Ashar (Bringing Hope) Accounts For The Year Ended 31 March 2022
Ashar (Bringing Hope) Reference and Administrative Details
| Charity Name | Ashar (Bringing Hope) |
|---|---|
| Accounts | 1163732 |
| Principal Address | 80 Denonshire Road |
| Blackpool | |
| FY3 8AE | |
| Trustee's | Hugh O'Donnell |
| Susan O'Donnell | |
| Keith Fantham | |
| Helen Hotchkiss | |
| Accountant | Community Accounting Services Ltd |
| 7 Napoleon Drive | |
| Shrewsbury | |
| SY3 5PH |
Trustees' Report of Ashar (Bringing Hope) on the Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2022
The trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2022. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 1993 and the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities published in 2005.
Structure, Governance and Management
The charity is registered with the Charity Commission and is run in accordance with the Constitution adopted on 25 September 2015.
Trustee selection methods
The Trustees are appointed by the Committee.
Objectives and Activities
To promote and preserve good mental health by providing therapeutic counselling services to groups and individuals within the Shropshire and Mid Wales regions.
Achievements and Performance in the year
Ashar continues to offer our services of: Counselling 1:1 sessions both online and face to face.
On- line Emotional & Spiritual Well-Being course run over six weeks, which we have run successfully twice, using an on-line platform as well as Active Listening and Suicide Prevention course online designed bespoke for their Mental Health Think Tank group.
Ashar has continued building a good network of support across Lancashire and Shropshire however due to the pandemic the demand for our on-line working has increased especially making our service more accessible as location doesn’t matter. However we have needed to ensure all our counsellors and clients are able to work safely with trauma using on-line working, ensuring grounding techniques and assessments are undertaken to ensure safe working practice, otherwise we ask the person to undertake appointments face to face especially initially.
We have now supported over 300 individuals through counselling, well-being appointments and groups.
Emotional & Spiritual Well-Being course has continued to run alongside our Monday Evening zoom (on-line) support meetings where we average 12 -15 people each Monday from across Lancashire, Shropshire and now the North East.
It has been an achievement to be able to change to working on line using zoom and Microsoft Teams.
A huge well done to our counsellors and well-being practitioners especially learning to work on-line, all our supervision in now on line and each counsellor now has individual supervision rather than group supervision; this increases our cost for supervision but ensures the quality of supervisory input for our counsellors.
Resource for other charities and organisations
Ashar continues to support local rehabilitation care farm in Shropshire and local churches across Shropshire and now in Lancashire working more closely with St Matthews in Burnley and St Thomas’s here in Blackpool. Ashar supports a local Drop In ‘Brew & Chat’ on Monday afternoon for community which provides a safe warm space, a listening service as well as access to a qualified counsellor for 1:1 standalone sessions to support those needing more than our listening service.
We continue to have the privilege to support the period poverty and orphanage project in Tanga, Tanzania.
Reserves Policy
The Trustees aim to maintain free reserves at a level sufficient to supplement the day to day running of the Charity.
The restricted funds are made up of grants and are spent according to the grant requirements which assist the Charity in meeting its objectives. Any money left over at the year end is kept in reserves to be spent in the following year.
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Keith Fantham Chairman
Date
Independent Examiner's Report to the Management Committee of Ashar (Bringing Hope) on the Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2022
Basis of independent examiner’s report
We report on the accounts of Ashar (Bringing Hope) for the year ended 31 March 2022.
The Group's officers are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Group's officers consider that an audit is not required for this year and that an independent examination is needed. It is our responsibility to:
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examine the accounts
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to follow the general directions for the conduct of an independent examination
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to state whether particular matters have come to our attention.
Basis of independent examiner’s statement
Our examination was carried out in accordance with general directions for an independent examination. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the committee 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 as a committee concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently we do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
Independent examiner's statement
In connection with our examination, no matter has come to our attention:
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which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements • to keep appropriate accounting records; and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with applicable financial reporting standards
have not been met; or
- to which, in our opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Community Accounting Services Ltd 7 Napoleon Drive Shrewsbury SY3 5PH
Date: 25/01/2023
Ashar (Bringing Hope) Income & Expenditure Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2022
| Note Income Counselling fees Gift Aid Grants Donations Fundraising Total Income Expenditure Running costs Counselling Supervision Support staff Retreat hire Training Travel & subsistence Materials Accountancy Insurance Computer costs Printing, postage & stationery Subscriptions Telephone Rent Repairs Website Depreciation Donations Bank charges Miscellaneous Total Expenses Transfer Between Funds Net Incoming Resources Fund balance brought forward at 1 April 2021 Fund Balance Carried Forward at 31 March 2022 Net Incoming Resources Before Transfers |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total Funds 2022 2022 2022 £ £ £ 4,720 - 4,720 - - - 37,200 37,200 8,060 - 8,060 214 - 214 12,994 37,200 50,194 1,100 - 1,100 1,440 - 1,440 3,762 3,762 1,584 - 1,584 813 - 813 206 206 387 387 390 390 168 168 304 304 554 554 60 - 60 151 151 - - 120 120 474 474 249 249 450 1,689 2,139 42 42 209 209 12,463 1,689 14,152 531 35,511 36,042 - - - 531 35,511 36,042 3,118 1,689 4,807 3,649 37,200 40,849 |
Total Funds 2021 £ 5,120 579 - 8,094 - |
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| 13,793 | ||
| 698 1,690 2,470 - 38 4 275 440 168 168 295 - 108 500 87 299 33 2,650 - 74 |
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| 9,997 | ||
| 3,796 - |
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| 3,796 | ||
| 1,011 | ||
| 4,807 |
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.
Ashar (Bringing Hope) Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022
| Note Non-Current Assets Office Equipment Current Assets Current Account PayPal Net Assets Represented by Funds Unrestricted fund Restricted fund |
£ £ 747 40,038 64 40,102 40,849 3,649 37,200 40,849 2022 |
£ £ 98 4,709 4,709 4,807 3,118 1,689 4,807 2021 |
£ £ 98 4,709 4,709 4,807 3,118 1,689 4,807 2021 |
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| 3,118 1,689 |
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| 4,807 |
The Trustees approve the accounts which comprise of the SOFA, the Balance Sheet and the related notes and acknowledge their responsibility for the accounts, including the appropriateness of the applicable financial reporting framework, and for providing Community Accounting Services Ltd with all information and explanations necessary for their compilation.