## **IMPACT REPORT 2021** **A YEAR OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS** _+44 (0)2036649519 www.hearwomen.org 37 Chapel St NW1 5DP info@hearwomen.org_ ## CONTENT PAGE ABOUT US 4 CHAIR'S REPORT 5 OUR IMPACT 2021/2022 6 GOVERNANCE AND STRUCTURE 7 UK PROGRAMMES 9 CASE STUDIES 10 13 ACHEIVEMENTS 11 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 12 OUR DONORS AND PARTNERS 13 ANNUAL ACCOUNTS 14 ## **About Us** As articulated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we consider the key to effecting change is to advance women’s full and effective participation in decision making at all levels of political, economic, and public life. Women can become key decision makers if they feel safe and are provided the knowledge, skills, and support to advocate for themselves. Hear Women helps women through: – Providing safe spaces for them to build relationships, discuss personal issues, and to develop self-confidence. – Providing support, skills, and links to resources to develop their abilities to address mental health needs, improve their physical health, and advocate for themselves. – Providing education and training to enable them to fully participate in the political process. ## Our Mission and Approach Our mission is a world where women and girls are equal partners in their com m unities, free from prejudices and have the right know ledge and skills to make their own decisions, speak up about issues affecting them, and to become independent. Our approach is to form partnership with local women-led groups in Africa and the UK to promote local ownership and long-term Sustainable change that will shape national policies and create regional dialogues, as w ell as international awareness on good practices. PAGE 4 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## **Chair's Statement** HearWomen successfully achieved all objectives and targets for 2021. I am also pleased that we have were the Winner of the London Faith and Community Awards 2019. We also are very pleased that our founders, partners and most importantly, our service users, see us as a foundation that has the expertise and capacity to deliver much needed social services efficiently and effectively. I am pleased to report that Hear Women was one of the first organisations to react to this pandemic by implementing projects for families with a focus on health and wellbeing activities as well as projects that focuses building families’ relationships. Our projects: Peer Support, Nutrition, Cook & Talk, Mental health, Dance to music & Digital world and yoga, English Conversation classes and families fund time digitally. We are grateful to have highly qualified Management Committee members and CEO who bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise and appreciate the hard work and sacrifice of our volunteers, without whom this foundation could not meet its goals. They have also fruitfully accomplished the ambitious targets set by our founders. I would also like to welcome our new trustee and looking forward to working with them closely for the coming year. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation to all trustee management members, employees and volunteers for their hard work and dedication during these hard times, as well as our supporters and the public in general. Many thanks also go to our founders and organizations that we worked with over the last year for their tearless support and engorgement. we are also pleased to announce that during the difficult times of Covid we have interduce our online community and curried our much-needed activities through online. Covid was very challenging times and pleased we have worked with organisations such as NHS closely to provide much needed support and advice to the communities we serve. Thank you to all for supporting Hear Women who is standing for BME Women and their families to be a positive constitutors to the British society **----- Start of picture text -----**
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**CHAIR OF HEAR WOMEN** **HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021** **PAGE 5** ## **Our Impact** Beneficiaries of our services are coming from North Africa and the Middle Eas t **90% 90%** Women’s rights organisations became the first wave of new partners in our focus countries to join our efforts to bring about transformational change for women **20** Participants in HearWomen classes and activities 20/21 **2562** Women’s we have support with employability and entrepreneurship **60** PAGE 6 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## **Governance & Structure** Hear Women/GarGar Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of chair, secretary, treasury, and members, which have the overall responsibility for governance and management of the organization. The Foundation has six trustees, each undertaking the responsibility of constant development to maintain skills and appropriateness to govern. Hear Women’s policies and procedures are recognized by the Quality Mark of Governance PIQASSO. ## **Founder and Director** Ms Deqa Salad established the foundation in December 2008 with the aim of using her experience in international development, human rights and gender to support women to be independent and thrive in their communities. Deqa actively advocates for Women political participation both in Somalia and the UK. She was awarded Women on the Move award in 2 017 for her dedicated work and passion. Deqa’s mission is supported by Hear Women’s committed volunteers, most of whom have been previous service users. ## **The Team** The UK team is led by Deqa and supported by Hassan, Hagir. Hasna implements the U K programmes, and Hagir looks after the domestic and international fundraising. Our small office is supported by committed volunteers, who believe in Hear Women's mission. Some of them have been previous service users. PAGE 7 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## **User-led Charity** ## Knowledge and experience All our programmes are user-led, and the initial development of programmes is always based on clearly identified needs of the com m unity we serve. ## Focus groups Hear Women service users are regularly given the Opportunity to feedback their needs both form ally and informally. ## User feed back This is important to past, existing, and future programmes. Information gathered from the evaluation and the monitoring of system s is the basis of evidence. ## Monitoring and evaluation The performance of services and projects are regularly checked to review those programmes that work and those that do not, as this helps us to improve how we do things and learn from mistakes. PAGE 8 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 **Ongoing Projects** ## **UK Programmes** ## **Cook & Talk** Provides a safe space for women to socialise over tasty healthy food prepared by themselves. Women socialise and help each other by sharing experiences and strategies to overcome stress and obstacles. ## **Wellbeing, Education & sports Classes** The project is for women and children of economically disadvantaged BME communities in the Grenfell area have had a huge impact, in particular on the children/young people we supported during the COVID-19 pandemic and the following lockdown. ## **Saturday Club _ Mother & Child program** The project offers tutoring, parenting courses and sport activities, so that our community does not lose access to these invaluable resources during Covid 19 ## **Mental Health Counselling group** The project improves women’s mental wellbeing, gives them motivation and builds the users self-confidence. Reinforce the community, fight isolation, and strengthen the physical and mental health of our users. Aside from the hygiene pack project, we also personally took care of the most vulnerable of our service users. ## **Dance to Music & Digital World** Hear Women provides diaspora women and young people form Africa and the Middle East with a safe and inclusive space to learn, socialise and access advice and support. We also advise and link women to community resources and help them to bridge the gap between service users and service providers. PAGE 9 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## Case Studies PAGE 10 PAGE 10 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 Hanane (English Lessons) Amira Ali (Cooking Session) “Hi I'm very happy because I found this session because I’m mum for three children I don't have time to go to the college thank you so much for the all people who did this session xx “Thank you very much for your cooperation and hard work. We have benefited and learned so much from Chef Hasna, her dishes were all extremely healthy and tasty, and her methods were clear and easy to follow. May God reward her with all the goodness in the world. I have made many of her recipes myself and have really enjoyed them, as well as applying a few of her techniques to my own cooking which has really benefited me. Thank you. I’d like how to speak well English when I go to the hospital or teachers ...........” Hanane (Church Street Project) “I would like to thank Hear Women and the staff for their outstanding online videos and activities. I particularly like more the following classes: Cooking by Hasna, Nutrition by Sarah and Zumba by Caroline. I can't wait to enjoy and benefit from these classes because I sometimes find difficulty in following up all the activities because I am a very busy mom with young children and the household duties take almost most of my time alongside the school homework. I like sport lots and I follow the Zumba classes regularly and I wish I could do this amazing session with Caroline in the centre. Awatif (English Lessons **) “** Thank you for the homework I enjoyed it with my daughter.” Eman (English Lessons **)** “Thank you, Lucy, very important.” Fadila **(** Church Street Project) “I would like to express my opinion in regard to the Church Street Project online videos that have been uploaded to us on a regular basis. All the activities are outstanding. The Cooking videos are very helpful and it’s easy to follow the recipes. So far, I cooked many dishes following its healthy recipes. I watched the Nutrition and Snack box videos, and I cooked some of its recipes because they are very healthy as well. The Mental Health videos content and brilliant ideas helped me lots and I personally followed many of these ideas.” Anna (Dance to Music session **)** “I’ve really enjoyed Ulviyya’s sessions because I love her energy which she passes to us during the exercises. They’re simple to follow but very effective. And I’ve tried to apply them often during my everyday schedule. I like how she provides the exercises differently every time with such Enthusiasm and with a big smile on her face. The choice of music is really good, when I finish, I feel very satisfied and uplifted. It really does make my day.” Shayma (Arabic Lessons) “I am the mother of the child, Adam Bakr, and he is with you in the Arabic classes, and I am very grateful that my son has benefited a lot from the classes. He has benefited from the Arabic, the Nutrition, the Snack box classes and their healthy eating method for children. This class helped me fill the void of my son in Corona. This helped me to teach the Arabic language to my son and also helped me. I thank Hear Women, very much for their help to me and our children and help strengthen their personality and memorization. I am very happy and safe that I found such a class for my son.” PAGE 10 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## **Achievements** ## In 2021 HEAR WOMEN... **Hear Women won the highly Commended Outstanding Organisation Of the Year 20 Westminster.** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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**Hear Women achieved Trusted Organisation Quality Mark by NCVO** **Winner of the London Faith and Community Awards 2019** **We have been Nominated For Queens’s award 2019** PAGE 11 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## **Future Directions** ## **2022** Hear Women will continue much need services and activities including: For its service users, Hear Women also plans to move many of its activities online as well as projects that focus on building families’ relationships. Our projects: Peer Support, Nutrition, Cook & Talk, Mental health, Dance to music & Digital world and yoga, English Conversation classes and families fund time digitally all this will continue in the years to come and bring us closer. Hear Women aims to coordinate and strengthen women’s participation in politics, security, health services, education, developmental projects and innovative ways that can help jobs to be created for young women. Hear Women believes that women throughout Somalia can work together and can be counted a main contributor to the prosperity of the country. This will be achieved only if women are consulted, encouraged, and provided In 2021/2022 Hear Women expanded its geographical focus and is currently implementing a project targeting by moving many of its activities online. This will give opportunity to reach those groups who are hard to reach and engage them with our different programmes so they are less isolated and feel more included. Furthermore through our Saturday clubs Hear Women identifies the need for activities that encourage stronger bonds between parents and children as key priority for 2022/2023 will be focused on that area. As well as Our service users share that our therapy classes and self-help groups are benefiting their mental health, thus we will sustain the services. Next, our beneficiaries express the need for more physical activities, therefore Hear Women will encourage active life for parents and children. PAGE 12 HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 ## Our Funders & Partners WEST LONDON CLINIC ALCOMMISSIONING GROUP HEALTH WATCH PEOPLE’S HEALTH TRUST JOHN LYON’S FOUNDATION LLOYDS FOUNDATION ETHAR RELIEF PIMCO FOUNDATION AL-KHAIR FOUNDATION ONE WESTMINSTER HENRY DICKENS COMMUNITY CENTRE STOWE YOUTH CENTRE ERITREAN PARENTS GROUP BME HEALTH FORUM PADDINGTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST SOCIAL COUNCIL KENGSINGTON AND CHELSEY WOMEN’S BUREAU THE GAMBIA BIG LOTTERY KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA FOUNDATION AWARDS FOR ALL HEAR WOMEN |IMPACT REPORT 2021 Garyar Foundation l Hearwomen Income and Expenditure Account for￿arended on 31 Decembff 2021 2021 Unre5trirted Totsl Fund Funds 2020 Notes Restricted Funds Total Fund INCOMING RESOUR￿. Voluntary Grants Donats'ons and other Income 78570.64 19,642.66 98,213.30 152,527.44 ACTtVlTIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS.. ]m￿stment Income OtherArtivtties Totsl Incomlng Resources 78,570.64 19,642.66 98,213,30 152,527,44 RESOURCES EXPENDED: COST FOR GENERAnNG FUNDS: Charitsble Expenses Investment Income oiher ArtNitles 73,526,70 18,381.68 91,9)8.38 95,858,65 73,526.70 18,381.68 91,￿)8.38 95,858.65 CHARITABLE EXPENfTURE: Restritted Funds TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDEO: 73,526.70 18381.676 91,￿.38 95,858.65 Net Surplus forthe year Openlng Funds Transfer offvnd5 5,043.91 63,788,12 1,260.98 6,304.92 56,668.79 15,947.03 79,735.15 23,066.36 flOSING FUNOS: 68,832.CO 17,2C8,01 86,040,07 79,735.15 PACJE 14 EN | IMPACT REPI)RT 7021 BALANCE SHEET AS AT31 December 2021 STATEMEpif OF FINANaAL POSITION Gargar F(yJndalonl Hear Women AS AT 31 De￿rnber 2021 2021 2020 Notes FIXEDASSErs Land Bulldlng Vehides & Equipment Totsi155ets CURREN Debtors Prepayments Cash at 8ank & In hand 86,040.07 79,735.15 Totsl Current Assets 86,040.07 79,735.15 CURRENT LIA81LITIES erdraft NetAssists 86,040.07 79,735.15 FINANCED BY Restritted Funds 68,832.( 63.788.12 FINANCED BY Restricted Funds UnrestrTCted Funds 68,832.C6 17,208.01 63,788.12 15,947.03 Total 86,C40.07 79,735.15 PACJE I EN | IMPACT REPI)RT 7021 NOTES FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT5: AccoupmNG POUCIES a} The finanoal statements have been prepared under the hlstorical cost conventign. with the ex￿ptIon of investment which are val(*d at the prevailing market price5. The financial statements have been prepared In accordante with the statement of Recommended Prartice-Accountin8 and report[￿ by the charities1SORP21X151 IssL￿d In March 2005. applicable In the p￿parationS of the financial Statements are set out below. INCOME RESOURCES bl Voluntary income includes donatlons. 8lfts. legacies and grants that provide core funding or are of Eeneral nature are recognised where there is an entltlement. certainly of recelpts and the amount can be MeaSu￿d with sltffiuent reliability. Such incorne is only deferred when-. cl The Donor specTfiedthatthe 8rantordonation must On￿ be used in future a￿Ount1 periods. or d) The Donor has imposed Cond1￿0￿$. whlth must be met before the charity has nconditional eniitlement el Income from commercial trading artviitres is TecoRnised as earned as the related goods and 5eryices are provided Investment incorne 15 reccenised on a receNable basis I Income from thaTitable actNities irKlude income recerved under contact or where entltlement to grant funding is subject to 5￿￿ClfiC performance conditlons Is recoBnised as earned l as the related goods or Servic￿ are provided). Grant income Includes the category provided fundlnE to support perf0m￿nCe activitie5 and Is recognised where there is an entitlemÈnL cÈrtainlyof receipts and the amount can bè measured with SLrffident reliability- h) Irbcome 15 deferred when admi55ion fee5 or perforniance related grants are received in advarbce of the performarKes or event to which they relate. RESOURCES O(PENDED Expenditure Is recognised when a 1Sabillty ts Incurred. ContractU31 agreements and performance related grants are recognised a5 goods or Sen￿￿5 are stspplied. Other grants payments are recognised when a cOr￿l￿1¢t1¥È obligatlon arises that resuli in the payment beinE unavoidable. Income. an nga Charitable actlvltles includin8 expendtture associated with the artLVities a Included the direct costs and support costs relating to these attivities Governance costs indude those incurred in the governance of the charity and fts assets and the aS5o￿ated Writh ￿￿titutional and Stat￿Ory requirements. 11 Aestrirted funds: Restrlcted funds are to be used tr spÈ¢fjfied wrpose$ 8$ lald down by the founder. Direct and support expendtture. which meets these criteria. is defined to the fijnd tOEether wlth a frair allocation of other costs ose Incurr 11 Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds are funds Teceivedwhith no restrictions placed 5ntheir use and are available as ¥eneral funds. kl Revenue 8rants ère credited to incomln8 ￿$oUrceS on the earller of when they ar received on when they are due. PAGE 16 | IMPACT REPORT 1021 ATEMENT OFTRUSYEES. RE5PONSI8ILmES The trustees are reswjnsible for preparin8 the report and a¢xounts in accordan￿ wfth applicable law and regulations. Charities Acts require the trustees to prepare financial statsment that Bive5 a true and falr view of the orEanization'5 finanaal activities during the year and its financial position at the end of each financial year. Under Charitie5 Acts. the trustees must not approve the accounts unless they are satfjsfied that they gtve a true and fair view of the rtate of affairs of the company for that period. In prepari￿ these accounts. the trustees ate required to: select suitable accounting polioe5 and then apply them consistent￿- observe the methods and printsples in the Chartbes SORP IFIIS 1021- make a judgemerrt and estimates that are reasonable and prudent- state whether applicable UK accountine standards have been followed, subject to anv rnaterial departtsrÈs disclosed and explained in the Financial Statemerrt5.' and Prepare the accounts on the going COn￿M basis unless it is inappropriate to presume thatthe company will continue in bUs1r￿sS. The trustees are re5POn5ible for keeping adequate accounting retorf15 that are suffiaent to show and explain the companrf5 transartions and disdose with reasonable acajrary at anv tfmÈ thÈ finanual position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charitie5 Arts 2011. They a￿ also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the ompany and hence fortakirng reasonable steps forthe Drevention and detectiDn of fraL￿ and other Irregula￿tieS. Signed on behalf of the tru5tee5- Name of the Trustee Name of the Trustee PAGE I EN | IMPACT REPORT 1021 HEAR WOMEN GARGAR FOUNDATION