## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 Apr 2023 **To** 31 Mar 2024
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Sikh Learning Trust
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1164653
**Charity's principal address**
9 Mere View
Walsall West Midlands **Postcode WS4 1XF**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Jatinder Singh|Chair/Treasurer|||
||Rajvinder Kaur|Secretary|||
||Kulwant Singh|Trustee|||
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Registered Charity CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by existing Trustees
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The Sikh Learning Trust funds a number of projects which include the advancement of education in the UK or abroad, in particular providing or assisting in the provision of classes and workshops in the following subjects: · Punjabi/Gurmukhi · Reading of Sikh scriptures · Translation of Sikh scriptures · Sikh history · Kirtan (Sikh classical music) The Sikh Learning Trust funds activities to promote the advancement of
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the Sikh religion in the UK or abroad, in the holding of religious services and prayer meetings, producing and/or distributing literature to enlighten others about the Sikh religion, and holding workshops and courses to teach people about the Sikh religion and the Sikh way of life.
The charity also supports the production of unique pieces of Sikh art, digital productions, audio and videos.
The charity funded a number of projects up to March 2024 which included the following:
**Summary of the main** 2024 which included the following: **activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** • Voluntary work at the children’s residential Bhai Amrik Singh **these objects (include within** Memorial Gurmat Camp. **this section the statutory** • Funding / supported Sikh Education classes in the UK and in **declaration that trustees have** India. **had regard to the guidance** • Supported the costs of upkeep of a historical place of worship and **issued by the Charity** providing food for students and congregation in Kankawal in India. **Commission on public** • Creation of new Sikh history books and audio books **benefit)** Trustees have followed the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit in all the activities it has undertaken.
## Section D Achievements and performance
The Sikh Learning Trust has successfully met it’s aims this year by **Summary of the main** funding a number of projects which include the advancement of **achievements of the charity** education in the UK or abroad, in particular providing or assisting in the **during the year** provision of classes and workshops in the following subjects:
· Punjabi/Gurmukhi · Reading of Sikh scriptures · Translation of Sikh scriptures · Sikh history · Kirtan (Sikh classical music)
In the UK the classes have been held in association with Guru Nanak Gurdwara Willenhall and abroad the charity has supported classes run at Gurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Vill. Kanakwal, Punjab India.
The Sikh Learning Trust funded activities to promote the advancement of the Sikh religion in the UK or abroad, in the holding of religious services and prayer meetings, producing and/or distributing literature to enlighten others about the Sikh religion, and holding workshops and courses to teach people about the Sikh religion and the Sikh way of life.
The charity also supported the production of unique pieces of digital productions, audio and videos.
## **Section E Financial review**
We are a small charity with no financial commitments therefore we do not **Brief statement of the** have a policy on reserves. **charity’s policy on reserves**
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**Details of any funds materially** Not applicable **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
None
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
None
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
Rajvinder Kaur **Full name(s)** Jatinder Singh **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair and Treasurer Secretary **etc)**
**Date** 03/07/2024
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name SIKH LEARNING TRUST **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 31 MARCH 2024 **Charity no** 1164653 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 6
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 /03 /2021.
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed:**
**Date:** 27/08/2024
**Name:** Harmeet Singh Gill
**Relevant professional** ICAEW **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 58 Bourne Ave, Hayes, UB3 1QW
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**Section B**
## **Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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||**Charity Name**
**SIKH LEARNING TRUST**
|**Charity Name**
**SIKH LEARNING TRUST**
|**Charity Name**
**SIKH LEARNING TRUST**
|**Charity Name**
**SIKH LEARNING TRUST**
|**No (if any)**
**1164653**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2023
Period start date|**To**|Period end date
31/03/2024||
||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**65,397**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**65,397**|**52,728**
**7,986**
**-**|
|Gift Aid Claims|**10,447**|||**-**|**10,447**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**75,844**||**-**|**-**|**75,844**|**40,519**|
||**-**||**-**||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||**75,844**||**-**|**-**|**75,844**|**60,714**|
||||||||
|Charitable Activities|**61,777**||**-**
**-**|**-**|**61,777**|**56,265**
**-**|
|Governance costs|**100**|||**-**|**100**||
|**_Sub total_**|**61,877**||**-**|**-**|**61,877**|**56,265**|
||**8,074**
**-**||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
|**Audio Visual**|**8,074**||**-**
**-**|**-**|**8,074**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**8,074**||**-**|**-**|**8,074**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||**69,951**||**-**|**-**|**69,951**|**56,265**|
||||||||
||**5,893**||**-**|**-**|**5,893**|**4,449**|
||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**
**11,998**|
||**16,446**|||**-**|**16,446**||
||**22,339**||**-**|**-**|**22,339**|**16,446**|
||||||||
|**Section B Statement of assets and**|||**liabilities at the end of the period**||||
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||Cash at hand|||**22,339**|**-**|**-**|
||Signature
Audio visual equipment
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|||**22,339**|**-**|**-**|
|||||OK|OK|OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|**-**||
|||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||
||||||~~**-**~~|~~**-**~~
~~**-**~~|
||||||~~**-**~~||
|||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||
General|~~**8074**~~|~~**-**~~
~~**-**~~
~~**-**~~|
||||||~~**,**~~
~~**-**~~||
||||||~~**-**~~||
|||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||
||||||||
|||||||Date of approval
27/08/2024
27/08/2024|
|||||JATINDER SINGH|||
|||||RAJVINDER SINGH|||