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|Section A||||Reference and administration details|||||||||||
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|||||**Charity name**||
Reconnection|||||||||
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||**Other**|**names charity is known by**||||
East African Diaspora Community Network (EDCN)|||||||||
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||**Registered charity number(if any) **|||||1157568|||||||||
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||**Charity's principal address**|||||
141 Greenwich High Road|||||||||
|||||||London|||||||||
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|||||||**Postcode**||||||**SE10 8JA**|||
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||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**||||||||||||||
||**Trustee name**||**Office (if any)**||||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|||||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|||
|1|Asmerom Wold||Chair||||||||||||
|2|Ismael Musa||Treasurer||||||||||||
|3|Gimja Adhanom||Secretary||||||||||||
|4|||||||||||||||
|5|||||||||||||||
|6|||||||||||||||
||**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)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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**TAR**
October 2021
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)
How the charity is constituted
Unincorporated association
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the annual general Trustee selection methods meeting held in May.
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
Induction checklist for staff, Volunteers and Trustees policy
- Training and development policies for staff, volunteers and Trustees have been developed and adopted in January 2019 and reviewed annually.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system Generic risk register policy adopted in January 2019 and reviewed and procedures to manage annually. 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, predominantly refugees and migrants.
**TAR**
October 2021
2
In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. The main activities are as follows:
**Summary of the main** • Health and well-being programmes, **activities undertaken for the** • the provision of advice and information, **public benefit in relation to** • walking and cycling programme, **these objects (include within** • the support of building self-support networks process, **this section the statutory** • the provision 0f interpreting and translation service, **declaration that trustees have** • the development of volunteering opportunities. **had regard to the guidance** These activities benefit refugees and migrants by developing their self– **issued by the Charity** confidence, social skills and life skills, improving their ability to access **Commission on public** available services and providing opportunities for refugees to become **benefit)** volunteers themselves. We welcome all refugees and migrants of all ages 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;
- policy programme related investment;
We continue to be grateful for the many hours, volunteers with lived experiences and experts by experience who have spent listening to and encouraging our service users. Without this valuable contribution of time, energy and expertise we would not have been able to achieve so much.
- 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 continued to be** awarded a quality mark against the Advice Quality Standard provided impartially and with equal access to all service users 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 completed our three-year walking and cycling programme.
- • We successfully continued our Coffee-Chat-Shop-Advice to bring communities together, tackle isolation and promote integration.
- We continued to effectively carry out our theory-of-change principle in challenging barriers to accessing services.
## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A N/A
**Further financial review details (Optional information)**
**TAR**
October 2021
3
Our main source of funds this year has been grants restricted to running 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** 19/09/2023 20/09/2023
**TAR**
October 2021
4
**Reconnection** also known by East-African Diaspora Community Network
**Recei ts and a ments accounts cc16a p p y For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2022 31/03/2023
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,113.00**
**3,000.00**
**1,000.00**
**20,370.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,483.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,483.00**
**20,292.00**
**5,333.00**
**260.00**
**1,892.00**
**-**
**1,920.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,697.00**
**-**
**3,000.00**
**3,000.00**
**32,697.00**
**16,786.00**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,113.00**
**3,000.00**
**1,000.00**
**20,370.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,483.00**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Brought forward|**-**|||||**67,239.00**|
|Groundwork London|**-**|||||**-**|
|The Granville Centre|**-**|||||**-**|
|Trust for London|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**|||||**67,239.00**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||
||**-**|||**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**|||||||
|||||||**67,239.00**|
||||||||
|Salarycosts|**-**|||||**-**|
|General runningcots|**-**|||||**-**|
|Trainingcosts|**-**|||||**-**|
|Travel expenses|**-**|||||**-**|
|Consultancycosts|**-**|||||**-**|
|Overhead costs|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**42,126.00**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
|Project eqipments|**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||||
|||||||**42,126.00**|
||||||||
||**-**|**16,786.00**|**-**|**16,786.00**||**25,113.00**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**16,786.00**||**-**||**16,786.00**||**25,113.00**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
## **Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets**
## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
|**Teaching aid and cultural DVDs**
**Memory cards**
**Details**
**Fax Machine**
**Laptop**
**Camera**
**Books**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Printer**|**Teaching aid and cultural DVDs**
**Memory cards**
**Details**
**Fax Machine**
**Laptop**
**Camera**
**Books**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Printer**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**||**16,786.00**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**16,786.00**||**-**|
|||||||OK|
|||||||**Endowment funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value (optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value (optional)**|
|**Printer**||||||**-**|
|**Fax Machine**||||||**-**|
|**Laptop**||||||**-**|
|**Camera**||||||**-**|
|**Books**||||||**-**|
|**Teaching aid and cultural DVDs**||||||**-**|
|**Memory cards**||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
**When due (optional)**
**Fund to which liability relates**
**Amount due**
**Details**
**(optional)**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
**-**
Date of draft account Signature Print Name (approval) Asmerom Wold 20 September 2023 Ismael Musa 19 September 2023
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A**|**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Independent Examiner’s Report**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Report to**|**the trustees/**
**members of**|Charity Name
Reconnection|||||
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|**On accounts for the year**||31/03/2023|**Charity no**||1157568||
||**ended**||**(if any)**||||
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|**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 /**||**2023**.|||
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the **basis of report** preparation 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 **examiner's statement** have 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:** 02/09/2023 **Name:** Mr. Bekit Remadan Nuir **Relevant professional** AAT **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 160 London Road London IG11 8BB
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**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).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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