## **Ashar (Bringing Hope)**
## **Accounts**
**For The Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **Ashar (Bringing Hope) Reference and Administrative Details**
|**Charity Name**|Ashar (Bringing Hope)|
|---|---|
|**Accounts**|1163732|
|**Principal Address**|80 Denonshire Road|
||Blackpool|
||FY3 8AE|
|**Trustee's**|Keith Fantham|
||Lisa Haskett|
||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 2024**
The trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **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: Counselling 1:1 session both online and face to face, our on-line work is increasing which enables our service to be accessed by a wider cliental.
Our Well-Being Courses are still being run quarterly and our Well-Being Groups are now running weekly, Brew & Chat and a Bereavement Group and a well being practitioner is working alongside our comfort café which provides food to our local community currently supporting 90 service users we provide emotional support, sign posting and counselling provision to those who would otherwise would not easily access mental health provision.
Ashar continues building a good network across Lancashire and Shropshire working to support local churches, Blackburn Diocese, Willowdene Rehabilitation Centre.
We continue to support low cost and funded places for therapy and emotional well-being appointments alongside bespoke workshops at churches request such as ladies' days and emotional well being course.
Our team of counsellors, well-being practitioners and workshop leaders continue to grow, we would like to say a huge thank you to our amazing team of growing volunteers.
One of our continued main achievements has been providing a qualified counsellor to be available to work alongside a local food provider, supporting and promoting emotional well-being, good mental health, some of the feedback has been ‘the time spent was lifesaving’, we have also been able to put another practitioner into a church in Burnley that supports two groups, Ketamine Support Group and a Drop In alongside opportunities for 1:1 sessions.
Invitation to teach workshops to church leaders in Blackburn Diocese at Whalley Abbey
‘Impact of working with Trauma Safely’
Self Care and Well-Being for those in Ordained Ministry.
## **Phone Line Prayer Support**
We continue to offer a Prayer Line which is manned by a group of trained volunteers and holds a recorded message.
## **Overseas**
We continue to have the privilege to support the ‘Period Poverty Project and a local Orphanage project in Tanzania, ‘Tesifa’ Making a Difference. Chris took a team of 7 out in September 2024 where they led two conferences in local churches in Tanga and supported Rachel and the team spending time with the children, story led teaching, well-being, and self care resources.
## **Trustees' Report of Ashar (Bringing Hope) on the Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **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 2024**
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
We report on the accounts of Ashar (Bringing Hope) for the year ended 31 March 2024.
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:
- examine the accounts
- to follow the general directions for the conduct of an independent examination
- 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:
1. which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements • to keep appropriate accounting records; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with applicable financial reporting standards
have not been met; or
2. 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:** 28/01/2025
## **Ashar (Bringing Hope) Income & Expenditure Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|**Note**
**Income**
**Counselling fees**
**Grants**
**Donations**
**Fundraising**
**Total Income**
**Expenditure**
**Running costs**
Counselling
Supervision
Support staff
Room hire
Speakers
Training
Travel & subsistence
Materials
Accountancy
Insurance
Computer costs
Printing, postage & stationery
Subscriptions
Telephone
Repairs
Website & marketing
Depreciation
Donations
Bank charges
Miscellaneous
**Total Expenses**
**Transfer Between Funds**
**Net Incoming Resources**
Fund balance brought forward at 1 April 2023
**Fund Balance Carried Forward at 31 March**
**2024**
**Net Incoming Resources Before Transfers**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Total Funds**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**4,780**
**-**
**4,780**
**-**
**25,000**
**25,000**
**16,662**
**-**
**16,662**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,442**
**25,000**
**46,442**
**4,885**
**8,904**
**13,789**
**-**
**2,723**
**2,723**
**-**
**22,603**
**22,603**
**500**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**336**
**-**
**336**
**176**
**-**
**176**
**1,020**
**-**
**1,020**
**390**
**-**
**390**
**168**
**-**
**168**
**350**
**-**
**350**
**288**
**-**
**288**
**96**
**-**
**96**
**166**
**-**
**166**
**155**
**-**
**155**
**172**
**-**
**172**
**140**
**-**
**140**
**9,093**
**-**
**9,093**
**10**
**-**
**10**
**238**
**-**
**238**
**18,183**
**34,230**
**52,413**
**3,259**
**(9,230)**
**(5,971)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,259**
**(9,230)**
**(5,971)**
**(1,175)**
**13,200**
**12,025**
**2,084**
**3,970**
**6,054**|_Total_
_Funds_
_2023_
_£_
_5,118_
_-_
_4,833_
_8_|
|---|---|---|
|||_9,959_|
|||_7,195_
_2,228_
_26,530_
_-_
_140_
_-_
_244_
_409_
_390_
_168_
_249_
_232_
_56_
_123_
_116_
_309_
_187_
_-_
_-_
_207_|
|||_38,783_|
|||_(28,824)_
_-_|
|||_(28,824)_|
|||_40,849_|
|||_12,025_|
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 2024**
|**Note**
**Non-Current Assets**
Office Equipment
**Current Assets**
Current Account
Petty Cash
PayPal
**Net Assets**
**Represented by Funds**
Unrestricted fund
Restricted fund|**£**
**£**
**421**
**4,184**
**70**
**1,379**
**5,633**
**6,054**
**2,084**
**3,970**
**6,054**
**2024**|_£_
_£_
_561_
_11,416_
_40_
_8_
_11,464_
_12,025_
_(1,175)_
_13,200_
_12,025_
_2023_|_£_
_£_
_561_
_11,416_
_40_
_8_
_11,464_
_12,025_
_(1,175)_
_13,200_
_12,025_
_2023_|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||_(1,175)_
_13,200_|
||||_12,025_|
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.
## **Keith Fantham Chairman**
## **Date**