**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
**To**
Period start date Period end date 01 04 2024 31 03 2025
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Bury Asian Women’s Centre
**Other names charity is known by** BAWC
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1078253 **Charity's principal address** 90 South Cross Street Bury **Postcode** BL9 0RS ~~——~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Farzana Ali Chairperson 2 Shazana Kausar Vice Chairperson 3 Zubaria Ijaz Treasurer 4 Afzal Khan Executive Committee 5 Naseem Farooq Executive Committee 6 Aqsa Shahzad Secretary 7 Safeer Ahmad Executive Committee 8 Zafar Iqbal Executive Committee 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~==~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Ayesha Arif -Community Development Director
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Bury Asian Women’s Centre adopted its constitution governing document on the Type of governing document 21[st] January 1999 when the charity was first formed. This was amended on the (eg. trust deed, constitution) 5[th] October 1999 and further amended in 13th February 2008.
Bury Asian Women’s Centre became an incorporated Charity on 17[th] November How the charity is constituted 1999 and is registered with the Charity Commission under Registration No: (eg. trust, association, company) 1078253.
Any individual who has an interest in supporting and furthering the objects of the Trustee selection methods charity and wishes to be nominated to the board trustees, can self-nominate, but (eg. appointed by, elected by) will need two sponsors who are usually volunteers or other trustees.
The trustees also actively seek to recruit interested people who can contribute to the skills required to manage the Charity and if successful members can be coopted onto the board/committee. These co-opted members can then be sponsored and elected at each AGM. The current trustees stand down at each AGM and have to seek re-election.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
The Charity Trustees for the purpose of charity law are known as members of the Executive Committee. All members of the Executive Committee give their time voluntarily and received no benefit from the charity.
All trustees have an induction meeting and are presented with an induction pack. The trustees attend at least one trustee training or planning day annually.
Bury Asian Women’s Centre is managed by its Executive Committee, meeting two times a year. Day to day responsibility for the management of the charity, the provision of services and the supervision of staff, has been delegated to the Community Development Director.
Procedures are in place to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations within the premises occupied by the charity. Risk assessments are carried out under the Health and Safety Regulations to ensure the safety of staff at all times. Procedures are periodically reviewed to ensure they continue to meet the needs of the charity.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|The Objects of the Charity are:
“To further the advancement of Asian women in Bury in particular but not
exclusively by:
_1)_the advancement of their education and that of their families
_2)_the development health and social care facilities appropriate to their
needs
_3)_the provision of advice and assistance which directly meets the needs of
the beneficiaries”.|
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||Over all 312 women received education and training with 500+ local
received welfare
support thought out the year.
• Supported 500+ local people
• Supported 30 families monthly from food bank, provided 162,000 Hot
Halal Meals
and 54,000 breakfasts over 12 months period.
• 60 People were involved in community clean up with Bury keep it clean,
encouraging families to work together to improve their local environment.
These
were planned to run in conjunction with community groups across Bury.
• 26 women received their training with Women’s chai Project Online
safety training
in partnership with MCR council
• 69 Women completed ‘ESOL’ course
• 51 Completed Like in the UK and B1
• 26 Women completed online safety training course with MCR city
council
• 25 Women completed ‘Healthy eating cooking’ in partnership with
BAWC, SAHELI
and RWWA
• 20 Women completed ‘Physical and mental health and wellbeing
Monitoring and Evaluation
Please see the appendix for the evaluation,
Updated for 2024-25 with 114 user evaluations completed:
• Overall satisfaction averaged 9.30 with 99.1% in the positive domain;
• 100% reported opportunity to be involved with planning and delivering
last year’s
activities with an average rating of 9.37;
• 100% reported that the service provided by BAWC meet their needs
and interests with
an average rating of 9.46;
• 100% reported that coming to BAWC had improved their self-esteem
with an average
rating of 9.47;
• 100% reported that coming to BAWC had improved their ability to make
positive
choices about their life with an average rating of 9.26;
• 100% reported that involvement in BAWC activities led to them living a
healthier
lifestyle with an average rating of 9.28.
· For those attending relevant courses:
• 100% said that they helped improve their cooking or healthy living skills
with an
average rating of 9.52;
• 98.3% said that they helped improve their English skills with an average
rating of 9.76.
Average rating of mental health rose from 2.79 before accessing BAWC
services to 9.07
after, with those reporting positive mental health rising from 8.77% to|
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## 100%.
Average rating of confidence rose from 3.18 before accessing BAWC services to 9.21 after,
with those reporting positive confidence rising from 13.2% to 98.3%. Average rating of healthy lifestyle rose from 3.00 before accessing BAWC services to 9.12
after, with those reporting healthy lifestyle rising from 12.3% to 100%.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Bury Asian Women’s Centre has recruited 5 volunteers this year, who assist us on an ad-hoc basis and are of great assistance.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The project aimed to empower Women to learn, build confidence, skills and enter work, through building a range of skills with women to give them improved life chances and ability to make positive decisions on the direction they wish their life to take. They have clearly benefited, be it through gaining English skills, solving a specific practical problem, or feeling more empowered to make positive life choices for them and their families.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Executive Committee has examined the charities need for reserves in light **Brief statement of the** of the main risks to the organisation. The Charity needs reserves to protect its **charity’s policy on reserves** current activities, and to ensure that it continues to operate on a going concern basis. In view of the level of commitment needed to provide reasonable assurance to beneficiaries of the continuation of the charitable services they Depend on; the optimum level of unrestricted reserves would be between 3- and 6-months running costs including salaries. Bury Asian Women’s Centre needs to develop a Reserves Policy, which will be reviewed annually. In the interim, Trustees are seeking to generate additional income in order to maintain adequate reserves in the light of potentially reduced level of funding in the future.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
As at 31st March 2025 the charity had a spend of £22360. You **may choose** to include additional information, where It has also been successful in securing funding from WEA, Small Grants Fund, relevant about: and Reaching Communities National lottery.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including The charity’s assets are held for the objects of the charity. any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
Our plans for the future remain ambitious and necessarily focus on ensuring the financial sustainability and security of Bury Asian Women’s Centre whilst continually reviewing our activity programme to make sure it meets the needs of our members. Reaching out to those women who may not currently use the Centre is also a key objective of the Charity.
## **Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities:**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which show a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and its financial activities for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993. 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.
## **Section G Declaration**
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**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Farzana Ali **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 30/01/2026
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||**Bury Asian Women's Centre**|**Bury Asian Women's Centre**|**Bury Asian Women's Centre**|**Bury Asian Women's Centre**|**Bury Asian Women's Centre**|1078253|1078253||**CC16a**|
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||**Bury Asian Women**|||||||||
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**|Period end date||||
||||01/04/2024|||31/03/2025||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Last year**||||||||||
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|LotteryFunding|**-**||**36,065**||**-**||**36,065**||**17,766**|
|Miscellaneous funding&grants|**-**||**41,161**||**-**||**41,161**||**1,200**|
|Sundryincome & rents|**-**||**2,940**||**-**||**2,940**||**1,891**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**80,166**||**-**||**80,166**||**20,857**|
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**-**|**-**|**80,166**|**80,166**|**- 80,166**|**- 80,166**|**- 80,166**|**- 80,166**|**20,857**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Salaries and pensions|**-**||**19,765**||**-**||**19,765**||**2,089**|
|Activities and events|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**6,362**|
|Tutors|**-**||**19,275**||**-**||**19,275**||**2,190**|
|Postages, printing and stationery|**-**||**144**||**-**||**144**||**88**|
|Insurance|**-**||**669**||**-**||**669**||**669**|
|Telephone and internet|**-**||**1,963**||**-**||**1,963**||**1,814**|
|Volunteers expenses|**-**||**1,072**||**-**||**1,072**||**700**|
|Food etc|**-**||**5,291**||**-**||**5,291**||**5,002**|
|Payroll costs|**-**||**120**||**-**||**120**||**120**|
|Accountancy|**-**||**570**||**-**||**570**||**474**|
|Repairs and maintenance|**-**||**1,986**||**-**||**1,986**||**2,267**|
|Equipment purchased|**-**||**738**||**-**||**738**||**-**|
|Travel and tourism|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**7,516**|
|Website and software costs|**-**||**256**||**-**||**256**||**244**|
|Cleaning and welfare|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**100**|
|Motor and travel|**-**||**802**||**-**||**802**||**845**|
|Sundry expenses|**-**||**335**||**-**||**335**||**588**|
|Project related costs|**-**||**2,700**||**-**||**2,700**||**-**|
|Consultants|||**110**||||**110**||**-**|
|Premises utilities|**-**
**-**||**2,010**
**57,806**||**-**
**-**||**2,010**||**3,639**
**34,707**|
|**_Sub total_ **|||||||**57,806**|||
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, etc.**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_**|**-**||**57,806**||**-**||**57,806**||**34,707**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-**|**-**|**22,360**|**22,360**|**- 22,360**|**- 22,360**|**- 22,360**||**- 13,850**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**-**|**-**|**61,635**|**61,635**|**-**||**61,635**||**75,485**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|**-**|**83,995**|**83,995**|**- 83,995**|**- 83,995**|**- 83,995**||**61,635**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account||||**-**||**83,995**||**-**|
||Cash account||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Credit cards||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**-**||**83,995**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|Accountancy 2025||||
restricted|||||
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||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of
approval|
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## ~~a~~
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees/** BURY ASIAN WOMEN’S CENTRE **members of** ~~a PF~~ **On accounts for the year** 31 MARCH 2025 **Charity no** 1078253 **ended (if any)** ~~eeeee eee~~ **Set out on pages** On the attached pages ~~PO~~ **Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year **trustees and examiner** under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
**Basis of independent examiner’s statement**
- My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention **examiner's statement**
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
- have not been met ; or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** ~~a~~ **Name:** S J McDonald B.Sc., ICPA **Relevant professional** Independent Certified Practising Accountants **qualification(s) or body (if any):** ~~oo~~
**Address:** Station Chambers, 36 Bolton Street
Bury, Lancs BL9 0LL
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
None to report