**Established: 2007 - Registered Charity 2008 (Charity Number 1124725** Summary Report **Ileys Community Association** Victoria Park Skill Centre, Corbett Street/Suffrage Street Smethwick, West Midland, B66 3PU.UK Tel: 0121 448 3940 info@ileyscommunity.org
www.ileyscommunity.org
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Ileys Community Association (ICA) was borne out of the collective will of the local Easter African Community (Somali community) to address these issues and provide tailored services for the community. ICA Community is based within the Soho/Victoria Ward in the town of Smethwick in the Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands. This part of Sandwell is one of the most deprived areas of UK… 55.9% of Smethwick’s population are from ethnic. Most of the local BME lives within this area
ICA is led by Somalis but is not an exclusively Somali organisation. We are supporting service users from African diaspora and migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eastern Europe, and the South Asian communities to access services which help progression, integration, and resettlement into Sandwell community environment.
In 2018, ICA secured a 10-year lease at peppercorn rent for Victoria Park Skill Centre from Sandwell Council. In 2023, ICA’s Lease extended 25 year because recognition of the contribution ICA makes to strengthen the communities in Sandwell and Birmingham
ICA has been delivering one to one and (family) group support sometimes using more than one support person as members may find it more comfortable to speak alone and explore issues and accept gentle challenges to their perspectives as a community centre
Ileys Community Association has been supporting people in the local community for ten years. Much of their work helps new arrivals in the UK to develop English
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language and employability skills, but they also support children and young people as part of their holistic support to families.
ICA’ Staff and volunteers invite new contacts and arrivals to meet them for an initial assessment at the centre. Staff & Volunteer speaks 7 languages. This allows them to:
- Understand their specific needs.
- Provide them with advice relating to benefits and income.
- Provide English language courses with crèche support.
- Provide other training relating to employment skills.
- Signpost them to other helpful services.
This approach gains them a high level of credibility and strong relationships with the individuals and families they support.
Our service and support is a lifeline disadvantage and low income people where people impacted by cost of living crisis, challenged by lack of disposable income, and experiencing severe poverty feel able to approach us without fear of being judged. We fill service gaps by bring services to local people rather than service users self-navigating access to local services and vocational training provisions. Our purpose built centre offers clean rooms, logistics, timely access to local services delivered by partner agencies, and childcare provision. Whilst accessing our array of local services staff and volunteers with lived migration experiences also crucially offer additional support to service users in formats of being a listening ear, encouraging and facilitating communication between service user and service providers. English is not always their first language, and too often service users do not have the confidence to talk openly with professionals’ better position to support and alleviate their individual concerns.
ICA works collaboratively with many partners in ways which enables all parties to use their unique competence to produce great value and outcomes for service users. Our role is to not only be a direct delivery of services, but also a conduit enabling services users access to local services ensuring they are designed with local people in mind. We support service users by signposting them to other services ensuring the expert partner imparts value in delivery of its package of services
To deliver our projects and services that reach local people throughout Sandwell and Birmingham communities we work alongside the following partner agencies:
- Sandwell Consortium (Network -alongside 10 other organisations)
- Sandwell council
- Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)
- Black Country NHS Trust - Trained 2 Ileys staff and 2 volunteer to become Mental Health Coaches
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- Brushstrokes Community Project – Home Office EU Settlement Project covering immigration issues.
- Family Links – Provider delivering parenting courses to our service users. Relax Care – Employer providing care work vacancies to our service users
- Yemeni Community Association in Sandwell Limited – Female Genital Mutilation project.
- Rights & Equality Sandwell working with how to promote equality diversity and inclusion
- Sandwell -Multi-Faith community forum working integration and cohesion
- • Smethwick Pakistan Muslim Association Woking health eating and health cooking.
- African French Speaking Community Support (AFSCS) working with young people in terms of sports and skills development programme that encourages young people to develop their sporting passion into career path aspirations
- Warwick Medical School |University of Warwick working with awareness for Cardiac arrest and CPR
- Community Connexions working with mental health and health check such as children Dailies
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Ileys Community Association was set up with the objective of offering the community a thorough referral service which helps service recipient’s access mainstream service delivery in areas of housing, health, education, employment, volunteering, wellbeing, and advocacy. We also aim to promotes community cohesion and assists the smooth integration of recent immigrants from Africa and other migrant communities into British society
## **Our support services include:**
- Advice & Guidance: Welfare Rights benefits, Council Tax; Housing, Debt and EU Settlement in UK
- Employment Support & Connecting Skills’ to enhance employment prospects increase self-confidence
- Courses: English leaning (ESOL and Functional skill ), Digital & IT courses. Some classes we provide a crèche, to maximise support & attendance of parents.
- Parent Nurturing Programme
- Advocacy Support Work supporting parents and young people navigate social services, schools, health services and the Criminal Justice system to secure better outcomes for the families and children
- Health well-being support: Mental Health Counselling Support, Health check and health eating
- Physical Activities: Zumba. Traditional Dance (Women Only) and walking
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- Youth and Sports Activities connecting youths from diverse migrant
- Youth and Sports Activities –connecting youths from diverse migrant diasporas promoting harmony between different ethnic local communities
- School Holiday Activities (HAF) & After School care
- Sign posting Service
- To provide a translating and interpreting service
- After School club: Home work session
- Weekend Activities such as: Cultural Events and Support Groups, Events, Family celebrations the centre is also used by different religious groups for their weekly gathering/service.
According our Database (Charity log) from 1.4.2022- 31.3.2023, ICA has over 20,000 visitors per year, and we are well known for providing support more than 35 different languages with 18 different ethnicity….…. 65% are women
## **ETHNICITY GROUP**
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Total Arab
Asian Or Asian British -
Bangladeshi
Asian Or Asian British - Chinese
Asian Or Asian British - Indian
1.11%
1.52% Asian Or Asian British - Pakistani
1.82% 0.20%
Black Or Black British - African
2.22% 4.14%
6.36% Black Or Black British - Caribbean
Black Or Black British - Other
24.85%
Black Background
Mixed - White And Asian
Mixed - White And Black African
10.51% 39.39%
Not Stated
Other Asians
1.11%
Polish
4.44%
0.20% 0.61%
Romanians
0.30% 0.20%
Somalis
0.81%
0.20% Unknown
White - British
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Total
Employment
3.32%
Support
4.10% 0.20% 0.00% Energy Savings
ESOL
16.99%
EU Settlements
6.25%
31.05%
Information &
11.72% Advice
School Holiday
Activity
SHIP Project
9.18%
17.19% Volunteer
Management
Warm Hub
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|Count of Gender||
|---|---|
|Female|46.36%|
|Male|35.45%|
|Unknown|18.18%|
|Grand Total|100.00%|
## **Total**
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18.18%
46.36%
Female
Male
35.45%
Unknown
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We deliver services without any attached timescales, in community languages understood by the migrant Diasporas, and at a pace conducive to help meeting address these communities immediate, short, and long term needs. We have learnt the importance of adapting delivery of courses and service provision so that they align with local communities’ culture needs. This approach secures engagement and effective results with people who others say are hard to reach, support, or develop.
Our strengths also lie with maintaining strong credibility with local communities. People feel able to approach us for support without fear of being judged and will turn up in high numbers to access services or attend training/ community event. We have a large spacious building which makes it easy to deliver accessible community services overseen by a large committed staff and dedicated bank of volunteers
Local people are involved on our work by volunteering their time as advice workers, running youth activities, coffee mornings and physical activities (Zumba), and tutoring children and young people in Arabic and Somalian languages. Volunteers also act as weekend caretakers opening and closing community building facilities for external provider usage.
**Feedback and Consultation** : Others have a say in how services are developed and improved by regularly participating in consultation exercises using video recordings, in-person discussion focus groups, or completing surveys. We consulted more than 30 service users regarding advice and coffee morning who fed back:
_Ms X said Without Ileys: ‘I wouldn’t survive’ ‘My days would be longer and harder’. ‘Life would be difficult’. ‘We would have no community or local services’. ‘I stay at home and feel lonely”._
_Mr Y Said Currently: ‘Energy bills are killing me’. ‘It’s tough to put food on the table and this is causing me stress and anxiety’. ‘Stressed as its difficult to make money stretch right now’. I look forward to coming to the centre because: ‘I can access services, socialise, and meet friends. ‘I love the atmosphere’. ‘Staff is helpful and friendly’. ‘I feel safe’._
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## **Ileys CA have been funded and /or supported & worked in partnership with**
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|||||**Total**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Funds**|**Funds**||
||**Funds**|**Funds**|**Total**|||
|**Notes**|**2023**|
**2023**|**2023**|
**2022**||
||**£**|
**£**|**£**|
**£**||
|**Incoming resources**||||||
|**_Incoming resources from generated_**||||||
|**_funds_**||||||
|Voluntary||||||
|Income||48,177|-|48,177|24,326|
|Sports Project & Donation||2,891|16,305|19,196|-|
|Activities for generating funds||75,953|19,949|95,902|127,263|
|**_Incoming resources from charitable activities_**||-|35,490|35,490|60,209|
|**Total incoming resources**||**127,021**|**71,744**|**198,765**|**211,798**|
|**_Costs of generating funds_**||||||
|Costs of generating voluntary income||1,000|-|1,000|-|
|**_Costs of charitable activities_**||71,229|34,066|105,295|117,856|
|**_Governance_**||||||
|**_costs_**|**5**|42,753|32,346|75,099|124,675|
|**Total resources expended**||114,982|66,412|181,394|242,531|
|**Net incoming resources/(net outgoing**||||||
|**resources)**||||||
|**before transfers between funds**||12,039|5,332|17,371|(30,733)|
|**Net incoming resources/(net outgoing resources)**||**before**||||
|**Other recognised gains and**||||||
|**losses**||12,039|5,332|17,371|(30,733)|
|**Other recognised gains and**||||||
|**losses**||||||
|**Net movement in funds**||12,039|5,332|17,371|(30,733)|
|**Reconciliation of funds**||||||
|**_Total funds brought forward_**||16,231|48,141|64,372|(88,232)|
|**Total Funds carried forward**||**28,270**|**53,473**|**81,743**|**(118,965)**|
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|**Income and Expenditure Account**
**for the year ended 31 March 2023**
**2023**
**£**
**Turnover**
198,765
Direct costs of turnover
106,295
**Gross surplus**
92,470
Governance costs
75,099
**Operating surplus/(deficit)**
17,371
**Surplus/(deficit) on ordinary activities before tax**
17,371
**Surplus/(deficit) for the financial year**
17,371
Gift Aid Payments
-
**Retained surplus/(deficit) for the financial year**
17,371
**Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses**
**for the year ended 31 March 2023**
**2023**
Excess of Expenditure over income before realisation of assets
17,371
Loss per Profit and Loss account
17,371
**Net Movement in funds before taxation**
17,371
**Movements in revenue and capital**
**funds**
**for the year ended 31 March 2023**
**Revenue accumulated funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2023**
**2023**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Accumulated funds brought forward
40,632
48,141
88,773|**2023**
**£**
198,765
106,295|
**2023**
17,371|**2022**
**£**
211,798
117,856|
|---|---|---|---|
||92,470
75,099||93,942
124,675|
||17,371||(30,733)|
||17,371||(30,733)|
||17,371
-||(30,733)
-|
||17,371||(30,733)|
||||
**2022**
(30,733)|
|||17,371|
(30,733)|
|||17,371|
(30,733)|
||||**Last year**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2022**
**£**
6,240|
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|Recognised gains and losses before
transfers
**Closing revenue accumulated funds**
**Designated revenue funds**
**At 1 April**
**At 31 March**
**Summary of funds**
Revenue accumulated funds
Revenue designated funds
**Total funds**|12,039
5,332
17,371
(30,733)
52,671
53,473
106,144
(24,493)
52,671
53,473
106,144
(24,493)
**Total**
**Last year**
**Funds**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
-
81,992
-
81,992
**Designated**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Last Year**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2023**
**2023**
**2023**
**2023**
**2022**
-
52,671
53,473
106,144
(24,493)
-
-
-
-
81,992
-
52,671
53,473
106,144
57,499|
|---|---|
||-
52,671
53,473|
|**ILEYS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
**Balance Sheet**
**as at 31 March 2023**
**Notes**
**_The assets and liabilities of the charity :_**
**Fixed assets**
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**_Net current assets_**
**_Total assets less current liabilities_**
**Creditors:-**
amounts due after more than one
year|17,374|**2023**
**£**
17,374
17,374
-|64,372|**2022**
**£**
64,372|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|||||64,372
-|
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|**Net assets including pension asset /**
**liability**
**_The funds of the charity :_**
**Unrestricted income funds**
Unrestricted revenue accumulated
funds
-
Net revenue funds
17,371
**Unrestricted capital funds**
Designated fixed asset funds
-
Restricted revenue accumulated
funds
-
**Total charity funds**|17,374
40,632
-
24,401
-
48,141
17,371|64,372|
|---|---|---|
||||
|||64,372|
Mr Ahamed Sirad **Trustee Approved by the trustees on 21 January 2024**
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## **ILEYS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Schedule to the Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2023**
|**Incoming Resources**
**Donations**
**Grants, legacies and donations**
**Sports Project & Donation**
**Other voluntary income**
Census
Sponsorship income
**Total other voluntary income**
**Total Voluntary Income**
**Activities for generating funds**
National Express
Reaching Community
Lloyds Foundation
Walsall Council
Murray Hall & National Grid Community
Sandwell Consortium
Innovation SCVO
**Total of activities for generating funds**
**Incoming resources from charitable**
**activities**
HMRC JRS Grant
Sandwell Council
Award for All Sport
EU Settlement
ESF
**charitable activities**
**Total Incoming Resources**
**Costs of generating funds**
**_Costs of generating voluntary income_**
Cost of fundraising activities
**Total costs of generating voluntary income**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Prior**
**Period**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2023**
**2023**
**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
(2,891)
(16,305)
**(19,196)**
**-**
-
-
**-**
**3,920**
48,177
-
**48,177**
**20,406**|
|---|---|
||**48,177**
**-**
**48,177**
**24,326**|
||**48,177**
**-**
**48,177**
**24,326**|
||-
-
**-**
**10,000**
-
-
**-**
**68,255**
25,000
-
**25,000**
**-**
4,484
-
**4,484**
**-**
-
19,949
**19,949**
**10,896**
19,262
-
**19,262**
**25,487**
27,207
-
**27,207**
**12,625**|
||**75,953**
**19,949**
**95,902**
**127,263**|
||-
-
**-**
12,088
-
35,490
**35,490**
20,523
-
-
**-**
8,910
-
-
**-**
3,932
-
-
**-**
14,756|
||**-**
**35,490**
**35,490**
**60,209**|
||**124,130**
**55,439**
**179,569**
**211,798**|
||1,000
-
1,000
-|
||**1,000**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**|
||**1,000**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**|
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|**Charitable expenditure**
Employers' NI - Charitable activities
Salaries,pensions & NI recharged to other
organisations
Volunteers' Costs
Tutor Costs
Event Cost
Marketing and publicity
**_Employee costs:_**
Training and welfare
**_Premises Costs_**
Rates, water and service charges
Insurance
Light and heat
Premises repairs and renewals
**_General administrative expenses:_**
Telephone and fax
Stationery and printing
Petty Cash
Information and publications
Database
Equipment expenses
Subscription
Advertising and PR
Other costs
**_Professional fees in support of charitable activities_**
Accountancy fees other than examiners/auditors
Consultancy fees
CBR Check
**_Other support costs_**
Monitoring and Evaluating
**Total Support costs**|4,927
1,850
6,777
-
2,550
1,696
4,246
-
2,200
2,300
4,500
3,500
4,300
3,240
7,540
13,079
5,500
4,000
9,500
4,400
1,516
-
1,516
3,045|
|---|---|
||**20,993**
**13,086**
**34,079**
**24,024**|
||2,000
1,900
3,900
4,320|
||**2,000**
**1,900**
**3,900**
**4,320**|
||2,580
-
2,580
2,559
800
-
800
765
13,196
-
13,196
14,226
3,800
4,750
8,550
34,720|
||**20,376**
**4,750**
**25,126**
**52,270**|
||4,200
2,900
7,100
4,716
1,346
3,300
4,646
6,414
3,814
1,200
5,014
-
-
-
-
4,800
3,000
-
3,000
1,187
1,600
-
1,600
7,900
1,500
1,300
2,800
-
3,000
1,700
4,700
-
1,500
250
1,750
3,565|
||**19,960**
**10,650**
**30,610**
**28,582**|
||3,200
1,080
4,280
2,360
1,500
900
2,400
2,700
1,200
300
1,500
1,100|
||**5,900**
**2,280**
**8,180**
**6,160**|
||2,000
1,400
3,400
2,500|
||**2,000**
**1,400**
**3,400**
**2,500**|
||**71,229**
**34,066**
**105,295**
**117,856**|
## **Total Expended on Charitable Activities**
71,229 34,066 105,295
117,856
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## _**Governance costs that are not direct management functions inherent in generating funds, service delivery and programme or project work (including management and administration costs)**_
|**_Specific governance costs_**
Salaries - Administrative staff
Pension Contributions - administrative staff
Employers' NI - Administrative staff
**Total governance costs**|41,749
31,636
73,385
113,051
-
-
-
4,750
1,004
710
1,714
6,874|
|---|---|
||**42,753**
**32,346**
**75,099**
**124,675**|
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