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2022-03-31-accounts

“33 Years serving the Somali community”

ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2021 – 2022

Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)

Charity Number: 1167198

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Somali Integration and Development Association (SIDA)

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2021 – 22

Contents:
List of Contents 1
Legal and administrative information 2 – 4
Chair’s Report 5
Co-ordinator’s report 6
Services overview 7 – 12
Our future strategy 13
Balance Sheet 14

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Legal and Administrative Information:

Charity Name Association

Somali Integration & Development

Registered CIO

1167198 (England & Wales) Registered as a CIO on 18 May 2016 having been established on 21 November 1989

Principle Address

Unit 50 Camberwell Bussiness Centre, 99-103 Lomond Grove London SE5 7HN Tel: (020) 3583 274 Email: somali.integration@outlook.com

Governing Documents:

Constitution

Objects

The objects of the CIO are:

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deem necessary with the object of improving the conditions of life for persons who have need of such facilities.

Trustees:

Persons in charge of designing, planning, directing, controlling and delegating key personnel who are the senior members of staff to whom were given a significant managerial responsibility or authority such as day to day running and/or operating the charity as the trustees of the charity.

The list of the present charity trustees is as follows:

  1. Nasir Abdi Chairman 2. Amal Ahmed Ali Secretary 3. Weli Farah Treasurer 4. Ibrahim Deria Trustee 5. Edil Essa Trustee 6. Isir Abdisemed Trustee

Bankers: National Westminster Bank Plc 70 Denmark Hill London SE5 8TT. Independent Examiner: London Accountancy Practice Sojourner Truth Centre 161 Sumner Road London SE15 6JL

Staff and key Volunteers:

1. Mr. Guuleed Muhamud
Co-ordinator: delegated to become the
key member of staf who has the day to
day running authority and responsibility
of the charity.
2. Malika Omar Female groups activities support
3. Enkita Lala Creative writing trainer- [Volunteer]
4. Hussein Ali Male groups activies support [Volunteer]
5. Adan Tabit Football Coach [Sessional worker]

Co-ordinator: delegated to become the key member of staff who has the day to day running authority and responsibility of the charity.

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Volunteer Contribution:

What have they done:

They have added value to the service by contributing time, knowledge and skill,

our volunteers have not only contributed to the development of our organisation but

have learned a lot and improved their capacity further.

Many have gained employment and/or moved into higher levels of education.

SIDA provided them references and assisted them in different ways such us DBS costs, CV improvements and providing employment references

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’ – The Chair s Report for The Year 2021 2022

It is my distinct pleasure to make this short statement on behalf of the Somali Integration and Development Association. I am deeply grateful to be elected the Chairperson of this charity for the last 5 years where I am honoured by both the members and board of trustees to nominate me their chairman.

Over the past financial year SIDA- like most charitable institutions- has been affected massively by the economic stress that has been caused by the compounded effects of skill and supply shortages, these being caused by the post-brexit transtition which has been further exacerbated by the transition out of Covid restrictions and the current catastrophe taking place in Ukraine.

SIDA this financial year bade a sorrowful farewell to our esteemed former key member of staff, our former coordinator, Abdikarim Ali, who had been with SIDA for a period of over eight years and had put his blood, sweat and tears into the development and elevation of the somali community here in southwark through SIDA.

I appreciate and thank Mr Ali wholeheartedly for the time and effort he exerted into the development of SIDA and the betterment of the Somali population in southwark as a whole, I wish you the very best in your future endeavours, You will be sorely missed.

Despite these many challenges, SIDA has been privileged to have received a sustained level of funding from the LB of Southwark council, and has been taking a pragmatic approach in remaining a beacon of support for the somali community in southwark by providing quality services efficiently in these highly turbulent times.

SIDA has worked rigorously to give a high level of consideration to remaining prudent and solvent in order to operate with a high level of efficiency without compromising the quality of it’s services with the best possible delivery systems based on respect of equality and diversity of our users.

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SIDA has and is working hard to the criteria of our funders, working with multiple agencies in partnership to ensure that there is no service duplication. SIDA remains specialised to the Somali Southwark residents by providing services that could only be provided by SIDA. Moreover, we continued our fundraising campaign strategy, targeted to raise minimum of 20-30% from other sources apart from the council, which is one of the major conditions of funding by the local council.

To conclude, I unreservedly extend my thanks and appreciation to the Southwark Council and it’s leaders as well as other funders for sustained funding for the services we provide for the community.

I also want to thank our partner agencies for their service, capacity building and other types of support and collaborations with us during this financial year and beyond.

Thank you all. Nasir Abdi [Chairman]

’ - - Co ordinator s Review for the year 2021 2022:

I would like to start by announcing that it is a great pleasure to be in this position of Coordinator for this highly reputable organisation where our mission statement is to improve and support the Somali community locally and internationally.

I would also like to thank my predecessor, mentor and esteemed former coordinator Abdikarim Ali, the work you have done for this organisation and the Somali community in Southwark as a whole cannot be put into words. I hope to carry on the great work you have done and elevate SIDA beyond the places it has already reached. I wish you the best in your future endeavours, you will be dearly missed.

Over the last year, SIDA like other counterpart charities faced tough challenges triggered by wide economic strain caused by a combination of several factors- these being the tragic crisis in Ukraine and after-effects of both Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.

SIDA under the pressure of challenges from all sides- from scarcity of funding to the natural process of change in administration as well as the current turbulent socio-economic climate- has through attrition been able to sustain the roll out of already existing services- prior to change in administration- at an effective level as well as introduce new activities to our already existing roster with success thus far.

The Covid-19 emergency response programme ended in June 2021 and the results of this programme were beyond the expectations of SIDA. This was made possible by the tireless efforts of a team of staff, volunteers and partner agencies that I would like to extend my thanks to. Since the end of

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the Covid-19 programme SIDA has started the exciting home-school support programme as well as multiple new activities such as sowing classes, healthy walks for men and many others to the benefit of our service users.

Without the support and £56k grant funding provided to us by our main funder [LB of Southwark council], it could not have been possible to help such a vast amount of the local community.

To conclude, we are grateful for the financial assistance and grants provided to us by all our funders including:

Lastly, I would not forget or underestimate the funds contributed by our service users as donations.

I thoroughly appreciate and thank all those who have supported us.

Mr. Guuleed Muhamud [Co-ordinator]

SERVICES OVERVIEW:

History – the Somali Integration & Development Association (SIDA) is a voluntary association (Registered Charity) founded in 1989 to serve the needs of the local Somali community. SIDA was formally established on 30[th] October 1999 when a constitution was adopted.

In 2009, SIDA merged with 2 other Somali community originations – Aylesbury Somali Women's Health Project and Southwark Somali Women's Group which increased capacity to serve the community (Specifically, to focus upon Somali women) and brought 2 part-time staff to our team.

Partnership – additional capacity to deliver our programmes is achieved through effective partnerships which have been developed with the Sharp Raiser and the Ocean Somali Community Association (OSCA) – these partners contribute staff secondments and funding to deliver programmes in Southwark together with SIDA.

Finance & Funding – SIDA currently benefits from a level of support which has actually increased over the past few years in response to the growing roster of services – turnover has grown from £47K in 2007 to more than £80K in the past 5 years.

This is mainly due to a large grant from LB Southwark of c£60K per year – we also have a small reserve of c£6k which is planned to be increased over

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the next 1 – 3 years as we are developing and implementing a new formal fund raising strategy.

Mission Statement – our mission is to help the Somali Community, improve the quality of their lives and enable them to play a fully empowered and effective role in wider society by bringing people together, sharing knowledge and co-ordinating activity and opinion.

Profile of Target Group / Area – SIDA was established to provide services to the Somali community residing or working, primarily in the London Borough of Southwark, but expanding throughout the UK and abroad [e.g. Somalia] as we develop a broader and overseas remit to support Somalis wherever they may be.

The Need for Our Services – For over 33 years, we have identified the real needs of Somali communities: -

SIDA Surveys: research of our service users through direct delivery/contact shows many issues e.g. statistics state that up to 80% of Somalis claim some form of welfare support as the rate of unemployment within this community is very high compared to local and national rates.

The current inflation rate of 6.2% last recorded for February this year personifies the current socio-economic climate of sharply rising fuel and living costs set to rise even further in the coming months.

The effects of the low employment rate and the rapidly increasing financial pressures have translated into more beneficiaries seeking our advice services with which we have assisted and facilitated in their accessing of support available to them from the LB of Southwark and referred those who required specialist support to our professional partner agencies.

SIDA Experience : we supported more than 1,000 Somalis in the past year and identify a huge unemployment scenario within the Somali Community in Southwark in excess of 70%.

We are receiving greater numbers of enquiries as regards mental ill health and the general health of the Somali community is seen as poor – poverty is increasingly playing a key role in affecting people’s health e.g. poor diet, living conditions etc., however we are seeing increases in instances of khat usage as people are becoming depressed at a lack of opportunity and seeking escapes.

There are a range of social issues which need to be addressed including female exclusions – our programme addresses these key issues.

Current Services – SIDA has built an impressive track record of services / project delivery – the current services roster includes the following :-

1. Advice and Guidance – SIDA provides free, independent, and confidential Advice, guidance and Advocacy services for Somali individuals and families on social and welfare issues.

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2. Interpreting & Translation to support the community’s communications.

3. Sign Posting & Guidance to all other local agencies and service providers.

4. Workshops & Seminars on wide range of social, welfare and development issues

5. Female Specialist Advice and Guidance to ensure that they receive equal access to support.

6. Health Advocacy & Development Programme which contributes to improving the health of females within the Somali community.

7. Youth Services comprising work with the NEET Community.

8. Men’s Activities [16 plus healthy living]

The healthy living project continued to be very beneficial for numerous members of the community as SIDA integrated new activities into this such as healthy group walks for men twice a week every Wednesday and Saturday from the local mosque through burgess park via a pre-planned route in collaboration with UFFO Athletics.

Also SIDA assisted football games are held every Sunday in Myatt’s field park in Camberwell for the 16 plus male group, which has shown a high turnout and helped us engage male groups much better so that they benefit from other services that we offer in our centre such as career advice and advocacy.

9. Basic Skills Development Programme

Our online programme of one-on-one and group support continued this yearvia collaboration with local agencies such as GetsetUK we have developed a range of training/educational support bringing together the plans for English language, literacy, numeracy and IT, advice surgeries and health awareness including covid-19 prevention.

All course attendees were supported in terms of self-development, mentoring, opportunities and planned courses of action relevant to themselves in personal, educational and career/professional level.

10. Home-school Support programme

Home-schooling had been on a steady rise before the inception of Covid-19 but it was accelerated further due to the pandemic with 90% of parents with a school-aged child stating that a child in their home had been home-

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schooled in the past week between January 13[th] and February 7[th] 2021 according to the ONS.

SIDA recognised that the new wave of home-schooled children and their new teachers- their parents- would require every assistance in this new journey they had embarked upon.

SIDA facilitated P.E classes for home-schooled children at The Damilola Taylor Centre to occur once a week along with having weekly gatherings of home-schooling parents and children at the SIDA community centre for phonics classes and parent meet ups.

The P.E classes in particular have been very successful with 100% of parents expressing satisfaction at the pilot session and the class growing in number ever since.

Performance:

SIDA has exceeded its targets as it has served over 1,500 persons of all ages and genders with primary beneficiaries remaining to be Somali community residents in Southwark.

Somalis in Southwark were able to better access mainstream services, achieved skills through volunteering, benefitted from a fully equipped resource centre, IT and access to the internet service, English classes, CV preparation and job search and employment references.

Moreover, since the Somali community in Southwark is one of the most disadvantaged and hard to reach communities, we have provided culturally appropriate advices and guidance services which local residents have accessed and received for free in confidential and fully accessible manner.

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Most of SIDA’s beneficiaries were from the disadvantaged groups affected by the inequality of opportunity. They have benefitted from general advice services as well as specialist local agencies when necessary. Continuation of this service has had a tremendously positive impact on lives of many Somali individuals and families. Isolation within the community has been reduced by providing different types of support and development services such as advocacy, English classes, general awareness, health seminars and physical exercises.

Moreover, SIDA has remained instrumental in playing a leadership role in helping the Somali community and working in partnership with many other agencies from all parts of London in order to provide volunteering opportunities for service users as well as creating links and connections with them in order to improve career and employability opportunities.

SIDA very recently piloted a programme- Home-school support- wherein home-schooled children were given P.E classes twice a week once outdoors in our local burgess park and once a week indoors at The Damilola Taylor Centre. The pilot session at The Damilola Taylor Centre proved to be a huge success with 100% of parents satisfied, consequently in the second session participants increased in number from 8 parents and 15 children in the first session to 11 parents and 21 children in the second.

SIDA has gone beyond expectation by serving over 1,500 members of the community who all benefitted from our services via different projects, activities, programmes and other services.

We are committed to removing barriers to accessing services and offering specific support to women to improve their quality of life. In practice we have provided support to 1,445 from our advice centre- not including the members of the community who attended seminars, educational and family activities, group meetings, workshops and sports activities.

In overview, SIDA has over-achieved its satisfaction target rate despite all the challenges over the past financial year, which was beyond expectation.

In this financial year over 1000 beneficiaries used our services through our different projects, All our users were disadvantaged members from the community in particular they were from the BAME communities though we primarily focused on the Somali community.

We represented our users within the mainstream service providers, voluntary and other community service providers. These agencies have played a big role in our achievements through help on capacity building, information sharing, referrals, sign posting and many other avenues that are greatly appreciated.

Connections & Collaborations : We liased with the departments of the LB of Southwark Council such as department of sports and leisure, housing, education, adult and children serivces and agencies like the police, the NHS as well as the voluntary sector eg. Community Southwark, Southwark Law Centre, London Advice Services, Empowering community, Migrant Advice

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Center and multiple other local advice centres,forums and networks. We are grateful to our services users and other stakeholders who have passionately supported SIDA's cause.

Special thanks to our Southwark link officer Mr Angus Lyon for his and the LB of Southwark’s ongoing suppport and collaboration. Similarly, we thank the staff and leadership of the Community Southwark, Eveline Oldfield Unit(EOU), MG Training and Development, Sharp Raiser, Local Accountancy Project and many other agencies that have all been of huge benefit to SIDA.

FUTURE STRATEGY:

SIDA future strategy comprises 4 parts: -

  1. Continue capacity building and establishment of a function for developing a fund-raising campaign strategically [conducted in 2010 and updated annually] and ongoing bid making thereafter.

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  1. Consolidate fundraising campaign to ensure gaining resources outside of the LBS to sustain matching the fund grant provided to us by the Southwark council.

  2. Develop a roster of future projects and plan out how to introduce them via SIDA, in partnership or whether to encourage other providers to join the strategy.

  3. Initiate a strategic campaign to raise resources from external sources and improve on our fund-raising techniques and practice.

For further financial information, please refer to the separate report attached.

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SOMALI INTEGRATION & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION FINANCIAL STATEMEwrs FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022 SOMALI INTEGRATION & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA710N {SIDAI DETAILED INCOME AND EXPENDITVRE FOR ThE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022 Unw••trktsd R•trkt•¢ 2022 2021 Fund Fund Total Total Incorrfng Re¥ourees Doneloni. GrnTts 8 L•g•cl•: pr￿￿ i FuThYirwJAC.RBS L(MxJon Borwjh of ￿lfr#[k Unite(J st Samws Pe(¥JÈ Healh Tr City of L￿￿on PTC- CCLORS D(￿7￿¢ 9.103 0" 5fj.(￿ 64.( 15.3 7.082 23.163 24.034 1.145 1.611 JS 146 235 Totsl Incobwng moiirce• Outgolnll RMouru8 Ch•rltsbbe •xp•ndthur¢•: S&knes Families FW HMAC F￿d FuThl Tot•1 Tol•l 26.556 3.711 3.4541 38.574 3.711 3.641 770 1.042 Sess1(ThlworkewvaiThwJ Acthbes8ThY Prwts Co5￿ 19 SiaVLT&niryJ 11.W 11.083 11.172 2.512 Fire SafetyRenewai 122 122 H81 hire Pitch Hire Rertl Rates BubJirty Mairtsn 1.1( 1.11 192 15.592 2.734 423 1.450 859 15.335 16.194 & P051• offi￿ Equwnertiir EoJpft 931 931 7203 Tephone TherapÉUbCtre&trt￿ P￿lICI￿jWebY W8re% Payrol SÈMCÉS 1.911 1,911 378 1.169 Phclocopier 350 2.731 270 1731 PPEICkarnrvJ 135 Accokrtsry Fee C(mTrttee Meebrrfj Suthfjry Ewerse5 1.1( 1.1 67 15 589 706 1100TT JQ129 14

Page
Contents 2
Administrative Information 3
Reportofthe Trustees 4-6
Independent Examiner's Report 7
StatementofFinancial Activities 8-9
Notes and Financial Activities 10
Detailed Income & Expenditure 11

FOR THE YEAR ENDED31MARCH 2022
Unrestricted Restricted 2022 2021
Incoming Resources Fund
Fund
Fund Total
£ £ £ £
Voluntary Income 56,000
0
56,000 146,238
Donations 235 0 235 0
TotalIncomingResources 56,235 0 56,235 146,238
Costofgener~ting funds:
Charitable activities 50,576 30,129 80,705 110,077
Total Resources Expended 50,576 30,129 80,705 110,on
Net Incoming Resources 5,659 -30, 129 ,,
-24,470 36,161
Balance brought forward 13006 43,741 56,747 20,586
Balances carried forward 18,665 13,612 32,277 56,747

Unrestricted Restricted Unrestricted Restricted 2022 2021
Incoming Resources Fund Fund Total Total
Donations, Grants&Legacies: £ £ £ £
Project_I_FundingAC,RBS 0 0 0 9 ,103
London BoroughofSouthwark 56,000 o" 56,000 64,000
United st Saviours 0 0 0 15,300
People Health Trust
C ityofLondon
0
0
0
0
0
0
7,882
23,163
PTC- CCLORS 0 0 0 24,034
Donations 235 0 235 1,145
Others 0 0 0 1,611
Total Incoming resources 66,236 0 66,236 146,238
UnrestrictedRe■tricted 2022 2021
Outgoing Resources
Charitable expenditures:
Salaries
Families Project
Fund 1
£ 1
26,55~1
Fund
£
0
3,711..
Total
£
26,556
3,711
Total
£
38,574
0
HMRC 3,641 3,641 2 ,526
Pension Contnbution 770 0 770 1,695
Volunteers Expenses 55 0 55 1,042
Sess1onal workers/ training 0 0 0 14,234
Activities and Projects Costs/ Covid19 0 11,083 11,083 11,172
Staff training 0 0 0 858
AdviceProject 1,293 0 1,293 0
Members hip/Subscriptions 0 0 0 2,512
Fire Safety /Renewal 122 0 12.2 0
Educational Material 0 0 0 1,599
Subcontractor Costs 1,438 0 1,438 0
Hall hire 1,106 0 1,106 0
Pitch Hire 0 0 0 192
iRent/ Rates 859 15,33~ 16,194 1~,592
Building/ Maintenance 0 0 0 2,734
Printing/Stationery&Postage 931 0 931 423
Office Equipment / ITEquipment 4,282 0 4,282 1,450
T__!avel Expenses 0 0 0 52
Food/Refreshments 383 0 383 7,203
Telephone 665 0 665 1,182
Th~rapeutic treatment **1,~!1 ** 0 1,911 0
Publicity/Website 388 0 388 378
Waresoft 683 0 683 0
Payroll Services 258 0 258 1,169
CRBChecksNolunteers 0 0 0 150
Photocopier 350 0 350 270
Consultancy 2,731 0 2,731 2,500
PPE/Cleaning 26 0 26 135
Insurance 948 0 948 845
AccountancyFee 1,100 0 1,100 1,000
Committee Meeting 67 0 67 0
Sundry Expenses 15 0 15 589
Total Resources Expended 60,576 30,129 80,705 110,on

Page
Contents 2
Administrative Information 3
Reportofthe Trustees 4-6
Independent Examiner's Report 7
StatementofFinancial Activities 8-9
Notes and Financial Activities 10
Detailed Income & Expenditure 11

FOR THE YEAR ENDED31MARCH 2022
Unrestricted Restricted 2022 2021
Incoming Resources Fund
Fund
Fund Total
£ £ £ £
Voluntary Income 56,000
0
56,000 146,238
Donations 235 0 235 0
TotalIncomingResources 56,235 0 56,235 146,238
Costofgener~ting funds:
Charitable activities 50,576 30,129 80,705 110,077
Total Resources Expended 50,576 30,129 80,705 110,on
Net Incoming Resources 5,659 -30, 129 ,,
-24,470 36,161
Balance brought forward 13006 43,741 56,747 20,586
Balances carried forward 18,665 13,612 32,277 56,747

Unrestricted Restricted Unrestricted Restricted 2022 2021
Incoming Resources Fund Fund Total Total
Donations, Grants&Legacies: £ £ £ £
Project_I_FundingAC,RBS 0 0 0 9 ,103
London BoroughofSouthwark 56,000 o" 56,000 64,000
United st Saviours 0 0 0 15,300
People Health Trust
C ityofLondon
0
0
0
0
0
0
7,882
23,163
PTC- CCLORS 0 0 0 24,034
Donations 235 0 235 1,145
Others 0 0 0 1,611
Total Incoming resources 66,236 0 66,236 146,238
UnrestrictedRe■tricted 2022 2021
Outgoing Resources
Charitable expenditures:
Salaries
Families Project
Fund 1
£ 1
26,55~1
Fund
£
0
3,711..
Total
£
26,556
3,711
Total
£
38,574
0
HMRC 3,641 3,641 2 ,526
Pension Contnbution 770 0 770 1,695
Volunteers Expenses 55 0 55 1,042
Sess1onal workers/ training 0 0 0 14,234
Activities and Projects Costs/ Covid19 0 11,083 11,083 11,172
Staff training 0 0 0 858
AdviceProject 1,293 0 1,293 0
Members hip/Subscriptions 0 0 0 2,512
Fire Safety /Renewal 122 0 12.2 0
Educational Material 0 0 0 1,599
Subcontractor Costs 1,438 0 1,438 0
Hall hire 1,106 0 1,106 0
Pitch Hire 0 0 0 192
iRent/ Rates 859 15,33~ 16,194 1~,592
Building/ Maintenance 0 0 0 2,734
Printing/Stationery&Postage 931 0 931 423
Office Equipment / ITEquipment 4,282 0 4,282 1,450
T__!avel Expenses 0 0 0 52
Food/Refreshments 383 0 383 7,203
Telephone 665 0 665 1,182
Th~rapeutic treatment **1,~!1 ** 0 1,911 0
Publicity/Website 388 0 388 378
Waresoft 683 0 683 0
Payroll Services 258 0 258 1,169
CRBChecksNolunteers 0 0 0 150
Photocopier 350 0 350 270
Consultancy 2,731 0 2,731 2,500
PPE/Cleaning 26 0 26 135
Insurance 948 0 948 845
AccountancyFee 1,100 0 1,100 1,000
Committee Meeting 67 0 67 0
Sundry Expenses 15 0 15 589
Total Resources Expended 60,576 30,129 80,705 110,on