Charity registration number: 1072270
The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024
Smartax Limited Chartered Certified Accountants and Statutory Auditors 38 Station Road Harrow Middlesex HA2 7SE
The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Contents
| Reference and Administrative Details | 1 |
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| Trustees' Report | 2 to 9 |
| Independent Auditors' Report | 10 to 13 |
| Statement of Financial Activities | 14 |
| Balance Sheet | 15 |
| Cash Flow Statement | 16 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 17 to 33 |
The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Reference and Administrative Details
Trustees Mrs Kanize Fatma A Karim Dr Muhammad Asaria (Appointed 4 February 2022) Mr Ali Sharafiddin Abbas Bakir (Appointed 4 February 2022) Charity Registration Number 1072270 Principal Office September Lodge Village Way Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire HP7 9PU Auditor Smartax Limited Chartered Certified Accountants and Statutory Auditors 38 Station Road Harrow Middlesex HA2 7SE Solicitors Cathcart & Co 2 Swakeleys Road Ickenham Middlesex UB10 8BG
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Trustees' Report
The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024.
Objectives and activities
Objects and aims
The charity's objects are to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the public and in particular the emergency relief of poverty, illness and distress, promotion of good health, advancement of education and access to dignified income.
The policies adopted in furtherance of these objects are detailed in the report and there have been no changes to the policies during the year.
There are no specific restrictions with regards to the way in which the charity may operate provided that the objects of the charity as documented are met.
Although the charity seeks to provide support in emergency and disaster relief situations, the charity’s primary aim to achieve its objects is to reduce dependence on humanitarian aid and facilitate the transition on a path to self-reliant, long-term development. It also aims to empower communities and provide them with the skills both to pull themselves out of dependency on charity and welfare and ensure that future generations are empowered to produce long lasting changes in their own communities. The charity has increased both capacity building in leadership as well as mental health wellbeing as an element of the support provided for many communities and has increased capacity in the regions for this this year and will carry on doing so in future years.
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Trustees' Report (continued)
Objectives, strategies and activities
The charity operates globally and supports projects in Africa, Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. It works with charitable partner organisations that are on the ground. This allows it to closely inspect each of the appeals that arise and provide on-going support and advice.
As the partner organisations have local expertise, connections and are in direct contact with the communities in need, the charity can ensure that the assistance reaches exactly where needed, as efficiently and quickly as possible. Particularly when involved with relief in emergency contexts, the charity works with other agencies to make a timely response.
The main activities the charity undertakes are highlighted below:
Education
Providing educational prospects is one of the key focal areas of the charity in its mission to tackle the root causes of poverty. The provision of education creates opportunities to improve quality of life and helps people to lift themselves out of poverty. The charity believes impoverished communities can be advanced through education, opening vast opportunities for economic improvement. The charity has increased their focus during the pandemic on improving access to education for disabled children through growing e-learning as a mode of education.
Healthcare
Since its inception the charity has received a high number of medical appeals from institutions in some of the most disadvantaged countries globally. The charity assists with healthcare from simple rehabilitative measures to complex life-saving procedures. Increasingly, the shift in focus is from sponsoring single patient treatment to enabling greater capacity for medical facilities as well as implementing WHO guidelines in good research to save lives across specialist areas thereby scaling up the impact of the intervention treating as many patients as possible over a longer period of time. Additional focus is now being provided for emotional wellbeing and mental health as an integral part of healing communities affected by bereavement, conflict, extreme poverty and natural disasters.
For many of the individuals the charity supports, medical care in their home country is of poor quality or treatments are vastly expensive - sometimes many more times their annual income. The charity believes good health is the foundations for someone to live a dignified life where they can return to education and to work to support themselves, their family and community.
In particular, the charity also focusses on maternity care. Growing awareness of safe maternal health and infant care in parts of East Africa has been an extremely valuable part of the charity’s work in the region and is showing excellent results and growing good partnerships with larger charities and trusts.
Humanitarian
A key part of the charity is to help those most in need in their darkest hour of need. It responds to emergency appeals that are required with a key focus on disaster zones. The needs of the area are identified be it famine relief, medical aid, housing and the situation is then monitored to see if the needs are being fulfilled or if any potential future support could be offered. A significant arm of the humanitarian activities is the Ramadhan Iftar Appeal which distributes food to those in poverty who are fasting.
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Trustees' Report (continued)
Objectives, strategies and activities (continued)
Micro finance
A key part of the charity to meet its primary aim of self-sustainability are its micro finance schemes. It provides opportunities for income generating projects to help individuals, families and institutions develop skills and income to become financially independent and in the long run, non-reliant on charity. The charity's flagship mothernomics program continues to support many more widowed and single mothers gain economic independence in several parts of the world.
Orphan care
Over the last decade alone, armed conflict has resulted in six million children being wounded or disabled for life, and one million orphaned. The charity, working with their partner organisations, has established orphan education programmes to care for orphans in Afghanistan, India Iraq and Yemen.
The program reaches the most destitute families, who frequently do not have access to any other charitable organisations or public welfare departments.
Water and solar projects
Over a billion people in the world do not have access to safe water. In addition to the poor health and deaths this causes to the children and elderly, the burden of collecting clean water means women and children globally lose 200 million productive hours each day. These are hours that could be spent in school or earning an income for the family. The charity carefully tailors approaches in each country to plan sustainable water supply schemes using the best in renewable energy and playing their part in providing a solution to drinking water and water for irrigation of crops for self-sufficiency in food as well.
The charity has continued to administer several funds in furtherance of its activities, which have been disclosed in the notes to financial statements.
The charity has continued to administer several funds in furtherance of its activities, which have been disclosed in the notes to financial statements.
Public benefit
The charity carries out a wide range of activities in pursuance of its charitable aims. The trustees consider that these activities, summarised below, provide benefits to the local community and beyond.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
Grant making policies
The trustees have a robust policy of reviewing appeals that are received prior to any approval for the grant to be made. Once the grants are released, there is a system in place to monitor the effect of the grant and reporting details acquired to ensure that the objective has been satisfied and to report back to the charity's donors.
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Trustees' Report (continued)
Achievements and performance
Education
The charity has enabled talented students from poor backgrounds from nursery education all the way to attending university by helping with tuition fees. It has also enabled refugees to learn marketable skills that will improve their chances of employment or their ability to generate an income. The charity has also supported children from disadvantaged communities in the UK with a laptop distribution program through schools and food banks.
Healthcare
The charity has assisted individuals with lifesaving innovative treatments to covering the costs for routine but essential daily medicine. Over the last year the charity enabled over 1,500 patients to receive access to free eye-care to treat cataracts to retinal detachments. It also supported over 1,000 orphaned children and widowed mothers in Iraq to receive critical treatment. The maternal healthcare programs in Zanzibar have created safe access to maternal health and delivery to over 55,000 mothers each year.
The charity continues to provide lifesaving medications to uninsured patients who would have not otherwise been able to afford them.
In Iraq, the charity has continued to support the Imam al Hujjah Hospital, which has been helping the poor of Iraq since 2018 in various disciplines including ophthalmology, cardiology and oncology.
Humanitarian
The charity has responded with open arms to the ongoing famine in Yemen. With the UN reporting that half a million Yemeni children are on the brink of starvation, the charity's support is now vital as ever. Over 50,000 families have been provided food aid through hospitals and schools enabling not only hunger to be banished but also hospitals and schools to reopen and continue serving the most vulnerable during the crisis.
The Ramadhan Iftar Appeal enabled the successful distribution of food to over 50,000 individuals in Afghanistan, refugees in Greece, Iraq, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, the United Kingdom and Yemen.
Micro Finance
The charity has continued its efforts behind various micro finance schemes and supported families in starting new enterprises. As part of this, the charity continues to grow its innovative project, known as mothernomics. This is a unique project based on the vision that every able widowed mother whose life has been in turmoil for years has the opportunity to work with dignity and be a role model for her children. Thus, the project seeks to equip a widowed Iraqi mother with the mindset, skills and the financial backing to provide for their families.
Mothernomics involves a three-part training programme. The first part is an educational programme which aims to transform a woman's mindset. In a patriarchal society, the emotional effects of bereavement alongside the trauma of war, needs to be supported to take the first steps towards economic independence. To begin this process, the charity helps the women to claim their identity not as widows but as mothers; because when you refer to someone with what they have rather than what they have lost, only then can you transform their lives.
The second phase is identifying and building upon the strengths of the mothers. Vocational classes are available in skills such as sewing and coding as the programme gains traction. The women are enrolled in a rigorous training programme lasting up to three months, where they learn the physical skills as well as the entrepreneurial knowledge needed to sustain their businesses, including marketing, scalability and financial planning.
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Trustees' Report (continued)
Achievements and performance (continued)
Finally, the mothers receive the equipment needed to start their own business on a repayable loan scheme. They create and sell their products under the quality assurance brand name "MOM". It is worth noting that their potential consumer base is up to 50 million pilgrims who flock to Iraq each year as well as a growing local consumer market.
Dozens of mothers have graduated through the programme, guided and supported by the charity and their strong reliable partners on the ground in Karbala.
Orphan care
The charity’s support for orphaned children continues to be a flagship programme. During the year, the charity supported hundreds of children with monthly supplementary income. Sponsorships were not only granted for essentials such as food, shelter and clothing but also assisted orphaned students in attending school, training programmes, apprenticeships and university courses.
Water and solar projects
In today's times 1 in 9 people still don't have access to safe drinking water and diarrhoea is still the third biggest killer of children under five years old in Sub-Saharan Africa. The charity in its mission continues to provide access to clean and safe drinking water and dignity for people in the world's poorest places and most challenging environments.
Over the last year the charity provided over 10,000,000 people in Iraq, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania with clean drinking water. The charity has continued to support the installation of wells, piped supplies or water treatment plants in Asia, Africa and the Middle East since the start of this project. The large scale reverse osmosis plants in Karbala and Najaf serve millions of pilgrims with a capacity of over 2,000,000 litres of river or borewell water to be purified to be drinking water.
Villages around Pemba Island, Tanzania have benefited tremendously from new water schemes where the charity has been instrumental. With the assistance of the charity, water storage tanks of up to ten thousand litres were constructed and installed at various spots around the villages. This enabled the local villagers to have access to water at their doorstop. Prior to this, the nearest water sources were between one and three kilometres away. Thus, a significant number of hours of villager's day has become more productive, saving them from making the water journey which would often be on foot.
Financial review
During the year under review the charity showed a surplus of £395,111 (2023 – net deficit of £42,006). As at the balance sheet date the charity held funds of £3,595,834 (2023 - £3,200,723).
The details between restricted and unrestricted funds are given in note 17. The trustees consider the state of the charity's affairs to be satisfactory.
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Trustees' Report (continued)
Policy on reserves
On 24 November 2023, the trustees held an away day where a number of areas were discussed. At the meeting it was agreed the reserves level should reflect the risk and activities of the charity. In order to meet the charity’s obligation to support the projects without disruption, it will need to hold reserves of £1.3m. The actual unrestricted reserves at the year end were £903,871. Whilst the reserves dipped slightly in the year due to increase in spending in charitable activities, the trustees are satisfied that the actual reserves are within acceptable level of the amount in the policy.
Principal risks and uncertainties
The trustees regularly consider key risks the charity is exposed to and ensure to take corrective action to implement measures to manage and mitigate identified risks to an acceptable level.
Health, travel and safety risks
At the trustees meeting, this was highlighted as the key risk where consultants and volunteers travel to countries to support projects and in some countries spend time in hospitals supporting the beneficiaries. The trustees are considering a comprehensive travel insurance covering all representatives of the charities who are travelling for the work.
Defamation and Transfer Risk
The trustees recognised that there is a potential risk of defamation, and this is mitigated by robust agreements with all partners including on the ownership after transfer of projects.
Corruption and Bribery
The trustees recognised that in some countries where the projects are carries, there is high level of corruption and Bribery. The charity has zero tolerance on bribery and reviews the anti-bribery policies for all partners and carries regular due diligence to ensure that the partners are not alleged for any bribery or corruption.
Funding risk
In order to avoid a funding gap and continually support ongoing activities and future developments, the charity ensures a diversified stream of donations are received from both institutional and individual donors.
Political risk
A significant level of the charity's activities take place in countries which are classified with relatively high levels of political instability. The trustees regularly monitor and review the political state to anticipate impact on charitable initiatives.
Reputational risk
The conduct of partnering organisations may have negative effects on the charity. To mitigate this risk, the charity primarily works with partner organisations that have been long standing and reputable. The trustees also regularly monitor activities of partner organisations, as well as build relationships with new organisations to facilitate efficiency.
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Trustees' Report (continued)
Investment policy and objectives
The Charity’s general investment powers are as documented in the trust deed.
The trustees have agreed an investment policy to allow the charity to invest any access funds in higher rate bank deposit accounts and notice accounts based on when funds would be expected to be spent. The investment policy specifically recognises that funds cannot be tied up in long term investments such as shares where there is a risk to the capital at least in the short term. This is excluding any programme related investments that are aligned to the objects of the charity.
The charity has a programme related primary investment in Taita International Organic Limited, a company based in Kenya that was formed for infrastructural and farming development in the Taita Taveta region. The project is hoped would create employment and improve lives in the area as well as provide a sustainable return for the charity.
Structure, governance and management
Nature of governing document
The charity was established by a charitable trust deed on 14 August 1998.
The charity is administered in accordance with the powers invested in the trustees, as documented in the trust deed.
There are no specific restrictions with regard to the way in which the charity may operate provided that the objects of the charity as documented are met.
Recruitment and appointment of trustees
Additional trustees may be appointed at the discretion of the trustees in accordance with the trust deed. At any one time there must be a minimum of three trustees and a maximum of seven trustees.
Organisational structure
The charity is not affiliated either with any political or religious organisation.
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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Trustees' Report (continued)
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Disclosure of information to auditor
Each trustee has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a trustee in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity's auditor is aware of that information. The trustees confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditor is unaware.
Reappointment of auditor
A resolution for the re-appointment of Smartax Limited as auditors of the charity is to be proposed at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.
The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 24 January 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
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Dr Muhammad Asaria Trustee
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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust (the 'charity') for the year ended 31 March 2024, which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising Charities SORP - FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and applicable law (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
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In our opinion the financial statements:
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give a true and fair view of the state of the charity's affairs as at 31 March 2024 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;
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have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
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have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
Other information
The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust (continued)
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees' Report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Charities (Accounts and Report) Regulations 2008 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
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adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
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the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
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certain disclosures of trustees remuneration specified by law are not made; or
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we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
Responsibilities of trustees
As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities (set out on page 8 and 9), the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust (continued)
We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the charity and the environment in which it operates, and considered the risk of acts by the charity that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. Our audit procedures were designed to respond to the risk, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.
We focused on laws and regulations that could give rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements, including, but not limited to, financial reporting legislation, the Charities Act 2011 and UK pensions and tax legislation. We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items. Our tests included agreeing the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation and enquiries with management regarding correspondence with regulators and tax authorities.
There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it and therefore we have communicated relevant identified laws and regulations and potential fraud risks to all engagement team members and remained alert to any indication of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.
We evaluated management's incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls), and determined that the principal risks were related to management bias in accounting estimates. We addressed the risk of management override of internal controls through testing journals. We evaluated whether there was evidence of bias by the directors in accounting estimates that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud. We challenged assumptions and judgements made by management in any significant accounting estimates.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust (continued)
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the charity trustees, as a body, in accordance with section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and regulations made under section 154 of that Act. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the trustees those matters we are required to state to trustees in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and its trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
...................................... Smartax Limited, Statutory Auditor Chartered Certified Accountants and Statutory Auditors 38 Station Road Harrow Middlesex HA2 7SE
24 January 2025
Smartax Limited is eligible for appointment as auditor of the charity by virtue of its eligibility for appointment as auditor of a company under section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.
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Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2024
| Note Income and Endowments from: Donations and legacies 2 Charitable activities Investment income 4 Other income 5 Total Income Expenditure on: Raising funds 6 Charitable activities 7 Total Expenditure Net (expenditure)/income Gross transfers between funds Net movement in funds Reconciliation of funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward 17 |
Unrestricted funds £ 456,842 - 39,536 (18,514) 477,864 (146,636) (363,284) (509,920) (32,056) (129,687) (161,743) 1,056,761 895,018 |
Restricted funds £ 3,936,841 3,614 - - 3,940,455 - (3,513,288) (3,513,288) 427,167 129,687 556,854 2,143,962 2,700,816 |
Total 2024 £ 4,393,683 3,614 39,536 (18,514) 4,418,319 (146,636) (3,876,572) (4,023,208) 395,111 - 395,111 3,200,723 3,595,834 |
Total 2023 £ 3,481,131 85,169 8,879 (9,431) |
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| 3,565,748 | ||||
| (45,463) (3,562,291) |
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| (3,607,754) | ||||
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| (42,006) 3,242,729 |
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| 3,200,723 |
All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods. The funds breakdown for 2023 is shown in note 17.
The notes on pages 17 to 33 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 14
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(Registration number: 1072270) Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2024
| Note Fixed assets Programme related investments 13 Current assets Debtors 14 Cash at bank and in hand 15 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year 16 Net current assets Net assets Funds of the charity: Restricted income funds Restricted funds funds Unrestricted income funds Unrestricted funds funds Total funds 17 |
2024 £ 46,151 249,920 3,358,000 3,607,920 (58,237) 3,549,683 3,595,834 2,700,816 895,018 3,595,834 |
2023 £ 46,151 181,036 3,022,636 |
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| 3,203,672 (49,100) |
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| 3,154,572 | ||
| 3,200,723 | ||
| 2,143,962 1,056,761 |
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| 3,200,723 |
The financial statements on pages 14 to 33 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 24 January 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
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Dr Muhammad Asaria Trustee
The notes on pages 17 to 33 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 15
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Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 31 March 2024
| Note Cash flows from operating activities Net cash income/(expenditure) Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items Investment income 4 Working capital adjustments (Increase)/decrease in debtors 14 Increase in creditors 16 Net cash flows from operating activities Cash flows from investing activities Interest receivable and similar income 4 Net increase in cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents at 1 April Cash and cash equivalents at 31 March |
2024 £ 395,111 (39,536) 355,575 (68,884) 9,137 295,828 39,536 335,364 3,022,636 3,358,000 |
2023 £ (42,006) (8,879) |
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| (50,885) 220,148 17,036 |
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| 186,299 8,879 |
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| 195,178 2,827,458 |
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| 3,022,636 |
All of the cash flows are derived from continuing operations during the above two periods.
The notes on pages 17 to 33 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 16
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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024
1 Accounting policies
Statement of compliance
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the second edition of the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice issued in October 2019, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
Basis of preparation
The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the entity.
Going concern
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
In the application of the accounting policies, Trustees are required to make judgement, estimates and assumptions about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affected current and future periods.
The only significant judgement and estimate made by the Trustees is deemed to be in relation to the amount of gift aid that will be reclaimable on the donations received.
Income and endowments
Voluntary income including donations, gifts, legacies and grants that provide core funding or are of a general nature is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Donations and legacies
Donations and legacies are recognised on a receivable basis when receipt is probable and the amount can be reliably measured.
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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
1 Accounting policies (continued)
Investment income
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank
Expenditure
All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
Raising funds
These are costs incurred in attracting voluntary income, the management of investments and those incurred in trading activities that raise funds.
Charitable activities
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
Grant expenditure
Grants payable are charged in the year when the offer is conveyed to the recipient. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year-end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure. Where a grant has been made for the benefit of an individual, or a group of individuals, through the means of an institution, this is recorded as a grant to the institution.
Grant provisions
Provisions for grants are made when the intention to make a grant has been communicated to the recipient but there is uncertainty about either the timing of the grant or the amount of grant payable.
Support costs
Support costs include central functions such as governance cost, finance and information technology incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity. They have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, for example based on the total direct costs of each activity type.
Governance costs
These include the costs attributable to the charity’s compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements.
Irrecoverable VAT
Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred.
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
1 Accounting policies (continued)
Taxation
The charity is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable trust for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes.
Social investments
Programme related or mixed motive investments are measured at cost and assessed for impairment at the end of each reporting period.
Fixed asset investments
Fixed asset investments, other than programme related or mixed motive investments, are included at market value at the balance sheet date. Realised gains and losses on investments are calculated as the difference between sales proceeds and their market value at the start of the year, or their subsequent cost, and are charged or credited to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period of disposal.
Unrealised gains and losses represent the movement in market values during the year and are credited or charged to the Statement of Financial Activities based on the market value at the year end.
Debtors
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due. Accrued income and tax recoverable is included at the best estimate of the amounts receivable at the balance sheet date.
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand, demand deposits and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
Creditors
Creditors are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
1 Accounting policies (continued)
Foreign exchange
Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded at the rate of exchange at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at the balance sheet date are reported at the rates of exchange prevailing at that date.
Exchange differences are recognised in the statement of financial activities in the period in which they arise.
Fund structure
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees' discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.
Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.
The aims and use of each material restricted fund are set out in note 17 of the financial statements.
Financial instruments
The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
2 Income from donations and legacies
| Donations and legacies; General donations |
Unrestricted funds £ 456,842 456,842 |
Restricted funds £ 3,936,841 3,936,841 |
Total 2024 £ 4,393,683 4,393,683 |
Total 2023 £ 3,481,131 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,481,131 |
£213,501 of the prior year income was attributable to unrestricted funds and £3,267,630 to restricted funds.
3 Income from charitable activities
| Income from charitable activities | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Restricted | Total | Total | |
| funds | 2024 | 2023 | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
| Micro finance - Mothernomics | 3,614 | 3,614 | 85,169 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
3 Income from charitable activities (continued)
All of the prior year income was attributable to restricted funds.
4 Investment income
| Interest receivable and similar income; Interest receivable on bank deposits |
Unrestricted funds £ 39,536 |
Total 2024 £ 39,536 |
Total 2023 £ 8,879 |
|---|---|---|---|
All of the prior year income was attributable to unrestricted funds.
5 Other income
| Foreign exchange (losses)/gains | Unrestricted funds £ (18,514) |
Total 2024 £ (18,514) |
Total 2023 £ (9,431) |
|---|---|---|---|
All of the prior year losses were attributable to unrestricted funds.
6 Expenditure on raising funds
a) Costs of generating donations and legacies
| Event costs Marketing and publicity Membership subscriptions |
Unrestricted funds £ 3,082 92,550 51,004 146,636 |
Total 2024 £ 3,082 92,550 51,004 146,636 |
Total 2023 £ 8,639 2,939 33,885 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45,463 |
All of the prior year expenditure was attributable to unrestricted funds.
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
7 Expenditure on charitable activities
| Education Healthcare Humanitarian Micro finance Orphan care Water and solar projects Education Healthcare Humanitarian Micro finance Orphan care Water and solar projects |
Activity undertaken directly £ 30,842 36,944 4,500 - - 812,327 884,613 Activity undertaken directly £ 8,758 - - 83,841 - 242,282 334,881 |
Grant funding of activity £ 354,124 225,170 1,912,250 5,798 100,921 73,226 2,671,489 Grant funding of activity £ 543,472 337,781 1,761,838 29,548 249,096 40,588 2,962,323 |
Activity support costs £ 34,693 23,621 172,735 523 9,095 79,803 320,470 Activity support costs £ 44,398 27,157 141,649 9,116 20,027 22,742 265,089 |
2024 £ 419,659 285,735 2,089,485 6,321 110,016 965,356 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,876,572 | ||||
| 2023 £ 596,628 364,938 1,903,487 122,505 269,123 305,612 |
||||
| 3,562,293 |
£363,284 (2023 - £343,310) of the above expenditure was attributable to unrestricted funds and £3,513,288 (2023 - £3,264,445) to restricted funds.
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
8 Analysis of governance and support costs
Support costs allocated to charitable activities
| Education Healthcare Humanitarian Micro finance Orphan care Water and solar projects Education Healthcare Humanitarian Micro finance Orphan care Water and solar projects |
Governance costs £ 9,097 6,194 45,295 137 2,385 20,927 84,035 Governance costs £ 14,553 8,901 46,429 2,988 6,564 7,454 86,889 |
Finance costs £ 5,685 3,871 28,306 86 1,490 13,078 52,516 Finance costs £ 6,470 3,957 20,641 1,328 2,918 3,314 38,628 |
Information technology £ 3,940 2,683 19,618 59 1,033 9,064 36,397 Information technology £ 5,654 3,458 18,038 1,161 2,550 2,896 33,757 |
Administration costs £ 6,444 4,388 32,085 97 1,689 14,823 59,526 Administration costs £ 10,827 6,623 34,544 2,223 4,884 5,546 64,647 |
Other support costs £ 9,525 6,486 47,431 143 2,497 21,914 87,996 Other support costs £ 6,895 4,217 21,997 1,416 3,110 3,533 41,168 |
Total 2024 £ 34,691 23,622 172,735 522 9,094 79,806 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 320,470 | ||||||
| Total 2023 £ 44,399 27,156 141,649 9,116 20,026 22,743 |
||||||
| 265,089 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
8 Analysis of governance and support costs (continued)
Support costs have been allocated to direct activities based on the total direct costs of each activity type.
All of the current and prior year expenditure was attributable to unrestricted funds.
Governance costs
| Audit fees Audit of the financial statements Consultancy fees Monitoring expenses Legal and professional fees Accountancy fees |
Unrestricted funds £ 11,672 - - 48,482 23,880 84,034 |
Total 2024 £ 11,672 - - 48,482 23,880 84,034 |
Total 2023 £ 9,400 37,204 3,467 13,800 23,020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86,891 |
All of the prior year expenditure was attributable to unrestricted funds.
The trustees have decided to meet all governance costs from unrestricted funds and so no allocation or charge is made to restricted funds for any governance related costs.
9 Grant-making
Analysis of grants
| Education Healthcare Humanitarian Micro finance Orphan care Water and solar |
Grants to institutions 2024 £ 2023 £ 330,887 507,956 223,320 335,781 1,795,794 1,749,624 5,798 29,548 100,921 249,096 73,226 40,588 2,529,946 2,912,593 |
Grants to individuals 2024 £ 2023 £ 23,237 35,515 1,850 2,000 116,456 12,214 - - - - - - 141,543 49,729 |
Grants to individuals 2024 £ 2023 £ 23,237 35,515 1,850 2,000 116,456 12,214 - - - - - - 141,543 49,729 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49,729 |
The support costs associated with grant-making are £240,751 (2023 - £238,165).
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
9 Grant-making (continued)
Below are details of material grants made to institutions.
| Name of institution Action for Humanity Al-Anwar Al-Najafyia Foundation Al Basaer Development and Charity Foundation Alimaan Charitable Trust Anjumane Faize Panjetani Bilal Muslim Mission BW Foundation Dar Al Zahra Charitable School Dehkada Mehr Charitable Organisation Goodwill Caravan Health Improvement Project Zanzibar (HIPZ) Hussaini Foundation International Development and Relief Foundation Khatam Alnabaeen Limited Khoja Shia Ithna-asheri Muslim Community of Birmingham Kijana Kwanza Medical Aid for Palestinians Nyota Foundation Pravalli Welfare Trust The British Asian The Federation of KSIJ The Imam Hussein Foundation The Centres for Health and Education Programmes (CHEPs) The Who is Hussein Foundation Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation |
2024 £ 50,123 72,108 602,474 - 581,820 8,950 74,270 45,142 - 12,000 198,006 - 106,632 34,500 35,000 83,231 180,000 98,022 13,255 25,000 104,017 39,000 - 500 - 2,364,050 |
2023 £ - 150,913 284,129 61,000 902,730 110,970 - 140,150 10,174 37,700 341,471 29,250 143,968 50,855 40,000 68,898 - - 22,360 - - - 41,007 25,850 26,005 |
|---|---|---|
| 2,487,428 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
10 Net incoming/outgoing resources
Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year include:
| Audit fees Foreign currency losses |
2024 £ 11,672 18,514 |
2023 £ 9,400 9,431 |
|---|---|---|
11 Trustees remuneration and expenses
No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year. No trustees have received any reimbursed expenses or any other benefits from the charity during the year.
12 Taxation
The charity is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from taxation.
13 Programme related investments
| Cost At 1 April 2023 At 31 March 2024 Provision At 31 March 2024 Net book value At 31 March 2024 At 31 March 2023 |
Programme related investment £ 46,151 46,151 - 46,151 46,151 |
Total £ 46,151 |
|---|---|---|
| 46,151 - |
||
| 46,151 | ||
| 46,151 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
14 Debtors
| Prepayments Accrued income Other debtors |
2024 £ 32,831 46,858 170,231 249,920 |
2023 £ 13,250 57,234 110,552 |
|---|---|---|
| 181,036 |
Included within other debtors is a short term interest free loan of £100,000 (2023 - £100,000) provided to B W Foundation, a registered UK charity.
15 Cash and cash equivalents
| 15 Cash and cash equivalents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cash at bank 16 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Trade creditors Accruals |
2024 £ 3,358,000 2024 £ 13,965 44,272 58,237 |
2023 £ 3,022,636 |
| 2023 £ 22,500 26,600 |
||
| 49,100 |
17 Funds
| 17 Funds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance at | |||||
| Balance at 1 | Incoming | Resources | 31 March | ||
| April 2023 | resources | expended | Transfers | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Unrestricted funds | |||||
| General funds | 1,056,761 | 477,864 | (509,920) | (129,687) | 895,018 |
| Restricted funds | |||||
| Afghanistan appeal | 74,200 | 50,458 | (95,297) | - | 29,361 |
| Al-Abbas project | - | 35,000 | (35,000) | - | - |
| Al Qasr residence | 331 | 490,678 | (581,820) | 90,811 | - |
| Al Zahra School - Najaf | 1,300 | 39,177 | (40,392) | - | 85 |
| Babul Ilm Public School | 515 | - | - | - | 515 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
17 Funds (continued)
| Funds (continued) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance at | |||||
| Balance at 1 | Incoming | Resources | 31 March | ||
| April 2023 | resources | expended | Transfers | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Burma emergency appeal | 9,367 | - | - | - | 9,367 |
| Cataract project | 2,297 | 513 | - | - | 2,810 |
| Covid relief fund | 6,148 | - | - | - | 6,148 |
| East African drought | 9,038 | - | - | - | 9,038 |
| East Africa Poverty | - | 93,914 | (102,767) | 8,853 | - |
| Education | 10,221 | 59,715 | (57,238) | - | 12,698 |
| Exeter Jamaat | - | 20,000 | - | - | 20,000 |
| Gaza orphan appeal | 165,855 | 927,293 | (230,123) | - | 863,025 |
| Give IT 100 | 18,844 | - | (3,741) | - | 15,103 |
| Housing for poor | 3,250 | 64,200 | - | - | 67,450 |
| IHEC | 4,527 | - | - | - | 4,527 |
| Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital | 173,536 | - | - | - | 173,536 |
| Investment fund | 23,046 | - | - | - | 23,046 |
| Iran earthquake | 500 | - | - | - | 500 |
| Islamic Humanitarian Service | 9,256 | 46,916 | (60,483) | 4,311 | - |
| Kijana Kwanza | - | 88,760 | (83,231) | - | 5,529 |
| Lamu Mosque | - | 3,900 | - | - | 3,900 |
| Lebanon Appeal | 6,784 | 317 | - | - | 7,101 |
| Libya Flood | - | 51,571 | (12,000) | - | 39,571 |
| Medical aid project | 56,245 | 19,961 | (65,481) | - | 10,725 |
| Micro finance project | 4,008 | 3,614 | - | - | 7,622 |
| Middle East - Bahrain appeal | 5,085 | - | - | - | 5,085 |
| Mothernomics | 304,424 | 15,936 | (5,798) | - | 314,562 |
| Muslim Jina | 1,406 | - | - | - | 1,406 |
| Orphan and widows | 2,407 | 280,979 | (130,663) | - | 152,723 |
| Pakistan flood appeal | 121,074 | 753 | (52,105) | - | 69,722 |
| Ramadhan iftar, fitra and fidya | 65,736 | 127,536 | (76,809) | - | 116,463 |
| Sadaqah | 42,822 | 40,143 | (1,180) | - | 81,785 |
| Sahme Imam | 144,113 | 96,500 | (115,475) | - | 125,138 |
| Sahme Sadaat | 370,644 | 47,416 | (134,269) | - | 283,791 |
| Syrian appeal | 24,883 | 1,307 | - | - | 26,190 |
| Turkey/Syria earthquake | 106,083 | 15,108 | - | - | 121,191 |
| Water well project | 4,485 | 883,705 | (885,553) | - | 2,637 |
| Yemen humanitarian appeal | 357,336 | 324,931 | (602,474) | - | 79,793 |
| Zanzibar health | 8,465 | 107,212 | (141,389) | 25,712 | - |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
17 Funds (continued)
| Zaqat Total funds Unrestricted funds General funds Restricted funds Afghanistan appeal Al-Abbas project Al Qasr residence Al Zahra School - Najaf Babul Ilm Public School Burma emergency appeal Cataract project Covid relief fund East African drought Education Gaza orphan appeal Give IT 100 Housing for poor IHEC Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital Investment fund Iran earthquake Islamic Humanitarian Service Lebanon Appeal Medical aid project Micro finance project Middle East - Bahrain appeal Mothernomics Muslim Jina |
Balance at 1 April 2023 £ Incoming resources £ Resources expended £ Transfers £ Balance at 31 March 2024 £ 5,731 2,942 - - 8,673 2,143,962 3,940,455 (3,513,288) 129,687 2,700,816 3,200,723 4,418,319 (4,023,208) - 3,595,834 Balance at 1 April 2022 £ Incoming resources £ Resources expended £ Balance at 31 March 2023 £ 1,187,122 212,949 (343,310) 1,056,761 86,280 92,653 (104,733) 74,200 - 40,000 (40,000) - 198 902,864 (902,730) 332 668 81,120 (80,489) 1,299 515 - - 515 9,367 - - 9,367 7,681 29,814 (35,198) 2,297 13,348 - (7,200) 6,148 8,378 660 - 9,038 19,271 34,499 (43,549) 10,221 155,272 10,583 - 165,855 119,968 4,560 (105,684) 18,844 32,500 - (29,250) 3,250 4,527 - - 4,527 193,042 250 (19,756) 173,536 23,046 - - 23,046 500 - - 500 69,873 94,018 (154,635) 9,256 6,655 129 - 6,784 56,785 22,996 (23,536) 56,245 4,782 7,386 (8,160) 4,008 5,085 - - 5,085 261,410 148,243 (105,229) 304,424 1,406 - - 1,406 |
Balance at 31 March 2024 £ 8,673 |
|---|---|---|
| 2,700,816 | ||
| 3,595,834 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
17 Funds (continued)
| Orphan and widows Pakistan flood appeal Ramadhan iftar, fitra and fidya Sadaqah Sahme Imam Sahme Sadaat Syrian appeal Turkey/Syria earthquake Water well project Yemen humanitarian appeal Zanzibar health Zaqat Total funds |
Balance at 1 April 2022 £ 64,889 - 13,549 58,324 141,518 284,183 24,722 - 30,866 340,379 1,594 15,026 2,055,607 3,242,729 |
Incoming resources £ 182,614 151,274 128,437 35,690 182,111 223,315 160 131,083 256,489 321,807 242,659 27,385 3,352,799 3,565,748 |
Resources expended £ (245,096) (30,200) (76,249) (51,192) (179,516) (136,854) - (25,000) (282,870) (304,850) (235,787) (36,681) (3,264,444) (3,607,754) |
Balance at 31 March 2023 £ 2,407 121,074 65,737 42,822 144,113 370,644 24,882 106,083 4,485 357,336 8,466 5,730 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,143,962 | ||||
| 3,200,723 |
The specific purposes for which the funds are to be applied are as follows:
Afghanistan appeal - Food aid and humanitarian assistance in war torn Afghanistan
Al-Abbas project - For the re-development of the Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham
Al Qasr residence - Construction of a new multi story building for the benefit of pilgrims coming to Karbala, Iraq
Al Zahra School - Najaf - Providing facilities for a school for orphans in Najaf
Babul Ilm Public School - Construction of a school in Najaf
Burma emergency appeal - Providing humanitarian aid and relieving poverty in Burma
Cataract project - Carry out cataract and other ophthalmic operations in designated countries
Covid relief fund - Providing relief and support in the fight against COVID-19
East African Drought - Providing humanitarian aid to drought stricken areas in East Africa
East Africa Poverty - Providing humanirarian aid to poverty stricken areas/people in East Africa
Education - Providing education at all levels, from primary to university, across the charity's designated countries
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
17 Funds (continued)
Exeter Jamaat - For the re-development of the Exeter Ahlul-Bayt Community in Exeter.
Gaza orphan appeal - Provide care and aid for orphans in Gaza, Palestine
Give IT 100 - A drive initiated to provide IT equipment to assist with the education of those less fortunate
Housing for poor - Providing housing facilities for those in need
Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital - Provide a public health facility and hospital equipment and supplies in Karbala, Iraq
Investment fund - Used for specific investment purposes
Iran Earthquake - Providing urgent humanitarian aid in Iran
Islamic Humanitarian Service - Providing humanitarian assistance in various countries
Kijana Kwanza - Providing access to education for disadvantaged young people in Tanzania.
Lebanon appeal - Humanitarian assistance in Lebanon
Libya flood - Providing aid to displaced families as a result of the Libyan floods
Medical aid project - Underprivileged provided with medical help and supplies
Micro finance project - Income generation projects to help individuals, families and institutions develop skills and income to become financially independent
Middle East - Bahrain Appeal - Providing humanitarian aid and relieving poverty in Bahrain
Mothernomics - A unique project that is equipping widowed Iraqi mothers with the mindset, skills and the financial backing to provide for their families
Muslim Jina - Emergency healthcare for Muslim Jina
Orphan and widows - Provide care for orphans and widows in Iraq, India, Pakistan, Lebanon and Palestine
Pakistand flood appeal - Providing aid to displaced families as a result of the Pakistan floods
Ramadhan iftar, fitra and fidya - Providing essential sustenance for those in poverty during the holy month of Ramadhan
Sadaqah - Donations to be used for the poor and the needy of the wider community
Sahme Imam - Giving of alms in accordance with religious guidelines to the poor
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
17 Funds (continued)
Syrian Appeal - Help provide food medical care and a safe home to Syrian families, a country that has been stricken by war
Turkey/Syria earthquake - Providing emergency aid to those in need as a result of the Turkey and Syria earthquake
Water Well Project - Help provide clean decontaminated water through building water wells and necessary piping
Yemen humanitarian appeal - Providing humanitarian and reconstruction relief in Yemen
Zanzibar Health - To provide easy access health care to the people of Zanzibar
Zaqat - Donations used for the poor and needy as per religious obligations
During the year there were transfers in the sum of £129,687 (2023 - £Nil) between unrestricted and restricted funds. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) these relate to the use of unrestricted funds at the discretion of the Trustees to meet any funding shortfall on restricted projects.
18 Analysis of net assets between funds
| Investments Current assets Current liabilities Total net assets Investments Current assets Current liabilities Total net assets |
Unrestricted funds £ 23,105 930,150 (58,237) 895,018 Unrestricted funds £ 23,105 1,082,756 (49,100) 1,056,761 |
Restricted funds £ 23,046 2,677,770 - 2,700,816 Restricted £ 23,046 2,120,916 - 2,143,962 |
Total funds at 31 March 2021 £ 46,151 3,607,920 (58,237) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,595,834 | |||
| Total funds at 31 March 2023 £ 46,151 3,203,672 (49,100) |
|||
| 3,200,723 |
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The Lady Fatemah (A.S) Charitable Trust
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (continued)
19 Analysis of net funds
| 19 Analysis of net funds | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash at bank and in hand Net cash Cash at bank and in hand Net cash |
At 1 April 2023 £ 3,022,636 3,022,636 At 1 April 2022 £ 2,827,458 2,827,458 |
Cash flow £ 335,364 335,364 Cash flow £ 195,178 195,178 |
At 31 March 2024 £ 3,358,000 |
| 3,358,000 | |||
| At 31 March 2023 £ 3,022,636 |
|||
| 3,022,636 |
20 Related party transactions
During the year the charity made the following related party transactions:
Mahmarzai Limited
(A company owned and managed by family members of a trustee, Mrs Kanize Fatema A Karim) During the year, the charity incurred fees in the sum of £120,650 (2023 - £104,000) in relation to management, marketing and administration services provided by Mahmarzai Limited. At the balance sheet date the amount due to/from Mahmarzai Limited was £Nil (2023 - £Nil).
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