## **White Star FC** Annual Report and Financial Statement for the Year ended 31/05/2021 Charity Number: 1139243 _Company No:_ 6596950 **Contents** Administration Information____________________________________________1 Structure, Governance and Management________________________________2-3 Aims, Objectives and Activities _________________________________________4 Trustees Report ____________________________________________________5 Achievement ______________________________________________________6 Financial Review and Future Plan_______________________________________7 Statement of Financial Activities ____________________________________8-9 Independent Examiner’s Report______________________________________10 Acknowledgement _________________________________________________11 ## **Legal and Administrative Information** ## **Directors/Trustees** 1. Abdulahi Mohamed 2. Ali Garre 3. Abdirahman Mohidden Chairperson Secretary Treasurer ## _**Registered Office**_ 28 Church Road London N17 8AQ ## _**Bankers:**_ - HSBC UK - 1 Alder Mans Hill Palmers Green London N13 4YE 1 ## _**Structure, Governance and Management**_ _Governing Document:_ The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 19 May 2008 and registered as a charity on 01 December 2010. The company is governed by Memorandum and Articles of Association. In order to meet our aims and objectives we have also internal governing policies and Procedures such us: 1. Health and Safety policy 2. Equal opportunity policy 3. Volunteers policy 4. Confidentiality Policy 5. Child Protection Policy The above procedures and policies are reviewed annually. ## _Appointment of Trustees:_ The directors of the company are also charity trustees for the purposes of charity law and under the company’s Articles are known as members of the Management Committee Under the requirements of the Memorandum and Articles of Association the members of the Management Committee are elected to serve for a period of three years after which they must be re-elected at the next Annual General Meeting. _Trustee Induction and Training_ Most of our trustees are familiar with the practical work of the charity, having been encouraged to take up the “workshops and training”, new trustees are encouraged to attend a series of training sessions to familiarise themselves with the charity and the context within which it operates. The new trustee member will get the following: - The most up to date Charity Commission booklets. - The governing document. - The Policies and Procedures File. - The Annual Report. - The minutes of Trustees meetings. - Contact details of trustees. 2 ## _Risk Management_ Our management committee has the overall responsibility of the risk management of the organisation. They have the power to consult external organisations or consultants on risk management. The Trustees have a risk management strategy, which comprises: An Annual review of the risks the charity may face. The establishment of systems and procedures to mitigate those risks identified in the plan. The Implementations of such procedures designed to minimise any potential impact on the charity should those risks materialise. ## _Responsibilities of Trustees:_ Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which gives a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the year and of the incoming and outgoing resources for the year ended. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of error, fraud and other irregularities. Trustee board members are expected to follow the good governance including: Understanding their role, ensuring delivery of organizational purpose, working effectively both as individual and a team, exercise effective control, behaving with integrity and being open and accountable. ## _Organisational Structure:_ The White Star FC has a Management Committee of three members who meet quarterly and are responsible for the strategic direction and policy of the charity. The Committee has three key members from a variety of professional backgrounds relevant to the work of the charity. The Chairperson is responsible for ensuring that the charity delivers the services specified. The Treasurer is responsible for all aspects of financial management, working closely with other members of the trustees to safeguard the organisation's finances. The Secretary has responsibility for the day to day operational management of the Centre, individual supervision and ensuring that the team continue to develop their skills and working practices in line with good practice. ## _Volunteers:_ WHITE STAR FC fifteen Volunteers who run the daily activities and implement the organisational administration. WHITE STAR FC provides volunteers trainings to: Improve the quality and consistency of our services. Ensuring we caters for a diverse range of volunteers and their needs. Building our reputation as an organisation committed to supporting and developing our volunteers. Help us to secure funding from trusts and foundation, government and service users. Reward volunteers for their commitment and involvement. Provide volunteers with pathways to work or study opportunities. 3 ## _**Our mission:**_ To improve the lives of disadvantaged, underprivileged and marginalised children and young people from Somali and other minority communities. ## _**Our vision:**_ Our vision is to support children and youth from minority communities to become good citizens who achieve good quality education, financial independence, self-confidence and social inclusive within the multicultural society. ## _**Our Aims:**_ - To promote sport and fitness in London - To raise awareness of sporting and leisure facilities and achievements - To encourage children and young people to participate actively in sport - To improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. - To divert young people from crimes, drugs and violence. ## **Charity objectives:** The main objectives of the Association are defined as follows: - To enhance and promote education and social inclusion of children and young people from ethnic minority communities in through sport and personal development. - To promote and encourage health and well being of children and young people from ethnic minority communities. - To assist in the development of young people through training and employability so that they become valuable members of the community. ## **The Charity’s Activities includes:** 1. Football training 2. Organising football tournaments 3. Participate in London football leagues 4. Youth Mentoring service: 4 Chairperson Report On behalf of the board of trustees l am pleased to submit the annual report for the year ending 31 May 2021. 1 would like to acknowledge the efforts of our volunteers and trustees who have worked tirelessly to provide vital services to children and young people in Haringey, Enfield and the neighbouring boroughs. Our aim was to reduce the negative impact that drugs, gang-culture and crime have on young people. We helped many children and young people to live better, healthier, away from the harms caused by addiction, and antisocial behaviours. It is with great pleasure and honour for me to present this annual report. The White Star FC had a successful year. despite the current financial difficulties. I was pleased to see the significant difference that our sport activities have made to the disadvantaged children and young people. Our Organisation continued to deliver its prime mission of improving the lives of many disadvantaged children and young people by providing football training, organise football tournament and participate in the local leagues. The Association supported more than 230 children and young people. The projects have.. Improved football skills, 5elf-confidence, reduced Isolation and social excluslon, improved health and wellbeing of children and young people. Our Association had a successful year, through the tremendous team work of the trustees, volunteers, community leaders, intellectual and professionals. I am also encouraged by the positive feedback from member5 and guests who can readily see the changes we have made that have given the club a real lift in enthusiasm and confidence about the future. The trustees and volunteers have worked so hard without the dedication of my fellow committee members it would have been a difficult task. The club has many supporters and their support enable5 US to provide the football tralning and tournament to children and young people from minority communities. On behalf of our member5 1 would like to express my sincere gratitude and many thanks to our members and supporters who supported our organisation to overcome its financial difficulties. Also we would like to thank Haringey renewal Bridge trusl and Haringey Council for their great support, advice, guidance and the most useful information and training programmes they regularly provided to our organi5ation. would like to extend my thanks to the supporters that have helped us to work in this challenging environment that allows us to serve the needs of our members more effectively. I wish the board and the Association success for the next year. This report was approved by the trustees on 10/08/2021 and signed on their behalf by. Abdulahi Mohamed Chair _**Achievement and Performance**_ ## _**Charity Activities:**_ More than 230 young people and children take part football training and tournament. They sport project improved confidence, self-esteem, reduced isolation and offending behaviour, greater connections with school, stronger peer relationships, greater family attachment and more frequent interactions with parents, more restraint in avoiding risky behaviour and greater involvement in volunteer work. ## Football training sessions: - Tuesday (5:30-19:30) - Wednesday (15:30-19:30) - Thursday (15:30-19:30) - Saturday (09:00-14:00) - Sunday (10:00-16:00) We provided enjoyable training sessions that improved children’s social skills, confidence, health and wellbeing. Children really enjoyed the selection of training sessions which contributes to their healthy lifestyle. We provided a wide range of sport activities that helped children develop control of their bodies. We noticed that during the sport activities children learned key values such as: honesty, teamwork, fair play, respect each other. These highlighted the impact of the project on the children's social and moral development. The Project supported more than 230 children aged 6-16 from Somali, Sudanese, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nigerian and Ghana, most of whom live in the most deprived areas of Haringey. We have provided these children with access to fun and enjoyable sport activities that made them feel very happy, less lonely, increased their confidence, wellbeing and transformed the lives of many children. We organised several football tournaments that are fun, sociable, enjoyable and engaged children to learn many skills and form friendships _._ The project provided enjoyable physical activities that enthused and inspired children to participate fully and develop a life-long love of sport Our future plan is to expand the Sports activities we are offering to the children to help more children to achieve healthy and safe lifestyle outcomes. We will continue to provide this valuable project to reach more children and young people across Haringey and the neighbouring boroughs to offer them range of sport activities and football tournaments to meet with friends and contribute to community life. We will ensure the Sport activities will be available to all children from disadvantaged background by advertising it in local schools and neighbourhoods. 6 ## **FINAN CIAL REVIEW** ## Reserve Policy: As a charitable company we are committed to sustainable development for both risk management and sustainable services. The trustees examine the Charity’s reserves each year. The trustees are planning to create three months worth of running cost as a reserve to be available in case of delays to funding. This will help the organisation to be sustained in the long term. ## **Future Plan:** The charity plans the following in future periods: - To Provide Early intervention Education classes for children and young people - To create youth forum and encouraging young people to work together to address the challenges that are facing people from ethnic minority communities. - To enable greater participation in community activities for children and young people who would otherwise suffer social exclusion. - To improve partnership working with other local organisations to help us reach more children and young people. - To carry out an ongoing community consultation with our members and the wider community to establish what services they need most. - To secure a sustainable future for our services and to ensure that the next generation has increased opportunities. 7 ## **Financial Activities for the year** ## **Ended 31 May 2021** ||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|
**Total**|**Total**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Funds**
|**Funds**|**Funds**|**Funds**| ||||**2021**|**2020**| |**Incoming Resources**
|£
|£|£|£| |Donations and membership fee|
|37691|37691|24267| |**Total Incoming Resources**|
|**37691**|**37691**|**24267**| |**Resources Expended**||||| |Sport Equipment||2870|2870|6856| |Venue Hire||4474|4474|10524| |Transport||634|634|1436| |League Fee||15825
|15825|6110| |Legal Fee||||859| |Telephone and Internet||637|637|524| |Tournament Fee||231|231|240| |Bank charges||4|4|3| |Volunteer Expense||3600
|3600|| |Sport Kits||||| |Miscellaneous||5|5|| |**Total Resources Expended**||**28280**|**28280**|**26552**| |**Net Incoming Resources**|
|**9411**|**9411**|**(2285)**| |Fund balance B/F||9147|9147
|11432| |**Fund Balance C/F**||**18558**|**18558**|**9147**| 8 Balance Sheet as at 31 May 2021 2021 2020 Current Assets Cash At bank and In Hand 18558 9147 Debtors Net Current Assets 18558 9147 Unrestricted Fund Restrlcted Funds 18558 9147 Total Funds 18558 9147 For the year ended 31/05/2021 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance wlth section 476 of the Companies Act 2006. The directors acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirement5 of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with provisions of applicable to companies subject to the small companie5. regime. The accounts were approved by the trustees on 10/0812021 and signed on their behalf by: Abdulahi Mohamed Chair Report of the Independent Examiner to the trustees of White Star FC I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31 May 2021 which are set out on pages 8 to 9 Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligi ble for independent examination, it 15 my responsibility to: examine the accounts under Section 145 of the 2011 Act," follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions glven by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Independent examiner's statement l. In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attentlon: I which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements: to keep accounting ￿CordS in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities 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. Independent Examiner Abubakar Mohamed Charity Accounting Services 144 White hart Lane London N17 7LS Date.. io ## ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The White Star FC and its committed management committee would like to thank to all partners and members that supported our organization to ensure the existence of the organization and the success to deliver the services for its needed clients. We are pleased to continue our good relationships with other charitable organisations in Haringey and with the various agencies in the Borough and the excellent exchange of information and support. We wish to thank all the volunteers of our organisation as, without their help and hard work, a lot of the achievements of the past year would not have been possible. Also we would like to take this opportunity to thank the Management and Sub-Committees who give so freely of their time and effort. We would also like to thank the staff who have worked hard and been responsible for the achievements and developments of the organisation With the financial support of our members and donors we were able to help our disadvantaged members and make difference in the lives of many children and young people, raise their aspiration, maximising their skills and enable them to achieve their full potential. It is through their support that we are able to continue to strengthen our programs, and to develop new and innovative projects to serve our community and continue to advance our mission of maximising the skills and talents of our children and young people to become independent, successful and achieve their full potential 11