Asaworta Community Support Association TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING 31 March 2023
The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements of the charity for the period 01/04/2022 to 31 March 2023 .
Registered Charity Name : Asaworta Community Support Association-known as ACSA Charity Registration Number: 1166284200 BRAVINGTON ROAD, London, W9 3AP The trustees who served the charity during the period were as follows:
Mr Ahmed Musa Omer Mr Mohammed O Adam Mr Mohamed S Mohmud Ms Hanan Mahmoud Ms Hanadi Mohammed Mr Nassir Ibrahim Mr Musa Mohamed Ali
STRUCTURE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
The governing document is the Asaworta Community Support Association-ACSA- CIO Constitution adopted on in January 2016 which became recognised by the Charity Commission when the Charitable Incorporated Organisation was registered on 30 March 2016. The charity is run by the Trustees who are volunteers.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
The objectives for which ACSA charity was established are:
To further or benefit the horn of African British and all other residents in Westminster and surroundings in the inner city of London, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents.
In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power:
to establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects. ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE:
In planning for our activities in our trustee meetings, we have kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefits. The charity activities are open for disadvantaged people from diverse background in the inner city of London and surrounding boroughs, with focus on those originated from the Horn of Africa.
The charity's income and expenditure are modest but balanced, so the Trustees are pleased with the results and the operation of the charity since its registration in January 2016.
The charity believe this is most successful year since the community established in the since of organising so many programmes and social programmes for the community with aim of alleviating social isolation and give community members and local people a sense of belonging and cohesion.
The Charity was successful in liaising with Queens Park Community and organising a lovely summer trip for the community to Littlehampton seaside. The purpose of the trip is to bring cohesions among people from different background, and to allow people to experience places that they never travelled to in the UK. The children, young people and families enjoyed the trip thoroughly and they would like this activity to continue very summer, some members said they were prepared to contribute towards the cost of funding this kind of social trip. WE were successful in the past to run a homework project which was funded by Award For All. The homework project supported school age children of the community in core subjects-Maths, English and Science. We delivered the project using volunteering and paid tutors. When the project fund came to an end, we continued to deliver the support virtually for some children who continue to need the support.
We were able to organise Ramadan Iftar (breakfast) for the community. The aim was to bring socially isolated people together to breakfast. Ramadan is a month of spiritual reflection, self-improvement, and devotion to Allah. Fasting during Ramadan is an important act of worship that teaches self-discipline, empathy, and spiritual awareness.
The community also organised Eid-Adha in July 2022 at Battersea Park. Eid is a social Muslim event, and it is a time of joy and blessing for the children and families who were happy to see each other in open and green space.
We also managed to organise a very successful award nights in summer 2022 for our community elders and volunteers as we were displaying them as role models for the young and second generation who learned their life story, struggle to migrate make living in the UK.
We continue to run social clubs’ events for older and isolated women in our community. The community centre provides local people with advice and support on ranges of issues welfare, health, housing, and immigration.
The source of funding our current social projects are members’ subscriptions and donations.
The community will continue to run a regular social club in summer for the isolated people in the community. The activities involved having fun as well as providing awareness around issues related to healthy living, housing, employment, languages, outreach and other support that may be required.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The key objective for ACSA remains to acquire a community centre. However, the trustees has yet to secure financial assistance towards that goal. The Trustees intend to continue working with statutory, local partners and the community members to raise enough funds to establish or secure the establishment of a community to promote the charity’s set objects. The Trustees have agreed a policy to maintain a level of reserves towards buying or leasing a community centre in order to run the objects of this charitable community for the public interest. They are also conscious of their responsibilities and monitor the level of funding to ensure the charity can meet its liabilities
RESPONSABILITES OF THE TRUSTEES
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulation. The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable organisation's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the organisation and hence taking steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Trustees Induction and Training
The plan is to review the need for more skilful trustees to improve the outcome There will be structured training/induction for new trustees to ensure quality performance in the coming years.
Risk Management
The Committee continues to consider potential organisational, operational, financial and administrative/systems risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure that systems and strategies are in place to minimise those risks. Code of conduct document has been introduced for trustees and volunteers.
Signed on behalf of the trustees: mohammed Adam
Mr Mohamed Adam
Chair of Trustees
Date : 31 /03/ 2023
Asaworta Community Support Association 1166284 Receipts and payments accounts
For the period 01/04/2022 from
31/03/2023
To
CC16a
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Last year funds funds funds funds to the nearest to the to the to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £ nearest £ nearest £
A1 Receipts
| 5,023 | - | 19,303 | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 1,905 | - | |||
| 389 | - | |||||
| - | ||||||
| - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | |||
| - | - | - | - |
C/F bank 14,280 5,023 membership subscriptions 1,905 - Donations 2,273 - - - -
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 18,458 | 5,023 | - | 21,596 | - | ||||||
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| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). | |||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Sub total | - |
- | - | - | - | ||||||
| Total receipts | 18,458 | 5,023 | - | 21,596 | - | ||||||
| A3 Payments | |||||||||||
| Iftar Ramadan for the community | |||||||||||
| 733 | - | - | 733 | - | |||||||
| Community Centre Hire fro activities | |||||||||||
| 2,753 | - | - | 2,753 | - | |||||||
| Award nigts for elders and volunteer | |||||||||||
| 968 | - | - | 968 | - | |||||||
| Littlehampton beach seaside trip | |||||||||||
| 1,634 | - | - | 1,634 | - | |||||||
| Cost of Eid Fitir- Adha for the community | |||||||||||
| 1,104 | - | - | 1,104 | - | |||||||
| cost of 2 Laptops, widows etc | |||||||||||
| 580 | - | - | 580 | - | |||||||
| cost of running social clubs | |||||||||||
| 153 | - | - | 153 | - | |||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| - | |||||||||||
| Sub total | |||||||||||
| 7,926 | - | - | 7,926 | - |
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
- - - 7,926 10,532 - - 10,532 |
- - - - 5,023 - - 5,023 |
- - - - - - - - |
- - - 7,926 5,006 - - 15,555 |
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| Sub total Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
- | - | |||
| - | |||||
| 10,532 | 5,023 | - | 5,006 | - | |
| - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | - | - | |
| 10,532 | 5,023 | - | 15,555 | - |