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|**Trustees' Annual Report**|||||**for theperiod**|||
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09|Month
12|Year
2019||Day
31|Month
03|Year
2021|
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Reconnection **Other names charity is known by** East African Diaspora Community Network (EDCN) **Registered charity number (if any)** 1157568
**Charity's principal address** 141 Greenwich High Road
London **Postcode SE10 8JA**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Asmerom Wold|Chair|||
||Ismael Musa|Treasurer|||
||Gimja Adhanom|Secretary|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|
|N/A||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**TAR**
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1
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution as amended on 15 May 2014
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Unincorporated association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the annual general Trustee selection methods meeting held in June.
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures Induction check list for staff, Volunteers and Trustees
- adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational Training and development policy for staff, volunteers and Trustees have structure and any wider been developed and adopted in January 2019 network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system Generic risk register policy adopted in January 2019 and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
1. To relieve and prevent poverty among members of all ‘newly arrived communities’ and their dependents living in Greenwich, Brent, Bexley and surrounding areas by providing advocacy/signposting/general advice/translation and interpretation services
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
2. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit among members of newly arrived communities who are socially excluded on the grounds of their social and economic position in particular by providing:
- a. Informal conversational English groups, with fluent English speakers;
- b. Experiential learning in the community;
- c. Support and advocacy.
In this clause ‘newly arrived communities’ means those coming to live and settle in the UK from other countries, particularly those who do not speak English.
**TAR**
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In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. **Summary of the main** The main activities are as follows: **activities undertaken for the** • the provision of advice and information **public benefit in relation to** • the support of building self-support networks process **these objects (include within** • the provision 0f interpreting and translation service **this section the statutory** • the development of volunteering opportunities **declaration that trustees have** These activities benefit refugees and migrants by developing their self – **had regard to the guidance** confidence, social skills and life skills, improve their ability to access **issued by the Charity** available services and providing opportunities for refugees to become **Commission on public** volunteers themselves. We welcome all refugees and migrants all ages **benefit)** regardless of personal background, faith, gender or personal circumstances
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
We are grateful for the many hours’ volunteers have spent listening and encouraging our service users. Without this valuable contribution of time, energy and expertise we would not have been able to achieve so much.
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Our achievements, in the last 12 months include:
• **we are** awarded accreditation against the Advice Quality Standard at the advice only level by demonstrating that we are easily accessible, effectively managed and employ staff with the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of our clients. • We successfully run the Coffee-Chat-Shop-Advice in tackling isolation and promoting integration We effectively carried out our theory-of-change principle in challenging barriers to accessing services.
## **Section E Financial review**
N/A **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
**TAR**
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Our main source of funds this year has been grants restricted to run You **may choose** to include specific projects only. additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Ismael Musa **Full name(s)** Asmerom Wold **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 17/10/2021 18/10/2021
**TAR**
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**Reconnection** also known by East-African Diaspora Community Network
## **Annual Accounts - Year End 2021**
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
09/12/2019|**To**|Period end date
31/03/2021|
|---|---|---|---|
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**from**|09/12/2019|**To**|31/03/2021||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,400**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,400**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,400**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**20,800.00**
**9,536.00**
**13,860.00**
**7,320.00**
**5,000.00**
**5,000.00**
**-**
**61,516.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**61,516.00**
**21,086.00**
**11,200.00**
**46.00**
**2,480.00**
**5,000.00**
**1,920.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,732.00**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,400.00**
**20,800.00**
**9,536.00**
**13,860.00**
**7,320.00**
**5,000.00**
**5,000.00**
**-**
**63,916.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**63,916.00**
**21,086.00**
**11,200.00**
**46.00**
**2,480.00**
**5,000.00**
**1,920.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,732.00**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Brought forward|**2,400**||||**21,146.00**|
|Trust for London|**-**||||**-**|
|Awadrs for All|**-**||||**-**|
|BigLottery+ Governmentgrant(emergencycovid-19 fund)|**-**||||**-**|
|London Communityrersponse(Cityof London)-(emergencycovid-19grant)|**-**||||**-**|
|Cast Discovery programme|**-**||||**-**|
|GLA Stronger Communities fund|**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**2,400**||||**21,146.00**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||
||**-**|||||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||||**21,146.00**|
|||||||
|
Salarycosts|**-**|**21,086.00**|**-**|**21,086.00**|**-**|
|General runningcots|**-**|**11,200.00**|**-**|**11,200.00**|**-**|
|Trainingcosts|**-**|**46.00**|**-**|**46.00**|**-**|
|Travel expenses|**-**|**2,480.00**|**-**|**2,480.00**|**-**|
|Consultancycosts|**-**|**5,000.00**|**-**|**5,000.00**|**-**|
|Overhead costs|**-**|**1,920.00**|**-**|**1,920.00**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|**41,732.00**|**-**|**41,732.00**|**18,746.00**|
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|Office equipments||**-**||**3,600.00**|||**-**||**3,600.00**|||
||**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**3,600.00**|||**-**||**3,600.00**||**-**|
|||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_**|**-**||**45,332.00**|||**-**||**45,332.00**||**18,746.00**|
||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**2,400**||**16,184.00**|||**-**||**18,584.00**||**2,400.00**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**_Cash funds this year end_**|**2,400**||**16,184.00**|||**-**||**18,584.00**||**2,400.00**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,400**
**-**
**-**
**2,400**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**16,184.00**
**-**
**-**
**16,184.00**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|**Books**
**Fax Machine**
**Laptop**
**Camera**
**Teaching aid and cultural DVDs**
**Memory cards**
**Details**
**Printer**|**Books**
**Fax Machine**
**Laptop**
**Camera**
**Teaching aid and cultural DVDs**
**Memory cards**
**Details**
**Printer**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Printer**|||**-**|
**-**|
|**Fax Machine**|||**-**|**-**|
|**Laptop**|||**-**|**-**|
|**Camera**|||**-**|**-**|
|**Books**|||**-**|**-**|
|**Teaching aid and cultural DVDs**|||**-**|**-**|
|**Memory cards**|||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
|Signature
**Details**|**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Asmerom Wold
Ismael Musa|**When due**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
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|||Date of draft
account
(approval)|
||Asmerom Wold|
05 October 2021|
||Ismael Musa|05 October 2021|
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Reconnection **members of On accounts for the year** 31/03/2021 **Charity no** 1157568 **ended (if any)**
**Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2021** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed: Date:** 21/10/2021
**Name:** Mr. Bekit Remadan Nuir
**Relevant professional** AAT **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 160 London Road London IG11 8BB
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
1
**October 2021**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2021**