Release Eritrea

Registered charity 1136627 · since 2010·Egypt, Ethiopia, International, Uganda·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

Release Eritrea's work on refugees and human rights fits groups supporting refugee communities, especially in Ethiopia, Egypt and Uganda, which its annual report names as priorities, although the charity lists the world as its geographic focus.
No grant range is stated and the annual report gives no readable grants figure, so the size of request it might fund cannot be judged, and it is worth asking before setting an amount.
No application process is published in the annual report, the register entry or other pages about the charity, so the contact it shows is the way in, and nothing indicates when it considers applications.
The sources do not say how competitive funding is or whether relationships matter, so approach it with a clear, specific project and ask what it is able to consider.

Overview

Release Eritrea is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1136627).

Release Eritrea is a registered charity in England and Wales that promotes equality and diversity, religious harmony and human rights. It gives financial and spiritual support and guidance to individual refugees, families, groups and churches in refugee communities in Ethiopia, and it provides practical assistance to victims of human rights violations and refugees. It also supports vulnerable women through vocational training in Addis Ababa, and it supports hundreds of prisoners of conscience and their families inside Eritrea.

What they fund

Profile based on the charity's Charity Commission register entry and annual report only: no website or other web source for the charity was found. Every statement is checked against them. Sources read on 24 October 2026.

Priority Areas

Release Eritrea provides financial and spiritual support and guidance to individual refugees, families, groups and churches in refugee communities in Ethiopia. It also supports refugees displaced from Sudan to Ethiopia, Egypt and Uganda. Its practical assistance is for victims of human rights violations and refugees, alongside advocacy and prayer and intercession. In Addis Ababa, it supports vulnerable women through vocational training, including cooking, tailoring, hairdressing, filming and video editing, mobile-phone repair, computer training and accounting. It also supports prisoners of conscience and their families inside Eritrea.

Themes

Refugees
Human rights

Geographic Focus

The World. Priority: Ethiopia; Egypt; Uganda.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Egypt
Ethiopia
Uganda
International

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Release Eritrea.

Ethar ReliefRollingGave £960k EthiopiaidFixed deadlinesGave £1.9M

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 28 February 2021	£467,716	£405,708	—	Accounts for year to 28 February 2021
year to 28 February 2022	£408,288	£487,252	—	Accounts for year to 28 February 2022
year to 28 February 2023	£424,069	£384,840	—	Accounts for year to 28 February 2023
year to 29 February 2024	£412,530	£447,920	—	Accounts for year to 29 February 2024
year to 28 February 2025	£406,683	£412,301	—	Accounts for year to 28 February 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.