## **Blessing Family Association Charity**
## **Report of the Trustees for the year ending 31[st] January 2025**
The trustees of Blessing Family Association present the annual report and audited accounts for the year ended 31st January 2025.
The trustees are responsible for overseeing the charity’s activities and deciding how funds are spent
## **OUR WORK AND AIMS**
Blessing Family Association is a registered charity (No. 1118767), established in November 2003, with the aims of:
1. Alleviating poverty within the Croydon French Speaking community by providing:
- a. Advice on employment and training,
- b. Money and debt counselling
2. Promote educational attainment
3. Undertake research within Croydon’s Congolese community and disseminating the result
4. Advance public awareness about the Congolese community in Croydon by providing seminars, workshops, conference and publications
5. Relieving the needs of Congolese families in Croydon by sharing:
a. Sharing skills, knowledge and experience with Congolese and French-speaking families, local groups and government and other agencies
b. Advocate on behalf of Congolese families and represent their views within the community, government departments, non-governmental organisations and regional and international organisations.
## **OUR ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES**
Our operations rely on 10 volunteers who help to provide unique services which can be targeted to individuals or specific groups which include:
- Interpretation and translation
- Visiting refugees and asylum seekers in their homes, detention centres, hospitals, and hostels
- Running ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes and Homework Clubs for children aged 6 to 12 years
- Providing advice, information and counselling on health, parenting, alcohol, drugs and advocacy for families
- Organising outings, events, workshops, training, and opportunities for play, drama, swimming, fitness, and dance
In the last annual year, the charity has focussed on providing a meal service for those who have been impacted by the cost of living crisis and struggled to access services such as food banks and running skills workshops in basic cooking which promote healthy eating and a balanced diet.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
The incoming resources were £31,002. With no funds in restricted donations received. The charity would like to be more accessible to the public than it currently is. The fact that it operates mainly from a CVA hall means that it is usually only available over the weekend and the charity’s other activities are carried out at separate locations during the week. We have therefore, as part of our long-term goals, secure a permanent building or base to operate from.
## **Blessing Family Association Statement of Financial Activities**
## **Accountng period 31st March 2024**
## **Charity Number 118767**
|**Notes**
**Total incoming**
**resources**
Donatons & others
**(3)**
**Resources**
**expended**
Cost of actvites and Trading
Cost of Charitable actvtes
Depreciaton
Salaries to staf
Accountancy fee
Telephone, postage and statonery
Media and Publicity
Cost Governance
legal and professional fees
Miscellaneous
Bank charges
**Total resources expended**
**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources**
**Other recognised gains/(losses)**
Gains and losses on investment assets
**Net movement in funds**
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted Restricted**
**Funds**
**Income**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
31,002
000
**31,002**
**000**
6,000
0
4,102
0
200
0
5,000
0
400
0
1,322
0
141
0
7,375
0
300
0
3,300
0
102
0
**28,242**
**0**
2760
0
0
0
0
2,760
0
2,760|**Total for**
**This Year**
**£**|**Total for**
**This Year**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||31,002
**31,002**|
|||||
|||||
|||2,760||
## **Blessings Family Association Balance Sheet**
## **Year Ending 31/03/2024**
|Fixed assets
**Assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Total current assets**
Creditors: amounts falling due within one
year
**(11)**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
Creditors: amounts falling due afer one year
**Net assets**
**Funds of**
**the Charity**
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
Total unrestricted funds
Restricted income funds
**(12)**
**Total funds**||**Total this**
**year**
**79**
2,760
**2,760**
0
**2,760**
2,760
0
0
**2,760**|**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||0|
|||||
|||||
|||||
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees**
Members of the Blessings Family Association
I report on the accounts of Blessings Family Association (Charity Number 118767) for the year ended 31[st] March 2024.
## **Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner’s**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; we consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993(the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to:
Examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act)
To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43 (7) (b) of the Act) and
To state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the account, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiners statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- 1) Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirement
- To keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
- To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the act, have not been met; or
- 2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Joseph Phiri ACCA**
## **Tom & Co. Accountants & Tax Advisors, Certified Public Accountants,**
**56a Mitcham Road, Croydon**
**CR0 3RG.**
**Telephone 0203 305 5037**
**30[th] October 2024**
## **CHARITY TRUSTEES AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE**
|Name|Positon|
|---|---|
|Tekabadikadyo Prosper Kaba|Chair|
|Mamie Masunda|Vice Chair|
|Marcel Nengou|Secretary|
|Elenge Mobali|Treasurer|