2020-09-30-accounts

Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period

From: 01/10/2019 Period start date To: 30/09/2020 Period end date

Charity name: Help Yateem

Charity registration number: 1158571

Company number: 08672833

Objectives and activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	 The advancement of education of orphans in the developing world for the public benefit.  The relief of poverty of orphans and widows in the developing world for the public benefit
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	 Help Yateem has assisted this year 5 orphan schools in Somalia with their educational facilities. This includes installing our fifth ICT Room in UM- Aisha Orphan Girls School in Mogadishu.  Our Ramadan Iftaar program has benefited more than 1600 orphan and needy families in poorer countries. Eid gifts for 398 Orphan Children. Eid Qurbani for orphan and needy families has helped more than 1200 families.  This year we have launched a campaign using “Launch-good” donation platform for relief program for orphan and needy families in Yemen. We have received a great response from individual donors. We have created our own team to deliver the relief program and we have recently completed installing our own bakery to provide 15000 bread per day.  This year we have also helped of relief program in rural Kenya refurbish Girl’s orphanage in the village. We are now helping on the building of boy’s orphanage. We have made a separate campaign on Launch-good platform and the response from individual donors are very good.  We have also continued the maintenance of our existing services

		such as the ICT rooms, other educational facilities and also responded to flood appeal inSomalia
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	The trustees declare that they have throughout their activities, had regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	Our volunteers especially the youth have contributed a lot this year. The traditional way of collecting money during Ramadan such as mosque collection, events and other physical collection were not possible. The youth volunteers managed and made effective use of social media and other donation platforms such as Launch-good, Muslim- giving and Just giving. They also helped improving our website. We also had our own volunteers on the countries we were supporting especially Somalia, Kenya and Yemen.
Other

Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	 Our educational facilities programs are bearing more fruits. For example, the government after a long period, has now introduced standardised exam foe all schools in the country. They have also included ICT as a core subject. Our ICT rooms will equip the orphan schools we helped to do well in their exams.  Our Ramadan and Eid program have helped many orphan families in many poor counties. As the schools are closed during Ramadan and they will not have the food they used to get from the schools they attended.  Our relief program in Yemen has benefited many orphan and needy families in Yemen.  Our assistance in Al Waalideyn Girl’s Orphanage and the assistance of building of Al Waalideyn boy’s orphanage will improve the lives of 400 orphan children in Kenya with their education, health and shelter.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	Our main objective is improving the educational standards of the orphan children. Our educational projects complemented with orphan family relief programs helped us to improve the **students’ attendance rate. **
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	The pandemic year was very tough for every charity. But through the use of social media, other online donation platforms, targeted TV advert in Eman Channel, Somali channels, the hard work put by our volunteers and the generosity of the donors enabled us to perform well this year.
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
Other

Financial review

Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	Help Yateem had a very good year and total receipts were £488,036. Total Expenditure on different projects for the year was £353,521. The remaining is carried forward to complete any **outstanding and future projects. **
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	Help Yateem policy is to have a healthy balance on unrestricted funds for three to six months to cover the running costs of the schools we assist in educational facilities as well as the admin cost necessary to maintain our website and resource generating activities. We managed not to overdraw throughout the year. Our aim is to buy land in Somalia to set up an orphanage with school and other facilities. We have been advised to first apply for free land from the government to set up this good cause. We have requested that and waiting for a response. If that does not become successful, we will search a good land **that is value for money. **
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	Balance at current account on the period end 30 September 2020 was £209,065. This includes the balance of £74550 carried forward from 2019
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	Our source of income are mainly from individual donors from our Website, other donation platforms such as LaunchGood, Muslimgiving, Justgiving and Social media. Due to COVID-19, there was no mosque collection this year.
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46

Other

Structure, governance and management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document: for example,trust deed, memorandum and articles of association etc	Para 1.25	The charity trustees, are responsible for the overall management and control of Help Yateem Charity. All trustees give of their time freely and no remuneration or expenses were paid in the year. They meet every fortnight and the work of implementing most of the policies are shared with the committee and volunteers.
How is the charity constituted? for example limited company, unincorporated association, CIO	Para 1.25	Registered Charity and Limited By guarantee.
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	As per memorandum and articles of association

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Para 1.51 Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees Para 1.51 The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Para 1.51 Relationship with any related parties Other

Reference and administrative details

Charity name	**Help Yateem **
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number	1158571
Charity’s principal address	St Luke’s Business Centre, Suite 2, Tarling Road, London, E16 6NU

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Abdulghani Hassan
	Bazi Sheikh
	Ms Najma Hassan
	Ali M. Eidarus		25/11/2020
	Ashik Miah		25/11/2020

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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved Director name

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity	N/A
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects	N/A
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets	N/A

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address	Type of adviser Name Address	Type of adviser Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

Other optional information

Declarations

The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors

Signature(s) Full name(s) Abdulghani Hassan Position (for example Chairman Secretary, Chair, etc)

Date 07 January 2021