## Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 1[st] July 2023 Period start date To 30[th] June 2024 Period end date ## Charity name: First Footsteps ## Charity registration number: 1152362 ## Objectives and Activities ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To teach grass root children the Arabic
language.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Provide a safe environment where children
can play with toys, do activities such as
drawing and painting as well as watch
Arabic television.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Yes| ## Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not Applicable (N/A)| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not Applicable (N/A)| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Not Applicable (N/A)| |Other||Not Applicable (N/A)| ## Achievements and Performance ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|
Environment where children learn
the Arabic language whose parents
cannot speak Arabic.

Focussed purely on the Arabic
language which differentiates it from
other similar projects.

Open to all.

Children who have been with us are
beginning to speak the language.| |Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|Additional information (optional)
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Not Applicable (N/A)| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Not Applicable (N/A)| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not Applicable (N/A)| |Other||Not Applicable (N/A)| ## Financial Review |Financial Review||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|~£53K in surplus| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Surplus held as we are making a loss every
month. This buffer allows us to sustain
ourself over a longer period.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|~£53K| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|Additional information (optional)
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|N/A| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|N/A| |Other||N/A| ## Structure, Governance and Management |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Founding trustees| ## Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## Reference and Administrative details |Charity name|First Footsteps| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1152362| |Charity’s principal address|11 Park Grove, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD9 4JY| ||| ## Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity |1
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20|Trustee name|Office (if any)|Dates acted if not for whole
year|Name of person (or body) entitled to
appoint trustee (ifany)| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Dr Mohammad
Yahyah|Chair|Whole year|Dr Mohammad Yahyah| ||Mohammad Iqbal|Secretary|Wholeyear|Mohammad Iqbal| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved Director name Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year ## Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## Additional information (optional) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) ## Exemptions from disclosure Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## Other optional information ## Declarations The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Mohammad Yahyah Full name(s) Dr Mohammad Yahyah Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 18[th] March 2026