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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts year ended 31 March 2021

Charity Number 1101595

Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) report

and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021

Contents

Information	l
Report ofthe Trustees	2-4
Report ofthe Accountant	5
Statement ofFinancial Activities	6
Balance sheet	7
NotestotheFinancialStatements	8-9

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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) report

and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021

Information

Trustees:
Mr. Hassan Atteyeh Mr. MousaAhmed Mr. Miss Fatima Musa Barkat		Chair Secretary Trustee
Ms. Amina Abdisalan	Barkat	Trustee
Mr. Ismail Hussein		Coordinator
Charity Number:	LIDIS95
Principal Office:	Bury Park Community Resource Centre
	161-161B Dunstable	Road
	Luton Bedfordshire LUI 1 BW
Accountant:	Waleed& Co
	19 Chester Avenue Luton Bedfordshire
	LU4 9SF
Bank:	Lloyds Bank ple
	25 Gresham
	Street, London
	EC2V7HN.

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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021 Notes to the Accounts

The trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ending 318 March 2021.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with the 's [governing document], the Companies Act 2006 and “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)” (as amended for accounting periods commencing from | January 2016).

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND

MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES AND

ACTIVITIES

The following objects are for the public benefit of people in Luton and its surrounding areas

• e To encourage understanding and communication between Horn of Africa refugee and migrant communities, the host society and local service providers thus facilitating appropriate community development services,

• e To improve the quality lifestyle for refugee and migrant community in general and women and children in particular, by reducing stress, isolation, and unemployment. To access locally available provisions and help to minimise barriers by bridging the gap between the refugee and migrant parents and professionals concerned.

• e To establish regular and effective channels of communication between the Somali parents and local schools and help parent's participation in school activities.

• e Serving some of the most vulnerable people in the world by eradicating the root causes of poverty and empowering people to rebuild their lives and their communities

Trustees and/or principal officers:

The following officers of the charity have held office for the whole of the year.

Mr.	Hassan Atteyeh	Chair
Mr.	Mousa Ahmed	Secretary
Mr.	Miss Fatima Musa Barkat	Trustee
Ms.	Amina Abdisalan Barkat	Trustee
Mr.	IsmailHussein	Coordinator

The trustees are eligible, in committee, to appoint additional trustees under the terms of the constitution.

Activities and Achievements:

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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021 Notes to the Accounts

1. Free advice, support and information for refugees and local migrant communities.

2. Basic writing, computer literacy and art classes for refugees and migrants.

3. Regular events and support sessions for elderly refugees and migrants.

4. Supporting local neighbourhood watch schemes among refugees and migrant communities.

5. Provision of skill training and education for women and youth.

6. Advocacy, fund raising and collections ofuseful materials such as second hand clothes, learning materials as well as medical equipment.

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

The AGM was held on Wednesday 31°' March 2021 with the purpose of thoroughly reviewing, reassessing and evaluating the progress achieved and obstacles faced by the charity during this financial year. Both Trustees and members were fully participated for the deliberations and discussion to air their views on how to strengthen the activities of the charity.

After long debates, the meeting unanimously agreed to approve a number of strategies and new pledges to improve the charity's performance. During the AGM, Mr Ismail Hussein, the Coordinator explained this year’s financial support offered by the Awards for All, Anti-Tribal Movement and Luton and Bedfordshire Community Foundation (LBCF) to RAMDA in order to sustain the charity’s day to day activities including Coronavirus Advice, information and guidance, housing and homelessness, employment support, benefits, GPs, elderly people, young people and online home-work club that many parents has asked for as a result of the pandemic different lockdowns, and we offered extra learning support for children aged from 5-15 years old. Among other things, we helped them with English, Math and Science.

The AGM overwhelmingly appreciated thOse financial support and encouraged the Trustees to redouble their efforts to sustain their charitable activities.

The coordinator Mr. Hussein explained the specific service users that the charity supported over the year and shared with the AGM that the majority of RAMDA service users are from diverse BME communities in Luton and surrounding areas and he said that most of them have language barriers and require additional support for interpreting and translations to access local services. Overwhelmingly, our clients our clients require assistance with form filling and understanding their benefits entitlement, such as Income Support, Job Seekers’ Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Disability, Incapacity, Child Benefit as well as advice on jobs, childcare, and adult literacy courses. RAMDA also offered advice on crime and neighbourhood nuisance to a number of clients as well as monitoring on how far referrals or sign posting of clients were successful. For this year 175 people benefited from RAMDA's services in Luton and the rest of Bedfordshire.

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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021 Notes to the Accounts

Financial Reports of Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2021

The Board of Trustees have the pleasure to present independently examined accounts for the RAMDA’s activities in the year to 31 March 2021. The financial statements comply with all current statutory requirements, the Constitution, and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005) and the Charity’s governing Charity Commission Scheme, the Charities Act of 2011.

Financial Review for the year ended 31 March 2021

For the year ended 31 March 2021, RAMDA took in a sum total of £32,900 of which £17,000 was restricted funds and £15,900 unrestricted funds. Total expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2021 was £31,228.

Reserves Policy

The Charity requires reserves to protect its current activities, in order to allow the Trustees to meet their day to-day responsibilities and to ensure that it continues to operate as a going concern. Unrestricted funds are those funds available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charity. Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or grant-maker through the terms of the donations. The Trustees will keep the level of reserves under constant review in the future.

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

Under the Charity Act 2011, the Trustees are required to prepare a statement of accounts for each financial year which gives a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity at the end of the financial year and of the incoming resources in the year. In preparing the statement the Trustees are required to:

• e Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently e Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

• e State whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the statements of accounts

• e Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue its operations

• The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity at that time and to enable the Trustees to ensure that any statement of account prepared by them complies with the regulations under section 130 of the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Approved by the Trustees on 23 August 2021and signed on their behalf

Mr Hassan Atteyeh Chairperson a ssein gg pef 4

Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021 Notes to the Accounts

Report to Trustee on preparation of the unaudited accounts of Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA)

Independent Examiners Report on the Accounts

Report to the trustees/member of: Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) on accounts for the year ended: 31 March 2021

Charity No: 1101595 Set out on pages: 6-7

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2021.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of Association of Accounting Technician.

• I have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or e the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a “true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: Lit Name: 1 (AaveT (oA TPT

Date: 23 August 2021

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Refuse and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Statements of Finanacial Activities For the Year Ended 31 March 2021

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||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |4|Unrestricted|Restricted|= Endowment|Totalfunds|=‘Total funds| |8|funds|income funds|funds|2021|2020| |=|£|£|£|£| |Income|and|endowments|from:| |Donations|and|legacies|2|17,000|-|17,000|12,480| |CharitableOtherInvestmentstradingactivitiesactivities|:7|==5|2>|-.|=B=| |Separate|material|item|of income|=|4|7|=|-| |Other|2|15,900|-|-|15,900|20,308| |Total|15,900|17,000|-|32,900|32,788| |Expenditure|on:| |Raising|funds|3|26,738|-|26,738|16,341| |Charitable|activities|a|4,090|-|-|4,090|17,703| |Separate|material|item|of expense|4|400|-|-|400|400| |Other|-|-|-|-|-| |Total expenditure|4,490|26,738|-|31,228|34,444| |Net|income/(expenditure)|before|investment| |gains/(losses)|11,410|-|9,738|-|1,672|-|1,656| |Net|gains/(losses)|on|investments|-|-|-|-|-| |Net income/(expenditure)|11,410|-|9,738|-|1,672|-|1,656| |Extraordinary|items|-|-|-|-|-| |Transfers|between|funds|-|-|.|-|:| |Other|recognised|gains/(losses):| |Gains|and|losses|on|revaluation|of|fixed|assets|for the| |charity’s own|use|:|-|=|-|:| |Other|gains/(losses)|-|-|-|-|-| |Net movement in funds|11,410|-|9,738|-|1,672|-|1,656| |Reconciliation|offunds:| |Total|funds|brought forward|5,684|-|5,684|7,340| |Total|funds carried forward|17,094|-|9,738|-|7,356|5,684|

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Refuse and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA)

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2021

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|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |4|Unrestricted|Restricted|©|Endowment|Total|this year|Total|last year| |2|funds|income funds|funds|2021|2020| |£|£|£|£|£| |Fixed|assets| |Intangible|assets|-|:|-|-|-| |Tangible|assets|619|-|7|619|763| |Heritage|assets|-|-|-|-|-| |Investments|=|*|=|-|-| |Total|fixed assets|619|-|-|619|763| |Current|assets| |Stocks|-|-|-|.|-| |Debtors|-|.|-|-| |Investments|-|-|-|-|.| |Cash|at|bank and|in|hand|7,538|-|-|7,538|5,321| |Total current assets|7,538|-|-|7,538|5,321| |Creditors:|amounts|falling|due|within|one| |year|800|-|-|800|400| |oe| |Net current|assets/(liabilities)|6,738|-|-|6,738|4,921| |Total assets less current liabilities|eeaEE7,397|-|7,357|5,684| |Creditors| |Amounts|falling|due|after|one|year|-|-|-|-|-| |Provisions|for|liabilities|.|-|-|-|-| |_| |Total net assets or liabilities|7,357|-|-|7,357|5,684| |aeee| |Funds|of the|Charity| |Endowment|funds|-|-|-| |Reconciliation|of funds|.|-|-| |Unrestricted|funds|17,094|.|-|17,094|9,553| |Restricted|funds|-|9,738|-|9,738|-|3,869| |Total|funds|aee17,094|-|9,738|-|7,356|5,684| |Signed|by one or two trustees on behalf of|all the|print Name|Signature|Date of| |trustees|||{|ag|approval| |Le|3|Yel|3-~ oR Dory|

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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021 Notes to the Accounts

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

For year ended 31 March 2021

1 Accounting policies

1.1 Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the 's [governing document], the Companies Act 2006 and “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)” (as amended for accounting periods commencing from 1 January 2016). The is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.

• 1.2 Charitable funds Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the in furtherance of their charitable objectives unless the funds have been designated for other purposes.

• 1.3 Incoming resources Income is recognised when the is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received.

1.4 Going concern

• At the time of approving the financial statements, the have a reasonable expectation that the has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

• 1.5 Resources Expended Resources expended are included in the statements of financial activities on accruals basis, excluded of VAT where applicable.

• Expenditure that is directly attributable to specific activities has been included in these cost categories. Where costs are attributable to more than one activity, they have been apportioned across the cost categories on basis consistent with the use of those resources.

• Grants and Donation

	Unrestricted funds £	_—_Restricted funds £	2021 £	2020 £
Beds& Luton	-	17,000	17,000	12,480
Other Operating Income Tuition fee	15,900 -	- -	15,900 -	- 5,015
NHS Luton	.	-	-	15,293
	15,900	17,000	32,900	32,788

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Refugee and Migrant Development Association (RAMDA) Report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2021 Notes to the Accounts

3. Cost of Charitable Activities

	Unrestricted funds	—_ Restricted funds	2021	2020
	£	E	i	£
Events & activities	-	19,190	19,190	8,651
Insurance	-	-	-	Zu!
Rent, rates& utilities	-	-	-	9,134
Other legal& professional Volunteer expenses	- -	- -	- -	140 7,690
Casual wages		7,548	7,548	7,897
Depreciation Computer cost	145 208	- -	145 208	241 -
Consultancy Bank charges	3,664 73	- -	3,664 73	- -
	4,090	26,738	30,828	3,4044

4. Governance cost

Governance cost
	2021	2020
	£	£
Accountancy fee	400	400
Creditors: amount falling due with one year
Accruals	800	400

1. Creditors: amount falling due with one year

6. Trustees’ Remuneration

Miss Fatima Barkat who is trustee, received charitable volunteering expenses of £1248 during the year.

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