## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01 January 2023 Period start date To 31 December 2023 Period end date Charity name: JAMHOUR ALUMNI - UK (JA-UK)** ## **Charity registration number: Charity number: 1116226** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To Provide full or partial financial**
**assistance to under-privileged students**
**of the Notre-Dame de Jamhour ("NDJ")**
**high school; and to provide full or**
**partial financial assistance to sponsor**
**educational projects or initiatives**
**undertaken by NDJ**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**We organise events to reunite Notre-**
**Dame de Jamhour alumnus in the UK**
**and to raise funds to support the needy**
**among the current students at the**
**school.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees confirm that that they have**
**had regards to the guidance issued by**
**the Charity Commission on public**
**benefit**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The aim of the charity is to support the**
**work of the Notre-Dame de Jamhour**
**school in Lebanon, owned and managed**
**by the Jesuit mission to Lebanon.**
**Therefore, donations are ultimately**
**funnelled to the school following a**
**specific request or report from the**
**school officials. The trustees meet to**
**discuss such requests and vote to**
**agree on the grants.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers generally contribute to**
**fundraising and organising logistics for**
**reunions and events.**
**Members of the Alumni network hosted**
**dinners at their home to fundraise from**
**the community**| |---|---|---| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Following the ongoing acute financial**
**crisis and explosion of the Beirut Port in**
**August 2020, and the on-going war that**
**is destabilizing the day to day, the**
**school needs support now more than**
**ever, with increased difficulty in**
**collecting tuitions and maintaining the**
**common parts of the school.**
**JAUK was able to collect the amount of**
**of GBP 60,931.00 to contribute to the**
**tuition fees fund and help with the**
**campus maintenance of essential parts.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The grant in 2023 was in line with our**
**expectations from a small group of**
**alumni members. The total amount was**
**raised from an attendance to a private**
**dinner at a volunteer’s house**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**JAUK does not set objectives for**
**fundraising. However, donations for**
**2023 were in line with our expectations**
**for helping students by paying their**
**tuition fees, and helping the school with**
**the campus maintenance for the**
**wellbeing of the students.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**JAUK does not have an investment**
**portfolio**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**As at 31/12/2023 JAUK held GBP**
**£107,821.48 in its bank account at Virgin**
**Money**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No reserves held**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Nil**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**JAUK does not have any running**
**expenses and therefore does not have**
**any reserves policy**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds
(including any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**JAUK’s only source of funding is**
**fundraising principally from alumni of the**
**school based in the UK, through the Just**
**Giving page below**
**https://www.justgiving.com/jahmouralumni-**
**uk**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**No portfolio**| |A description of the
principal risks facing the
charity|Para 1.46|**No material risks identified**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable unincorporated association**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**New trustees are co-opted by existing**
**trustees and need to be alumni of Notre-**
**Dame de Jamhour School and residing**
**in the UK.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**JAMHOUR ALUMNI- UK (JA-UK)**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**N/A**| |Registered charity number|**1116226**| |Charity’s principal address|**44D Randolph Avenue**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Pierre Abou-Sakr|Trustee|Appointed 24/03/2020|| ||Bechara Nasr|Trustee||| ||Rouane Nahas|Chair|Appointed 10/07/2019|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **N/A** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **N/A** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **N/A** safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
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**adviser**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Rouane Nahas|| ||
Chair|| ||25/02/2024|| ||25/02/2024|| ## Tax Invoice Jamhour Alumni - UK (JA-UK) 44D Randolph Avenue, London W9 1BE Invoice Date Verdant Accountants Ltd 29 Oct 2024 20-22 Wenlock Road Invoice Number London INV 519-24 N1 7GU Reference Accounts year ended 31 Dec 2023 VAT Number 403722334 |Description
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Preparation|1.00
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65.00| ||TOTAL GBP
390.00| ## Due Date: 31 Oct 2024 Please pay via BACS transfer to: Santander Bank Sort Code: 09-01-27 Account No: 77422200 Company Registration No: 7198353. Registered Office: 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, United Kingdom. ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** JAMHOUR ALUMNI – UK (JA- UK) **members of On accounts for the year** 31 December 2023 **ended Set out on page** 1-2 **Charity no** 1116226 **(if any)** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2023. - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** 28 October 2024 **Name:** Chaweevan Williams FCCA **Relevant professional** Chartered Certified Accountants **qualification(s) or body : Address:** Verdant Accountants Limited 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU