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**Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum** Report **of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024** 

The Trustees present their annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024 The Trustees are satisfied with the performance of the charity during the year and the position at 31 March 20 ~~25.~~ Due to lack of funding the Charity has not been successful to raise funds, however the Trustees have agreed to engage a fundraiser on on win no fee basis to work collaboratively to raise funds through identifying key funders that are sympathetic to our work 

**REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity, CIO 1161650 (England and Wales** ) **Registered Office** 

The Rainbow Centre 

Dollis Valley Road, Barnet 

EN5 2UN 

**Trustees** 

Chief Thomas Bikebi 

Mrs Martha Modi 

Mr Bitenge Makuka 

M Ambrose Goldermint 

All Trustees are members of the Charity. 

## **Independent Examiner** 

Remos & Co 

**Legal Advisors** 

Darlington Solicitors 

Darlington’s House 

Edgware 

HA8 7EB 

## **Bankers** 

Unity Trust Bank Plc 

Nine Brindleyplace 

Birmingham B12 HB4 

## **Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum: Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 Structure, Governance and Management; Governing Document** 

Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum is a Community Interest Organisation (CIO) governed by its constitution dated 18 May 2015. It is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. Anyone over the age of 18 can become a member of the Charity and there are currently 5 each of whom agree to contribute £1.00 in the event of the charity winding up. 

## **Appointment of trustees** 

The Trustees (also known as the Management Committee) are elected annually at the AGM. Membership of the CIO is open to anyone who is over 18 and interested in furthering its purposes, 

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and who, by applying for membership, has indicated his, her or its agreement to become a member and acceptance of the duty of members set out in sub-clause 3 (of the constitution). A member may be an individual, a corporate body, or [an individual or corporate body representing] an organisation which is not incorporated. The charity trustees, may require applications for membership to be made in any reasonable way that they decide and they shall, if they approve an application for membership, notify the applicant of their decision within [21 days] or may refuse an application for membership if they believe that it is in the best interests of the CIO for them to do so, if they decide to refuse an application for membership, they will give the applicant their reasons for doing so, within [21 days] of the decision being taken, and give the applicant the opportunity to appeal against the refusal; All Trustees shall retire from office at the AGM, but are eligible to stand for re-election. 

## **Risk Management** 

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. 

## **Indemnity insurance** 

The charity will ensure that it has indemnity insurance against loss arising from the neglect or default of any of the Members or against possible claims arising during the course of assistance provided by its workers, volunteers and trustees. 

## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES Objectives and aims** 

Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum was established in May 2015 and its main objective for year ended was to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers primarily but not exclusively in the London borough of Barnet including the relief of poverty and distress and the advancement of education, support and promote the physical and mental health of asylum seekers, refugees and their dependents and to advance the education and knowledge of the public in general about the issues relating to refugees and those seeking asylum 

## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE** 

Our main objective for the last financial year ended ensured has been to revive our strength in working to fundraise for the year ahead 2025/2026 to fund activities that are in need from our user group. Over the year the Trustees have continued to voluntary strengthen our client group and building relationship with similar organisations working with refugee communities **.** During the year end we faced many challenges with that affected most of our user group, however we continued with optimism and creatively supporting most of our clients those affected in many ways, especially most affected by the high rise cost of living. 

## **Partnership work** 

Partnership Work with other community organisations continues to be at the forefront of our work and in the year ended we continued to collaborate with other like minded refugee organisations and groups locally to share and learn new things. 

## **FINANCIAL REVIEW Reserves policy** 

It is the policy of BMRF that there are reserves to cover at least 3 months expenditure of the charity, however due to a lack of funding success the Charity does not have any reserves. 

## **Financial Position** 

The Statement of Financial Activities show **£ 0 Incoming Resources** and **£ 0** restricted funds for the year end. During the year the Charity submitted a number of applications to Trusts and other funding bodies. The charity continues preparing funding applications but has been unsuccessful 

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## **FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS** 

## **Plans for future periods.** 

The charity plans continuing the objectives outlined above in the forthcoming year subject to satisfactory funding arrangements. 

I would like to end this report by giving a big thank you to all the trustees and volunteers who provide their voluntary time tirelessly in difficult circumstance to continue offering support to members who have found it really hard to survive due to the high cost of living This report was approved by the Trustee on 31 Jan 2025 and signed on its behalf by:  Mrs Martha Modi 

## Arti 

Chair to Board of Trustees 

## **BARNET MIGRANT REFUGEE FORUM TRUSTEES' REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2024** 

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the year and of the surplus or deficiency for the year then ended. 

In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to: select suitable accounting policies, as described on page 6 &7, and then apply them on a consistent basis, making judgements and estimates that are prudent and reasonable, the members of the Board must also prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business. 

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose, with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the charity, and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charites Act 2011. The Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations and the provisions of trust deed. 

The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud or other irregularities. 

This report was approved by the Trustees on 31 Jan 2025 

Signed on behalf of the trustees: Mrs Martha Modi 

Chair of Trustee 

## **Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum: For the year ended 31 March 2024 Trustee’s Report** 

The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31st March 2024 

## **Principal Activities** 

The Charity’s principal activity during the year continued to be community voluntary organisation. 

The Trustees that served during the period were as follows: 

Mrs Martha Modi – Chairperson 

Mr Bitenge Makuka 

Mr Mohammed Hussein 

Mr Chief Bukebi 

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## Mr Goldersmint 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those members, funders or otherwise who have helped the organisation in furthering its objectives this period. Our aim in the period to come is to even reach out further a field in pioneering the objectives of the organisation. 

This report was approved by the board on 31 Jan 2025 

## Mrs Martha Modi 

## bo 

31 Jan 2025 

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## **Statement of Financial Activities for year ended March 2024** 

## **A:  Incoming Resources** 

|**A:  Incoming Resources**||||
|---|---|---|---|
||**Restricted**|**Unrestricted**|**Total**|
||**Funds**|**Funds**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Incoming resources from charitable**||||
|**Activity:**||||
|Grants|**0.00**|**-**|**0.00**|
|Donations|**0.00**|**-**|**0.00**|
|**B: Resources expended**||||
|Total resources expended|**0.00**||**0.00**|
||||**(0)**|
|**Net surplus/(deficit) for the year**||||
|**C: Funds**||||
|<br>**Restricted Funds**||||
|**0.00**<br>||||
|**Unrestricted Funds**|<br>|<br>||
|**0.00**||||
|<br>**Total Funds**||**0.00**|**0.00**|
|<br>**Balance Sheet as at March 2024 **||||



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## **A: Current Assets** 

|**A: Current Assets**|||
|---|---|---|
||Total|Total|
||**2024**|**2023**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Debtors**|**0.00**|**0.00**|
|**Cash at bank**|**0.00**|**0.00**|
|**Total Current Assets**|**0.00**|**0.00**|



|**B: Liabilities**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Creditors**|**0.00**|**0.00**|
|**Net Assets**|**0.00**|**0.00**|
|**Net surplus/(deficit) for the year**||<br>**(0)**|



Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees: 

## Remos 

## Treasurer 

31 March 2024 

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