from Yarl’s Wood individuals in December 2018. [35] testimonies which made up the said that I need to see a neurologist - a voice from Brook House, after medications, I got Rule 35, “When they took me to the plane, Various studies and investigations, Panorama substance of the report. including Stephen Shaw and Amnesty “It’s because we are foreign because there was white patches. I International, have found that detention “…it can be very stressful because there is not much twice, the doctor said that I there was 5 big guys. I said I don’t causes “serious long-term harm to detainees’ to do, I’ve been here 6 weeks now and I’ve lost my The research threads together mental and physical health, as well as harm to patience here now. The longer you stay the more nationals and there is a kind of had an appointment made with the immediate family members who are not frustrating it gets." am not fit to be in detention….I wanna go, and he was pushing

themselves detained”.[36] testimonies from a diverse group - a voice from Campsfield V oices racial discrimination. We are neurologist from outside, the doctor from D was supposed to go tomorrow me, and they put me in a headlock In addition to harmful and costly periods of etenti of people, some of whom may “When I was taken to detention I was told I was on long-term detention, the Home Office also going to be there only 28 days. But now it’s been 8 It is difficult to underestimate the harm caused for an operation, but it is no and tried to close my mouth. 6 not treated like human beings said that I needed this because they routinely releases people only to re-detain months…” by detention. The detention process itself have committed offences in the them shortly after – a number of renders every individual vulnerable to harm. In we are treated like animals. wanted to check my brain and my interviewees told us this was their second or - a voice from Colnbrook his 2016 report into vulnerable adults in 06 use having an operation here foot 5 inch guy and he broke my past and are facing deportation, third time being detained under immigration detention, commissioned by then immigration powers. Unfortunately, there is “It’s confusing. A lot of people are here… I did my Home Secretary Theresa May, former Prisons sentence for 8 weeks, and I’ve been here for 5 There are a few staff who are head. It was on 17/01/18, but the no means of knowing how widespread this and Probation Ombudsman Stephen Shaw because I will be alone. I am hand. I told the doctor that my others who are survivors of months.” 5 practice is because the government doesn’t argued that ‘ 6% O vulnerability is intrinsic to the very fact F DE record data on re-detention. of detention’. TAIN neurologist never came. I asked - a voice from Morton Hall IN EES A on crutches because I cannot hand was broken, and he wrote torture or trafficking, and some quite reasonable and will tend TO T RE R H E E CO LEAS OF T MMU ED B Detaine HEIR NITY ACK PER AT es experience loss of liberty, social SOU IOD THE isolation, uncertainty about their future, lack of RCE: OF D END walk. A few days ago I was by something down, and he just gave who have severe health problems; about this in the healthcare and HO ETE to you with humanity but others ME N OFF TION agency and poor healthcare. Studies have ICE . DATA all of them have been deprived they told me that there’s no doctor consistently demonstrated the negative impact myself and I fell, I could not get me painkillers. No one helped me- treat you like animals.” of immigration detention on mental health.[8] of their liberty for immigration The negative effects of immigration detention - a voice from Harmondsworth so they have to re-book you. Or on detainees and their families endure long to my phone or the emergency immigration people don’t care after a person is released from confinement. Ultimately, we believe purposes. Our aim is to reflect otherwise you can complain to the bell, nobody helped me, I about medical care. I was there 9 The Royal College of Psychiatrists has argued that the use of detention their experiences of the injustice that “the very fact of detention (which, unlike Home Office. I feel that I need to go imprisonment, has no punitive or retributive should be phased out and pulled myself up and eventually months, three times they took me function) mitigates against successful treatment of of detention. mental illness” replaced with alternate to the Royal London Hospital, I have recently argue[d9 ][ 1T0h]e t hBarti tdisehte Mnteiodnic al Association went to the healthcare and to the airport to send me back… phased out and replaced with alternate more humane more humane means of written to the Home Office asking means of monitoring individuals facing r“eshmoouvladl bferom they gave me an ice pack. I I’ve been 11 years in England.” the UK”. monitoring individuals

for TA [bail] but they’re not giving it While longer periods of detention increase the facing removal from the could have bashed my head…I - a voice from Brook House, risk of h arm, research has demonstrated that UK. to me. The main problem is that I am short periods in detention can also have an should be released; I’ve been detained at the time of Panorama adverse impact on individuals’ mental health. [11] Since the year 2000, there have been 49 in so much pain but they are only deaths in immigration detention, including 9 in in the UK for over 30 years…. footage 2017.[12] giving me medication for painkiller. here life is wasted, there’s Ministers and Home Office officials always B 30 RITIS H ME emphasise that detention is a necessary part of LO DICA CKE L AS D UP SOCI the UK’s border regime. However, a glance at HE , LOC ATIO nothing, no education, nothing “I’ve seen people try to kill I have been told that I need an ALT KED N H AN OUT the history of immigration detention sugges IM D HU : MIGR MAN ATIO RIGH that this has not always been the case. N DE TS IN ntion TENT appointment with the neurologist Dete ION 2 that you can learn to do back themselves. But whatever they’re s from 017 Voice ts

but it’s not coming. I have pain in my in home…They kept me here, my doing, no one is there to really Lock- head, and I need to find out what it Lock-in practices vary across IRCs. The consulate refuse to give me talk to them. People here going lock-in regime in Brook House has been the is.” subject of media scrutiny and litigation[42], travel documents, I’m a victim through difficult time need and was criticised heavily by some of the detainees we spoke to.[43] ht the nig of domestic violence and rape, someone to talk to, someone - a voice from Colnbrook hours in for 12 le who oor is closed d for peop “The d ot goo thing ight. It’s n ad a brea e, every n m-mate h tim y roo ergency all my children are here and are to express their feelings to. But s- m e em e problem th hav , so we called o to at 1am blem e should try to g e pro that h on’t lock th ho said nurse w use there they d e British citizens, 5 children, 4 of there’s nothing here like that. eca th ouse b e door in insley H ing th r and T fter open lso, a o’clock for 1 hou people. A t 12 total it’s r. So in ing they close it a our them have health issues and When you wake up you don’t morn in at 5 o’clock for 1 hou e’re locked again y that w then ery da ours ev ls." out 14 h ina ab re not crim nd we a need my help, I have no family know if you’re going soon.” room a use, after ok Ho m Bro oice fro - a v a in [my birth country]. What ram - a voice from Colnbrook Pano ays ago ut two d t 8am. B ere e door a eople w pen th nd so p hey o time, a [to “T it on as refusing life is that? I’ve been here 10 pen I w idn’t o ting… to they d d shou g I had ings an t sayin ing th t he kep idn’t throw m], bu y roo minutes, I d ack in m fter 25 ey go b side. A se th months...” “If you make a complaint about ent in tside becau in, so I w ing ou er… go s happen etal cov hat wa ow w ow with the m kfast. kn e wind rea ered th inutes for b ad cov 0 m the staff, they will make your life h t after 2 ey tried to - a voice from Yarl’s Wood k me ou er, but th hey too T s a little calm e was ing wa veryon Everyth 5. E ey side at 11:4 se th s back in ell becau hell, and you worry that it may put u sed as w nd I refu g after I sing, a ornin s, refu t in the m eir room e ou g into th n’t let m as goin ool had ody w g- the p . Nob erythin damage your case.” erated roke ev eir coop and b trol th ad n’t con ple got m ple ca a peo e peo ours in e bin, som .5 h table, th s up for 13 le ey lock u ger if peop gs. Th p for lon - a voice from Brook House, feelin eryone u hey lock ev day. T flight.” have a use, after detained at the time of Panorama ok Ho m Bro oice fro - a v ma Panora footage

16 Bail for Immigration Detainees Annual Report 2019 17 Thank you to our We’d like to extend a huge ‘thank- heroes who took on you’ to all our staff, trustees and challenge events last volunteers as well as the , year to raise money solicitors and funders who have for our work: supported our work over the year.

Abdullah Ali, Patrick Armshaw, Milly Bowen, Nicola Braganza, Trustees Volunteers To the barristers who volunteered their time Shianne Brown, Greg Clough, Sarah Jane Cooperknock, Maya A huge “thank you” pro-bono to represent our clients in court, we Esslemont, Caterina Franchi, Rafaela, Freitas, Leonie Hirst, Kate Sandeep Katwala, Chair Nasrine Abdi, Abdullah salute you: Jones, Shu Shin Luh, Jaime McKee, Lubka Mieresova, Millie to BID’s funders and Maggie Pankhurst, Vice-Chair Ali, Shaimaa Al-Mukhtar, Morgan, Tabitha Perry, Fay Ryan, Adam Spray, Jennifer Thelen, Anna Anderson, Treasurer Buabowon Anantasila, Milly Saoirse Townsend, Amanda Weston QC, Michael Whitby, Jyoti Aarif Abrahim, Tori Adams, Victoria Adams, Sandra Wood, Auld Reekie Roller Derby, Deep Throat Choir, Noon supporters, without (appointed 21st August 2018) Arnott, Gill Baden, Orlando Akinbolu, Mark Allison, Katie nAyres, Leona Bashow, Magazine, Westminster Quakers Saoirse Townshend Beecroft, Cheryl Bellisario, Antonia Benfield, Alex Bennie, Jennifer Blair, Gabor Bognar, whom none of this would Alastair Livesey Andrew Black, Lucy Jackie Bond, George Brown, Aphra Bruce-Jones, Navaz “Whether you are running, jumping, skipping, Kezia Tobin Chapman, Leila Chentouf, Bustani, Miranda Butler, Joseph Byrne, Ian Cain, Grace Capel, have been possible: Felix Hebblethwaite Otis Clarke, George Sophie Caseley, Natalie Cass, Alex Chakmakjian, Ayesha baking or walking, thank you for deciding to Marna Motteram Collecot, Jessye Corcoran Christie, Stephen Clark, Margherita Cornaglia, Anita Davies, #ChallengeDetention. Whatever you’re up Dodds, Jack Fowler, Sylvia Angela Delbourgo, Ubah Dirie, James Dixon, Laura Dubinsky, Comic Relief Staff Gampritsou, Laura Goodlife, Clare Duffy, Valerie Easty, Sean Ell, Sonia Ferguson, Emma to, every penny you raise will go towards Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Alexa Goodman, Laurie Fitzsimons, Helen Foot, Emma Foubister, Jeremy Frost, our vital work. Detention is a stain on our Nicholas Beales (Legal Manager, Green-Eames, Areej Hadi, Steven Galliver-Andrew, Alex Gask, Pierre Georget, Maria Garden Court Chambers Separated Families Project & Claudia Hernandez Cortes, Gherman, Daniel Goldblatt, Myles Grandison, Jonathan society and we are very grateful to everyone Griffin Charitable Trust Right to Liberty, left June 2019), Elena Huttman, Nida Greer, Eleri Griffiths, Ella Gunn, Admas Habtesellasie, Zoe Jess Bicknell (Legal Manager, Iqbal, Maryum Jilani, Lucy Harper, Ben Haseldine, Phil Haywood, Robert Hermer, supporting us.” John Ellerman Foundation Prisons’ Project, started November Katko, Ruby Koopman, Guy Richard Hermer QC, Jane Heybroek, Craig Holmes, Jonathan – Celia Clarke, BID Director Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust 2018), Celia Clarke (Director), Mathews, Charlotte McLean, Holt, Raza Husain QC, Tasaddat Hussein, Sangeetha Iengar, Marina Desira (Legal Manager, Sarrah Millwala, Mandla Natasha Jackson, Vijay Jagadesham, Catherine Jaquiss, Shivani London Legal Support Trust Separated Families Project & Ndlovu, Ria Nwaubani, Nina Jegarajah, David Jones, Bronwen Jones, Louise Jones, Philip Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity Right to Liberty, appointed August Papachristou, Urijah Phillips, Judd, Daniel Kazelko, Shazia Khan, Emma King, Michelle 2019), Ionel Dumitrascu (Legal Tessa Polvina, Dee Preeman, Knorr, Geeta Koska, Jennifer Lanigan, Anthony Lenanton, Strategic Legal Fund Manager Casework & Outreach), Theresa Raj, Arvin Ravi, Syed Patrick Lewis, Paul Livingston, Vanessa Long, Ted Loveday, The AB Charitable Trust Carmen Kearney (Legal Manager, Raza Ali, Mary Rizk, Smriti Julia Lowis, Shu Shin Luh, Yasin M Din, Franck Magennis, ADAP), Shoaib Khan, (Interim Roy, Lily Sparks, Louisa Lucy Mair, Anirudh Mathur, Zoe McCallum, Keelin The Allen & Overy Foundation Legal Manager, Separated Families Thomas, Isabel Toolan, McCarthy, Ailsa McKeon, Eleanor Mitchell, Tublu Mukherjee, The Evan Cornish Foundation Project & Right to Liberty, June to Helen Ukbay, Laura Vale, Angelina Nicolaou, Greg Ó Ceallaigh, Ahmed Osman, Gita August 2019), Larry Lock (Legal Francisca Vicario, Ravina Patel, Agata Patyna, Catherine Philps, Rebecca Pickering, The Law Society Charity Manager, Prisons’ Project, left Bahra, Isabel Bertschinger, Frederick Powell, Mark Pritchard, Laura Profumo, Navida The Leathersellers’ Company December 2018), Pierre Makhlouf Frank Bowmaker, Lisa Quadi, Edward Raw, Robert Riddell, Aimee Riese, Ellen (Assistant Director), Tom Nunn Coulter, Gwen Edmunds, Robertson, Catherine Rose, Avril Rushe, Nicholas Sadeghi, Charitable Trust (Legal Manager, Right to Liberty, Younis Elmi, Annie Rachel Schon, Alexander Schymyck, David Sellwood, Alex left September 2018), Rudy Fairchild, Natalie Goodwin, Shattock, Harriet Short, Richard Singer, Paul Skinner, Abigail The Oak Foundation Schulkind (Policy & Research Laurie Hartley, Mai Hoang, Smith, Priya Solanki, Michael Spencer, Tom Tabori, Steve The Paristaman CIO Coordinator, appointed August Peter Kirby, Feena Meginnis, Tettey, Shyam Thakerar, Jennifer Thelen, Ronan Toal, Bianca 2018), Adam Spray (Legal Manager, Margo Munro Kerr, Misba Venkata, Harriet Wakeman, Sophie Walker, Daniel Wand, The Reekimlane Foundation Right to Liberty, joined September Parvaiz, Adnan Qadri, Camille Warren, Anna Watterson, Michael West, Emily The Rosewood Foundation 2018), Elisa Smith (Fundraising Charlotte Rubin, Alexander Wilsdon, Jyoti Wood, Pippa Woodrow, Colin Yeo, Lawrence and Communications Coordinator, Shymyck, Amina Siddique, Youssefian, Camila Zapata Besso The Tudor Trust appointed November 2018), Kamal Alina Teleptean, Julia Xavier Trust for London Yasin (Finance & Office Manager) Stier We also wish to thank the following for their kind pro bono help and advice: BPP 1 Chancery Lane, 1 Crown Office Row, 12 Old Square, 1MCB Chambers, 2 King’s Bench Walk, 3 Hare Court, , 4 King’s Bench Walk, 6KBWk College Hill, , Garden Court Chambers, Garden Court North Chambers, Goldsmiths Chambers, Guildhall Chambers, Justitia Chambers, Kenworthy’s Chambers, Lamb Building, Landmark Chambers, Legis Chambers, Maitland Chambers, Matrix Chambers, No 5 Barristers Chambers, One Pump Court, Outer Temple Chambers, , Temple Garden Chambers, Ten King’s Bench Walk, The 36 Group

18 Bail for Immigration Detainees Annual Report 2019 19 Challenging Immigration detention in the United Kingdom

A year in pictures

Our movement to end detention is growing. Over the past year BID has seen audience growth across all its communication channels. While raising the profile of immigration detention as a human rights issue, this is also enabling us to communicate with more people than and is significantly increasing our fundraising potential. In fact we raised over £10,000 more from individual giving, memberships and events than the previous year and this is largely due to the commitment and dedication of our growing supporter base who are taking action to help BID.

20 Bail for Immigration Detainees Annual Report 2019 21 “People entering detention have no idea how long that detention will last. ThisChallenging lack of certaintyImmigration and detention hope inpresents the United significant Kingdom difficulties for detainees. We took evidence from three former detainees who told us that being detained alongside individuals who had spent years in detention exacerbated their uncertainty as to how long they would be detained for.2 Detainees face other challenges in detention including difficulties accessing legal advice and Financial Information consequentially limited opportunities to challenge their detention; For the year ended 31 July 2019 poor or prison like conditions in some Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs); unnecessarily restrictive regimes where detainees are locked in their rooms for extended periods of time; and in some cases, unsympathetic attitudes, heavy-handedness or ill-treatment by STATEMENT OFSTATEMENT FINANCIAL OFACTIVITIES FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES immigration enforcement teams. Such conditions can cumulatively F OR THE YEARF ENDEDOR THE 31ST YEAR JULY ENDED 2019 31ST JULY 2019 affect detainees’ mental and physical health. One detainee told us Unrest ricted Unrest rictedRestricted Restricted that the experience of detention was so debilitating that “even the STATEMENT OFSTATEMENT FINANCIAL OFACTIVITIES FINANCIAL ACTIVITIESNotes FundsNotes Funds Funds Funds2019 20192018 2018 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE£ YEAR ENDED£ £ 31 JULY 2019£ £ £ £ £ person with the most powerful mental resilience goes through some FIncomeOR THE YEARF ENDEDIncomeOR THE 31ST YEAR JULY ENDED 2019 31ST JULY 2019 form of mental torture” in detention” Grants and donationsGrants and donations 3 Unrest340,5683 ricted Unrest 340,568rictedRestricted 7,500 Restricted 7,500348,068 348,068376,090 376,090 Notes FundsNotes Funds Funds Funds 2019 2019 2018 2018 Charitable activitiesCharitable activities 4 £4 - £ 301,320-£ 301,320£301,3 £ 20 301,3325,600£ 20£ 325,600£  -Joint Committee on Human Rights, 2019 Income Income Investments Investments 5 5 2,356 2,356 - 2,356- 2,356 1,693 1,693 Grants and donations Grants and donations 3 340,5683 340,568 7,500 7,500 348,068 348,068 376,090 376,090

Total Total 342,924 342,924 308,820 308,820651,744 651,744703,383 703,383 Charitable activitiesCharitable activities 4 - 301,320- 301,320301,3 20 301,3325,60020 325,600 4

Expenditure Expenditure Investments Investments 5 5 2,356 2,356 - 2,356- 2,356 1,693 1,693

Raising funds Raising funds 6 46,7656 46,7657,500 7,50054,2 65 54,260,68365 60,683 Total Total 342,924 342,924 308,820 308,820 651,744 651,744 703,383 703,383 Casework andCasework outreach and outreach 6 151,2676 151,267 221,163 221,163372,430 372,430 415,395 415,395 SeparatedExpenditure families SeparatedExpenditure project families project 6 50,1826 50,182 30,497 30,497 80,679 80,679 80,620 80,620 Deportation projectDeportation project 6 57,0616 57,061 12,477 12,477 69,538 69,538 72,517 72,517 ResearchRaising funds and ResearchRaisingpolicy funds and policy 6 15,6646,765 27 15,646,7652746,170 7,500 46,1707,50061,79754,2 65 61,79754,235,35060,68365 35,35060,683

CharitableCasework andactivities CharitableCaseworkoutreach andactivities outreach 6 274,137151,2676 274,137151,267310,307221,163 310,307221,163584,444372,430 584,444372,430603,882415,395 603,882415,395 Separated families Separated project families project 6 650,182 50,182 30,497 30,497 80,679 80,679 80,620 80,620 Deportation project 6 57,061 12,477 69,538 72,517 TotalDeportation projectTotal 6 320,90257,061 320,902317,80712,477 317,807638,70969,538 638,709664,56572,517 664,565 Research and Researchpolicy and policy 615,6 27 15,62746,170 46,17061,797 61,79735,350 35,350 6

Net income/(expenditure)Net income/(expenditure) and net and net Charitable activitiesCharitable activities 274,1376 274,137310,307 310,307584,444 584,444603,882 603,882 movement in fmovementunds for the in yearfunds for the year6 22,022 22,022(8,987) (8,987)13,035 13,03538,818 38,818

ReconciliationTotal ofReconciliationTotal funds of funds 320,902 320,902 317,807 317,807 638,709 638,709 664,565 664,565 Total funds, broughtTotal funds,forward brought forward 298,790 298,790 33,197 33,197331,987 331,987 293,169 293,169 Net income/(expenditure) Net income/(expenditure) and net and net 22,022 (8,987) 13,035 38,818 Totalmovement funds, in carried Totalmovementfunds funds, forforward the in carried yearf unds forforward the year 320,81222,022 320,812 (8,987)24, 210 24,345,02213,035210 345,022331,98738,818 331,987

Reconciliation Reconciliationof funds of funds Total funds, broughtTotal funds,forward brought forward 298,790 298,79033,197 33,197331,987 331,987293,169 293,169 The statementThe of financial statement activities of financial includes activities all gains includes and losses all gains recognised and losses in the recognised year. in the year.

Total funds, carried forward 320,812 24,210 345,022 331,987 BALANCETotalBALANCE funds, SHEET SHEETBALANCE carried forward SHEET 320,812 24,210 345,022 331,987 BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 JULY 2019 ASAS AT AT 31ST 31ST JULYAS JULY AT 2019 201931ST JULY 2019 The statementThe of financial statement activities of financial includes activities all gains includes and losses all gains recognised and losses in therecognised year. in the year. 20192019 2019 20182018 2018 NotesNotes Notes£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £

FixedFixed assets assetsFixed assets TangiTangibleble assets assets Tangi ble assets 11 11 11 6,0096,009 6,009 12,01712,017 12,017

CurrentCurrent assets assets Current assets

DebtorsDebtors Debtors 12 12 19,10119,10112 19,101 15,87215,872 15,872 CashCash at atbank bank Cashand and in at handin bank hand and in hand 398,574398,574 398,574 346,416346,416 346,416

417,675417,675 417,675 362,288362,288 362,288 LiabilitiesLiabilities Liabilities Creditors:Creditors: amounts amounts Creditors: falling falling amounts due due within fallingwithin one onedue year yearwithin one13 13 year 78,66278,66213 78,662 42,31842,318 42,318

339,013339,013 339,013 319,970319,970 319,970 NetNet current current assets Net assets current assets

NetNet assets assets Net assets 345,022345,022 345,022 331,987331,987 331,987

FundsFunds of ofthe theF charityunds charity of the charity 15 15 15

RestrictedRestricted funds fundsRestricted funds 24,21024,210 24,210 33,19733,197 33,197 DesignatedDesignated fundsDesignated funds funds 30,00030,000 30,000 - - - GeneralGeneral funds fundsGeneral funds 290,812290,812 290,812 298,790298,790 298,790

TotalTotal charity charityTotal funds funds charity funds 345,022345,022 345,022 331,987331,987 331,987

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