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2021-12-31-accounts

REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 03949712 (England and Wales) SCOTTISH REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: SC041327 ENGLAND AND WALES REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1083036

Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 for

Sarwar Foundation

Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2021

Page
Report of the Trustees 1-7
Independent Examiner's report 8
Statement of Financial Activities 9
Balance sheet 10-11
Notes to the Financial Statements 12-14
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities 15-16

Sarwar Foundation

Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021

The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2021. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in March 2005.

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Registered Company number 03949712

Scottish Registered Charity number

SC041327

England and Wales Registered Charity number

1083036

Registered office

3 Woodside Park Avenue London E17 8EN

Trading Address

320 Victoria Road Glasgow G42 7RP

Trustees

M Hassan M Khalid A Majid M A Rajak A Sarwar (appointment terminated 5/4/2021) P Sarwar S King F Sarwar (appointed 5/4/2021) M Hanif (appointed 5/4/2021)

Secretary

S King

Independent examiner

DA Accountants Spiersbridge Business Park 1 Spiersbridge Way Glasgow G46 8NG

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Bankers

Habib Bank Zurich Plc Showroom 5, The Point 173-175 Cheetham Hill Road Manchester M8 8LG

Bank of Scotland 464 Victoria Rd Glasgow G42 8PB

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a memorandum and articles of association, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

Public benefit Statement

The trustees confirm they have referred a statement on public benefit to the Charity Commission. In their opinion, the Sarwar Foundation fully satisfies the Charity Commission’s test of public benefit. The charity provides people in the UK with an opportunity to express their compassion or generosity towards those in need in Pakistan and elsewhere. The charity drives change for a positive future by providing free healthcare, supplying clean drinking water, educating children and empowering women.

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Sarwar Foundation Report of Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021

The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021.

ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE

Charitable activities

We the trustees present the report on the activities of the financial period January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021.

Objectives and aims

The Sarwar Foundation works to save lives, transform the lives of those in need, and create fulfilling lives.

We save lives by providing access to quality healthcare and clean drinking water; we transform lives by educating children and helping those in need; and we create fulfilling lives by empowering women with new skills.

Our values are driven by social justice, the principles of equality and fairness, promoting greater diversity, and a sense of pride in our history and communities.

We run projects in Pakistan and the UK.

Significant activities

Throughout 2021, the devastating impact of the global Covid pandemic continued to be felt, making our work more important than ever. Hundreds of thousands lost their lives, and families were torn apart and left to wonder if things could ever be normal again.

Throughout this global emergency, the Sarwar Foundation continued to provide support to those most in need. We provided access to quality healthcare and clean drinking water, we helped educate children and empower women so they could lead fulfilling lives, and we continued help those in need in need across Pakistan and the UK.

Our 2021 Ramadan campaign focused on supporting those in most urgent need in the UK and Pakistan, as well as delivering our long term, sustainable development plans, including access to clean drinking water.

In the UK, we ran another highly successful Toybank Appeal at Christmas, and our fundraising activities provided free breakfasts to hundreds of children across Scotland.

Sarwar Foundation projects, UK:

•Charity shop in Glasgow •Christmas Toybank appeal •Magic Breakfast campaign •Ramadan campaign

The Sarwar Foundation organises charity events and fundraising activities in the UK. Our charity shop in Glasgow re-opened following the pandemic, and all funds raised from the shop go towards our ongoing projects.

However, Covid-19 meant that we could not organise any largescale events in 2021, resulting in a reduction in fundraising opportunities.

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Sarwar Foundation Report of Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021

Christmas toybank campaign

We once again organised a nationwide Toybank campaign to provide Christmas presents for Scottish families struggling during the festive season.

The campaign was arranged by the Sarwar Foundation in conjunction with Scottish Women’s Aid and the Glasgow No.1 Baby and Family Support Service, and raised more than £20,000.

Along with dozens of individual donations from charitable Scots, a generous £5,000 gift was received from PFA Scotland, which is the collective voice for football players in Scotland.

Other organisations to contribute include Usdaw Scotland, GMB Scotland, Rangers FC, contact centre go-centric and the charity Blameless.

Supermarket Asda also arranged donation collection points in its Govan and Bearsden stores. All funds raised went towards new toys or gift vouchers for children.

Magic Breakfast

Teenagers from Glasgow raised more than £35,000 for the Sarwar Foundation to help provide free breakfasts to hundreds of children across Scotland.

The fundraising drive inspired by footballer Marcus Rashford was matched by the Magic Breakfast charity, resulting in a total of £70,000 which was spent throughout 2021.

The funding was the equivalent cost of providing breakfast provision to support 12 schools in Glasgow and helped deliver free breakfasts at other schools in deprived areas across Scotland. The campaign was launched by 17-year-old pupils Azaan Sarwar and Abbie Shenken and their friends.

Magic Breakfast supports pupils across the UK, working with more than 960 schools in England and Scotland to provide around 167,000 children with a healthy breakfast every school day.

Ramadan 2021 campaign

Our Ramadan 2021 campaign focused on alleviating hunger in the UK and Pakistan. Along with other options, we encouraged donors to contribute £20 to feed a family of five in Pakistan for a whole month.

Our 2021 Ramadan social media campaign resulted in a total reach of more than 123,000 on Facebook.

The Sarwar Foundation in Pakistan

Projects are overseen in Pakistan by our partner Sarwar Foundation, Charity number 0048228.

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Sarwar Foundation Report of Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021

Sarwar Foundation projects, Pakistan:

•Sarwar Foundation Hospital Rajana

•Sarwar Foundation Rai Ali Nawaz Hospital Chichawatni

•Medicine and eye camps

•Hepatitis treatment

•Breast cancer awareness

•Sarwar Foundation School, Pir Mahal

•Clean Water filtration plants

•HunarGah centres – skill development for women

•Covid relief campaign

•Women’s wellness clinic

Covid-19

As the global emergency continued, the Sarwar Foundation provided ongoing support to those most in need throughout the Covid pandemic.

With our organisation partners within the Punjab Development Network (PND), we worked together to provide support to communities across Pakistan with essential food packs, sanitisation, PPE and medical supplies.

Throughout the pandemic, the Sarwar Foundation donated 70,000 food packs, and helped support around 2 million people in Pakistan.

Our Hospitals

During the year, 7,989 babies were born in the Sarwar Foundation’s hospitals.

Many were born prematurely and wouldn’t have survived if it wasn’t for the life-saving work of specialist doctors and nurses and state-of-the-art medical equipment.

The Sarwar Foundation runs two primary hospitals which offer a 24-hour emergency service and are equipped with operating theatres, labour rooms, general and private wards, a nursery and a 24-hour ambulance service.

Our hospitals in Rajana and Chichawatni, treated 198,000 patients in their outpatient department, while over 15,058 patients were admitted for treatment in hospital rooms and wards. In 2021 we also opened a third hospital.

Women’s Wellness clinic

We opened a dedicated Women’s Wellness Clinic within our state-of-the-art Rajana Hospital. The clinic has specialist rooms dedicated to family planning, infant care, and nutrition and will provide high quality, compassionate care to thousands of women and their children. The clinic also provides ultrasounds, smear tests, mammograms and a range of other women’s health services.

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Sarwar Foundation Report of Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021

Health camps

To provide a wider range of medical service to vulnerable Pakistani people, the Sarwar Foundation ran 45 regular medical camps in hard-to-reach rural areas.

The Sarwar Foundation continued to take action against sight loss by running regular eye health camps with the help of respected local ophthalmologists, to check the quality of sight and overall optical health of Pakistan’s most disadvantaged people.

The eye camps provide eye examinations, prescribe and distribute glasses, detect and treat a multitude of eye conditions and preform eye surgeries, all free of cost.

Hepatitis Treatment

This theme of World Hepatitis Day in 2021 was ‘Hepatitis Can’t Wait’, highlighting the critical need to eliminate hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.

With one person dying every 30 seconds globally from a hepatitis related illness, we can’t wait to act on viral hepatitis.

The Sarwar Foundation provided free Hepatitis screenings to hundreds of people in Punjab, with teams touring the country.

The free camps were established in under-developed communities to teach people about the condition and to provide them with an opportunity to get themselves treated.

Everyone diagnosed as living with Hepatitis at a free screening is supplied with free medication to allow them to treat the condition.

Education

The Sarwar Foundation School offers the highest quality of education to the people of Pir Mahal, a small town in Punjab. It operates under a subsidised fee scheme where approximately 10% of students are on scholarship with zero fees. In 2021, there were 958 pupils with 64 teachers and staff.

In 2021, the school delivered a 100% success rate in intermediate results. Everyone at the charity is proud of all the pupils and the teachers who helped to educate the next generation.

Clean water

In 2021 the Foundation continued to provide and run water filtration plants to provide clean drinking water for communities in Pakistan.

Our clean water initiative has so far installed more than 218 water filtration plants in communities across Pakistan, giving thousands of people instant access to free, clean and safe drinking water.

We have installed 100 solar-powered water pumps and 50 hand pumps in communities most in need, with a particular focus on raising funds for the solar-powered pumps in 2021.

We believe that everyone should have the basic human right of access to safe, clean drinking water and, to date, over 2.2 million people have benefitted from the Foundation’s clean water initiative.

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Sarwar Foundation Report of Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021

Women empowerment

The Sarwar Foundation continued to run around 100 HunarGah skills training centres for women across the Punjab.

These centres have now trained more than 30,000 women who are now able to earn their own livelihood.

The centres offer dress design and sewing classes, beautician courses, computer training, jewellery and handicraft courses.

Many also have facilities for educating young children.

The foundation runs 15 centres in women’s prisons.

Public benefit statement

The trustees confirm they have referred a statement on public benefit to the Charity Commission. In their opinion, the Sarwar Foundation fully satisfies the Charity Commission’s test of public benefit.

The charity provides people in the UK with an opportunity to express their compassion or generosity towards those in need in Pakistan and elsewhere.

The charity drives change for a positive future by providing free healthcare, supplying clean drinking water, educating children and empowering women.

S King Trustee & Secretary

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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Sarwar Foundation

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 set out on pages seven to fourteen.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 201 1 Act)) and that an independent examination is required. The charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of ACCA.

Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

Basis of the independent examiner's report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the 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 you as 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 statements below.

Independent examiner's qualified statement

No other matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Dinesh Hallan, FCCA DA Accountants Chartered Certified Accountants

Spiersbridge Business Park 1 Spiersbridge Way Glasgow G46 8NG

29 September 2022

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Sarwar Foundation

Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2021

INCOMING RESOURCES
Incoming resources from generated funds
Voluntary income
Activities for generating funds
Total incoming resources
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Costs of generating funds
Costs of generating voluntary income
Charitable activities
International projects
Governance costs
Other resources expended
Total resources expended
NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING)
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD		 2021
£
72,751
109,980
182,731
5,621
9,685
111,110
39,914
166,330
16,401
488,932
505,333		 2020
£
772,369
15,692
788,061
56,085
478,977
35,870
38,771
609,703
178,358
271,191
449,549

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Sarwar Foundation Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2021

Fixed assets
Tangible assets
7
Current assets
Debtors
8
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
Creditors: amounts falling
due within one year
9
Net current assets
Total assets less current
liabilities
Net assets
Funds
Unrestricted funds
10
Total funds		 2021
£
4,240
4,240
4,750
497,724
299
502,773
(1,680)
501,093
505,333
505,333
505,333
505,333		 2020
£
4,770
4,770
4,750
480,968
74
485,792
(1,630)
484,162
488,932
488,932
488,932
488,932

The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 December 2021 .

The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and

(b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.

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Sarwar Foundation Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2021

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small charitable companies and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2015).

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 29 September 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:

S King

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Sarwar Foundation Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021

1 Accounting policies

Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008), the Companies Act 2006 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

2 ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS

Recycling
Charity shop income
Toybank donations
Charity box income
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COSTS OF GENERATING VOLUNTARY INCOME
Fundraising costs
Motor vehicle costs
Miscellaneous costs		 2021
£
2,497
58,925
31,391
17,167
109,980
2021
£
905
4,324
392
5,621		 2020
£
2,907
12,785
39,383
-
55,075
2020
£
50,696
5,389
-
56,085

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Sarwar Foundation

Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021

4
NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES
Rent		 2021
£
19,000
19,000		 2020
£
19,000
19,000

5 TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2020 or for the year ended 31 December 2021.

Trustees' expenses

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2020 or for the year ended 31 December 2021.

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STAFF COSTS
2021
£
Wages and salaries
47,610
47,610
The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
2021
Staff
2		 2020
£
49,870
49,870
2020
2

No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.

Cost
At 1 January 2021
At 31 December 2021
Depreciation
At 1 January 2021
Charge for the year
At 31 December 2021
Net book value
At 31 December 2021
At 31 December 2020
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Debtors
Other debtors		 2021
£
4,750		 Motor
vehicles
£
5,300
5,300
530
530
1,060
4,240
4,770
2020
£
4,750

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Sarwar Foundation

Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021

9
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Other taxes and social security costs
Accruals
10 MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
2020
£
Unrestricted funds
Charity Main Account
295,724
Zakat fund
119,274
Charity Shop
59,850
Current Account
11,215
Cash account
2,869
488,932
TOTAL FUNDS
488,932
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
resources
Unrestricted funds
£
Charity Main Account
64,892
Zakat fund
52
Charity Shop
58,440
Current Account
55,378
Cash account
109,248
288,010
288,010		 2021
£
680
1,000
1,680
Movement
£
8,081
(2,179)
(26,246)
3,588
33,157
16,401
16,401
Resources
expended
£
(56,812)
(2,231)
(84,686)
(51,790)
(76,091)
(271,610)
(271,610)		 2020
£
680
950
1,630
2021
£
303,805
117,095
33,604
14,803
36,026
505,333
505,333
Movement
£
8,081
(2,179)
(26,246)
3,588
33,157
16,401
16,401

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Sarwar Foundation

Detailed Statement of Financial activities for the year ended 31 December 2021

INCOMING RESOURCES
Voluntary income
Donations
Gift Aid
Covid Business Grant
Covid Job Retention Scheme Grant
Activities for generating funds
Recycling
Charity shop income
Toybank donations
Charity box income
Total incoming resources
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Activities for generating funds
Fundraising costs
Motor vehicle costs
Miscellaneous costs
International projects
U.K Projects & Donations to other charitable causes
Suport costs
Management
Salaries
Premises costs:
Rent
Insurance
Light and heat
Cleaning
Telephone
Repairs and maintenance
General admin
Bank charges
Depreciation		 2021
£
36,118
3,532
19,000
14,101
72,751
2,497
58,925
31,391
17,167
109,980
182,731
905
4,324
392
5,621
9,685
63,500
73,185
47,610
47,610
19,000
486
2,281
567
504
765
23,603
2,983
530
3,513		 2020
£
724,238
23,966
11,500
12,665
772,369
2,907
12,785
39,383
-
15,692
788,061
50,696
5,389
-
56,085
478,977
(14,000)
464,977
49,870
49,870
19,000
292
1,132
201
1,644
971
23,240
2,881
530
3,411

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Sarwar Foundation

Detailed Statement of Financial activities for the year ended 31 December 2021

Sarwar Foundation
Detailed Statement of Financial activities
for the year ended 31 December 2021
Information technology
Postage, printing and stationery
Computer & IT costs
Legal and professional costs:
Accountancy fees
Advertising and PR
Other legal and professional
Total resources expended		 2021
£
995
158
1,153
1,904
9,706
35
11,645
166,330		 2020
£
677
158
835
950
10,282
53
11,285
609,703

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