Poverty & Inclusion Community & Social Justice 2024
Refugee Council

Impact Report 2024-25

The Refugee Council is the UK's leading refugee charity, supporting 15,203 people in 2024-25 — including 7,022 children and young people, most arriving alone. Their work spans asylum advice, separated children's services, therapeutic support, integration, and high-profile policy advocacy including a landmark report on ending the use of asylum hotels and a new campaign on the misclassification of children as adults.

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15,203 refugees and people seeking asylum supported; 11,266 were new clients Key Metric 1
7,022 children and young people supported through specialist Youth Services Key Metric 2
Total income £14.9m; total expenditure £19.6m Key Metric 3
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Asylum advice and legal clinics, drop-in surgeries and remote support, separated children's services (Children's Advice Service, 33 years), Youth Service, MyView therapeutic services, integration and housing support, resettlement, destitution service, policy advocacy and campaigning

📊Key Metrics

15,203 refugees and people seeking asylum supported; 11,266 were new clients Key Metric 1
7,022 children and young people supported through specialist Youth Services Key Metric 2
Total income £14.9m; total expenditure £19.6m Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Launched Childhood First Partnership — network of 30 charities tackling misclassification of children as adults
  • Published analysis calling for asylum hotels to close within one year via a one-off scheme for near-certain refugees
  • 90%+ of 1,925 surveyed clients satisfied with support; 46% felt more confident handling unexpected events

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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