2021-05-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From:01 June 2020 To 31 May 2021

Charity name: Binti International

Charity registration number: 1167060

Objectives and Activities

Objectives and Activities
	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To create a world where all women have menstrual dignity by ensuring adequate access to menstrual products, providing menstrual education. Campaigning to create a normal conversation around periods so that women do not suffer from health issues because of their periods. We tackle the stigma and taboos to eliminate the shame.
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH AND EDUCATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE WORLD BY: IMPLEMENTING MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT, PROVIDING EDUCATION AND AWARENESS. Creating projects where women have access to menstrual products. Having events at CSR level to introduce menstrual health workshops. Utilising art, fashion, spoken word and stands at various events to keep the period discussion at the fore of women health.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	Trustees have been briefed at Board Meetings and signed up to their positions

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SORP reference

Policy on grant making	Para 1.38
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	Volunteers helped to deliver food and essential supplies to Whiteley Village, a home for the elderly. They also collected bi-weekly food and supplies from Both Waitrose and Tesco. Our volunteers sewed face masks and there were a team of volunteers who helped with the production, packing and delivery of them. We also had volunteers who helped the vulnerable through the Covid Pandemic. We delivered weekly food ingredients to a Sikh Temple who fed the homeless and people on low income communities.
Other

Achievements and Performance

SORP reference

Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	Binti Launched a campaign with Surrey County Council to provide free period products to anyone that needs them across the county and became the first County in England to do so. Anyone can walk into nearly 60 locations across the county and pick up period products or donate pads for those that need them. This ground breaking initiative is designed to ensure nobody has to use toilet paper in between buying period products or when they get cut short. SCC will also work with Binti to eradicate stigma and taboo with our Dignity at Work Campaign. Morrisons in Weybridge also joined the Dignity at Work campaign along with a number of smaller businesses. The church in Weybridge has also started with the free provision. Binti was able to diversify its offerings during the Pandemic and help a local housing estate for the elderly with the provision of free food bi-weekly and running errands for them during lockdown and whilst they were vulnerable with the effects of Covid. We signed up several organisations internationally too, including Theramex a pharmaceutical company with over 500 employees globally to our Dignity at Work Campaign. They also ran a fundraising event internally for International Women’s Day. Our Founder and CEO Manjit K Gill was awarded an MBE for her services of the provision of period products globally by Her Majesty the Queen for her birthday honours.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	Fundraising came to a halt as many events were cancelled. We did hold online events but none that raised cash.
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41

Other

Financial Review

Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	Binti raised £47.7k for the period, of which £33.k was spent to meet its objective. This left Binti with a surplus of £14.7k at period end. This will be spent in the new period on Binti programs to meet its objectives.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	Reserves of £69.9k were held in order to help buy more Sanitary Pad machines to provide Pads to women at a more affordable price.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£69.9k
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	Binti does not hold zero reserves.
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	N/A
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	There are currently no uncertainties which will prevent the Charity as Going Concern apart from a general slowdown of fund raising through events during lockdown.

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	Primarily donations online, cheques from anonymous donors and fund-raising events.
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Trust Deed
How is the charity constituted? (e.g. unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	CIO Foundation Constitution
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	Proposal by CEO, agreement at Board meeting

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51
Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Binti International
Other name the charity uses	Binti Period
Registered charity number	Charity no. 1167060

	Charity’s principal address	Old Linden
		50 Portmore Park Road
		Weybridge
		Surrey
		KT138EU

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 3 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
	Mr. Rakesh Kapoor	Trustee
	Ms. Hardeep Kundan	Trustee
	Ms. Tina Thakore	Trustee
	Ms. Jaipreet Gill	Trustee
	Mr. Prince Baffour	Treasurer
	Mr. Surash Patel	Chair

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved Director name

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects

Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Manjit Gill CEO & Founder Mark Courtney COO

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

Other optional information

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Surash Patel
Position (e.g. Chair
Secretary, Chair, etc.)
Date 8th March 2022
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Profit and Loss

BINTI INTERNATIONAL For the year ended 31 May 2021

Account	2021
Turnover
Corporate Donations	22,437.59
Donations from Trusts, Foundations	15,162.29
Grants	8,100.00
Private Donations (Gift Aid)	1,155.00
Private Donations (No Gift Aid)	898.95
Total Turnover	47,753.83

Cost of Sales
COVID Support	15,977.86
Face Masks	14,001.74
Pads	879.82
Fundraising Costs	774.12
Events Costs	351.08
Direct Expenses	33.44
Total Cost of Sales	32,018.06
Gross Profit	15,735.77

Administrative Costs

Administrative Costs
Insurance	262.54
IT Software and Consumables	307.59
Printing & Stationery	67.99
Telephone & Internet	381.49
Total Administrative Costs	1,019.61
Operating Profit	14,716.16
Profit on Ordinary Activities Befor 14,716.16
Profit after Taxation	14,716.16

Balance Sheet BINTI INTERNATIONAL As at 31 May 2021

31 May 2021

Assets

Bank
Binti International	£66,640.03
Binti International Paypal	£3,591.93
Total Bank	£70,231.96
Total Assets	£70,231.96

Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Accruals	£299.30
Total Current Liabilities	£299.30
Total Liabilities	£299.30
Net Assets	£69,932.66
Equity
Current Year Earnings	£14,716.16
Retained Earnings	£55,216.50
Total Equity	£69,932.66

Baffour & Associates ltd (Chartered Accountants)

34 Sheppey Road Dagenham. RM9 4LH

Registration Number: 8239754

28 January 2022

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Dear Sir/Madam

I hereby confirm I certify the financial accounts of Binti International for year ending 31 May 2021.

In my opinion, the financial statements:

• Give a true and fair view of the state of the organisation’s affairs as of 31 May 2021 and of its surplus for the year then ended.

• Have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and Charities SORP (FRS102).

• Have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charity Commission of England and Wales.

Yours faithfully,

Prince Baffour (FCCA) Chartered Certified Accountant Email: [e-mail]