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← Jannaty Women's Social Society

2023-09-30-accounts

Jannaty Women's Social Society Charity no. 1151143

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Jannaty Women’s Social Society

Report and Financial Statements

For the year ended

30 September 2023

Charity no: 1151143

Contents

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION.................................................................................................... 1 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES .............................................................................................................................. 2 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT ............................................................................................................. 13 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................... 14 BALANCE SHEET ........................................................................................................................................... 15 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................................... 16

Legal and administrative information

Trustees

ASLI HASSAN ILHAM SALIMANE SUHANA CHOUDHURY (Resigned October 2023) JINAN ELKATME (Appointed December 2023)

Treasurer ASMAA REZKI

Correspondence address 225-229 SEVEN SISTERS ROAD FINSBURY PARK LONDON N4 2DA

Bankers HSBC Bank, Stratford Branch, London

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Trustees Annual Report

Covering the reporting period 01 October 2022 -30 September 2023

Director’s Update 2022/2023

This year Jannaty has worked on securing our operational spaces, offering regular services focusing on women’s health & wellbeing, skills development, as well as building relationships with other VCS organisations in the borough to meet the needs of our members.

Jannaty faced some challenges when we had to move from a local studio space due to rising rents where we were developing a community modest clothing brand. Despite this challenging period we have established our sewing group in our original home at the Finsbury Park Trust. Jannaty is offering regular sewing classes for minoritised women who can learn basic and intermediate sewing skills. This is to empower women to move into formal qualifications at local colleges and training spaces. Jannaty continues to offer language support in Arabic and Somali through our trained volunteer team.

Our volunteers continue to be the backbone of the charity, coming from the diverse community who we serve, speaking a range of languages including Arabic, Amharic, Bengali, Farsi, Pashto, Somali, Tigrinya, Urdu, to name a few. Our volunteers have supported Jannaty deliver all our activities be it social events where women celebrate their culture and heritage, summer trips to the beach, supporting digital learning and sharing health information or befriending and social support at our regular coffee mornings.

Our finances are healthy with core staff roles being secured through funding from the Tudor Trust and new initiatives such as the cooking club raising much needed funds as we have seen a rise in all costs, from renting our training space, hiring halls, phone bills and volunteer expenses. We continue to seek funding to secure Jannaty’s services and core costs through longer-term funding.

In the summer of 2023, I was delighted to have received unexpected recognition from 10 Downing Street for the journey I have been on to empower minoritised women over the last 14 years. This came about when I received the Points of Light Award from Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. The award is not only for me, but a recognition of the efforts of the community around me, who have supported Jannaty to impact the lives of hundreds of women for more than a decade. To all our supporters I want to say thank you, this recognition is for us all.

Majida Sayam

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Director

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Aim:

To establish a friendly hub for the community

Jannaty aims to provide a safe space for its members to come together, interact, learn and develop. Our services provide a holistic support hub which supports women with various needs, from delivering health and wellbeing services such as exercise, yoga and culturally sensitive counselling, to organising social events to reduce isolation and celebrate the diverse cultures and identities of our members. We also provide one-toone advice, signpost to specialist services and advocate on behalf of our members to create change, challenging structural and systemic barriers, discrimination and inequality.

Jannaty welcomes women and girls from all walks of life, our Islington community is rich with diversity and this is celebrated at Jannaty.

Our Vision & Mission

To remove barriers

Jannaty’s vision is to enable women and girls from disadvantaged and minoritised backgrounds to become capable, strong and independent individuals who can improve their quality of life and those around them.

Our mission is to support their growth through our services, providing skills for life, making lasting connections, improving their health and wellbeing and connecting women to a wider community to improve their prospects and open up opportunities.

Our Values

Empowerment - harnessing the power of women and their innate ability to nurture and grow themselves and those around them.

Independence – being a helping hand, not a holding hand, so women can become self-determining.

Celebration of culture – respecting diversity, be that race, faith, culture, heritage and individual differences

Authenticity – created by women for women, in their view of what they need and how they should be supported.

Our Members

Jannaty has more than 400 members and approximately 1,000 service users in a year.

Our members are women from minoritized communities facing, multiple disadvantages, due to their gender, ethnicity, disability, faith or immigration status. Many have been victims of hate crime. Our members often experience social and economic exclusion and live in deprived areas.

From our last survey, our members describe their ethnicity as being; Arab 62%, Somali 15%, Eritrean 12%, Bangladeshi 4%, Mixed-White & black African 2%, Nigerian 2%, White other 2%, Mixed-any other 2%.

Some have health needs, in our last survey 17% stated they have a disability, 23% have a long-term health condition, 40% have medical issues.

Our members are more than just the statistics. While many are affected by disadvantage more than a third of our members have a degree, masters or post-graduate qualification, from their native countries. They are ambitious, hardworking, and resilient, our job is to help them reach their full potential.

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What we do:

Health & Wellbeing Services: Good mind, good body, good friends

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Training & Skills Development: Empowering women with the tools to change their lives and break into different sectors.

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Social Events: Celebrating culture and building connections.

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Anaqaa Apparel - Community clothing brand.

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Charity Shop - Affordable clothing for the local community.

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Update on activities October 2022 – September 2023

Health & Wellbeing Services

Healthwatch Research

We worked with Healthwatch Islington to deliver a number of research projects including;

Health Inequalities Research for the North Central Lodon (NCL) Clinical Commissioning Group which involved interviewing 70 residents from minoritised backgrounds about breast cancer, cervical and bowel cancer and provided information about local services. We conducted one-to-one interviews speaking to members about breast cancer, cervical and bowel cancer and provided information about local services.

Digital Support , supported by the Cloudesley grant we distributed tablets and laptops to residents with longterm health conditions and disabilities. Supported by Healthwatch staff and jannaty’s volunteer interpreters, local women received training on how to use their new devices.

Evidence Islington is a partnership between Islington council, community groups (Healthwatch Islington and their Diverse Communities Health Voice (DCHV) partners, and two universities; the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University College London.

The council’s ambition is to create a more equal future in Islington where everyone is able to thrive. For this strategic aim Islington is working with partners to collect evidence, by listening to local people – individuals, groups, and communities. Jannaty met with the Director of Housing and Public Health researchers to provide feedback on the council’s engagement strategy on behalf of residents to raise concerns, share experiences, help identify problems, and test solutions in a structured way.

Digital inclusion . We also delivered a session on using the NHS app to encourage residents to use the app for ordering repeat prescriptions, booking GP appointments, nominating a pharmacy and adding family members to their account and managing their digital footprint.

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Bowel Cancer. Working with UCL, Jannaty held a focus group for women to learn about bowel cancer. Attendees learnt how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used to assist doctors to identify growths in the colon for early diagnosis and treatment. The group took part in a 'Where's Wally?' game which demonstrated how quickly AI could locate and identify growths. Attendees also heard testimonials from two women who survived stage 3 cancer. The session was delivered with the support of an Arabic translator from UCL who helped women understand technical and medical terms.

UCL Household Overcrowding Research - 1 . The title of research study is: “Household overcrowding and wellbeing - what can help? A review of the evidence”. This study led by - The Department of Applied Health Research, who wanted to obtain residents’ experiences of household overcrowding and views on interventions that need investigating. The review seeks to evidence the extent of overcrowding in the borough and across England, to provide councils with the information they need to make decisions on how they can help people living in overcrowding through policy development and practical intervention.

UCL Household Overcrowding Research – 2. Working with UCL again we organised focus groups to identify the key issues impacting residents affected by household overcrowding, to contribute towards academic research. Our groups of up to 10 women shared their lived experience and helped organise topics which they felt were the most pressing needs for families including health & wellbeing, noise and privacy, bedroom space and building quality. Sometimes it was very difficult to decide which issue was the most important as families have complicated needs, particularly where there are children, elderly and those with physical and mental health needs. Jannaty member’s participation will contribute towards research papers which can inform housing policy in London and nationally. We additionally met with Islington’s Housing Strategy team to identify priorities for local residents to contribute towards the development of Islington’s Housing Strategy. We identified the need to improve the repairs service to prevent disrepair, use existing data collected by the council, improve resident touch-points and front-line worker knowledge and empathy skills and improve channels for communications for diverse audiences using existing VCS organisations.

Anaqaa Apparel

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We are grateful to the Tudor Trust who supported us transition from the council-run Affordable Workspace, which became un-affordable for Jannaty at the end of 2022 due to rising rent. The additional funding helped Jannaty settle back into our old training rooms at the Finsbury Park Trust where we continue to offer sewing classes and try to develop the community clothing brand.

Jannaty’s sewing classes have been in great demand. We had a waiting list of 30 women when we started in the autumn term. Women from disadvantaged backgrounds have been learning basic sewing skills, supported by volunteers offering interpretation in Arabic and Somali

languages. Jannaty is trying to secure funding to help us pay for the training room, purchase sewing machines, tools, and fabric to offer more women the opportunity to develop these skills and access further training and employment.

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Members Events & Training

In the summer we organised our annual beach trips for our members. We took two coaches to of 100 women to Bournemouth beach, supported by the National Lottery Awards for All fund.

We held an open-planning day with our members before the start of the new term to hear their voices and understand what activity they would like us to deliver in the coming year. 56 women responded to our survey and 16 attended our in-person brainstorming session. Our membership continues to be diverse; we have members from Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Syria, Ethiopia, Italy and the Netherlands.

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We understood from our members that:

More than 50% of women surveyed are mothers to young children which prevents them from working, other women shared that English language and self-confidence were barriers to work.

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Culture Day: More than 50 women took part in Jannaty’s culture day, where women created traditional homemade dishes to celebrate their heritage and share with friends and neighbours in an open-day at the taining space. We had food from from all over the world; Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Somalia. We also held a pre-Ramadan event to celebrate the arrival of the special month for our members. 100 women attended the dinner event where they shared stories of how they celebrate this month in their countries.

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Happy Hub: Working with the Finsbury Park Trust Jannaty has been delivering free weekly skills sessions to help women learn a range of skills and reduce isolation through a safe social gathering. Our Happy Hub activities have included; Upcycling old wedding dresses, flower arranging, creating gift hampers, making traditional sweets and head and neck massage sessions using traditional healing techniques.

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Tackling food poverty

Islington council has reported a rise in food poverty within the borough. Jannaty responded to this need by working with the Finsbury Park Trust to deliver a community food bank. We have distributed food from the Felix project, cooked hot meals for local people and organised gatherings sharing traditional meals to address food insecurity. We invited members to join us in preparing cooked meals, offering isolated women the opportunity to take part in activities to support the community, this helped us create some delicious and diverse meals including Somali rice and chicken, Egyptian stew, Pakistani biryani and Italian pasta.

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Cooking club catering

Jannaty’s cooking club has evolved into a small community catering service. We have registered with Islington Council as a food business and await our inspection.

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The cooking club continues to cater for local charities and organisations and orders are received through word-of-mouth recommendations within the borough. We have three women with L2 and L3 food hygiene certificates working on this project.

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We have received dozens of orders ranging from small meetings of 10 people to larger events of up to 100 people raising vital funds to help cover Jannaty’s core costs, rent, rates, staffing and volunteer costs. Some of the organisations we have catered for include; Space 4, Founders & Coders digital agency, Islington Council’s Islamophobia event, Finsbury Park Trust, British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR), Outlandish digital agency and more. We received the following feedback from the BIHR.

“Jannaty supplied the catering for our small Community event held at a venue in Finsbury Park. Their menu provided us with plenty of choices for all our Guests, with flexibility for vegetarian and vegan choices. Jannaty were efficient, courteous and flexible, with timely delivery of the food within the agreed slot. It was an overall success with our Guests, who all enjoyed the delicious food prepared locally by this brilliant community kitchen and we would certainly use Jannaty’s kitchen in future if needed.” Valentina Carlet, Admin Officer, BIHR.

Recognition from Downing Street

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We unexpectedly received some wonderful news from Downing Street when the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, awarded our Director, Majida Sayam, the Points of Light Award. We are delighted that Majida’s decades of hard work has been recognised as the award was for

“exceptional service” creating Jannaty Women's Social Society. This is testimony to Majida’s relentless efforts to support minoritised women in London, whom she has been serving for more than 30 years.

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Thanks to our wonderful supporters this year:

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Independent examiner’s report

I report on the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2023 set out on pages 15 -16 which have been prepared under the accounting policies set out on page 17.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The Charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 and that an Independent Examination is needed

Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for Independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent review

My examination was carried out in accordance with general directions given by the Charity Commission. 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 accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair” view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner’s statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe, that in any material respect, the requirements have not been met:

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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Name: Dunstanette Kuti FCCA MCSI

Position: Head of Finance

Community Action Sutton Granfers Community Centre, 73-79 Oakhill Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 3AA

Date: 26/06/24

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Jannaty Women's Social Society Statement of financial activities

for the year ended 30 September 2023

Note
Income:
Charitable Activities
2
Total Income

Expenditure:
Charitable Activities
3

Total Expenditure

Net Income / (expenditure)
Transfer between funds
Net movement in funds

Total Funds brought forward

Total Funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
Funds
Total
Funds
2023
2023
2023
2022
£
£
£
£
23,196
80,350
103,546
117,743
23,196
80,350
103,546
117,743
21,092
87,676
108,768
97,061
21,092
87,676
108,768
97,061
2,104
(7,326)
(5,222)
20,682
-
-
-
-
2,104
(7,326)
(5,222)
20,682
22,280
18,828
41,108
20,426
24,384
11,502
35,886
41,108

The company has no recognised gains or losses other than those in the statement of financial activities. Therefore no statement of total recognised gains and losses has been prepared. All the above amounts relate to continuing activities.

The notes on pages 16 to 19 form part of these accounts.

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Jannaty Women's Social Society
Balance Sheet
as at 30 September 2023
Note
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash at bank and in hand
CREDITORS:
Amounts falling due within one
year
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NET CURRENT ASSETS:
NET ASSETS

FUNDS:
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
7		 2023
£
£
40,993
40,993
5,107
35,886
35,886
11,502
24,384
35,886		 2023
£
£
40,993
40,993
5,107
35,886
35,886
11,502
24,384
35,886		 2022
£
£
45,395
45,395
4,287
41,108
41,108
18,828
22,280
41,108		 2022
£
£
45,395
45,395
4,287
41,108
41,108
18,828
22,280
41,108
40,993
5,107		 45,395
4,287
35,886 41,108
11,502
24,384		 18,828
22,280
35,886 41,108

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 July 2023.

The members have not required the charity to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The Director acknowledges their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.

The financial statements were approved by the board on __26/06/2024_____ and signed on its behalf by:

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Asli Hassan Kinzi (Chair) Asmaa Rezki (Treasurer)

The notes on pages 16 to 19 form part of these accounts.

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Notes to the financial activities for the year ended 30 September 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

a) Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the inclusion of investments at market value and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for

Smaller Entities (effective March 2000). In preparing the financial statements the charity follows best practice as laid down in the Statement of Recommended Practice “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (SORP 2005).

b) Donations’ legacies and similar income

These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the income and the trustees are reasonably certain they will receive it.

c) Tax reclaims on donations

Tax reclaims are included in the SOFA at the same time as the gift to which they relate.

d) Investment income

Investment income is accounted for in the period in which the charity is entitled to receipt.

e) Resources expended

Expenditure is included on an accruals basis. Grants payable are charged in the year when conditions attaching to the grant are fulfilled and a properly completed claim has been received by the charity.

Support costs relate to costs of processing grants and applications and general office expenses.

f) Fund accounting

Details of the nature and purpose of each fund is set out in note 5.

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Notes to the financial activities for the year ended 30 September 2023

2. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted
£
Grants and Contracts
-
Donations
820
Shop sales
20,849
Other Income
1,527
23,196
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
Project 01: Anaqaa Apparel
Project 02: Cooking Club
Project 03: Healthwatch Isling Ncl Health Inequal
Project 04: Tud Tr No1 (Rent increase)
Project 05: Healthwatch Isling Car/Cldsly/Ncl2
Project 06: Main Grants - National Lottery
Project 07: TUDOR TRUST NO1 (Core Costs)
Project 08: Healthwatch Isling Cloudesleyei
Cripplegate Foundation
Counselling-Islington
Action for Race
Health Talk
Muslim Charities
Puppet Project
Catalyst
Diva Choice
SMI Motivational Interviewing		 Unrestricted
£
-
820
20,849
1,527		 Restricted
Total
2023
£
£
80,350
80,350
-
820
-
20,849
-
1,527		 Total
2022
£
99,140
-
18,603
-
23,196 80,350
103,546		 117,743
2023
£
2,416
4,930
7,654
3,000
5,750
10,000
44,000
2,600
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
80,350		 2022
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
46,000
6,262
15,428
10,000
7,000
4000
4,000
2,220
2,000
1,250
980
99,140

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Notes to the financial activities for the year ended 30 September 2023

3 EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Direct charitable costs
Staff costs ( note 4 )
Temporary Staff Salaries
Rent
Events & Courses
Activities
Training
Travel
Phone
Insurance
Governance costs ( note 5 )
Office costs
4
STAFF COSTS
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs		 Charity
Shop
Total
2023
Total 2022
£
£
£
£
11,072
-
11,072
-
51,687
6,277
57,964
38,204
4,746
1,463
6,209
-
11,781
12,614
24,394
23,221
3,323
359
3,682
11,359
-
-
-
10,698
-
-
-
9,225
1,584
-
1,584
1,939
610
148
757
771
691
-
691
695
820
-
820
750
1,363
231
1,594
199
87,676
21,092
108,768
97,061
Charity
Shop
Total
2023
Total
2022
£
£
£
£
41,231
6,277
47,508
38,204
7,539
-
7,539
-
2,917
-
2,917
-
51,687
6,277
57,964
38,204

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

ows:
2023 2022
3
3 -

The number of employees whose emoluments fell within the following bands was:

2023 2022
£60,001 - £70,000 - -

5 GOVERNANCE COSTS

GOVERNANCE COSTS
Legal and professional fees
Independent Examiner’s fees		 Charity
Shop
Total 2023
Total 2022
£
£
£
£
-
-
-
750
820
-
820
-
820
-
820
750

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Notes to the financial activities for the year ended 30 September 2023

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CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Taxation and Social Security
Other creditors
Accruals		 2023
2022
£
£
-
-
4,287
4,287
820
-
5,107
4,287
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MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
Alms Fund
Interest Fund
TOTAL FUNDS		 B/F at
1/10/2022
Incoming
resources
Resources
expended
Movement
in funds
C/F at
30/9/2023
£
£
£
£
£
22,280
23,196
(21,092)
-
24,384
18,828
80,350
(87,676)
-
11,502
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
18,828
80,350
(87,676)
-
11,502
41,108
103,546
(108,768)
-
35,886

The Reserve fund represents the unrestricted funds which the Trustees are free to use in accordance with the charitable objects.

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