**EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Charity Registration Number: 1118721 Company number: 05635779**
Annual Report and Financial Statements
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2022**
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
**Contents Page** Legal and administrative information 1 Trustees’ report 2-7 Independent examiner’s report 8 Statement of financial activities Balance sheet Notes to the accounts
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
Legal and Administrative Information
For the year ended 30 November 2022
Status: Registered Charity & Company Limited by Guarantee Company number: 05635779 Charity Number: 1118721 Registered Office & Resource Centre Business Address: Featherstone Terrace Southall Middlesex, UB2 5AL
Trustees:
Dr Sham Qayyum Ms Hafsa Hajir Ms Yasmin Irrobeh Ms Tanya White Ms Chariklia Tripolitaki Ms Surinder Lall Mohamed Nur (13/08/2021)
Chairperson Secretary Member Member Member Member Member
Bankers:
HSBC Bank, Southall Branch 1 Regina Road Southall, Middlesex UB2 5PL
Independent examiner: Optmark Accountants Ltd 5 Mitcham Lane London SW16 6LG
## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## Directors’ and Trustees’ Report
For the 12 months ended 30 November 2022
The Trustees are pleased to present their annual directors’ report together with the financial statements of the charity for the 12 months ended 30th November 2022, which comply with relevant
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law and good practice including Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statements 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) (Effective 1 January 2015).
## **OUR PURPOSE AND OBJECTS**
Established in 2005, Education Skills Development Group (ESDEG) is an independent charity based in Southall. ESDEG provides valuable services to over 150 parents, children and young people every week, including through three supplementary schools in Southall, Northolt and Brent; Youth (NEET) employability and training, Mentoring children and young people, ESOL classes for parents, refugee elderly luncheon club and befriending services and advice and guidance on welfare benefits, housing, education and many other community issues.
## **Objects:**
The objective of Education and Skills Development Group is to improve the conditions of Somali refugees, asylum seekers and other Black and ethnic minority (BAMER) communities in Ealing and surrounding boroughs, particularly children and young people by:
- The advancement of education and training
- The relief of unemployment for the benefit of the public
- The relief of poverty, sickness and distress and promotion of good health
- The provision of recreational facilities in the interest of social welfare with the objects of improving their conditions of life
## **LEGAL STRUCTURE:**
Education and Skills Development Group is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. ESDEG is governed by a memorandum and articles of association and in accordance with these Trustees are appointed and the Chair nominated by the Trustees. Trustees meet a as frequently as they wish and a minimum of four times a year. Trustees set the overall framework, and grant delegated authority to the director and his team for implementation of this framework and day to day operational management of the company. Trustees are given an induction and relevant training as and when required.
## **OUR ACTIVITES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
Education a n d Skills Development Group has been engaged in various activities for the year ended 30 November 2 0 2 2 , which includes, among other things, the activities below.
## **Supplementary School Teaching**
We delivered weekly supplementary classes in Maths and English in schools in Southall, Northolt, and Brent to children studying from Key Stage 1 to 4; as well as extra-curricular activities for pupils
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that have focused on developing self-esteem and confidence, aspiration, and core skills to enable young people to succeed.
Our activities reduced the attainment gap between refugee-heritage and other disadvantaged children and their peers, helped children develop key soft skills and supported parents to better work with school staff to enable their child to thrive.
## **Mentoring, and tackling school exclusion Project**
We mentored children from three Primary schools in West London (Featherstone Primary School, Durdan’s Park Primary School, and Viking Primary School) and three secondary schools (Lampton School, Villiers High School and Brentside High School).
Our mentoring led to a reduction in fixed, permanent, and informal exclusion, improved attainment, and raised aspiration. This project is funded by the National Lottery. **SEND Project**
We provided support to families and children affected by special educational needs and disabilities. Our work helped families to overcome challenges associated with gaining a SEND diagnosis, and/or EHC plan, and helped them to better support their child. Through accessible information, advice and guidance we raised awareness and enabled families to exercise their rights. This project is funded by Esme Fairbairn.
## **Counselling Project**
We provided children and their family members with 1-2-1 and group counselling sessions to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Our qualified counsellor helped them to cope with a range of challenges from intergenerational conflict to mitigating the impact of Covid-19 and enabled them to access mainstream services as required. This project is funded by Esme Fairbairn
## **Healthy Eating and Positive Lifestyles Project**
We provided activities for girls and women from disadvantaged and intersectional backgrounds to improve their lives through healthier eating, and exercise. As required participants were enable and sign-posted to relevant NHS services that they needed. We also supported participants to socialise and develop targeted skills that enabled them to achieve their aspirations.
## **ESOL Classes Project**
We delivered twice weekly ESOL classes for parents and grandparents of children attending our supplementary schools. In addition to helping attendees improve their English, this programme helped participants gain confidence and enabled them to interact positively with people from different communities.
## **Refugee Elders Luncheon Club**
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We delivered a weekly luncheon club to elderly people including from a refugee background. We helped participants escape isolation and loneliness, encouraged physical activity, and civic participation, mainly through socialising with other members of the community and through volunteering. This project is funded by Peoples Health Trust
## **Welfare Advice and Guidance Project**
We provided one to one and group support to service users as regards welfare benefit and housing, hospital appointments, energy and council tax payment plans, and any other issues they may have had that was preventing them from thriving.
## **Youth employability, education and training support.**
We worked with NEET young people to release their potential and enable them to think it possible. Through working in partnership with employers and training providers we facilitated volunteering, placements, employment and enabled young people to pursue higher education opportunities.
## **Other activities**
As a hub for community services and activity, we delivered a number of other activities in the form of workshops, collaborative events, to help integration, civic participation and for people in the community to know their rights.
## **Public benefit statement**
In shaping our objectives for the year and planning our activities, the Trustees have considered S.17 of the Charities Act 2011 and the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity (PD2). The achievements and activities above demonstrate the public benefit arising from the charity’s activities.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
The Trustees of Education and Skills Development Group submit their Trustees’ report and financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2022.
## **Risk management**
The Trustees have a risk management strategy which comprises:
- An annual review of the risks that the charity may face;
- The establishment of systems and procedures to mitigate those risks identified in the plan;
- • Implementation of procedures designed to minimise any potential impact on the charity should those risks materialise.
## **Reserve policy:**
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The charity currently operates with unrestricted reserves of £38,842. The Trustees have set a target of £45,000 unrestricted reserve which equals to approximately 6 months of operational expenditure.
## **Trustees Responsibilities:**
Charity law requires the trustees to prepare the financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of its financial activities for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:
1. Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently,
2. Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent,
3. State whether the policies adopted are in accordance with the Charities Act, and
4. Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the charity will continue to operate.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the regulations and are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Funding**
We would like to thank our funders which includes John Lyon’s Charity, City Bridge Trust, National Lottery, Esme Fairbairn, BBC Children in Need, Ealing Young Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Awards for All, People’s Health Trust, Centre for Youth Impact, Bailey Thomas, Jubilee (sports England) and BME Health Forum.
## **STATEMENT OF DISCLOSURE TO INDEPENDENT EXAMINER**
In accordance with Company Law, the Companies Directors’ certify:
- so far as they are aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s
- auditors are unaware; and,
- as the Directors of the company, they have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken in
- order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the
- charity’s auditors are aware of that information.
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER**
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Optmark Accountants Ltd 5 Mitcham Lane London SW16 6LG
appointed as the charity’s independent examiner during the year ended 30[th] November 2022
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf by:
## **Chairperson: Dr Sham Qayyum**
## **Date: 23/01/2023**
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
## **(Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account) YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2022**
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Restricted
Unrestricted Funds Total Funds Total Funds
Funds
2022 2022 2022 2021
Note £ £ £ £
Income from
Charitable Activities 10,890 311,178 322,067 251,438
Grants - - - 30,304
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 2 10,890 311,178 322,067 281,742
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Charitable Activities - 294,726 294,726 210,704
Support Costs 975 7,561 8,536 5,711
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Governance and Support 1,440 1,440 1,400
TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 4 975 303,726 304,701 217,815
Net income 9,915 7,451 17,366 63,927
Funds brought forward 63,927 104,323 168,250 104,323
Net movement in funds and fund balances
10 73,842 111,774 185,616 168,250
carried forward at 30 November 2022
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
BALANCE SHEET As at 30 NOVEMBER 2022
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2022 2022 2022 2021
Notes £ £ £ £
Current Assets
Cash at bank and in hand 8 257,096 200,249
Total Current Assets 257,096 200,249
Current Liabilities
Creditors amounts falling due within one year 9 (71,480) (32,000)
Total assets less current liabilities 185,616 103,472
185,616 104,323
Financed by:
Balance for the year 168,250 50,449
Balance brought forward 17,366 53,874
Charity Reserve Funds 10 185,616 104,323
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Notes to the Accounts**
**For the year ending 30 November 2022**
## **2. Grants & Donations**
|**2. Grants & Donations**||
|---|---|
||**2022**
**2022**
**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|
|BBC Children in need
John Lyon's Charity
People's Health Trust
City Bridge Trust
BME Health Forum
The Church Urban
Fees and Donation
Heathrow Community Trust
Ealing Young Foundation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
National Lottery
Awards for All
Barnados
True Colur Trust
Small Grants
Markwaf crownfund
Covid-19 Responses
Edward Goslin
Active Londers
Centre for Youth
Esmee Fairbairn
Greater London Auth
Household Grant
Sports Engalnd
Thomas Baily
**Total**
**3. Other Income**
HMRC Job Retension
**Total Incoming Resources**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Total Funds**
**Total**
**Funds**
-
34,224
**34,224**
**-**
-
36,700
**36,700**
**6,000**
-
10,383
**10,383**
**12,596**
-
18,840
**18,840**
**58,560**
-
12,000
**12,000**
**4,000**
-
-
**-**
**2,500**
10,890
-
**10,890**
**6,566**
-
-
**-**
**3,470**
-
-
**-**
**12,543**
-
500
**500**
**15,300**
-
42,142
**42,142**
**45,442**
-
-
**-**
**9,660**
-
1,006
**1,006**
**18,732**
-
5,000
**5,000**
**-**
**3,000**
-
-
**-**
**20,000**
-
-
**-**
**8,000**
-
-
**-**
**3,900**
-
-
**-**
**24,169**
-
39,361
**39,361**
**-**
-
67,938
**67,938**
**-**
-
17,419
**17,419**
**-**
-
10,000
**10,000**
**-**
-
9,165
**9,165**
**-**
-
6,500
**6,500**
**-**|
||**10,890**
**311,178**
**322,067**
**254,438**|
||-
-
-
**30,304**|
||**10,890**
**311,178**
**322,067**
**284,742**|
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## EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP **Notes to the Accounts**
## **For the year ending 30 November 2022**
## **4. Direct Charitable Expenditure**
|Salaries and wages
Seasonal Tutors
National Insurance Contribution & Income Tax
Employer Pension|**2022**
**2022**
**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Total Funds**
**Total**
**Funds**
-
159,627
159,627
108,959
-
18,642
18,642
28,002
-
41,947
41,947
26,961
-
7,017
7,017
4,518|
|---|---|
|Rent Rates, Venue Hire & Utilities
Printing and stationary
Training Expenses
Chariatable Activities
Volunteers Expenses
Repairs & Maintenance
Leaning Resources
Telephone,Fax & Internet
CRB & Company House fee
Trips & Holiday Activities
Capacity building & Fundraising cost
Consultancy
**Total Direct Charitable cost**
**5. Support Cost**
Bank charges & Insurance
Admin & office Expenses
Depreciation
**Total Support cost**
**6. Goverance cost**
Accountancy fee
**Total Governance cost**
**Total Resouces Expended**|-
8,333
8,333
4,109
-
2,598
2,598
599
-
3,500
3,500
3,542
-
32,311
32,311
21,575
-
3,373
3,373
3,422
-
1,852
1,852
645
-
3,689
3,689
3,142
-
1,682
1,682
426
-
335
335
-
-
1,933
1,933
779
-
6,385
6,385
1,440
-
1,500
1,500
2,585
**-**
**294,726**
**294,726**
**210,704**
129
129
73
975
7,432
8,407
4,787
-
850
**975**
**7,561**
**8,536**
**5,710**
-
1,440
1,440
1,440
**-**
**1,440**
**1,440**
**1,440**
**975**
**303,726**
**304,701**
**217,854**|
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
**Notes to the Accounts…continued For the year ending 30 November 2022**
Operating Surplus is stated after charging
|Operating Surplus is stated after charging|||
|---|---|---|
||**2022**|**2021**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Accountancy fee|1,440|1,400|
|Depreciation|-|850|
||**1440**|**2250**|
## **7. Staff Remuneration**
The trustees did not receive any remuneration during the year, other staff cost was as follows
|Gross Wages and benefits in kinds
Season tutors
NI Contribution & Income Tax
**Total**
**Number of Employees**|**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
159,627
108,959
18,642
28,002
41,947
26,961
**220,216**
**163,922**
**2022**
**2021**
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8
**9**
**8**|
|---|---|
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## **EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
**Notes to the Accounts…continued For the year ending 30 November 2022**
## **8. Cash Balance**
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2022 2021
£ £
Cash in hand and Bank 257,096 200,470
Total 257,096 200,470
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## **9. CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year**
||**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|
|Accrued Expenses|71,480
32,000|
|**Breakdown**
City Bridge Trust
Covi-19 Respoinse
BME Health Forum
People's Heath Trust
National Lottery
John Lyon's Chairty
Garfield Weston foundation
Young Ealing Foundation
Esme Fairbairn
BBC Children in Need
Bailey Thomas|**71,480**
**32,000**
-
7,400
-
8,000
-
4,000
-
5,000
11,500
7,600
3,300
-
20,000
-
3,000
-
19,000
-
5,180
-
6,500
-|
|Centre For Youth Endowment
Total|3,000
-|
||**71,480**
**32,000**|
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## **10. STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
|**Unrestricted Funds**
Current year movement
**Restricted funds:**
Current year movement
**Total funds**|**Bal b/f**
**Bal**
**C/f**
**2021**
**Income Expenditure**
**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
28,927
10,890
975
38,842
28,927
139,323
311,178
303,726
146,774
139,323|
|---|---|
||**168,250**
**322,067**
**304,701**
**185,616**
**168,250**|
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