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## Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** UNITED SIKHS
## **Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1112055
**Charity's principal address** 32 Elsham Road
London
**Postcode** W14 8HB
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
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||Mejindarpal Kaur|Chair|||
||Harjyot Kaur||||
||Gurjit Singh|Treasurer|||
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||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**||||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of advisor Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Structure, governance and management**
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## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Unincorporated Association
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected by the general body
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
## **Our Advocacy projects have been supported by:**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC); The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC)
- Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees.
- adopted for the induction and **Our Human development projects have been supported by:** training of trustees. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC); Baba
- • The charity’s organisational Nanak Education Society, Chandigarh; Sikhs Helping Sikhs (SHS), Sri structure and any wider Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara Bangkok, the Singh Madan Foundation network with which the charity works.
- Relationship with any related parties.
**Our Humanitarian Relief projects have been supported by:** UN High Commission for Refugees, UNICEF, Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara Bangkok, UK Sikh Gurdwaras.
- Trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Objectives and activities**
The Charity's objects (the Objects) are:
1. The relief of people and communities who are suffering hardship as a result of drought, earthquake, flood or any other disaster or who by reason of their social and economic conditions are in need of assistance;
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
2. the relief of sickness, hardship and distress, particularly by the development of education, health and other social services, the improvement of transport infrastructure, water supplies and other communal facilities and the promotion of self-help activities amongst those people or communities;
3. the relief of poverty;
4. the advancement of education;
5. the advancement in life of young people;
6. the promotion of diversity and equality for the benefit of the public by promoting the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, sexuality, age, religion or ethnic origin by advancing education in equality and diversity, promoting attitudes, customs and practices in favour of equality by the use of publications, media and public advocacy and relieving the charitable needs of those who have suffered discrimination on those terms; and
7. for the benefit of the community to provide counselling and other advice and assistance to people who are in need of that assistance by virtue of old age, sickness, disability, youth,
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addiction, as victims of domestic violence or other crimes or because they are otherwise in charitable need.
This year we continued with our ongoing global Sikh Aid activities in countries such as Ukraine. In addition we continued our efforts to focus on Sikh rights advocacy in the UK, Europe as well as USA and Australia (the latter being led by our affiliate registered in the USA and Australia, which is outside the scope of this report).
We have endeavoured, in the light of legal changes to search procedures, to provide Sikhs with complete and clear information about what is legal **Summary of the main** and what is not. We issued our Global Sikh Civil and Human Rights **activities in relation to these** Report, the only one of its kind, a product of intense research, field **objects** observations and surveys. In 2022 we have continued to support victims of discrimination in the United States (carried out by our USA affiliate) and UK, and have fought discrimination through awareness and advocacy.
Our Sikh Aid projects continued with gusto: We continued to carry out humanitarian aid missions. Please see below for more details of our projects internationally.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
UNITED SIKHS success in all its endeavours is due primarily to its team You **may choose** to include of volunteers who provide consistent, dedicated, unpaid service, be it at further statements, where the frontline of disaster relief or at the cutting edge of international relevant, about: advocacy.
- Policy on grantmaking
- Policy programme related investment
- Contribution made by Volunteers
## **Achievements and performance**
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## **Achievements and performance**
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**International Civil and Human Rights Advocacy (ICHRA)**
In 2022, UNITED SIKHS continued to carry out new commitments made since 2013 to not only meet the advocacy needs of the Sikh community in the UK but also to continue to provide advocacy support to Sikhs in other parts of Europe, where significant changes to legislation regarding religious expression have been occurring in recent years.
We provide our advocacy support regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social status, age or ability. However, due to resource limitations, in this area we were able only to serve the Sikh community, where our connections are strongest, in the main. However, our Right To Turban litigation stands to benefit all religious communities. Our main activities in 2022 included:
- **Civil and Human Rights Awareness and Advocacy;**
- **Right to Turban and Sikh Articles of Faith**
- **Hate/Race Crime/Incident** and
- **Minorities and Indigenous Rights.**
## **Sikh Aid**
The Sikh Aid team provides non-partisan global humanitarian relief services, which not only provide immediate aid but also rehabilitation help to the needy. The team also runs projects to help eradicate poverty and works towards creating a healthier and happier world. 2022 was a busy year for Sikh Aid volunteers.
## _**Providing Support to Ukrainians Affected by the War**_
More than 10 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine. Over 4 million have left Ukraine as refugees into neighboring countries. Most of the refugees are children and women.
Our teams and volunteers have been on the ground on the Polish border with Ukraine to serve the most urgent needs of the refugees. https://unitedsikhs.org/your-1-month-impact-report/
## _**Rescue A Family (RAF): Farmer-Suicide Widows Receive Pensions**_
As a result of poverty, strain on farming land, and debt, every year sees a sad phenomenon in India: farmer suicide. In addition to the loss of life, the family remaining is often left without a bread-winner. With no means of support, and a tiny trickle of government aid if any, children tend to be pulled out of school to help earn a living, their education cast aside, and the cycle of poverty begins again. RAF aims to help families in need by providing a stipend _as long as children remain in school_ thus helping to make ends meet and also making a step towards breaking the cycle of poverty. 50 Panjabi farmer suicide widows receive monthly pensions from UNITED SIKHS. Going forward RAF will aim to provide workshops
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## **Achievements and performance**
and ongoing support to help women seek micro-loans or other funding and set up their own businesses for a sustainable and empowered future.
A short film has been made on the project which, along with more information is available here:
= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v IQBL8uGwgBI
## _**Someone With A Need (SWAN)**_
UNITED SIKHS continued to provide assistance to needy individual cases in the UK and India.
In the UK, UNITED SIKHS has run a Helpdesk and Immigration Surgery since 2008 at the Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Southall. The helpdesk has been assisting members of the local community and the wider community in general with any issues to alleviate their problems and concerns. The vast majority required advocacy, social and welfare assistance as well as help with immigration-related matters.
## **Education and Empowerment**
## _**Scholarships Extended to Students in Pakistan**_
The STARAE project was started by UNITED SIKHS in rural Panjab in 2004. STARAE, which stands for Scholarships as Tool to Accelerate and Revive Academic Education, was extended in 2013 to 39 students in Pakistan with support from the Bangkok Singh Sabha Gurdwara Education Fund and the Singh Madan Foundation. UNITED SIKHS’ STARAE scholarships aim to promote excellence by providing financial help to motivate students and accelerate their academic performance.
Under the STARAE project in Peshawar UNITED SIKHS pays the fees and other expenses directly to the schools of the sponsored children. The students who do well will also be helped to study at a local university. This project provides an opportunity to deserving students who belong to backward areas and also those who otherwise would not have the financial means to pursue a school or college education http://unitedsikhs.org/PressReleases/PRSRLS-04-03-14-01.html
## **Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
UNITED SIKHS maintains a primary reserve, for funding received on a general non-restricted basis. In addition, a reserve is maintained for projects which receive dedicated, restricted, funding.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising).
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## **Other optional information**
## **Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Gurjit Singh **Position (e.g. secretary,** Treasurer **chair, etc) Date** 31/10/23
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||**Charity Name**|||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**UNITED SIKHS**|||||||**1112055**|||||
||||**Accruals**|**accounts**|||||||**CC16a**||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01/01/2022||**To**||||Period end date
31/12/2022||||
|**Section A Income and Expenditure**|||||||||||||
||**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 Income**|||||||||||||
|Donations: General|**24,921**||||||||**24,921**||**36,741**||
|Donations: Sikh Aid|||||||||||||
||||**3,346**||||||**3,346**||**57,961**||
|Donations: Scholarships as a Tool to|||||||||||||
|Accelerate and Revive Academic
Excellence (STARAE)|||**7,455**||||||**7,455**||**6,200**||
|Donations: Punjab Projects|||**8,856**||||||**8,856**||**6,402**||
|Donations: Someone With A Need (SWAN)|||**2,000**||||||**2,000**||**-**||
|Grant: Voice4Change|||||||||**-**||**9,800**||
|Grant: CommunityInitiatives Fund|||||||||**-**||**4,700**||
|**_Sub total_**|**24,921**||**21,657**|||**-**|||**46,579**||**121,804**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||
|**etc.**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Total Income_**|**24,921**||**21,657**||||**-**||**46,579**||**121,804**||
|**A3 Expenditure**|||||||||||||
|Sikh Aid - Ukraine|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**3,471**||||**3,471**||**-**||
|Sikh Aid - Covid Relief India|||||||||||
||||||||**-**||**36,492**||
|Sikh Aid - Farmers Support|||||||||||
||||||||**-**||**4,599**||
|STARAE (Education & Empowerment)|||**7,560**||||**7,560**||**6,380**||
|Punjab Projects (Education &|||||||||||
|Empowerment)|||**4,449**||||**4,449**||**4,173**||
|Someone with a Need (SWAN)|||||||||||
||**1,545**||**1,402**||||**2,947**||**3,385**||
|Covid Support UK (Listening Helpline)|||||||||||
||||**3,190**||||**3,190**||**12,246**||
|ICHRA|||||||||||
||**63**||||||**63**||**336**||
|Media Production|||||||||||
||**742**||||||**742**||**4,331**||
|Fundraising|**1,266**||||||**1,266**||**6,591**||
|Awareness|||||||||||
||**1,500**||||||**1,500**||**593**||
|Equipment Purchases|**60**||||||**60**||**950**||
|Adminstration & Overheads|||||||||||
||**2,082**||||||**2,082**||**5,364**||
||||||||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**7,258**||**20,073**||**-**||**27,330**||**85,440**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||
|**purchases, etc.**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Total Expenditure_**|**7,258**||**20,073**||**-**||**27,330**||**85,440**||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**17,664**||**1,584**||**-**||**19,248**||**36,364**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||||||||
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**£105,916**||**69,557**||**-**||**175,473**||**139,109**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**123,580**||**71,141**||**-**||**194,721**||**175,473**||
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**|Cash at bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Reserves - Unrestricted
Reserves - Restricted
Signature|Cash at bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Reserves - Unrestricted
Reserves - Restricted
Signature|Cash at bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Reserves - Unrestricted
Reserves - Restricted
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**B1 Cash funds**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Cash at bank|||123,580||71,141||**-**|
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|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|||**123,580**||**71,141**||**-**|
|||||||||OK|
|||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
||**Details**|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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|**B3 Investment assets**||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
||**Details**|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||||||**-**|
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|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
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|||||||||**-**|
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|||||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|Reserves - Unrestricted||||||||
||Reserves - Restricted||||||||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|||||||||
|||||||||Date of approval|
|||||GURJITSINGH||||31/10/2023|
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