## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

**From** 

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 04 2024 **To** 31 03 2025 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Sundial Centre for Education on Harmful Practices **Other names charity is known by** (previously Oxford Against Cutting) **Registered charity number (if any)** 1161597 ~~———~~ **Charity's principal address** Unit 7685 PO Box 6945 London **Postcode W1A 6US** 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|1 Caroline Pinder||26/09/16 - now|Trustees|
|2 Dr Sharon Dixon|Treasurer|12/01/16 - now|Trustees|
|3 Joanne McEwan||26/09/16 – 01/01/20|Trustees|
|4 Richard Coleman||01/03/17 - now|Trustees|
|5 Benn Kiley||01/03/17 – 13/04/20|Trustees|
|6 Miranda Dobson||22/05/17 - now|Trustees|
|7 Liz Parry||10/09/18 - now|Trustees|
|8 Faith Oyegbile||02/07/19 – 23/11/20|Trustees|
|9 Ahd Hassan||10/08/20 - now|Trustees|
|10 Seiza Bashir||15/09/20 - now|Trustees|
|Naseem Sarbatta-<br>Walia||21/04/20- 02/06/24|Trustees|
|Leethen<br>Bartholomew<br>~~————~~|Chair<br>~~————~~|18/10/22- now<br>~~————~~|Trustees<br>~~————~~|
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**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ~~——_——<—<<—=—~~ 



## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser Name Address** 

## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Constitution 

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Elected by trustees Trustee selection methods 

- (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; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 

For the public benefit, the relief and assistance of girls and women who have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) or other harmful practice by providing education, information, advice, emotional support, raising awareness and carrying out research to help prevent harmful practices and to support survivors. 



**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** 

This year, we were delighted to officially launch our new name, Sundial Centre for Education on Harmful Practices (“Sundial”) and our new website. Our name reflects our mission and values - just as sundials guide people by casting light and fostering awareness, our charity strives to bring understanding and visibility to important issues that are often overlooked. Our dedicated team brings together diverse backgrounds, languages and expertise to drive our mission forward. We ensure that people from affected communities remain at the forefront of all our activities. Their lived experience shapes our work, reinforcing our commitment to impactful and inclusive solutions. We don’t have a “face” of the organisation - we have many. We’re proud to be a diverse team where no one person 'holds the mic' all the time and where decisions are made together. Our charity’s educational workshops continue to reach schools, universities, professionals and communities across the Thames Valley, the West Midlands and Croydon, this year reaching 4404 participants. Our wide range of workshops on harmful practices and abuse issues includes No Recourse to Public Funds and Domestic Abuse, Transnational Marriage Abandonment, Working with Families with Spiritual Beliefs, Online Imagery and Social Media Safeguarding, FGM, and Forced Marriage. We were delighted to welcome to our team Rashmi Lokapure, our new Lead Trainer, who brings considerable training expertise. We continue to deliver “frontline education” for community groups, providing culturally sensitive learning on healthy relationships. This year we created a wellbeing workshop series for Syrian Sisters, delivered in partnership with the group organiser, Nuha Abdo. We have also reached community groups through our Web Cafe Project, with ‘in person’ discussions on “honour and shame” in Shona, Mandinka and Wolof, Swahili, Tetum and Arabic, as well as online discussions on barriers to reporting harmful practices and abuse in diverse communities. In addition, we have reached diverse communities through new work in the migration space. We provided education on healthy relationships and harmful practices at an Oxfordshire hotel for 95 residents seeking asylum,  including young people and children, in Albanian, Punjabi, Arabic, Kurdish Sorani, English, Spanish, Urdu and Persian. We delivered safeguarding training on FGM for the Small Boats Operational Command in Dover. Finally, we continue to support frontline domestic abuse services through our Diverse Worlds group, now covering Thames Valley and Hampshire, and raise awareness of helplines through our annual campaign, with postcards sent to every school in the Thames Valley and Birmingham. _The trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in Section 17 (5) of the 2011 Charities Act to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission._ 

**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 



_In addition to a packed calendar of training, awareness-raising and education events, Sundial is a member and contributor to:_ 

_Birmingham Against FGM, plus their Resources, Education and Zero Tolerance Day subgroups_ 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

_Birmingham PCC Hidden Harms group_ 

_Oxfordshire SVEN (Sexual Violence and Exploitation Network) The Oxfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership (OxDAP) The Oxfordshire Domestic Abuse Strategy Group Home Office’s Anti-FGM Stakeholder Group and VAWG Stakeholder meeting_ 

_Harmful Practices Operational Group in London_ 

Section D                      Achievements and performance 



Section D                      Achievements and performance 

## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

|**Education on harmful practices**||
|---|---|
|Our charity delivers lessons and workshops for schools, universities,||
|professionals and community groups in the South East and the West||
|Midlands, always with a facilitator from an affected community, who||
|brings lived experience to learning. We also now offer online workshops||
|for the public. Evaluation of our training consistently|demonstrates that|
|participants gain greater knowledge and confidence|in tackling harmful|
|practices following our workshops.||
|We have reached audiences totalling over**4404**participants in the last||
|year!||
|Our audiences included**402**school and teaching|staff,**88**primary|
|students and**2236**secondary students!<br>We|delivered<br>11|
|safeguarding workshops and 72 school lessons.||
|Sundial also delivered 32 sessions to a diverse range of 968 other||
|stakeholders, including||
|independent groups, healthcare professionals, youth|workers, specialist|
|charity workers and volunteers, VAWG professionals, police service||
|members, local authority staff and community groups.||
|We worked with over 177 attendees across 19|community group|
|workshops.||
|Finally, through our contributions to five different regional conferences,||
|public events and open webinars we also communicated with more than||
|600 individuals.||
|**Schools and organisations reached**||
|Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership||
|Border Force UK||
|Botley School||
|Didcot Girls’ School||
|Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance, Oxfordshire||
|Family Solutions Service, Oxfordshire||
|Hardwick Primary School||
|Harris Garrard Academy||





Section D                      Achievements and performance 

Headington School James Elliman Academy Knowledge Exchange Group Lordswood Boys’ School Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy Marsh Gibbon Church of England School Meadow Vale Primary School Montem Academy North Oxfordshire Academy Nottinghamshire Women’s Aid One Eighty Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership Oxford High School Oxford Spires Academy Oxfordshire Emergency Duty Team Oxfordshire County Council Oxfordshire Social Services - Looked After Children Team Oxfordshire Specialist Health Nurses Public Policy Exchange Group SAFE! 



Section D                      Achievements and performance 

Slough and Eton CofE Business and Enterprise College Sunrise Multicultural Project The Hazeley Academy University of Kent - Centre for Child Protection Victims First Waddesdon Village Primary School Wantage CE Primary School Western House Academy Wexham Court Primary School Wokingham Borough Council **Conferences and working group presentations** Oxford Brookes University’s VAWG conference - FGM, HBA and forced marriage Diverse Worlds (previously Oxfordshire Diverse Communities Working Group) Sundial Centre - public workshops on HBA, Transnational Marriage Abandonment, No Recourse to Public Funds, FGM, Spiritual Abuse Sundial in partnership with Survivor Space - Survivor Purdah Crown Prosecution Service - Barriers to Reporting ‘Honour’ Based Abuse University of Birmingham - BAFGM - Talking about FGM in the classroom Knowledge Exchange Group - ‘Honour’ Based Abuse in the UK Public Policy Exchange Group - FGM Oxfordshire County Council - Intersectionality Centre for Child Protection - FGM Border Force UK Small Boats Operational Team  - FGM SAFE! - Online Imagery and ‘Honour’ Based Abuse 



Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Web Café** Our regular series of Web Cafes provide a safe, informal online space for communities and professionals to meet, share learning and provide mutual support on sensitive topics. This year we ran 10 Web Cafes, including 5 online workshops on **Barriers to Reporting** ‘honour’-based abuse in South Asian communities, community-based abuse in African communities, FGM, and sexual violence and domestic abuse in diverse communities. We also worked in partnership with community groups to deliver inperson discussions on ‘honour’-based abuse in Shona (online), Mandinka and Wolof, Swahili, Arabic and Tetum. We are grateful to partner organisations, Project Salama, the Gambian Oxford Women Society, AFiUK, Iraqi Women Art and War Group and the East Timor Women and Children Community Group for their partnership in this series. **Awareness-raising** Our 2025 postcard campaign raised awareness of harmful practices, including FGM, 'honour'-based abuse and forced marriage. The postcards were sent to 2348 schools across the Thames Valley and Birmingham and included helpline numbers for the NSPCC FGM helpline, Karma Nirvana’s ‘Honour’ abuse helpline, the Forced Marriage Unit, Childline and emergency services, as well as encouraging schools to book our workshops to help protect children from harm.  We offer state schools workshops free of charge. The postcards depicted artwork we commissioned from Roshi Rouzbehani, an Iranian illustrator known for her powerful imagery tackling issues such as gender equality, women's rights and honour. **New initiatives in the migration sector** _**Asylum Hotel**_ We created and delivered ‘Culture Explorer’ workshops to support families residing at an Oxfordshire hotel awaiting the outcome of their asylum claims. Our 3-hour workshops covered issues of culture, values, beliefs and interactions, gender roles, the role of community, healthy relationships, consent, harmful practices and support services. We delivered 10 workshops for 95 residents, including young people and children, in multiple languages including Albanian, Punjabi, Arabic, Kurdish Sorani, English, Spanish, Urdu and Persian, as well as a workshop for staff and volunteers. Participant responses showed a significant increase in understanding of issues such as consent, where to obtain support and the role of police and social care. Our facilitators’ sensitivity and interest in the residents’ culture scored very highly and many residents reached support they did not know was available. All the workshops were co-facilitated by people with lived experience of the asylum seeking or immigration system. Quote: “A thousand thank yous for your help. It is so good to be able to find angels like you with a big heart and availability to 'serve' the people around you!” Feedback from a resident 



Section E 

Financial review 

Section D                      Achievements and performance 

## _**Training for the Border Agency**_ 

Our team delivered safeguarding training on FGM for the Small Boats Operational Command in Dover, during their 2 day safeguarding conference. The training helped increase understanding and awareness of the indicators of FGM and reached over 140 delegates. 

## **Supporting an intersectional approach to tackling abuse** 

We continue to lead the multi-agency group, Diverse Worlds, which has now merged with Diverse Communities Working Group in Berkshire, that also covered Surrey Heath, North East Hampshire and Farnham and our membership is now open to services and agencies across these areas and the Thames Valley. 

This year we carried out a 'mini research project', with interviews and questionnaires completed by professionals involved in the 2020 Thames Valley “BAMER” Project, to review the implementation of the recommendations from the project and current gaps in support for women from diverse communities suffering abuse. 

We continue to maintain a Resources Bank, a free, downloadable toolkit with an evolving list of web resources to support work on types of domestic abuse and harmful practices. The resources can be sorted and selected according to protected characteristics, language and topic. 

## **Frontline education programme** 

We were delighted to partner with Syrian Sisters, to deliver a series of four Wellbeing Workshops, covering issues including culture and mental health; healthy children; healthy relationships; and healthy self-esteem. We are grateful to Nuha Abdo, Syrian Sisters’ Founder, and cofacilitator/interpreter for the workshops. The participants reported that the series “ _was well facilitated and gave them space to talk_ ” and included guidance on navigating cultural differences and tensions that inevitably arise during transition to life in the UK, where social structures are more individualised and can lead to isolation. 



Brief ststement of the charity's policy on reserves
In accordance with Charity Commission guidelines, Sundial will set
aside ￿SerVeS of 3 months operating expenditure (from both restricted
and unrestricted funds). We envisage these reserves would only be
needed should fundraising bids be delayed and cash-flow
compromised.
The Trustees have agreed reserves of £35,000 for the year of 2024"
£40,000 for the year of 2025; £45,000 for the year of 2026 and £50,000
for the year of 2027. This includes basic salaries, core charitable
activities and administration costs.
Details of any funds
materially in deficit
NIA
Further financial review details
(Optional information)
You may choose to include
additional information, where
relevant about:
the charty's principal
SoUr￿S of funds
(including any
fvndraising).
how expenditure has
supported the key
objectives of the charity;
investment policy and
objectives including any
ethical investment policy
adopted.
Section F
Other optional infor
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above.
Signed on trKhalf of the charity's trustees
Full name: Leethon BarttriYJ.-...- .
Position: Chair of Trustees
Date 02106125
TAR
10
March 2012

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**Sundial Centre For Education On Harmful Practices 1161597 CC16a** 

**Receipts and payments accounts For the period 4/1/2024 To 3/31/2025 from** ee ee ee 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**||||**Total funds**|||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**to the nearest      £**|**to the nearest      £**||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|
||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||
||Voluntary Income|||||||||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|**425-**|
||Activities For Generating Funds|||||||||||||**-**|**--**||||
||Investment Income|**-**|**1,296-**|||||||||||**-**|**1,296-**||**-**|**1,142-**|
||Grants to Support Charities Activities|**-**|**20,344-**|||**-**|**64,000-**|||||||**-**|**84,344-**||**-**|**127,277-**|
||The National LotteryCommunity Fund-||||||||||||||||||
||(Reaching Communities/ Partnerships)|||||**-**|**133,229-**|||||||**-**|**133,229-**||||
|||||||||||||||**-**|**--**||||
|||||||||||||||**-**|**--**||||
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**|**21,640-**|||**-**|**197,229-**||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**218,869-**||**-**|**128,844-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**<br>**table).**<br>**_Sub total_-**<br>**--**<br>e~~e~~<br>~~ee~~||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|||**--**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**--**<br>**--**<br>**--**||**-**|**--**|



**-  - - -  -** _**Sub total**_ **[-] -- - -- - -- - -  - - --** _**Total receipts**_ PE **[-] 21,640197,229-218,869128,844A3 Payments** Expenditure on Charities Activities **13,14361,32774,470151,225-** Governance Costs **963963925-** The National LotteryCommunity Fund- ~~a~~ (Reaching Communities/ Partnerships) ESESES **112,393112,393-** 

CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

6/6/2025 

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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**<br>**14,106-**||**-**<br>**173,720-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**187,826-**||**-**<br>**152,150-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**<br>**(see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **<br>**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|||
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||**-**<br>**14,106-**||**-**<br>**173,720-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**187,826-**||**-**<br>**152,150-**|
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||**-**<br>**7,534-**||**-**<br>**23,509-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**31,043-**||**-**<br>**23,306-**|
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||**-**<br>**34,784-**||**-**<br>**59,162-**||||**-**<br>**93,946-**||**-**<br>**117,252-**|
||**-**<br>**42,318-**||**-**<br>**82,671-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**124,989-**||**-**<br>**93,946-**|



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

6/6/2025 

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0410612025

**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

|**Report to the trustees/**<br>**members of**|Charity Name<br>SUNDIAL Centre for Education on Harmful Practices|Charity Name<br>SUNDIAL Centre for Education on Harmful Practices||
|---|---|---|---|
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|**On accounts for the year**||**Charity no**||
|**ended**|31STMarch 2025|**(if any)**|1161597|
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|**Set out on pages**|1 /4|||



**Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year **trustees and examiner** under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”) and that an independent examination is needed. 

It is my responsibility to: 

- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, 

- to follow 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** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** 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 concerning any such matters.  The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in 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 examiner's statement** 

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention 

1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: 

   - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and 

   - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act 

   - have not been met; or 

2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

|**Signed:**|_M Watkinson_|**Date:**|16thApril 2025|
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|**Name:**|MICHAEL WATKINSON MBE|||
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|**Relevant professional**|CHARITY FINANCE CONSULTANT|||
|**qualification(s) or body**||||



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**IER** 



**(if any):** 

**Address:** 1 COTE HOUSE FARM COTTAGES COTE OX18 2EQ 

## **Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.(E.g. accounting records have not been kept in accordance with s132 of the Charities’ Act 2011 and those accounts do not comply with the requirements of the 2008 Regulations setting out the form and content of charity accounts; any material expenditure or action which appears not to be in accordance with the trusts of the charity; any failure to be provided with information and explanations by any past or present trustee, officer or employee; and any material consistency between the accounts and the trustees’ annual report.) 

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**IER** 



**Give here brief details of** None **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

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**IER**