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2024-04-01-accounts

FLASHY WINGS MINISTRY ANNUAL REPORT 2024

1 1163246

www.flashywingsministry.com

flashywingsministry@gmail.com

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Administrative Information ___________ 03
About Flashy Wings ____________ 05
Aims and objectives ____________ 06
Trustees Report for the year ending 31st March 2024 ___ 08
Our Challenges ___________ 14
Flashy Wings Finances overall ________ 15
Funders Appreciation __________ 16
External Examiner Report ______ 19
Flashy Wings Expenditure & Balance Sheet ______ 20-21

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Charity Registration Number 1163246

FLASHY WINGS MINISTRY ANNUAL REPORT 2024

Flashy Wings Administrative Information

Charity Registration Number 1163246

www.flashywingsministry.com flashywingsministry@gmail.com

Members of Trustee

Chair: Queen Ekuerhare Secretary: Phaedra Flash Treasurer: Sophia Obang-Mireku Welfare Officer- Maryann Nwankwo

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Wellbeing Conference

Independent Examiner

Tax Solution Accountants Ltd 38A Southall Broadway UB11PY Info@tax-solution.uk

Charity Address

31 harden house

McNeil Road

Camberwell

London Se5 8pp

Bank

Santander Bank

Camberwell London SE58RZ

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About Flashy Wings

Flashy Wings Ministry is a UK BAME woman and girls’ charity in Southwark, London. For the past ten years, we have served women from all walks of life in the Southwark estate by helping them deal with social, economic, emotional, and personal issues.

Our aim is to promote a well-informed community where women have education and information to tackle their challenges, whilst promoting the harmonious functioning of a diverse community.

Flashy Wings has won a lot of awards which includes:

99% of women supported by our projects are of black ethnic minority origins. 65% are Black African Origins, 33% are Caribbean Origins, while 1% are from other community. So, we consider ourselves a BAME organisation.

Flashy wings started after a few women living in Southwark estates came together to set up the charity. The challenges of living in the estate are numerous: from economical limitations, domestic violence, gangs, drug abuse, knife crime and mental health. The women wanted to create a haven where they could network, share, as well as getting inspired, educated, and empowered. For the past ten years, Flashy wings has been doing just that. We have become a well-known Black women’s charity in Southwark due to our community involvement.

Our organisation is voluntary led. The trustees, volunteers and clients have all experienced the harsh realities of social, economic, and personal issues, hence we are a very passionate grassroot charity. Flashy Wings has given women a platform to have a voice and to come together and tackle with identified problems in a community spirit.

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Aims and objectives

Our aims are:

Project Golden Age, Senior Citizens Lunch Club

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Women’s Breakfast Club

Core Values

Flashy Wings will uphold values such as:

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Trustees Report for the year ending 31st March 2024

Workshop

The year 2024 has been an exciting year, we were able to navigate through difficult times, and still enjoy some good times. Flashy Wings team has work tirelessly to address the issues of the BAME women living Southwark.

Our top main issues that were priority this year were Energy Crisis, Climate Change and Health inequalities in Southwark.

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We started the year with our Flashy Wings Ministry Breakfast Club, it was
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We started the year with our Flashy Wings Ministry Breakfast Club, it was an opportunity to network, connect, share, and speak about the daily challenges BAME women face, thereby, dealing with matters of the heart like trauma, healthy eating, wellbeing, confidence building, abuse, and cost of living crisis. The project has been very well attended. So far, an average of 40-55 women attends the breakfast meetings and the overall feedback is very impressive.

We continued with our Project Golden age that was lunch last year. It is a monthly senior citizen (55+) lunch club. It was an opportunity for elderly women from the BAME community to network, connect, share, and speak about the challenges of growing old. Most of the women complained about experiencing anxiety; we therefore used the lunchtime relaxed approach and atmosphere, to address some of their concerns. The project was a huge success, and we had such a huge turnout that it was oversubscribed with an average of 65 participants.

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Vaccination Workshop
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We join the black culture conversation, it was an opportunity for BAME charities in Southwark to come together and brainstorm on skills, organisational development and networking.

Flashy Wings hosted a six-month group therapy sessions for victims and survival of domestic violence. The programme was designed to help women heal and enjoy a quality life, free of unresolved trauma. Over 45 women benefited from the sessions.

We continued with our energy crisis project through; coffee mornings 1-1 debt advice support, outreach and funday events.

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Women’s Workshop
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To tackle with energy poverty. We were able to support over 800 households in Southwark. Some of our works include support to access energy schemes such as:

In addition, we are among the charities in Southwark referring people to Southwark Community Referral Pathway scheme, for Southwark Cost of Living Fund, to help towards energy bills. We were able to support over 400 household to claim £100.

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Energy Advice Workshop
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We continued discussion group for Mums and community outreach to address the issues around child vaccination decline to improve immunisation rates in Southwark amongst families with children in our BAME community. To break the myth and conspiracy theories around child vaccination. Our focus this year is on measles We consulted with mums and came up with ideas on what the NHS can do to keep on promoting vaccination. Participants found the sessions interactive and educative.

We continued with our project Love Box Food Distribution to families in need. Over 280 families benefited regularly, and we hope to get more funds to keep the project going.

We start a new project on content creation to teach women from 35 years and over content digital media, so far, the women find it very intriguing and fun.

Flashy wings a very historical and engaging Black history month, an event to celebrate our Black heritage, discovering the stories of Black Queens of Africa that ruled and conquered against all odds in a male dominated society.

We also had an amazing Windrush celebration, two summer conference and Easter funday.

We ended the year on high with our usual big Christmas party.

All the activities we hosted in 2024 were a huge success. Due to the surveys, we collected, we were able to create targeted needed projects. We are planning on hosting more recreational therapy.

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Staff Trainin g

We had series of staff training this year, things are changing as a group for us to sustain our vision and remain relevant, we must upgrade through training and courses.

Here are some of the trainings we attended.

The training has equipped our team, with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to carry out their duties efficiently in the organisation.

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End of year Christmas party
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Our Challenges

Flashy wings organisation is not without challenges although we are good at surmounting any mountain of problems around us. One of our big challenges is the timing of accessing successful grants, we are a small grassroot charity, so our main source of grant is through funding. In most cases, it can take three or more months to access a successful grant, which leads to lots of delays, project pile over, and project spill over. For instance, this year we have not completed all our projects due to some funder payment delay, we are to carry some of the projects over to 2025. In some cases, some funders do delay but want the project to end within the duration given, this can be very stressful for the team, although in every situation we always try our best.

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End of year Christmas party
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Flashy Wings Finances overall

Flashy Wings Finances Overall At the end of 2024, our income for the year amounted to £66,370. Flashy Wings will continue to apply for grants it needs to carry on our projects and activities.

Trustees’ Responsibilities

The charity Act 2011 requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the situation of the trust for that period. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

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Funders

We want to appreciate all our funders, for believing in us and making our dreams come true, without our funders it is impossible to do what we do.

  1. SGN Safe and Warm Community Scheme

  2. Southwark Climate Change Project Fund

  3. Southwark VCS Covid-19 Prevention Grants

  4. United St Saviour’s Charity Southwark

  5. Southwark Neighbourhood Fund

  6. Better Bankside’s Community Grants

  7. Southwark Charities

  8. NHS Southwark East London Grants

  9. Southwark Windrush Fund

  10. Southwark Childhood Vaccination Grant

  11. London Community Foundation

  12. Home Office VAWG Specialist Services Fund

  13. Southwark Black History Funding

  14. Souter Charity Trust

  15. Elephant and Castle Community Fund

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Partnerships

Flashy Wings have been involved in partnerships with various organisations in and outside of Southwark, which has been an amazing experience. We want to use this opportunity to appreciate all our partners.

  1. Southwark Health Ambassador

  2. Community Southwark

  3. SGTO

  4. Southwark Refugee Community Forum

  5. UK Parliament Week

  6. Southwark Neighbourhood Police

  7. Raven & Rain Ministry

  8. Southwark multi-Faith Forum

  9. Wearethecity

  10. Women’s Resource Centre

  11. The Hygiene Bank

  12. CAS Historic Royal Palaces

  13. Civic Society Leadership Programme

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of FLASHY WINGS MINISTRY

Year ended 31st March 2024

I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31st March 2024 which are set out on pages 10 to 12.

Res ective res onsibilities of trustees and examiner p p

The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

Basis of inde endent examiner’s re ort p p

My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission and Companies Act 2006. 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 you consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as 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.

Inde endent examiner’s statement p

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:

  2. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; and

  3. to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met; or

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

Hammad Riaz AFA MIPA AAT Independent Examiner 38A Southall Broadway UB11PY

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Flashy Wings Ministry Income and expenditure account For the year ended 31 March 2024

Notes
Income

perating expenditure

Operating surplus/(defcit)
Other income
Interest receivable and similar income
Interest payable and similar charge		 2024
2023
£
£
59,502.12 94,794.59
(66,370.62) (89,711.65)
6,868.50 5,082.94
0
0
0
0
6,868.50 5,082.94
Retained surplus/(defcit) for the fnancial year 6,868.50 5,082.94

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Flashy Wings Ministry

Balance sheet

as at 31 March 2024

Notes

Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand

Creditors: amounts falling
due within one year

Funds
Unrestricted income funds

Net current assets

Net assets
 2024
2023
£
£
4,804.21 11,599.26
(750.00) (750.00)
4,054.21 10,849.26
4,804.21
11,599.26
4,035.21 10,849.26
4,054.21 10,849.26
Total funds
 4,054.21 10,849.26

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Flashy Wings Ministry

Notes

1. Accounting policies

The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year and the preceding year.

1.2. Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:

Voluntary income is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Grants where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant. Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included. Gifts donated for resale are included as incoming resources within activities for generating funds when they are sold.

Grants, including grants for the purchase of fixed assets, are recognised in full in the statement of financial activities in the year in which they are receivable.

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1.3. Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.

Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes including the charity’s shop.Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of and indirect nature necessary to support them.

Fundraising costs are those incurred in seeking voluntary contributions and do not include the costs of disseminating information in support of the charitable activities

Support costs are those costs incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity and include project management.

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2. Voluntary income
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2. Voluntary income
Notes 2024
2023
Total
Total
£
£
Donations
 59,502.12 94,794.59
Grants receivable
 ---
---
59,502.12 94,794.59
3. Donations and gifts ---
---
88,269.66 68,486
4. Employees
Employment cost 2024 2023
Number of employees Nil
Nil
The average monthly numbers of employees (including the trustees) during
the year, calculated on the basis of full-time equivalents, was as follows:
2024 2023
Number Number
0 0

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5. Taxation

The charity’s activities fall within the exemptions afforded by the provisions of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988. Accordingly, there is no taxation charge in these accounts.

6. Creditors: amounts falling due

within one-year

2024 2023 £ £

Accruals and deferred income 750.00 750.00

7. Unrestricted funds

At At

01 April Incoming Outgoing 31 Mar

2023 resources resources 2024 £ £ £ £

Unrestricted Fund 2,322.94 59,502.12 (66,370.62) (4,545.56)

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Incoming resources
Incoming resources from generating funds: 2024 2023
Voluntary income
Donations
 59,502.12 94,794.59
Grants receivable ---- ----
59,502.12 94,794.59
Investment income
Other interest receivable ----- -----
Total incoming resources from generating funds 59,502.12 94,794.59
Total incoming resources
 59,502.12 94,794.59

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Statement of activities
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Support Cost
2024 2023
£
£
Project Management
2,796.33 3,779.72
Travel, fuel, Transport
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Refugee food distribution and essential.
6,776.37 9,159.46
Admin (Insurance, storage offce.
6,151.92
8,315.41
Volunteers and support worker expense
10,075.58 13,618.92
Equipment hire
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Sundries
1,286.09
1738.34
Professional fees
5,382.93 7,275.98
Advertising
2,441.41 3,300.00
Venue Hire
9,256.39 10,484.13
Entertainment
1,884.10 2,800.00
Digital project
1884.10 2,546.69
Project Expenses
66,370.62 26,692.92
Total costs
(6,868.50) 84,983.20

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Governance costs 2024 2023
Support costs
Support - Professional - Accountancy fees 750.00 750.00
Bank Charges 0 --
Total governance costs 0 0
Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year (7,618.5) 2,322.94

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Flashy Wings is a change-driven organization established to address the common community issues that marginalize women. It our joy to see women fulfil their potentials. Be inspired to do great things. And live a life beyond limitations.

Thank you

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