2023-03-31-accounts - Iranian Disability Support Association (Idsa)

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Iranian Disability Support Association

(IDSA)

Annual Report 31 March 2023

Registered Charity No 1116648

Iranian Disability Support Association

Annual report For the year ended 31 March 2023

Contents
Legal and administrative details	3
Structure, governance and management	4
Aims, objectives and activities	6
Chairman’s report	7
Treasurer’s report (2022-2023)	8
Activities	9
Donations and expenditures statement	15
Balance sheet	16
Notes on the financial statement	17

Iranian Disability Support Association (IDSA)

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Management committee

Dr Mahmoud Sarfarazi (Chair)

Mr Masoud Molazadeh Mrs M Massoumzadeh

Accountants

Alex & Co Accountancy Ltd 23 Bell Lane London NW$ 2BP

Bank

Barclays Walton-on-Thames Branch P.O Box no 193 8/12 Church Street Walton-on-Thames Surrey KT12 2YW

Structure, Governance and Management

The management committee presents its report along with the
financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March
2023.

The Financial statement has been prepared in accordance with
charities accounting and complies with the charity’s constitution by
Alex & Co Accountancy Ltd.

Principal Objective

The Iranian Disability Support Association (IDSA) is established to
promote the relief of Iranian and Persian-speaking disabled people
and their carers living in London by provision of service,
information and advice.

Constitution

Iranian Disability Support Association (IDSA) is a charitable
organisation (Registered No. 1116648) operating under a written
constitution. It was constituted in 2004 and has become an
organisation of disabled people and for disabled people, with a
clear and firm commitment to support Iranian and Persian disabled
people who seek support and need help.

Management committee

Members of the Management Committee are elected for a period of one
year at the Annual General meeting, after which, if they are to
continue, they must be re-elected.

The Committee shall consist of Chairperson, Secretary, and
Treasurer. The Management Committee must have at least three
members; at the end of March 2023 there were five. The Management
Committee meets times a year and is responsible for the strategic
direction and policy of the charity.

Responsibilities of the Management Committee

Charity law requires the management committee to prepare financial
statements for the financial year which give a true and fair view of
the state of affairs of the Association and of its incoming
resources of the year and the application of resources for the
period.

In preparing those financial statements, the management committee is
required to:

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

state whether applicable accounting standards have been

followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
prepare financial statements on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the charity will continue on that basis.

Risk management

The management committee has reviewed the major risks to which the
charity is exposed and, where practical, has taken steps to guard
against or mitigate them. It has clear policies on many matters of
professional good practice and on issues like health and safety, and
compliance and standards of performance is monitored through
appraisal and supervision processes.

The major risk for the charitable organisation, especially for small
organisations like IDSA, is funding. In response to this, the IDSA’s
management committee has implemented a reserve plan.

IDSA relationships

IDSA is a member of Global Disability Foundation, World Disability
Union (WDU), Great London Authority (GLA), and has the meeting, and
relations with the other members such as International Disability
Alliance ,Inclusion London, Transport for all. Within the Iranian
community, the IDSA has good relations with most of the Iranian
charitable organisations like the Iranian Association, Iranian
medical society and others. The IDSA receives support from the
Iranian Association.

Aims, Objectives and Activities

The aim of IDSA is to provide support, information, advice, and
advocacy to disabled people and their carers, parents or guardians
who originate from Iran and Persian-speaking regions or who have
Iranian/Persian-speaking regional heritage, who are living in the
greater and inner areas of London and who need to access voluntary,
statutory and/or government services. This includes services such as
housing, welfare rights, health services and the judicial system.
IDSA also provides support and assistance with activities that lead
to the empowerment of disabled people from the Iranian/Persian
Community who are resident in the greater areas of London and are
UK residents.

Activities and review

During the year under review, the Association fulfilled its mission
by:

providing advice, information and assistance on a daily basis on welfare benefits, immigration, housing, women, training and education;
disseminating information and conducting a need assessment survey on community needs;
organising a series of cultural events in the community;
helping Iranian and other Persian-speaking disabled people to complete paperwork such as filling in application forms;
providing advice and guidance on further education and employment;
providing one-to-one counselling on mental health issues.
providing interpreting and translation;
organising a series of workshops on Mental Health support and education on opportunity equality; and
IT skills training.

Chairman’s report

In 2022-23, the Iranian Disability Support Association (IDSA)
exceeded our expectations in providing a wide range of high quality
services to over 650 clients with diverse backgrounds through
delivery of a number of projects.

In the year covered by this report, the Iranian Disability Support
Association provided a wide range of services including provision of
advisory service,online health promotion, IT courses, events such as
cultural events, outreach, counselling.

IDSA has a website, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram Channel and
Facebook page, but our reputation ensures that clients return to us,
and many new clients are enlisted through word of mouth.

To continue supporting Iranian and Farsi speaking disabled people
IDSA raised funds to keep existing services and provided new
services.

Last year IDSA continued its cooperation with a number of
organisations including International Disability Alliance. World
Disability Union, Iranian Medical society, Iranian Association.

In the year covered by this report, the Iranian Disability Support
Association disseminated information about the cultural and outing
and activities within the Iranian community in greater London and
worked closely with the cultural centres to improve participation of
our community in the diverse cultural events. The IDSA celebrated
the International Day of People with Disability.

Members of the Management Committee are pleased with achievements of
the Iranian Disability Support Association during the year under
review; the IDSA made a great difference in the life of many people
who benefited from a wide range of services and activities.

Dr Sarfarazi

`Treasurer's Report for Year Ending 31st March 2023`

These Annual Accounts cover the period 2022/2023;Total income
for the year was £27,527 compared with the previous year is
low.

Money has been raised/ received during this financial year via
a range of donations and number of activities.

IDSA management committee is very grateful to all the funders
such as Iranian trustees and companies such as Ahmad tea and
Microlink as well as the private donator, most of whom have
financed our work for the disabled community for many years,
and we would also like to thank our volunteers without who we
would not be able to deliver such a cost effective service.

Activities

`Advice and Information Service:`

The Iranian Disability Support Association has been running
the advisory and information service for over 19 years; which
deals with many enquiries on disability, supporting Iranian
and Farsi speaking disabled people, and anyone else within the
Iranian and Farsi speaking community who has a disability
related enquiry.

The service made a great impact by improving access to
disabled specific advice and reducing the hardship of over 400
contacts from Iranian and Farsi speaking people.
The beneficiaries reported that as a result of the service
they felt less isolated, more part of the community and more
confident in coping with life in greater London. The service
provided advice on multiple issues such as welfare/ housing,
form-filling, interpreting, education, employment, blue badge
and appealing a disability benefit decision. IDSA drop in
service is one section of advice and information service.

`Health promotion`

The Iranian Disability Support Association has been running
the mental health workshops online.

In the year covered by this report,IDSA has continued to have
mental health workshops online.These workshops allowed dozens
of people to build their confidence and manage their own
mental health issues through increased knowledge and
information about the mental health issues.

The aim of Mental Health Awareness workshops is for who
wants to gain a wider understanding of the issues surrounding
mental health, and so to work more effectively with mental

health problems. In addition to our mental health services, we
have also introduced physical health awareness sessions which
are run by medical professionals.

The Iranian Disability Support Association is inviting you to
a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Life skills and self awareness.

`Counselling Service:`

The Service supported people who were going through an
emotionally difficult time. The service targeted more for
those who were not fluent English speakers and found it
difficult to access mainstream counselling services; the
support was therefore delivered in Farsi by phone.
In 2022-2023 IDSA provided to 16 people with disability their
career Most of the people we supported came from the Iranian
community, in regards to their age, the majority of people who
applied for service were over 35 years old.

The service allows individuals to explore their thoughts,
feelings and behaviours and learn to manage those better.
We believe that the counsellor's role is to work alongside
individuals to help them discover alternative ways to improve
their lives and resolve current and past issues.

`Outreach service:`

During 2022-2023 IDSA continued to provide service to those
who do not otherwise have access to services due to issues
with physical, mental and learning disabilities.

This free service provides one-to-one ongoing support, advice
and information to the family or friends caring for someone
living with any disability. The support we give is agreed
during a home visit, over the telephone or at our office.

This service is used by 17 people.

Blended Learning:

Iranian Disability Support Association in collaboration with
Iranian Association offers opportunities for disabled people
of all ages and carers to learn the English language which we
call Blended Learning. This service is online.
The English course helped over several pre-entry level
students develop their real-life English language skills and
build their confidence in dealing with situations such as
talking to school teachers, booking a GP appointment, talking
to hospital staff, using public transport and shopping. The

students improved their English effectively by combining
classroom and computer-based training. Furthermore, the
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English improved the integration of the learners into their
community and British society.

The IT course provides practical guidance for anyone who needs
to develop their IT skills. The user will gain the tools and
techniques to boost confidence on using a better computer.
In the last year the Iranian Disability Support Association in
collaboration with the Iranian Association offered IT courses
to 25 learners.

`Volunteering:`

During 2022-2023 IDSA continued to provide volunteering
service for those who wanted to be volunteers.

We would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who
volunteered with our organisation in 2022-2023. We are very
grateful for the many hours of time volunteered to support
IDSA to help organise events and our services and Enterprises
facilities and our support services.

`Events:`

Last year IDSA in collaboration with the Iranian Association
(IA) and without IA organised diverse social and cultural
events in order to gather the disabled people with the Iranian
and Farsi speaking community.

International Women's Day event

On International Women's Day in 2023, we celebrated this day.
We have invited a group of women to share their very different
experiences and perspectives on this day.

The ceremony ended with a musical program.

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is an
annual event that IDSA celebrates people with disabilities.
The World Health Organisation estimates that more than one
billion people - about 15% of the world's population -
experience some form of disability.

IDSA aims to hold a ceremony on this day to spread awareness
and understanding of disabilities issues and say disabilities
that might not be immediately visible, such as mental illness,
chronic pain or fatigue and learning disabilities.
The ceremony ended with a musical program.

`Summer picnic`

For the first time after Covid-19 virus the Iranian DSA has
organised a summer picnic.

The participants had an opportunity to gather together, make
their food, eat together, and enjoy their day.

IRANIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION FtNANCIAL STATEMETrrrs For the year ended 31° March 2023 Pag¢ Gen¢ral Infornrdtion Accountants, Re)rt and Client Approval Certificate Donations and expenditures a¢Unt Statement of financial position Notes to the Financial Statements

IRANIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION FINANCIAL sTATEms For the year ended 31X March 2023 In accordance with instruction given to us, we have prepared without canying out an audit the annexed financial statements from the accounting records of ir&nian disability support association and from inforn)ation and cxplanations supplied to us. Alex & Co Accountancy Ltd 23 Bell Lane London NW4 2BP I l January 2023 PRINCIPAL APPROVAL CERTtFICATE: l approve the financial slatements and confirni that I have made available all relevant records and information for their preparation. M Massoumzadeh Iranian Disability Support Associalion I l Janiiary 2023 Page 2

IRANIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION Donations and Expenditure Statement For the year ended 31" March 2023 Grants, Donations, and ev¢nt incom¢ 27,527 Ixs5 Expenditure: Volunteers Expenses Salartes 760 19,499 1.511 318 Employer Nl Contributions Pension OtTi¢e rent 4.8¢J) 358 Charity insurance Carers 1276 5.5(MJ 1,347 425 Found rising & proinotions Van expenses Newsletters and Advertising Telephone & Administrations Accountant 538 450 Donation 6.732 1,059 Depreciation (i) (45,573) Balance (18,046) Page 3

IRANIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION STATEMENT OF FtNANCtAL POSITION ST As at 31 March 2023 Notes Flxed Assets Tangible assets {1) 4,827 Current Assets; Debtors Petty Cash and bank account 74,804 74,804 Current Llabilities: Creditors (2) (838) Net current assets 73,966 Net Assets 78,793 FIDanced by: Balance at O l.04.22 Income of this year (3) 96,839 (18,046) Balance carried forward 78,793 Page 4

IRANIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION NOTES TO THE FtNANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 l) Tangibk Assets: Cost Additions (Van) 2,654 23,(K)O Depreciation on 31 Mah 2022 Charges for the year (19.768) (1,059) Net Book Value on 31 March 2023 4027 2) Creditors PAYE tsx liability Pcnsion 705 133 838 3) Financed by Capital: Balance at 01.04.2022 Net income 96,839 (18,046) Balance at 31.03.2023 78,793 Page 5