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- Report of the Trustees
and Consolidated Financial Statements
for the Year ended 31 March 2022
**ANNUAL REPORT 2020/2021**
## **CONTENTS**
## - p1 Acronyms
- p2-3 CEO Message
## - p4 Vision, Mission and Values
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- p5 Geographical focus
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- p6 Project cycle management and thematic focus
- Food Aid and Food security
- Access to health and well being
- Access to clean and safe drinking water
- Child welfare and Orphans’ support
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- p7-8 Impact beneficiaries
Countries of operations
p9-18 - Syria
p19-21 - Turkey p22-30 - Pakistan
p31 - Palestine
- p32 - Yemen
p33 - New Territories
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- p34 SKT The Date Project
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- p35 SKT Qurbani programme in the countries of operations
- p36 - Commitment to Core Humanitarian Principles and Standards (CHS)
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- p37 Aims, Objectives and Targets for 2021
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- p38-57 Report of the Trustee and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022
## **ACRONYMS**
|**CCCM**|Camps Coordination and Camps Management|
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|**CHS**|Core Humanitarian Standards|
|**GOAC**|Guernsey Overseas Aid Commision|
|**HDI**|Human Development Index|
|**HHs**|Households|
|**ICRC**|International Committee of the Red Cross|
|**IRC**|International Rescue Committee (IRC)|
|**IRW**|Islamic Relief Worldwide|
|**IFPRI**|International Food Policy Research Institute|
|**NFIs**|Non Food Items|
|**SOH**|Spring of Hope|
|**SDG**|Sustainable Development Goals|
|**UNECOSOC**|United Nations Economic and Social Council|
|**UNICEF**|United Nations’ Children Fund|
|**UNOCHA**|United Nations Offce of the Coordination of|
||Humanitarian Affairs|
|**UNDP**|United Nations Development Programme|
|**VFM**|Value for Money|
|**WASH**|Water Sanitation and Hygiene|
|**WHO**|World Health Organisation|
|**2020**|APE 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021|
|**2021**|APE 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022|
**ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22**
We at SKT Welfare work tirelessly to make the world better. As a charity, launched ten years ago, our aim has always been to tackle poverty, thirst, hunger and homelessness.
Inspired by our emaan and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), our commitment, with the blessed support of our charitable donors, is to strive to provide food, water, health care, and more, to the displaced, the vulnerable, the widowed and the orphaned - refugees rendered homeless by conflict and catastrophic events beyond their control. Events like flooding, drought, or prolonged temperature extremes, for which they have no shelter or protection.
Assalamualaikum. I’m Asif Hussain, and as CEO of SKT Welfare, I invite you to read our latest Annual Report, for the financial year 2021-22 – a year which saw us bring further aid, and relief, in so many significant ways, to 2,121,055 beneficiaries.
Among our many continuing successes is our well-established flagship Safe Haven project, which continues to move from strength to strength. This literally groundbreaking project was devised to provide new homes, and fresh beginnings for vulnerable and struggling refugees – moving them from their makeshift and fragile tent homes into solid and secure homes with space and good facilities, within new self-supportive
## **CEO MESSAGE**
## Assalamualaikum.
- for their drinking, cooking, and personal use. Water filtration, and distillation plants provide another means to obtain water, where conditions allow. And we addressed the needs of entire communities with the installation of water filtration and distillation plants, to transform the impure and brackish water available, to provide thousands of litres of clean, fresh water to whole communities, on demand. Education is another of our missions that we believe in and support with action. Syrian refugee children suffer many obstacles to their learning – because of their homelife, poverty, the barrier of language, and the cost of textbooks and basic materials.
communities. Three village communities are completed now, and our fourth is well under way. And as further Safe Haven homes are completed, we will move more vulnerable families into them, adding mosques for prayer, health centres, and schools for education.
We address the special needs of the young, the old, and the sick. In our Springs of Hope project we care for children sadly orphaned by events or of those who have lost their lives. And with our Hifz sponsorship scheme, provide an Islamic education built around Arabic and the Qur’an, teaching students who will go out into their communities as guiding lights to spread the word and wisdom of Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
Our school, the Abdullah ibn Abbas Institute was founded in Turkey to address these challenges, and offer the kind of education these children need to move forward in their lives – to grow intellectually, as they grow up physically. The Institute provides a full Islamic education as part of a comprehensive curriculum which embraces the core subjects and teaching in Arabic.
Food and water are the basics of life, and in 2021-22 SKT Welfare continued to reach out to the hungry and thirsty. We delivered 25,941 food packs to help those struggling to find and provide food for themselves and their families. Each of our food packs sustain a family for a whole month. And we continued to provide water in many ways. Simply delivering water in containers is the quick fix for many. But where we can, we try to deliver a longer-term solution to the challenge of providing fresh water.
But we go further, with our Hifz project – devoted to the teaching of the Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad (SAW), making children strong in the faith that unites us and that we share. And which equips them to go out into the world themselves, as teachers and mentors of our faith, in their
In Pakistan we continue to install Water Hand Pumps - bringing up clean fresh water for families, from 20 metres underground
own communities – and others. Covid-19 continued to be a challenge for us. Seasonal weather has caused unwanted delays, along with global shortages, but our resolve, efforts, and energies are renewed now but with vaccinations, and increasing control, we’ve stepped up our action on the ground wherever we can, once again surpassing our targets. We knew what we had achieved in previous years, but never complacent, knew that we could build on our success in the year to come.
A major event of October 2021 were our two hosted live events in London and Harrogate, with the world-renowned and unbeaten Mixed Martial Arts fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov – in which the former champion was on stage, not to fight, but to talk, as a proud Muslim. His emotional and motivational message to his audience to step up, step out, and raise funds for Syrian refugees. They were packed evenings. Not only providing a platform for Khabib’s inspiring words, but also for audience members and business sponsors in each night’s entertaining and informative Q and A session. And there was a lively charitable auction on both nights, when audience members could bid for a range of signed sporting souvenirs, signed by Khabib, including, on each night, an exclusive painting of Khabib actually created over those electrifying hours, and auctioned off
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to the highest bidder.
None of this would be possible without the support of our benevolent donors. And all the people in our organisation in Britain, and on the ground, who work tirelessly to deliver our charity to our countries of operation. Firstly we thank Allah and then our honourable donors for continuing to make SKT Welfare the success story that it is, and who continue to carry it forward. This Annual Report is the record of SKT’s goals and our achievement through the financial year from April 2021 to March 2022.
Because of your generous donations, you and others help us make life better for displaced and vulnerable people in the world. We couldn’t do what we do without you, and the support of all our blessed donors. Alhamdulillah.
Warmest regards,
**Asif Hussain (CEO)**
## **Spreading Kindness Together**
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## **VISION, MISSION & VALUES**
**A world where everyone is being cared and lives a sustainable life free from extreme poverty**
**Working together Empowerment Leadership Faith Accountability Respect Excellence**
**To be among the leading humanitarian and development organisations to alleviate human sufferings through principled humanitarian responses and sustainable solutions.**
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## **GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS**
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Iraq
Syria
Gaza
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Turkey
Lebanon
Tanzania
Kashmir
India
Bangladesh
Kenya
Yemen
Ethiopia
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The charity is dedicated to the delivery of socio-economic solutions **regardless of race, political affiliation, gender or belief,** with the aim to help relieve the suffering of the world’s poor and disenfranchised communities.
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## **CORE PROJECT CYCLE MANAGEMENT**
## SKT applied a Project Cycle Management (PCM) approach in all its humanitarian and development projects.
The approach ensured quality programme delivery and adhered to Value for Money (VFM) for its projects in the countries of operations.
The way in which its projects were planned and carried out follows a sequence beginning with an agreed strategy and proper planning, which led to an idea for a specific action. It was then properly designed, implemented, and evaluated for quality project management.
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IDENTIFICATION
DESIGN
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Regular monitoring for all its projects remained a continuous process throughout the project life cycle. Its monitoring, evaluation and learning approach enabled the assessment of the real impact of its projects and increased accountability to different stakeholders.
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EVALUATION
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IMPLEMENTATION
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## **STRATEGIC PRIORITIES - THEMATIC AREAS**
## **FOOD AID & FOOD SECURITY**
Ensuring quality food to lead a healthy life
## **HEALTH**
Ensuring access to health and well being
**WATER SANITATION & HEALTH (WASH)**
Ensuring access to safe & affordable drinking water
**CHILD WELFARE & ORPHANS SUPPORT** Ensuring every child grows up happy, healthy and cared for
**ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22**
## **IMPACT BENEFICIARIES**
## SKT Welfare supported
2,121,055 beneficiaries during the last reporting period.
|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105|WASH
Education
Protection
and NFIs
Health and
Medical
Shelter
Food Security
and Livelihood
Syria
67,320
18,040
892
3,693
850
233,940
1,000
86,360
20,234
169,010
7,605
220,000
1,842
510
1,280
913
2,230
2,000
1,850
4,236
1,198,506
23,016
5,705
5,805
Turkey
Gaza
Pakistan
Bangladesh
India
Kashmir
Yemen
Lebanon
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Kenya
Iraq
Afghanistan
149
12,461
1,105
3,400
1,326
8
223
105
5,000
Orphans
266
1,105
12
18,040
913
105||
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|Syria|67,320|892||23,016|5,705|5,805|||
|Turkey|||1,842|12,461|||149||
|Gaza|5,000|||7,605|220,000||266||
|Pakistan||3,693||20,234|169,010||||
|Bangladesh||1,105||4,236||1,105|||
|India|3,400||1,326|1,198,506|||12||
|Kashmir||||86,360|||||
|Yemen|8|850|223|233,940|1,000||||
|Lebanon|18,040|||18,040|||||
|Tanzania|||510|1,280|||||
|Ethiopia||913||913|||||
|Kenya||105|105|2,230|||||
|Iraq||||2,000|||||
|Afghanistan||||1,850|||||
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## **IMPACT BENEFICIARIES**
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3 1 India - 1,203,244 8 Turkey - 14,452
2 Yemen - 236,021 9 Bangladesh - 6,446
3 Gaza - 232,871 10 Kenya - 2,440
1 4 Pakistan - 192,937 11 Iraq - 2,000
2 5 Syria - 102,738 12 Afghanistan - 1,850
6 Kashmir - 86,360 13 Ethiopia - 1,826
7 Lebanon - 36,080 14 Tanzania - 1,790
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## **SYRIA: AN OVERVIEW**
The continuing conflict in Syria has inflicted an almost unimaginable degree of devastation and loss on both the Syrian people and their economy.
In addition to the more than 400,000 deaths attributed to the conflict so far, and the 6.9 million displaced, the country’s economic downturn has worsened, and the value of the Syrian pound dropped to record lows. The price of food, fuel, and other critical items has soared – the price of basic staples, when available, multiplied by 200% with food prices 20 times higher than when the conflict began.
People displaced internally are forced to live in temporary camps, broken buildings, or in the open air – and without proper healthcare or facilities, are particularly susceptible to diseases like cholera which are rife in the crowded camps, particularly where poor water supplies make hygiene challenging, and contaminated water is everywhere.
The lack of sustained access to health care, education, housing, and food have exacerbated the effects of the conflict and pushed millions of people into further unemployment and poverty. And with the deepening economic and political crisis in neighbouring Lebanon and the imposed sanctions of the Caesar Law have further restrained Syria’s external economic ties, leading to fuel shortages, price hikes,and a rapid depreciation in local currency.
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## **SYRIA: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND CURRENT NEEDS**
The Syrian civil war began officially on March 15, 2011. In the eleven years since, of the country’s population of 21.7 million, 3.7 million children under five suffer from malnutrition, 245,000 acutely, and 553,000 are chronically malnourished.
In December 2021, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) ranked Syria as the 9th worst humanitarian situation in the world. And went on to announce Syria’s worst economic crisis since its war began – a deepening situation into 2022, exacerbating food insecurity for millions – 60% of the population. And forcing many to consider the desperate steps of child labour and marriage.
The country’s economy has shrunk by more than half since 2011, and continues to deteriorate. The Syrian refugee crisis remains the world’s largest refugee and displacement crisis of our time. Since the conflict, families have suffered under brutal violence that has killed hundreds and thousands of people, torn the nation apart and set back its standard of living by decades.
In 2021 more than 6.8 million refugees were from Syria – more than any other country in the world. An estimated 5.8 million children need humanitarian aid to meet their basic needs in Syria and neighbouring countries. 12 million people are food insecure, an increase of 51% since 2019. 6.9 million people are displaced within Syria, while more than 3.6 million are hosted in neighbouring Turkey – hosting the largest refugee population worldwide. Lebanon hosts approximately 831,000, making 14% of its population. A further 675,000 are in Jordan, 260,000 in Iraq, and 141,000 in Egypt.
Nearly 13,000 children have died or been injured in Syria since its war began. More than 50% of Syrians live in extreme poverty, on less than $1.90 a day. Infrastructure has collapsed, with hospitals and health centres, schools, and utilities and water and sanitation systems damaged or destroyed. Conflict has shattered the economy, and so many historic landmarks, while once-busy marketplaces have been reduced to rubble.
Syrian children, who carry the hope of the nation for a better future, have been killed, injured and traumatised by the loss of parents and family members,
remain vulnerable to violence and abuse, and an estimated 2.4 million missing school.
Children are inevitably particularly vulnerable to disease, and malnutrition – exacerbated by poor diet, weakening their resistance. Diarrheal diseases like cholera are common, with pneumonia common among respiratory infections.
## **SKT PROGRAMMES IN SYRIA**
SKT Welfare remains extremely active in Syria and Turkey – addressing this ongoing humanitarian crisis,, and like all the world’s charitable organisations, remain dependent on the support of all the generous and kind-hearted people prepared to give money, time, and real physical effort to try to relieve the terrible plight of the millions of innocent and suffering refugees, which the conflict has wounded mentally and physically, killed, or made homeless – forcing them to flee to rebuild their lives in a new and foreign place, that may resent their arrival, lack sympathy and understanding and even remain hostile.
**PROJECTS IN 2021 ALHUDA SURGICAL HOSPITAL EDUCATION CAN’T WAIT ABDULLAH BIN ABBAS INSTITUTE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND QURAN LEARNING FOOD PARCEL PROJECT IN SYRIA FOOD PARCEL PROJECT IN TURKEY READY TO EAT PARCELS QURBANI ONE MILLION FREE BREADS CLEAN WATER, SANITATION & HYGIENE**
SKT has always been there to help the dispossessed and vulnerable on the ground, day-to day – supplying food, water, medical aid, education, and more. The charity continues the implementation of its ten-year Syrian Humanitarian Response Plan with its SDGs [SDGs Sustainable Development Goals] – a strategy for Syria and neighbouring Turkey, which continues to be the most welcoming and hospitable country for desperate refugees crossing the border from Syria.
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## **HEALTH**
Ensuring access to health and well being
## **TARGET 3**
End the epidemic of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
## **SDG3 Good health and well-being**
## **TARGET 4**
Reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well being.
## **AL-HUDA SURGICAL HOSPITAL**
SKT Welfare established Alhuda Surgical Hospital to address at least some of the massive demand for medical services in the continuing Syrian conflict. From its establishment in Western Aleppo, in 2013, it has dealt with all the conflict’s challenges and consequences, from mental trauma, to ill-health, injury, and death.
It has served and helped thousands of people, before after repeated devastating hostile attacks, SKT audaciously and courageously relocated the hospital, with its equipment and dedicated team, to a new, largely underground site in Idlib. Here local people have access to a 24-hour ambulance service, a Paediatric Clinic, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedic care, a Pharmacy, Radiology, and Laboratory, where more than 5,610 beneficiaries are supported each month, and more than 28,050 medical services.
In the year 2021-22, the hospital provided healthcare to 67,320 beneficiaries, in Paediatrics, Surgery, Neurology, Orthopaedics, and Outpatient clinics - meeting again its Global Goals targets 3 and 4, and SDG3: Health and Wellbeing.
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## **HEALTH**
Ensuring access to health and well being
## Al-Huda Hospital – Beneficiaries in each department
## The main departments of the hospital:
The following table shows the number of beneficiaries during the first month (January) of the year 2020 at Al-Huda Specialised Hospital in the western countryside of Aleppo.
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General Surgery 8%
Physio Therapy 4% Pediatric Wing 1%
Surgical Operations 2%
Radiology 4% Neurological Department 5%
Internal 10%
Laboratory 28%
Pediatrics 10%
Ambulance 17%
Pharmacy 9%
Hospitalisation 2%
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|Neurological|1,081|
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|Orthopedic|1,592|
|Pediatrics|2,872|
|Otolaryngology|340|
|Ambulance|3,192|
|Internal|954|
|Pharmacy|2,952|
|Laboratory|2,128|
|Radiology|1,472|
|Total|16,583|
The following table shows the number of beneficiaries in SKT Specialised Hospital in Kafr Lusin from the month (10 to 12):
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Otolaryngology 6%
Internal 6%
Neurological 6%
Laboratory 13%
Orthopedic 10%
Laboratory 13%
Pediatrics 17%
Pharmacy 18%
Ambulance 19%
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## **ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22**
## **EDUCATION CAN’T WAIT**
Ensuring access to quality education
## **EDUCATION CAN’T WAIT**
## **TARGET 1**
Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.
## **SDG4**
## **Good health and well-being**
## **TARGET 5**
Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of educational and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
Education remains a priority for SKT in our care and concerns for displaced and refugee children, their welfare, rebuilding their lives, and looking to their future.
In our Orphan Sponsorship Programme, we do our very best to help as many orphans as we can in a caring, safe and supportive setting. In Turkey our Springs of Hope family centre in Reyhanli houses orphans from Sha’am in a place where we make a real home for these children – not only providing food and clothing, but giving them the love, security, and supportive company of their mothers and guardians, who live with them.
It’s a place where we match our daily care with matchless education, to put our orphans on the road to a better, brighter future as they grow, grow up, and eventually move on in years to come. And with the generosity of our kind donors, transforming their young lives, inspiring them, and opening their eyes and minds to so many lifechanging opportunities ahead.
Meanwhile our flagship Hafiz Sponsorship Programme provides an orphaned child with a lifechanging three year Islamic education – making them strong in their faith, so they may go out into the world as spiritual guiding lights, to become teachers and leaders in their communities. As their lives are changed by this wonderful opportunity you give them, so they will go on to change the lives of others, and spread the blessed word of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and the Qu’ran, in years to come.
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## **FOOD AID & FOOD SECURITY**
Ensuring quality food to lead a healthy life
## **TARGET 1**
End hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
## **SDG2**
**Zero Hunger**
## **TARGET 2**
End all forms of malnutrition and achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescents girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
Contributing to achieve Targets 1 and 2 of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) SKT ensured provision of nutritional food and their food needs were met through its Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) projects in Syria.
## **FOOD PARCEL PROJECT**
This year, 2,500 parcels were distributed among Syrian refugees, with 12,461 beneficiaries – the parcels packed with good staple foods, chosen for their energy and nutrition, to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS).
More good nutrition was provided during Qurbani with the distribution of top quality fresh meat shared among 3,985 beneficiaries. And all of this was undertaken with care not to duplicate the humanitarian response of other organisations.
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## **FOOD AID & FOOD SECURITY**
Contributing to achieve Targets 1 and 2 of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) SKT ensured provision of nutritional food and their food needs were met through its Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) projects in Syria.
Ensuring quality food to lead a healthy life
## **FREE BREAD PROJECT**
Displaced Syrians and refugees suffer from extreme poverty, and the constant challenge of finding adequate food. SKT responded with its established Free Bread Project to provide sustenance among the food insecure.
In the camps of Harem, 16,279 beneficiaries enjoyed free bread delivered at the rate of 4,797 bundles per day.
## **READY TO EAT PARCELS**
In Ramadan 2021, Food Parcels were delivered and distributed in the camps of Maarzaf, Dar Al Salaam, Hamdouch, and Az-Ziraah with 2,113 beneficiaries.
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## **FOOD AID & FOOD SECURITY**
Ensuring quality food to lead a healthy life
Contributing to achieve Targets 1 and 2 of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) SKT ensured provision of nutritional food and their food needs were met through its Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) projects in Syria.
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## **WATER SANITATION & HEALTH (WASH)**
Ensuring access to safe & affordable drinking water
## **TARGET 1**
Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.
## **SDG6**
## **Clean water and sanitation**
## **TARGET 2**
Achieve access to adequate and equatable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation. Paying special attention to the needs of women, girls and those in vulnerable situations.
Before 2010, and the start of the present Syria conflict, 98% of people in cities, and 92% of people in rural communities had reliable access to safe water. By October 2021 only 50% of water and sanitation systems are functioning properly. Approximately 14.6 million Syrians lack adequate access to clean water, while 7.6 million people are estimated to be in acute need of WASH services.
## **CLEAN WATER, SANITATION & HYGIENE**
Addressing targets 1 and 2 of SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) SKT provided diesel water pumps to the Muhammadiyah and Deir Ballut camps with 5,705 beneficiaries – for their drinking, and domestic use.
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## **SHELTER**
There are approximately 6,700,000 Syrians who are internally displaced. 2021 marked the 11th year of civil war in the country, forcing more and more people from their homes.
Ensuring access to safe & comfortable housing.
“And Allah had made your homes a place to rest”
## **SAFE HAVENS**
We remember all the values by which the Prophet lived, and in his wisdom and teachings how we should live too - that we be empathetic to the plight of others, and with that understanding, show our compassion, and with charity, reach out to help them.
(Surah An-Nahl, Verse 80)
And we, at SKT, believe that too, and answer that need in our flagship Safe Haven Project – to rehouse the most vulnerable in solid, roofed homes, with a stove and fuel to warm and cook upon, toilet facilities, dry mattresses and blankets, and the security of a lockable door they can close to shut out the world and all its weather.
These values are the driving force of SKT Welfare – and shape our response to those forced to live in sparse shelters.
And when their only cover is the thin fabric of a tent, the most vulnerable are the most at risk – the old, the very young, the sick, and the widowed.
We have now built three thriving Safe Haven communities, and our fourth is well under way – and as we add mosques, health facilities and schools, create communities which are mutually supportive, and provide families - adults and children, with a real home base from which to rebuild their lives.
Subject to the extremes of heat and cold, draughts, the risk of flooding, merciless insects, and lack of running water, they are particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems, or waterborne disease.
Everyone wants and needs a home. As the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) himself understood.
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## **TURKEY: AN OVERVIEW**
Turkey’s economy grew 11 percent in 2021, the fastest among the G20 countries, as Covid measure were gradually relaxed, but slowed into 2022, and as a high energy and carbon user, is vulnerable to increasing energy costs, and pressure to reduce its carbon use. Inequality is higher than in most advanced economies, and the poorest 20% of households earn just 6.1% of income.
Turkey continues to be the world’s biggest host of refugees, and in early 2022 began pressing to relocate large numbers of Syrian refugees back into their country. Anti-refugee sentiment has been mounting, with government initiative currying political favour. And by February 2022 was able to announce it had deported over 155,000 to Syria, under the pretext of “voluntary return.”
Nevertheless, Reyhanli in Turkey is the base for our Springs of Hope family centre, where we care for, and educate orphans, giving them a chance to rebuild their lives, and look to a better future.
And it is where we target our Deployments – regrettably suspended due to the international restrictions of Covid, but which we would revive with enthusiasm and renewed vigour, in the year following this report.
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## **TURKEY: DEPLOYMENTS**
## **TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS**
Deployments are our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity volunteers to travel with us to Turkey, and deliver SKT’s charity themselves, hands-on, among Syrian refugees – providing food packs to the vulnerable, and the orphaned – in their homes, their schools, and their care facilities.
A truly unforgettable experience, it enables volunteers to come with us, spend time with our beneficiaries, and see first-hand, the daily challenges faced by our Syrian brothers and sisters, who live as refugees in Turkey, and see the real, tangible difference that SKT’s humanitarian aid can make to their lives.
Covid was the unavoidable hurdle that prevented and suspended SKT’s Deployment Project for two years, but as vaccines brought the global epidemic under increasing control, so SKT has been reviving its plans to begin again this initiative that invites people from all walks of life to come with us, see, contribute, and experience for themselves the rewards of giving handson aid, food, and water to our beneficiaries in Turkey.
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## **EDUCATION CAN’T WAIT**
Ensuring access to quality education
## **TARGET 1**
Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.
## **SDG4 Good health and well-being**
## **TARGET 5**
Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of educational and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, idegenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
## **ACCESS TO EDUCATION FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES**
SKT Welfare cares about education. Syrian refugee children suffer many obstacles to receiving an education – because of their dislocation from the place they grew up, the change in their homelife, poverty, the barrier of language, and the cost of textbooks and basic materials.
Our school, the Abdullah Ibn Abbas Institute was founded in Turkey to address these challenges, and offer the kind of sponsored education these children need to move forward in their lives – to grow intellectually, as they grow up. The Institute provides a full Islamic education as part of a comprehensive curriculum which embraces the core subjects, and teaching in Arabic and Turkish.
Our Hifz project is our other special education project, inviting benefactors to sponsor a child in a specialised Islamic course devoted to the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), and the Qu’ran, making them particularly strong in the faith we all share, and equipping them to go out into the world in due course as mentors and teachers of the faith.
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## **PAKISTAN: AN OVERVIEW**
Pakistan is the world’s fifth-most populous country – home to 228 million people, and is the world’s second-largest Muslim population after Indonesia, with 96% of its population following Islam.
The country is prone to natural disasters – ranging from droughts to monsoon floods, and occasional earthquakes – situations that always bring further unwanted strain to a country long burdened by internal political division, and economic strain.
Pakistan is home to one of the largest refugee populations, having accommodated 1.4 million registered Afghans who have been forced to flee their homeland, and a further million believed unregistered. The majority (68%) live in urban areas, the remaining 32% in refugee camps. But Pakistan has suffered one of the most extended refugee crises in the world, receives little support from the international community, and has been putting brakes on further arrivals.
While Pakistan provides refugees and asylum seekers with some access to social services, they hold no official status, and cannot work legally. Proof of Registration entitles refugees to freedom of movement and temporary legal status, but they have no access to formal education, limited work opportunities, and limited access to public healthcare. Consequently, only 8% are formally employed, and most endure high labour/ low pay jobs, or any menial work they can find.
Government tolerance of refugees has fallen markedly with camps being blamed for rising incidents of terrorism. New refugees have been confined in border camps, and repatriation officially embraced and encouraged.
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## **PAKISTAN: OUR PROGRAMMES**
## **Beneficiaries Overview**
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## **FOOD AID & FOOD SECURITY**
Ensuring quality food to lead a healthy life
## **FOOD AID AND FOOD SECURTY**
Over the years, Pakistan has become a food surplus country, and a major producer of wheat, which it exports to other less fortunate countries. Yet, 37% of the population suffers food insecurity. Of the 208 million population, 20% is undernourished, with 44% of children suffering stunted growth.
Food insecurity is not only about food shortages, but a shortage of money in families to actually buy good nutritious food. Periods of drought cause job losses, and loss of income, while agricultural yields suffer with climate change, and severe weather. The consequence is that the most vulnerable, particularly women, suffer from an inadequate diet. And, inevitably, children. 18% of children suffer from acute malnutrition, 40% suffer stunted growth, and 29% are underweight.
face greater food insecurity for longer periods than others – which also drives migration from rural areas to the cities, placing greater strain on already straining public facilities.
This impact is felt in public health, education, and equality – widening the gap between rich and poor, and their contrasting aspirations, life opportunities, and career achievements.
SKT Welfare has continued to address these issues in aid and welfare where and how it can. Thousands of refugee families particularly vulnerable to malnutrition have been identified, recorded on SKT’s database, and targeted for assistance and Food Aid throughout the year.
Those living in poorer neighbourhoods, or regions,
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## **FOOD AID & FOOD SECURITY**
Ensuring quality food to lead a healthy life
## **TARGET 1**
End hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
In 2021 food security further deteriorated due to high food and fuel prices, rising inflation, and prolonged lack of rainfall leading to drought, livestock disease – all compounded by the impact of Covid-19.
In Lahore, 1,000 Food Parcels, and 72 MiniDeed Food parcels, were distributed, with 5,008 beneficiaries.
During Ramadan 2021, 1,000 Food Parcels were distributed in Lahore, with 5,000 beneficiaries
During Qurbani 2021, the Minhaj Welfare Foundation sacrificed 28 cows, with 980 beneficiaries of nutritious meat, with a further two cows benefitting 70 people.
And the Sadaqah gift for the people of Lahore benefitted 896.
In this way, once again, SKT Welfare met its targets 1 & 2 of SDG2: zero hunger.
**SDG2 Zero Hunger**
## **TARGET 2**
End all forms of malnutrition including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescents, girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
## **Food Distribution (excluding Qurbani) - locations and beneficiaries**
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## **HEALTH**
Ensuring access to health and well being
## **GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING**
Healthcare in Pakistan continues to challenge, and remains near the bottom of international ranking in terms of access to Healthcare services.
A high level of inequality prevails, with 24% below the poverty line. But there are government initiatives – facilitating the acquisition of bank accounts for Pakistan’s poorest women, and access to smartphones.
Education is lacking, despite Pakistan’s obligation to provide free education to all children to age 16. Low standards, the diversion of the better-off to private schools, and the lure of child labour, mean that Pakistan suffers the second-highest outof-school youth population in the world.
Malnutrition is rampant, and with increasingly overcrowded cities, unsafe drinking water,
inadequate sanitation, and low health awareness. A situation seriously worsened by the unexpected additional burden of Coronavirus to challenge the country’s continuing efforts to improve health and wellbeing.
## **TARGET 3**
End the epidemic of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
Socially, and economically, we contributed to local work initiatives with the provision of 130 Sewing Machines – but more significantly, by providing improved access to clean, uncontaminated water, by the installation of hand pumps, and water filtration plants.
## **SDG3**
**Good health and well-being**
## **TARGET 4**
Reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well being.
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## **WATER SANITATION & HEALTH (WASH)**
Ensuring access to safe & affordable drinking water
## **PAKISTAN IS FACING A WATER CRISIS**
For millions of people who live without ready access to clean uncontaminated water, death is only a drought away. In rural Pakistan, people walk for several miles daily, often to bring back dirty, diseaseridden water for their families and children. Because they have no alternative. And having no choice but to drink contaminated water, 3 children suffer and die every minute.
We, at SKT, address this chronic need in Pakistan in two ways. One way is by the installation of Water Hand Pumps, to provide a family with clean, safe, disease-free water – a transformative benefit that frees them from their daily water trek, improves their family’s health, and their prospects for a better life, and an education for their children.
Last year 2,800 Water Hand Pumps were installed, providing clean, fresh water to 14,010 beneficiaries.
Our other big initiative in Pakistan is the installation of water filtration plants - a modern technological marvel that, through osmosis, removes all the harmful minerals, salts and bacteria present in contaminated water sources - giving thousands, at a stroke, a clean, purified alternative, so they will avoid the endemic hazards of water polluted with arsenic and rampant bacteria, which cause widespread health issues of every kind, including diarrhoea, and even death. Last year 11 Water Filtration Plants were installed by SKT, providing, and continuing to supply water to 115,000 beneficiaries.
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## **WATER SANITATION & HEALTH (WASH)**
Ensuring access to safe & affordable drinking water
## **TARGET 1**
Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.
## **SDG6 Clean water and sanitation**
## **TARGET 2**
Achieve access to adequate and equatable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation. Paying special attention to the needs of women, girls and those in vulnerable situations.
Pakistan not only faces problems with access to water, but also issues of water quality. According to a PUBMED study, water pollution is one of the major threats to public health in Pakistan.
Drinking water quality is poorly managed and monitored. Pakistan ranks at number 80 among 122 nations regarding drinking water quality. Throughout the country
drinking water sources, both surface and groundwater, are contaminated with coliforms, toxic metals and pesticides. Various drinking water quality parameters set by WHO are frequently violated. Improper disposal of municipal and industrial effluents, and indiscriminate applications of agrochemicals in agriculture, are the main factors contributing to the deterioration of water quality, and responsible exclusively, or in combination, for various public health problems.
Access to water is not only a basic need and prerequisite for a healthy life, but also a fundamental human right, and prolonged water shortage
SKT has committed itself to
can trigger an economic and health crisis.
ensure that the people of Pakistan receive quality water suitable for consumption, and to effectively play their role in the growth of the country.
According to PCRWR Pakistan, water related diseases cause annual national income loss of PKR 25-58 billion - approximately 0.6 to 1.44% of GDP. In Pakistan 200,000 children die every year from diarrheal diseases alone (UN commission on Sustainable Development).
Access to safe and clean drinking water to the most deserving people in Punjab contributed to the achievement of SKT’s targets 1 and 2 of SDG 6; Clean water and sanitation.
Acutely aware of the importance of the availability of clean water for agriculture, cooking food, domestic use and to maintain health and hygiene.
**Beneficiaries served by: Pakistan Water Filteration and Hand Pumps Overview**
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## **PAKISTAN: CASE STUDY**
“When my husband died, my children and I were thrown out of our family home as my in-laws feared that I would demand a share in the ancestral property. My parents brought me home but because my father was a cancer patient, we struggled a lot financially. I used to wash dishes and wash clothes at peoples’ houses to earn some money, but whenever they found out that I was a widow, they would sack me without any notice. A time came when I even had to sleep on the streets on cold, wintery nights.”
This heart-breaking story is one among many such stories found in Pakistan, showing the ordeals which vulnerable women and their children have to go through when they find themselves with no roof over their heads. We can’t even imagine the difficulties that women like Mehwish Begum* have had to face and the constant stress they feel to be able to find some work so that they can build a safe haven for their children. Alhamdulillah, SKT Welfare was able to provide hope to Mehwish and her family by building a home for them in Muzaffargarh, Punjab. The house consists of one living room/bedroom space, a bathroom and a kitchen with food supplies.
_**“SKT Welfare built a house for me and my children and we now have a roof over our heads, a place to call home and stay protected from the cold. We are grateful to SKT Welfare and those who donated to this cause.”**_
## **Mehwish Begum**
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## **CHILD WELFARE & ORPHANS SUPPORT**
Ensuring every child grows up happy, healthy and cared for
## **REDUCED INEQUALITIES**
SKT strongly believes in the social inclusion of children who are excluded due to poverty and inequality, and does something about that every Eid. Celebrated by Muslims twice a year, it is an event in which parents who can afford to, buy their children gifts, clothes and sweets, bringing great happiness and cheer. Unfortunately, the majority of the Muslim countries in the world are facing wars, conflicts and poverty resulting in a significant increase in the number of orphans.
**2,693 beneficiaries in Lahore were given Eid Gifts**
Contributing to the SDG 10, which adheres to reducing inequalities, SKT identified those orphan children who were most vulnerable, and provided them with food and Eid gifts during Eid festivals so they weren’t left out. In 2021, SKT distributed EID gifts and clothes to 2,693 orphan children from Lahore, to make their EID happier and sweeter.
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## **PALESTINE: AN OVERVIEW**
Gaza, already suffering from years of conflict were hit by further aerial bombardment for eleven days in May 2021, causing more devastation to homes, businesses, and infrastructure. More than 253 people were killed, including 35 women, and 66 children. 2000 were injured, and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes.
Under constant military and aerial threat, its citizens suffered daily privations in water, power, healthcare, and education, demanding more urgent aid from charities like SKT Welfare. According to UNRWA, the UN agency that cares for refugees, years of conflict have left 80% of Gaza’s population dependent on international assistance.
Gaza water is judged undrinkable, power cuts are frequent, while medical supplies, equipment, and staff to use, and administer them, are in short supply. Schools are understaffed and overcrowded, raising stress levels for students and staff, heightening the risk and spread of disease, and limiting concentration and productivity.
Tackling Palestine and Gaza’s humanitarian crisis has been a priority for SKT – with 266 beneficiaries of its orphan protection scheme, delivering food parcels at Ramadan, with 1,250 beneficiaries. Fundraising benefitted 1,271 families numbering 6,355 people. While the chronic water shortage was addressed with the transformative installation of two desalination plants to provide clean, uncontaminated water to 220,000 beneficiaries.
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## **YEMEN: AN OVERVIEW**
After eight years of war, Yemen remains possibly the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Long one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, the impact of conflict has been catastrophic. More than 6 million people have been uprooted, 20.7 million are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, and the risk of largescale famine has never been more acute, with 16.2 million facing hunger.
The arrival of Covid-19 made everything worse. The unexpected global virus that ravaged countries everywhere, hit hardest among vulnerable communities where people unavoidably live too close together, medical facilities are under-resourced and under-equipped, people are too physically weak to resist further assault on their bodies, and vaccinesupplies remained inadequate, or too late to make a difference.
Food-poverty and hunger is widespread. Diets are often basic, and lack the proteins, vitamins and minerals that we take for granted in our own daily meals.
SKT Welfare has responded to Yemen’s plight in several significant ways. Food Parcels at Ramadan, and other occasions, boosted by 42 pallets of rice, benefitted 6,750 people. Qurbani sacrifice provided meat to 211,670 beneficiaries. And in the winter months we distributed 30 Winter Kits, benefitting 150 people. And of course, our work in Yemen doesn’t stop, as we continue to address the shortages and suffering of our brothers and sisters there.
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## **NEW TERRITORIES**
2021 was a year in which SKT consolidated its operations in established territories, while venturing into a new one – Afghanistan, where we distributed 260 Food Parcels, with 1,300 beneficiaries.
Other territories benefitted as follows.
In Tanzania we distributed 100 Food Parcels at Ramadan, benefitting 500 people, and built 3 further mosques, benefitting 360 worshippers. Qurbani was our opportunity to benefit 2,125 people with nutritious meat in Kenya.
In Bangladesh, there were 1,746 beneficiaries at Ramadan, while in Reyhanli, Turkey, our Orphan Sponsorship scheme at Springs of Hope, provided a special Education for 149 children.
India enjoyed Qurbani with 1,195,955 beneficiaries. In Kashmir Qurbani beneficiaries numbered 85,860.
1,650 people benefitted from Winter Kits in Pakistan, and Yemen, while in Lebanon, Food Parcels, benefitted 18,040 people.
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## **SKT - THE DATE PROJECT**
## **ABOUT THE DATE PROJECT**
This unique and remarkable 100% volunteer run initiative, has, since 2015, transformed and helped the lives of thousands in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
The idea was simple: to raise funds for the Al-Huda Bakery in Syria (established in 2014), by selling a box of the finest Medjoul dates for £10 per tin in Ramadan – with the profits from each tin sold providing funds for fifty loaves of bread for a Syrian family. And, since 2015 over 15 million loaves of bread have been provided to Syrian refugees in camps in around Idlib, Northern Syria.
Since 2016 over 146 million litres of clean drinking water have been provided to Palestinians from our 2 purpose-built desalination plants in Gaza, with a 3rd plant installed during 2021-22.
Since 2017, 85 orphaned children a month, in Turkey have being provided with support in their education, psychology, specialist needs, medical care, food and clothing.
In 2018, 6,700 patients were screened for clinical eye disorders across 3 separate camps in Syria – providing free cataract surgery and reading glasses. And over 30% screened were provided with medication for infections and allergies.
From 2019 to 2020, nearly 3,000 families, suffering in Yemen’s civil war, received food packs and essential aid, with over 950 tonnes of rice and flour delivered to its hardest hit areas.
We built on this in 2021, delivering a further 42 pallets with 2,100 rice bags, benefitting 4,400 people.
## **ETHICALLY SOURCED DATES**
The dates we sell are ethically sourced; they are the finest Medjool dates from the Jordan Valley inside Jordan, hand-selected and packed by a community of Syrian refugees who are employed in the process.
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Please note, none of the dates have been selected from Occupied Palestine/Israel.
Our Medjool dates are grown in date farms located in the Jordanian segment of the Jordan Valley and as such, customers should have peace of mind regarding who they are supporting.
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## **SKT QURBANI PROGRAMMES**
Qurbani is our annual sacrifice of chosen animals, performed during the days of Eid al-Adha – and from which many portions of nutritious meat are divided and distributed among thousands of vulnerable people and families, at risk of malnutrition due to poor or inadequate diets, beyond their control. For them, Qurbani meat is more than a blessed gift at a sacred time; it can be the food that makes a vital difference to their health – particularly to the aged, infirm, or children - lifting their bodily resistance and vitality, and lowering their susceptibility to disease, and physical decline.
## **Qurbani distribution by country**
Yemen 14,170 Pakistan 1,050 Syria 3,985 Kashmir 8,820 Kenya 2,125 Bangladesh 950 India 107,960
**SKT’s 2021 Qurbani programme in 7 Countries benefitted 1,502,391 individuals**
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## **SKT COMMITMENT TO CORE HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS**
SKT became the member of the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) Alliance in 2018 and continues to practice its principles and commitments.
While implementing its humanitarian projects in the countries of operations, SKT adhered to the core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality. SKT worked to ensure that communities were placed at the centre of humanitarian action while respecting their rights and dignity. SKT worked towards application of the Core Humanitarian Standards in all its projects and programmes through the CHS Alliance’s nine commitments.
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## **AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS FOR 2022**
## **FOLLOWING ARE THE MAIN AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS OF SKT WELFARE IN 2021**
## To take initiatives in promoting SKT’s vision, mission and values across the globe. **1** SKT aims to take initiatives in the UK and its
SKT aims to take initiatives in the UK and its countries of operations to promote its Vision, Mission and Values. SKT will ensure each country should live with SKT’s vision, mission and values and should apply these in all its programmes.
To roll out all its policies, manuals and processes in the UK at field levels. **2** SKT believes that it is mandatory that all its
SKT believes that it is mandatory that all its policies, manuals and processes are rolled out in the UK and at country levels. Every staff member should be completely aware of SKT’s policies, manuals and processes and implement these in all its humanitarian and development projects.
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To further strengthen its programmes department with special emphasis on robust monitoring and evaluation systems and mechanism.
**5**
SKT will focus on expanding and strengthening its programmes department in the UK and at country levels. This will be done through the recruitment of more programme staff in the UK and at country levels for effective implementation. Moreover, in 2021, special focus will be given to monitoring and evaluation of projects in a robust manner. Each field office will have monitoring tools and frameworks in place to measure the performance of each project and to achieve objectives. **6**
## To adhere to the concept of Value for Money.
SKT will adhere to the concept of Value for Money (VFM) in all its programming in the countries of operation. SKT believes that VFM is expressed in terms of pursuing economy, efficiency and effectiveness to achieve desired outcomes and maximise the benefit of those outcomes.
## To take key initiatives for SKT’s geographical expansion.
SKT will take initiatives in setting up its Fundraising offices in Europe and North America. A plan has already been developed to start the process of registering SKT in some countries in Europe and North America. These include the setting up of offices in Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States. Furthermore, SKT has plans to expand its field offices and to focus more on the African region. These include the setting up of offices in Tanzania and the Sub-Sahara African region. Furthermore, SKT plans to register as an International NGO (INGO) in Pakistan and strengthen its Yemen office.
## To maximise quality income and build strategic partnerships.
SKT has plans to maximise its quality income through community fundraising and build strategic partnerships with institutional donors, trusts, foundations, government aid commissions and the corporate sector. In this regard, SKT will focus more on quality proposal submissions to the institutional donors which include UN agencies, Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission (GOAC), OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and Government of Isle of Man.
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**Financial Review for the Year Ended 31 March 2022**
## **Report of the Trustees**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the parent charity and group for the year ended 31 March 2022. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).
## **Objectives and activities**
We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities.
The principal objectives set out by the charity and contained within our trust deeds, are summarised as follows:
- To provide relief to victims of natural and man-made disasters worldwide, regardless of colour, race, ethnicity and to facilitate rehabilitation back into communities by providing sustainable aid concentrating on education and welfare.
- To help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time and educational activities, so as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society
Our objectives are set to reflect the aims and purpose of the charity. They are constantly reviewed and assessed by the Trustees to ensure they continue to reflect our aims. The Charity Commission’s guidance notes have been consulted in formulating these objectives.
The Charity, therefore, has the ultimate duty to regularly identify and review the risks to which The Charity is exposed, and ensure that appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud, malicious acts, and error. The Trustees, along with the CEO and the senior staff, actively review these risks on a regular basis.
Risks are complex, due to the nature of the work we carry out. They are assessed on the basis of their likelihood and potential impact, which would allow the implementation of mitigation strategies to manage these risks. Also, wherever possible, risks are covered by suitable insurance, to reduce their financial impact.
The principal risks to the charity have been identified as:
## **Strategic Reputation**
One of the most valuable assets of any charity is its reputation. It is vitally important that we do all we can to meet the expectations of our donors, beneficiaries, supporters and other organisations that we partner with.
To protect The Charity against reputational damage, we implement the following policies:
- Fraud, Corruption and Bribery - We work very hard to ensure that integrity and transparency are embedded in all our policies and procedures. Conflict of interest; AntiBribery; Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Money Laundering policies are introduced and closely monitored.
- Senior level representation on many important forums and influential fronts, to ensure positive visibility, including a strong media presence.
## **Risk Management**
The Trustees take their responsibilities towards staff, donors, and beneficiaries very seriously.
An important aspect of discharging these responsibilities involves the identification and management of all potential risks that might compromise staff, resources, or ability to deliver programmes.
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## **Operational**
Risks in this area include physical risks to our personnel and volunteers, and risks compromising the continuation of project delivery. To mitigate against such risks, The Charity has taken the following actions:
- Developed Standard Operating Procedures for common processes to protect against loss of key staff or volunteers;
- Improved the quality and the scope of training, to disseminate skills and good practice within the organisation, and to ensure staff safety and wellbeing;
- Regular reviews of key systems and procedures to improve and strengthen the internal policies and communication processes, thus maintaining a clear structure of delegated authority and control;
- Applied robust due diligence policy in our dealings with donors;
- Adopted clear processes to review and assess our performance management system on the ground;
- All programmes have up-to-date security policies, which include the provision of regular comprehensive security briefings and assessments, in response to rapid changes in the political situation;
- Culture and Behaviour – SKT Welfare monitors and learns lessons from peer organisations and as such focused on ensuring it develops the right culture and behaviour as The Charity grows:
- As such we have undertaken a review of policy and procedures to ensure they are ‘fit for purpose’.
- Enhanced support to field offices in Turkey.
- A programme of regular training for all staff.
- The Trustees, are therefore, satisfied that adequate systems and procedures are in place to manage and minimise exposure to the identified risks.
## **Plans for Future Periods**
## **Aims and key objectives for future periods**
The Charity intends to continue the projects outlined above and to expand them as required by needs on the ground, and determined by the limits of our capacity. ln addition, we will continue to consider other projects, within the funds and staff capacity available, and based on comprehensive and up-to-date needs assessments. Furthermore, we will continue to closely monitor the progress of the various projects and to analyse the challenges facing them. A number of issues have been identified:
- We will work to provide the most appropriate solutions for our beneficiaries. This will be realised through the development of appropriate accountability, compliance and quality tools/ mechanism to align with industry standards and best practice.
- To ensure we have the resources and systems in place to play a leading role in defining and shaping the direction of The Charity. The quality of programming delivered align with humanitarian principles and are delivered in the most efficient and effective way.
- To ensure professionalism, integrity, transparency & accountability.
- We aim to reach out to an increasing number of institutional donors during this year. However, it would be imperative to build capacity and enhance the quality of programmes.
## **Sectors of work:**
Our programmes are structured into seven sectors of work:
- Food Security & Livelihood
- WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
- NFI (Non-Food ltems)
- Health and Medical Care
Each of these areas is managed by a dedicated team, in charge of the planning, implementation, reporting and documentation of projects within their respective sector.
## **Going Concern**
In view of the financial performance as at the balance sheet date, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that The Charity will have the resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
The Trustees believe there are no material uncertainties that call into doubt our ability to continue as a going concern. The annual financial statements have therefore been prepared on the basis that The Charity is a going concern.
## **COVID-19 Response**
As a result of the virus lockdown in March 2020, The Charity had to temporarily close our offices in the UK in accordance with the local regulations. As a result of the lockdown measures and travel restrictions, it became difficult to travel between countries for management and work was conducted via online calls and meetings.
The Charity has implemented safety measures for staff and as the lockdown has eased, selected staff are returning to the office based on need and social distancing measures. The Charity has not experienced a drop in income as a result of the pandemic. On the contrary, The Charity’s income increased during Ramadan 2020. The Charity has adjusted its community fundraising to focus on online donations.
## **Public Benefit**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by The Charity Commission for England and Wales.
- Education
- Social & Seasonal
- Programmes
- Protection
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## **Fundraising**
The Charity strives to adhere to relevant statutory regulations including the Data Protection Act (2018), Charities Act (2011) and the Telephone Preference Service. We are continually revising our policies and procedures as we grow to keep up-to date with changes in legislation and regulations.
SKT Welfare is registered with the Fundraising Regulator and have developed our procedures to comply with the Code of Fundraising Practice.
SKT Welfare is also a member of the Institute of Fundraising and our fundraising activities are legal, open, honest and respectful. The Charity utilises a number of different fundraising approaches, which includes the following:
- Major-donor giving
- Corporate giving
- Community fundraising
- Challenges
- Live TV appeals
- Events
- Volunteers
- Direct mail
- Online giving
Fundraising activities are carried out by our own staff, volunteers, partners and professional fundraisers.
## **Code of Fundraising Practice**
We comply with the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice and ensure our fundraising activities reflect the code standards.
## **General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)**
Staff are required to read and understand the organisational GDPR policy which is accessible to all new staff and volunteers. GDPR training is ongoing for new staff and volunteers. We have a Data Protection policy and privacy statements.
## **Protection of Vulnerable People**
The Charity abides by the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice and ensures our staff and volunteers are fully briefed about the code of conduct with regard to the protection of vulnerable people. Before any external facing fundraising activity is undertaken, we brief staff and volunteers on best practice and make them aware of the need to identify, respect, support and protect vulnerable people.
## **Complaints Handling**
There may be times when we do not meet the high standards we set ourselves and for such instances we have a complaints policy in place. Complaints are captured centrally, dealt with in accordance with the process laid down in the policy and reported to the Fundraising Regulator through the annual return. In 2022 we received 0 complaints (2021: 0).
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Governance**
SKT Welfare under its constitution is a UK registered charity (1153735) with the Charity Commission. It is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose Foundation was registered with the Charity Commission on 9 September 2013. On the 04 February 2014, the assets of Sacred Knowledge, which was a UK registered charity (1127634) with the Charity Commission, were transferred into SKT Welfare (1153735). Sacred Knowledge Trust was incepted on 21 January 2009 and operated under the governance of a deed of trust adopted on 1 September 2009 and later amended on 15 September 2012.
## **Organisational Structure and Management**
Appointed trustees are responsible for general management and control of the charity and to ensure that it operates within the guidelines dictated by the Charity Commission and its own governing documents.
The trustees meet regularly to discuss and review the Charity’s operations. At these meetings, they also make macro and micro level decisions relating to the running of the charity and its activities, mainly the delivery of humanitarian aid projects to different parts of the world, as well as within the UK. The trustees also have a group of volunteers working under them (in the form of sub-committees and teams) that focus on particular projects of the charity’s work. The teams that manage the day-to-day running of the charity are primarily:
## 1) Finance and Operations
- 2) International Aid Projects 3) Fundraising and 4) PR, Media and Communications
At least one trustee, with the relevant skill set and experience, is responsible for oversight of one of these teams and the recommendations and activities are reported back into the monthly Trustee meetings.
## **Related Parties**
SKTW Ventures Ltd is a trading subsidiary of SKT Welfare. It supports our charitable activities by retailing high-quality types of dates across the UK. The registered address of SKTW Ventures Ltd is 652 Huddersfield Rd, Dewsbury, WF13 3HP.
## **Disclosure of Information to Auditor**
Each Trustee has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a Trustee in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that The Charity’s
auditor is aware of that information. The Trustees confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditor is unaware.
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## **Reference and administrative details**
## **Registered Charitable incorporated organisation:**
CE000173 (England and Wales)
**Registered Charity number** 1153735
**Registered office** 652 Huddersfield Road Dewsbury WF13 3HP
## **Trustees**
Mr Asif Hussain Mr Muzaffar Ali Mr Majid Butt (Resigned August 2022) Mr Zubair Sharif Mr Iftekhar Ameer (Appointed October 2022)
## **Auditors**
Xaviers Accountants Limited Chartered Certified Accountants Suite 3O, Recycling Lives Centre 1a Essex street Preston PR1 1QE
## **Financial Review**
2021/22 has been a strong financial period, SKT Welfare raised over £8.4m - including Gift Aid. SKT Welfare spent around £6.2m helping the large number of beneficiaries we support in all areas of the world from natural disasters and war zones to educational and orphan programmes. At the same time the balance sheet shows reserves of £5.02m (2021: £2.80m). Moreover, in the event of a significant drop in funding, the Trustees feel that they would be able to continue the current activities of the Charity through the availability of these reserves. The Charity needs to be able to respond quickly to emergencies should the need arise, to get aid and assistance where most needed around the world. The Charity’s reserve policy is to hold equivalent to three months operating costs.
## **Statement of trustees’ responsibilities**
The Trustees are responsible for preparing The Trustees’ report and the Financial Statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Charity law requires The Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under charity law The Trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the parent charity and group and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the group for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, The Trustees are required to:
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- Make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that The Charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain The Charity’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of The Charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of The Charity and group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by The Trustees of the Charity on 31 January 2023 and signed on its behalf by:
Mr Asif Hussain CEO / Trustee
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## **Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of SKT Welfare**
## **Opinions**
We have audited the financial statements of SKT Welfare (The “Parent Charity”) and its subsidiary (The “Group’’) for the year ended 31 March 2022 which comprise of the consolidated statement of financial activities, the parent charity statement of financial activities, the group and parent charity balance sheets, the consolidated cash flow statement and notes to the consolidated financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion, the financial statements:
- Give a true and fair view of the state of the group’s and parent charity’s affairs as at 31 March 2022 and of group and parent charity’s incoming resources and application of resources for the year then ended;
- Have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
- Have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of The Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis for opinion**
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of The Charity in accordance with the ethical requirements relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we
have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
## **Conclusions related to going concern**
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group’s and parent charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
## **Other information**
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, including the trustees’ report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements, or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to
determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and parent charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustees’ report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- The information given in the trustees’ report is inconsistent in any material respect with the financial statements; or
- Sufficient accounting records have not been kept by the parent charity; or
- The parent charity’s financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records; or - We have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
## **Responsibilities of Trustees**
As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities, the Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
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In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the group’s and he parent charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the group or the parent charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
## **Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements**
We have been appointed as auditors under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with regulations made under section 154 of that Act.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.
Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
## **Capability of the audit in detecting irregularities**
In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, our procedures included the following:
- We enquired of management, which included obtaining and reviewing supporting documentation, concerning the parent charity’s/ group’s policies and procedures relating to:
- Identifying, evaluating, and complying with laws and regulations and whether they were aware of any instances of non-compliance;
- Detecting and responding to the risks of fraud and whether they have knowledge of any actual, suspected, or alleged fraud;
- The internal controls established to mitigate risks related to fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations.
- We inspected the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.
- We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the parent charity/ group operates in, focusing on those laws and regulations that had a material effect on the financial statements or that had a fundamental effect on the operations of the parent charity/ group from our professional and sector experience.
- We communicated applicable laws and regulations throughout the audit team and remained alert to any indications of noncompliance throughout the audit.
- We reviewed any reports made to regulators.
- We reviewed the financial statement disclosures and tested these to supporting documentation to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- We performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud.
In addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments, assessed whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias and tested significant transactions that are unusual or those outside the normal course of business.
Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or noncompliance
with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc. org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with the Charities Act 2011. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Xaviers Accountants Limited
Statutory Auditor Chartered Certified Accountants Suite 3J, Recycling Lives Centre 1a Essex street Preston
PR1 1QE
Date: 31 January 2023
Xaviers Accountants Limited is eligible for appointment as auditor of the charity by virtue of its eligibility for appointment as auditor of a company under section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.
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## **SKT Welfare**
Consolidated statement of financial activities and income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 March 2022
The notes on pages 48 to 53 form an integral part of these financial statements.
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## **SKT Welfare**
Parent Charity’s statement of financial activities and income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 March 2022
The notes on pages 48 to 53 form an integral part of these financial statements.
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## **SKT Welfare**
Consolidated and Parent Charity’s Balance Sheets for the year ended 31 March 2022
The financial statements on pages 44 to 46 were approved by the board and signed on its behalf by
31 January 2023
The notes on pages 48 to 53 form an integral part of these financial statements.
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## **SKT Welfare**
Consolidated Cash flow statement for the year ended 31 March 2022
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## **SKT Welfare**
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **1. Accounting Policies**
**Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates**
The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.
## **Statement of compliance**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). They also comply with The Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis of preparation**
SKT Welfare meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.
The financial statements are presented in sterling, which is the presentational currency of the entity.
## **Basis of consolidation**
The consolidated financial statements of the group incorporate the financial statements of SKT Welfare (“The Charity”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, SKTW Ventures Ltd.
## **Going concern**
The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about The Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern nor any significant areas of uncertainty that affect the carrying value
of assets held by The Charity.
The COVID-19 Pandemic has required the charity work through unprecedented conditions which has caused prolonged obstructions throughout the reporting period and as a result the Charity had to temporarily close its offices in UK and move staff to home-working where possible. The Charity has not experienced a drop income and expects to significantly increase its income in 2022.
## **Income and endowments**
All income is recognised once The Charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of the income receivable can be measured reliably.
## **Donations and legacies**
Donations are recognised when The Charity has been notified in writing of both the amount and settlement date. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance by The Charity before The Charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred and not recognised until either those conditions are fully met, or the fulfilment of those conditions is wholly within the control of The Charity and it is probable that these conditions will be fulfilled in the reporting period.
## **Gifts in kind**
Gifts in kind are recognised in different ways dependent on how they are used by The Charity: (i) Those donated for resale produce income when they are sold. They are valued at the amount actually realised.
(ii) Those donated for onward transmission to beneficiaries are included in the Statement of Financial Activities as incoming resources and resources expended when they are distributed. They are valued at the amount The Charity would have had to pay to acquire them.
(iii) Those donated for use by The Charity itself are included when receivable. They are valued at the amount The Charity would have had to pay to acquire them.
## **Expenditure**
All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings, they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.
## **Raising funds**
These are costs incurred in attracting voluntary income, the management of investments and those incurred in trading activities that raise funds.
## **Charitable activities**
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by The Charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
## **Grant provisions**
Provisions for grants are made when the intention to make a grant has been communicated to the recipient but there is uncertainty about either the timing of the grant or the amount of grant payable.
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## **SKT Welfare**
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
sheet date are reported at the rates of exchange prevailing at that date.
## **Fund structure**
## **Financial instruments**
The Charity only has financial assets and liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at amortised cost.
Financial assets held at amortised cost comprise cash and bank in hand, debtors and other debtors. Financial liabilities held at amortised cost comprise all creditors except social security and other taxes.
Financial assets held at amortised cost was £4,500,395 (2021: £2,328,430). Financial liabilities held at amortised was £58,922 (2021: £136,634).
## **Governance costs**
These include the costs attributable to The Charity’s compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements, including audit, strategic management and Trustees’, meetings and reimbursed expenses.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Individual fixed assets are initially recorded at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.
Freehold property - 4% straight line
Fixtures and fittings - 20% on reducing balance Motor vehicles - 20% on reducing balance Computer equipment - 20% on reducing balance
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities. The charity’s subsidiary is subject to corporation tax in the same way as any commercial organisation.
## **Foreign exchange**
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at The Trustees’ discretion in furtherance of the objectives of The Charity.
Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.
## **Pensions and other post retirement obligations**
The Charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme which is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and The Charity has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.
Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.
## **Critical accounting judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty**
The Trustees are required to make judgments, estimates, and assumptions about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates.
The Trustees are required to make judgments, and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
## **Significant judgement and estimates**
There are no significant judgements and estimates having a material effect on the financial statements.
Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded at the rate of exchange at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at the balance
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## **SKT Welfare**
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
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## **SKT Welfare**
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
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## **SKT Welfare**
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
**All restricted funds are for specific humanitarian projects. The restricted funds are categorised by projects.**
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## **SKT Welfare**
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022