GREAT LEVER EDUCATION & WELFARE TRUST CHARITY NO 1146143
AIMS AND PURPOSES
Our aim has been to provide a high standard community facility which will accommodate in particular for the local community residents and the wider community. A prayer room, good classrooms and a community Nursery, so that we can help people advance in education and religion.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
We are committed in enabling as many people as possible to worship and benefit from the centre. We regularly consult members of the congregation and take their views and opinions on areas of improvement, as well as consulting other non congregational members who reside in close proximity of the centre.
Our services and worship put faith into practice by opening its doors for five times daily prayer, education for the young and old, male and female. Provision of counselling for the youth by arranging youth activities and working alongside other agencies to help improve a civic relationship and understanding the needs of the community and assisting in areas of need.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE
We have now opened the doors to our Prayer Hall after having completed extensive refurbishment work. People can now come and enjoy worship in a serene environment and we have over a 100 people attending the centre and this number is increasing weekly.
We have completed work to other parts of the centre and this has allowed us to create educational facility for the local young boys and girls to do extra-curricular activities and faith studies in the evening and weekends.
Exclusive classes are running twice a week for women, where they can learn and share experiences, in a friendly atmosphere at the centre. Many more activities are planned for the future including Arabic language courses, Arabic grammar and counselling sessions.
THE COMMUNITY ROOM / NURSERY
The community room is now completed and used for classes for local public, the classes throughout the day are very popular with the female population. The nursery room has also been completed and fully operational.
YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Every Saturday our youth are involved in a local football matches at the local high School Essa Academy. The youth football tournament is very successful and in high demand.
VOLUNTEERS
We would like to thank all our volunteers for their exceptional support from the start until date, in fulfilling our objectives. Volunteers have been involved in various tasks, this has included collecting donations, announcing and advertising the community centre, organising football tournaments, study circles and they have been involved in the project management of the centre refurbishment.
STRUCTURE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Currently there are three Trustees who deal with the support of volunteers with the trust affairs in line with our Governing Document.
The three named trustees are:
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Siraj Madari LL.B HONS DPSI (Chair of Trustees)
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Mohammed Amin Patel
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Idris Patel (Treasurer)
We SM AND IP have met several times during the year and has resulted at 95% attendance.
We encourage our congregates to take an active voluntary role in the upkeep of the centre and other arranged activities at the centre.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT
Charities Policy on reserves
Our aim is to collect £100 each week in Friday congregations from over 150 attendees, this will help to cover the gas, water, electricity and general running cost of the charity building.
We always have a minimum of £1000 to cover all the direct debits just in case our collections were lower than expected. Members in the local community can also provide the community centre with emergency interest free loans, collectively we can raise up to £5000 from over 15 regular attendees, and however the agreement of the short term loan is to pay them back within 60 days.
Financial Review
The accounts are up to the end of March 2023. We received income of £188341.96 during the course of the year. This helped towards the costs of the maintenance of the Trust property, staff pay and all other related expenses.
The income also helped to reduce the long term debt on the building and has helped reduce the debt to £50,000.00. Now the building is fully refurbished and complete our aim will be reduce the debt over the next few years.
GREAT LEVER EDUCATION & WELFARE TRUST FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2022/2023 DEBT BF REPAID DEBT CF £50,000.00 £0.00 £50,000.00