HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
TRUSTEES REPORT AND FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31 MARCH 2024
Charit
number 1155727
M ANVARI & CO.
Chartered Certified Accountants

HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
Page
INDEX
Officers and other information
Trustees Reporet
2to10
Independent Examinerfs Report
11-Dec
Balance Sheet
13
Income and Expenditure statement
14
Notes to Financial Statements
15to16

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HAYYAT WOMEN TRUST
OFFICERS AND OTHER INFORMATION
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024
TRUSTEES
Suad Ismail
Abde Samad Mohammed
Kaltum Mohammed
REGISTERED OFFICE
Bute Town Community Centre
2nd Floor Offices
Loudoun Square
Bute Town
Cardiff
CF10 SUZ
ACCOUNTANTS
M Anvari & Co.
Chartered Certified Accountants
152a Whitchurch Road
Cardiff
CF14 3NA

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Hayaat Women Trustees CIO Annual Report
Financial Year April 2023- March 2024
Hayaat Women Trust (Hwf) came into existence as a group of women and men
working as volunteers with the language skills and cultural knowledge needed to
fill the gap in signpost7ng and advocat7ng for welfare and social support provisions.
Through this work our group became expert leader5 in providing the social and
welfare support that the African community needed. We have a very positive track
record of supporting the African community to access mainstream services. We
promote social inclusion for members residing across the city and advocating for
those who are socially excluded on the ground of their status, ethnic origin, or
gender.
Over time driven by our aims and objectives we have developed into an
organisation with a clear mission and vision, and coherent set of operational
practises to ensure that our charity is well run and can offer professional service
provisions. As a charity we adhere to the highest ethical standards and have
adopted policies and procedures that demonstrate transparency and accountability
in all aspects of our work.
grassroots roots organ7sation supporting and empowering communities in
Wales, we have first-hand knowledge of the local issues, cultures, and
circumstance5 in which these communities live. We are led by these communities
in addressing need and have developed a clear understanding of the local and
regional projects and service provisions landscape. We act as a feedback
organisation to 3rd sector and statutory service providers aiding them to better
understand how their services or provisions can be made more accessible and
effectual. As an organisation we see our role as innovators and co-ordinators of
efforts to design and implement provisions that create positive and lasting change
in our communities.
As the organisation has grown, we have developed many services that have
enabled Hvrr to fill in the gaps that have existed in service provisions.
Himilo Advocacy and Advice project, BME women's writing project, Covid -19
Response Project, Catch Up Education project, Tea and Talk project, Basic
Literacy project, BME leornins disability and Autism Project, Golden Years Yosa
project, Health shared Learning project, Befriending Elders project, BME
Swimmins Project, Empowering young women programme, Mentoring project,
Inspire - Aspire: Student Career Pathway project.
As a charity we have been fulfilling our remit of making the voices of our
communities heard through campaigning work to influence policy and provision,
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Partnerships are at the heart of the way we work, we use our knowledge, skills and
capacity, organisational and personal connections, diversity, access to policy
arenas, research evidence, action, and influence in partnership with others.
Working together, supporting each other, and developing long-term relationships
all0V￿ us to achieve far more than we could achieve alone.
Aim & Objectives
To promote social inclusion for the public beneflt by working with African women
residing in Wales who are socially excluded on the ground of their ethnic origin or
gender, to relieve their needs and to assist them to integrate into society, in
particular by:
1. Providing health and well-being information, advice, education, and training to
support and enable them to increase access to quality health and clinical services
2. Providing workshops, forum, advocacy? and general support to raise their
awareness, of the ex7Sting health providers, services, empower and promote their
health rights.
3. Raising public awareness of the health issues affecting them by planning and
delivering educational programme, training sessions, workshops, and seminars for
health services workers
4. Co-ordinating opportunities for them to engage with health and education
services providers {voluntary and statutory), to enable those providers to adapt
services to better meet thei r needs.
5. To develop a link and partnership working with partner organisations in the Horn
of Africa in reLation to improve the lives of African women and to provide trainings
sessions and support to
the health workers in Africa to improve the health and well-being of women in
Africa.
6. Promote and carry out or asslst in promoting and carrying out research and
surveys and publish results thereof.
As a grassroots roots organisation supporting and empowering Black and Minority
Ethnic communities in Wales, we have first-hand knowledge of the local issues,
cultures, and circumstances in which these communities live. We are led by these
communit7es in addressing need and have developed a clear understanding of the
local and regional projects and service provisions landscape. We act as a feedback
organisation to 3rd sector and statutory service providers aiding them to better
understand how their services or provisions can be made more accessible and
effectual. As an organisation we see our role as innovators and co-ordinators of
efforts to design and implement provisions that create positive and lasting change
in our communities.

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Partnerships are at the heart of the way we work, we use our knowledge, skills and
capacity, organisationaL and personal connections, diversity, access to poLicy
arenas, research evidence, action, and influence in partnership with others.
The structure and brea..dth of our services have significantly increased resulting in
greater number of activities, across a wider catchment resulting in a greater
numbers of community members across a(L sections of the community accessing
services or activities.
With our office base w7thin the Butetown Community Centre the number of people
attending our project activities and services has increased due to that fact that we
are now based in the heart of the community. As news has spread about Hayaat
Women Trust working ethos coupled with the on the ground activities and result
from our engagement, we have seen a steady significant increase in the numbers
of people wanting to engage with our organisation as supporters and volunteers in
the delivery of our activities and events in pursuant of our aims and objectives.
Activities
Delivering Advocacy drop-in sessions for our local community offering
casework support, information and advice on accessing health, education,
housing, welfare benefits and other public services.
Cultural Awareness training sessions for public and third sector organisations
Deliver targeted educations sessions to members of our community on
specific Issues that have been identified e.g., Mental health, leaming
difficulty, autism, female genital mutilation, and child protection.
Providing a safe space for confidence building and mutual peer support for
our Service users
Providing equality and diversity awareness raising workshops, gender
balanced focus group discussions for disabilitylmental health sensitisatTOn,
culturally appropriate social events facilitated by health professionals,
information sharing talks and activities.
Provisions of peer support workshops and one to one advocacy support for
parents and family members of people with autism or neuro divergence.
Catch Up education sessions for BAME school children and support for BAME
families addressing educational needs of their children.
Cultural Drama & Arts sessions for BAME girls to boost their confidence and
increase their self-esteem.
Regular consultations and community meetings with 3 Sector organisations,
Local Authorities, Welsh Government addressing inequality of BAME
communities in access basic services such as Health, Housing, Social Care
and Wellbeing provisions.
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Challenges
Impact on our organisation
Hv￿ has continued to face year on year marked increase in demand for its
services from our operations base within the Butetown Community Centre
situated in the heart of the community. The cost-of-living crisis has affected
increasing numbers of people from the communities with which we work.
Leaving many people facing considerably reduced real disposable incomes
with which to support their families. As a result of the increasing demand
from community members for support we were operating almost at full
capacity. This has meant that we have had to take a measured approach to
the management of our services and caseloads in order to increase
efficiency and ensure that we continue to provide support at the highest
levels within the constraints of operating budgets, staffing and other
provision constraints
Like so many charities we are facing a more challenging funding
environment and HlhT has found it increasing difficult to get unrestricted
funding sUPPOrt with operational staff costs and running costs. As a result,
we have made numerous funding applications for unrestricted funding to
cover our coordination, core cost and administrative costs. We have also
implemented a full cost recovery provision for all our funding applications;
thus, every new project funding application include admin costs which
contribute to coordination and core costs.
As was the case last year, this year we have had changes in the staffing of
the organisation. However, we have been very fortunate in being able to
quickly find suitable replacement staff for the vacant positions. In addition,
we have been able to acquire additional funding for new service provisions
which has resulted in new posts that have also been filLed.
Due to the high levels of demand for our services and increased numbers of
staff operating from our base we are facing considerable challenges due to
the physical limitations of operating from only one office space. As a result,
we have taken an additional office space from which we operate our
services.
Concluded Projects
WCVA - Fundra iser and training programme
The programme was made up of two components, firstly we created full time
fundraiser position to raise funds so that the organisation could develop

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organisational capacity, improve resilience and sustainability. In addition, the
project created a development programme and training for our staff and
volunteers, with sector-specific learning which has created the knowledge and
resources to create transformative impact within the organisation.
C3SC - Supportlng people with learning disabilities in Cardiff & the Vale of
Glamorgan
This project worked with people facing learning difficulties and the family and
relatives that support them. This project provided a safe space for confidence-
building and mutual peer sUPPOrt. Providing equality and diversity awareness
raising workshops, gender balanced focus group discussions for disabilitylmental
health sensit7zation' culturally appropriate social events, information sharing talks
& activities. Our project engaged, supported, educated and also provided a
platform in which African community parents and families of children with learning
disabilities to work together to help each other and access professional input and
insight.
Postcode Lottery - Pi lot Project Sisterhood Project
During the development of the pilot project, we developed a safe space where
peers could support each other with the involvement of appropriate professionals
to guide them so that users could find their own happy path. This project not only
focused on mental health, but it also focused heavily on wellbeing.
Moondance Foundation - Staff & Volunteer costs
Funding from this project was used to support the part time employment of
Finance officer, training of the finance officer in Accounting Software and transfer
of paper financial records into electronic format. The project also included the
expense costs of volunteers.
Awards for all - Educational Catch-up Programme
Hayaat Women Trust ran educationa( catch-up programme for young students
providing three hourly online classes per week, comprising of English, Mathematics
and Science. The programme ran with two cohorts of students running in parallel,
each cohort was made up of four classes targeted at year 6,9, 10 and 11 students.
Each class was limited to facilitate our maximum learning support ideal.
Ty Cerdd - Somali Music & Musical Theatre workshops people under 251over 25
Hv￿ created a programme of weekly workshops for young Somali people aged
under 25yrs and in parallel weekly workshops for older SomaLi people aged over
25yrs. Both workshops were created for people that had a passion for Somali Music
and Musical theatre and wanted to develop their Somali music sk7lls, singing and
dancing skills in our weekly MusicaL workshops. Our classes offered performers the

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chance to explore Somali mus?c and its many genres and develop their skills and
expertise in this arena.
The Waterloo Foundation Additional Sessional Staff Project
Access to this fund enabled to be able to provide additional sessional staffing
hours to our Additional Learning, Autism, Disability, Advice & Advocacy project in
order to provide the much-needed extra support and access to resources and
professional. Furthermore, we were able to provide additional sessional costs in
order to support sessional posts concentrating on coordination and finance.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Young Queens
Young Queens is a script writing, poetry and performance group for young Welsh
Somali girls aged between 10 and 14 based in Cardiff. The project was developed
to support young Somali girls explore their Welsh Somali heritage and express it
through traditional Somali artforms.
New Projects
People's Health Trust - Happy Path - Slsterhoods Mind Project
Our project will provide professional and peer support to our community of
interest to establish social links, sharing worries, anxieties, mutual reassurance,
expressing themselves in ways meaningful to them. Confidence boosting and
uplifting physical and mental health activities and outings. Challenging culture-
related mental health stigma. Hosting weekly group conferences with bi-lingual
professionals and peers. Crisis intervention, build self-esteem, develop emotional
intelLigence, and build peer support.
Diverse Cymru (Cu Iture Grant) - Young Queens
Young Queens is a heritage project for young Somali Welsh women aged between
11 and 14 which explores their rich history of performance {Riwayaad) and Ciyaar
Somali (Somali folk dance) and encourages them write and perform their own work
as a means of building confidence, boosting wellbeing and developing creative
potential in relation to their Somali Welsh heritage. Our aim is that with the
support of this fund follow7ng our two-year project funded by Heritage Lottery
Wales, we will be able to continue facilitating work which has more of an emphasis
on explorations of heritage and archiving work that's generated from the project.
The project will also include a Community photoshoot in Welsh landscapes with
famous landmarks. Somali Language learning classes for younger community
members with support from older Somali community members. In addition, the

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project will deliver a documentary on the Somali Community in Wales with young
people from Riwayaad Project.
Continuing Projects
Hayaan Project (Additional Learning, Autism, Disability? Advice & Advocacy)
The Hayaan Project is made up of four subprojects and employs 2 full time Project
Officers and 2 part time Project Officers. The projects operates during normal
working hours, but also to provides support or crisis intervention during evenings,
and weekends.
Disabilityi Learning Disability & Autism Advocacy Project
To address this urgent challenge, we implemented a project working with children,
adults, mothers, fathers, and families, providing a safe space for confidence-
building and mutual peer support. We provide equality and diversity awareness
raising workshops, gender balanced focus group discussions for disability/mental
health sensitization; culturally appropriate social events facilitated by
disabilitylmental health professionals, information sharing talks & activities.
Building on the work of the pilot our project to engage, support, educate and
provide a platform in which African community mothers, fathers, and extended
family members with a disability, learning disability or autism can grow, work
together to help each other with professional input and insight.
Community Health and Well-being
Tackle stigma, improving health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities for
African communities. Providing greater access to Health and well-being related
resources, practical activities, and support for African communities to develop and
thrive, by addressing short term health and well-belng issues as well as supporting
the creation of long-term health and wellbeing structural change in the wider
African commun?ty.
Connecting families - Communication and Digital skills
Hvrr delivers a programme of activities to support African communities to gain
digital and communication skills. The programme enables people at risk of social
and digital exclusion to access information and services and develop new digital
tools to enable more people to take up their right to contribute to mainstream
society.
Generalist Advice and Support Project
We offer a confidential, generalist and specialist advice service in African
community languages to help people deal with their social and welfare problems,
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emerging issues. Funding has been used to provide advice sessions on money
management, benefits, housing, debt5, employment, education, and energy
advice. Advice has been offered through face to face or telephone drop-in
sessions, appointment based either online or face to face and home visits where
necessary.
Community Involvement
We have impLemented a community wide outreach and engagement programme.
Hwf partners and works with community ambassadors, third sector organisations
and local groups in the host communities to deliver this programme of services.
Community members have helped design this project and helped to develop the
concept via the pilot phase. A project steering committee has been created and
involves beneficiaries and has been working with the community to encourage,
train and support African community members to become outreach or advice
volunteers.
Funding and Financial Report
Summary of funds received this financial Years April 2023- March 2024
Project Name
Moondance
Peo
le Post Code
Waterloo
Big Lottery Advocac
People Health Trust
Diversi
Excellence
National Herita
Ticket Money
Refund
Total
Amount (£)
£13,312.00
£25,000.00
£24,960.00
C121,200.00
£12,000.00
£10,000.00
C4,800.00
£1,200.00
£350.75
£212,822.75
Hayaan
Policies
Fl(iyaat Lonlinued adhering to the organisational policies: Wales for Alrica Code ol ConducL
Equal Opportuniiy Policy, Safeguarding, Child Protection and compliance with (JDPR on
data proteclion.

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Trustees Res
onsibilities
"rhe Lharily trustees comply with Charities Act 2011 requiremenl% in providing slraiegic
oversight in ensuring up-to-date acLounting record4 preparation and scrutiny ol the
Stcilement ol ALcounls, prepardlion and iimely subrnission of aJ]nual reports and returns.
I"hey have ensured ihai the Staiement ot" ALcounts, reports, and returns are submitfrd to the
Charily Commission, within ten months of the tinancial year-end, irrespective ol. the income
of the CIO. The charity Irusiees also comply with their i)blig?aiion io inforn] the Commission
within 28 days of any change in the partiLulars of the CIO entered on the Central Regisier of
Lharilies.
CIO CHARITY PROVISIONS
This Report is prepared in accordance with provisions of the general
regulations of CIO clause 21.
By order of the Trustees:
Hayaat Women Trustees
Name of Trustee
Signature
Date
F) IZ. '20

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS
TO THE TRUSTEES OF HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024
Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner
The Charity's Trustees are responsible for preparation of accounts.
The Charity Trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year.
under Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and that an Independent
Examination is needed. It is our responsibility to:
Examination is needed. It is our responsibility to:
examine the accounts under Section 145 of the Charities Act
to allow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the
Charity Commission (Under Section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act), and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner statement
Our examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions
given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of
the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the
accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of
any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations
from the trustees Goncerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken
do not provide all the evidence that would be required on an audit and
consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a
true and fair view and the report is limited to those matters set out in
the statement below.
Independent examiners statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to our attention:
(1) which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in any material, the
requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the
Charities Act
To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting requirements
of the Charities Act have not been met or
(2) to which, in our opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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Signed
IKJ
Date: ao 2L/
M ANVARI & CO.
Chartered Certified Accountants
152a Whitchurch Road
Cardiff
CF14 3NA

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HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 MARCH 2024
Notes
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible Fixed assets
2748
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
Debtors and prepayments
87760
51
500
88311
LESS: CURRENT LIABILITIES
Sundry Creditor
-1700
NET CURRENT ASSETS
86611
TOTAL NET ASSETS
89359
FUNDS
Unrestricted
Restricted
7285
82074
89359
The trstees acknowledge their responsibilities for preparing accounts
which give a true and fair view of the state of af affairs of the charity as at
the end of financial year, and of its Receipts and Payments for the
financial year.
These financial statements were approved by the trustees on...
signed on their behalf by-
i? - .'ac4£qAnd are
..Trustee
Name:..
The notes on pages 13 to 14 fomi part of these financial statements.

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HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024
Note
RECEIPTS
Grants re￿iVed
Donations
211272
6598
217870
LESS: EXPENDITURE
Salareies and pension
Stationery
Refreshments
Start up and recruit training
Monitoring and evaluation
Office rent and rates
Insurance
Utilities
Sessional facilities and speakers
Travel and subsaistence
Legal and professional
Accountancy
Depreciation
133619
1074
10635
3301
200
7001
479
4300
27223
1647
7040
1700
687
-198906
Excess of Expenditure over Income
18964
Funds Brought forward
70395
Funds Carried Forward
89359

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HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024
1) FIXED ASSETS
Office
Equipment
Tangible Fixed Assets:
COST:
Balance at 1 st April 2023 and at
31 st March 2024
8966
LESS: Depreciation
Balance at 1 st April 2023
Charge for the yeae
Balance at 31 st March 2024
5531
687
6218
NET BOOK VALUE
As at 31 st March 2024
2748
2) GRANTS RECEIVED:
Big Lottery advocacy
Diverse excellence
People Health Trust
National Heritage
Ty Cerdd fund(Somali dance)
Waterloo
121200
10000
12000
4800
25000
24960
211272
3) DONATIONS RECEIVED:
Trustees and other donations
6598

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HAYAAT WOMEN TRUST
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS
BIF Received Spent
CIF
Balance
Ticket money
Other donations
Refund
4569
3882
687
1200
5047
351
1200
5047
351
4569
6598
3882
7285
RESTRICTED FUNDS
Big lottery Advocacy
Catch up Foundation
WCV Grant
Award For All: Big Lottery
C3SV
Rosa Foundation
National Heritage
Moon Dance
People Pot Code Lottery
Waterloo
People Health trust
Diverse Excellence
26344 121200
822
16209
6795
15
5399
10242
96629
50915
822
3200
-8388
15
5399
-1020
500
13503
13009
15183
4800
13312
16062
12812
25000
24960
12000
10000
11497
24957
2853
2012
9147
7988
65826 211272 195014 82074