Annual Report and Annual Accounts
For The Period 1st August 2024 – 31st July 2025
Registered Charity Number: 1167208
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Charity Information 2
Chairperson Report 3-4
Activities and Financial Review 4-6
Independent Examiner’s Report 6-7
Income & Expenditure Account 8-9
Notes to the Accounts 10
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Charity Information:
Beersheba- Living Well became a registered CIO established by a constitution on 19 May 2016.
Registered Address:
37A, Ravensdale Road, Stamford Hill, London, N16 6TJ
Founder/Chair:
Rosemary Jawara
Trustees:
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Sabrina Jantuah and Rev Joyce Daley
Chairperson’s Report:
Beersheba-Living Well remains true to its original vision to address dis-proportionately high-risk factors leading to Type 2 diabetes across Black and Ethnic Minority communities. Type 2 diabetes can become a life-limiting health condition which may in some cases significantly impair peoples mental and physical capacity to live well, thrive, make a positive contribution to society and more. Sadly, the continuation of scarce grant funding opportunities, volunteers and trustees to name a few continues to limit the charities capacity to grow. A member of the Board of Trustees has failed to attend planned meetings or submit apologies for more than 6 months. This member has been removed from the board of Trustees in accordance with the charities Constitution.
The charities capacity to raise awareness for BME residents in LB Hackney through health enhancing programs and services developed for the benefit of adults and older people affected by multiple co-morbidities embed:
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Mutual support: community-based information, group learning and 1-1 support when deemed necessary.
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Social Inclusion: activities delivered in communities within City of London for residents who remain socially excluded from parts of society.
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Experiential knowledge: Lived experiences to enhance self-development.
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Self-determination : Promoting the power of one to feel confident enough to take ownership of decision-making and wellbeing.
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Peer mentoring: relational approach that brings shared experiences together.
The charity continues to struggle with recruitment and retention of Trustees, nonetheless, the charity remains consistent in its aims, objectives and ensuring regular meetings are corate. We continue to seek new members who can bring their own unique skills, knowledge, lived experiences etc., together to govern the Charity in keeping with the Constitution.
The charity continues to work in collaboration with Hackney VCS Leadership Group (VCS LG) which brings community leaders together from City and Hackney to re-balance the relationship between the VCS and system partners. This includes sitting on Hackney’s Health and Wellbeing Board to give voice to entrenched inequalities and improve Health Equity.
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The charities Chairperson works in accordance with the role description as Co-chair which provides good opportunities to actively engage with individuals and organisations from diverse backgrounds.
The charity sits on London borough Hackney’s Health and Wellbeing Board working in collaboration with system partners to address the diverse needs of communities living and working in the borough with a view to advance Health Equality.
Activities and Financial Review:
Limited success with fundraising this financial year impacted the charities capacity to engage our targeted communities. Notwithstanding, the charity delivered a successful bid to receive a small grant from Hackney Giving to deliver food and supermarket vouchers to local residents facing greater hardship due to the inflated cost of living.
We received written permission from Awards for All to re-purpose un-spent finances from Changing Places project and combine this with micro-grant from Peabody Trust to deliver a series of Lunch and Learn workshops for Black African and Caribbean Heritage adults living on the estate with children under five. We provided light lunch, fruit and vegetables to address food poverty and reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes, further exacerbated the on-going burden of cost-of-living crisis. Since then, grant funding, recruitment and retention of beneficiaries remains harder than we have ever known.
We continue to work with the system which currently places greater emphasis on Social Connections and Match projects through Public Health , to expand neighbourhood working and improve access to healthy living. During this piece of work we seized every opportunity to extend outreach and engagement visits to improve partnerships with a broader range of groups, organisations, services etc., as follows:
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Hackney Migrant Centre
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Well Street Common Festival
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Wrens Park Community Centre
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Morningside Community Centre
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Carib Eats
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Prideax House Lunch Club
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Hope @ Morningside Community Centre
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Windrush Family Day
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Afridac
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Shepherdfold Ministry
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Menopause Café
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Brittania Wellbeing Workshop
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Uprising Community Centre
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City and Hackney Together Conference
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The Boiler House
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Oaktree Community Centre
Grants funding remains extremely difficult to acquire for several reasons however; we continue to work upstream in collaboration with the system partners and health partners to drive improvements to Health equity which reflects many of our overarching objectives.
Financial Review
The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the year to 31 July 2025. The organisation received £7,555.00 which the Receipts & Payments Account shows. Improved health outcomes for the wellbeing of our cohort of residents remains limited, however, the charity strives to maintain good governance and good financial management as always.
Risk Management
Trustees review the organisation’s risk register and ensure good governance through identifying and addressing areas of potential risk. Details of actions taken would be raised at board meetings and recorded in the minutes to safeguard potential risks to the organisation.
Trustees’ Responsibilities
The Board of Trustees recognise their responsibilities for keeping proper accounting records and preparing financial statements each year. The appended accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis and have been examined by an independent examiner, whose report is also appended.
Income and Funding:
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Hackney Giving
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City and Hackney VCS Leadership Group
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Awards For All*
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Peabody Trust
*Following agreement from Awards For All, remaining funds from this grant were combined with £500 small grant from Peabody to deliver a series of Lunch and Learn workshops in collaboration with Peabody.
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT
TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above-mentioned charity for the year ending: 31[st] July 2025
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent Examiner’s Statements
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: accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or, the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
ACCOUNTANTS Patmos Consulting (Global) Limited
5 Chess Close
Latimer
Chesham
Buckinghamshire HP5 1UU
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Adedotun Adekunle Adefehinti MIAB, AATQB
Signed: A A Adefehinti Date: 2 July 2026
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BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST JULY 2025
| BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL | BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL | BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL | BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL | BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL |
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| RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST JULY 2025 | ||||
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Year ended 31/7/2025 |
Year ended 31/7/2024 |
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| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Receipts: | ||||
| PEABODY | 500.00 | 0.00 | 500.00 | 10,000.00 |
| HACKNEY COUNCIL FO | 7,055.00 | 0.00 | 7,055.00 | 4,332.00 |
| Hackney CVS - Giving | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 375.00 |
| Hackney CVS - Co-Chair LG | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6,269.00 |
| Hackney CVS - Ant-Racist Workshops |
0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 245.00 |
| Unity Trust Fees Refund | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150.00 |
| 7,555.00 | 0.00 | 7,555.00 | 21,371.00 | |
| Payments: | ||||
| Sessional Peer Educators | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sessional Staf Costs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5,997.00 |
| Operatonal Costs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,200.00 |
| Telephone and Broadband | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Refreshments/consumables | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Travel Expenses | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hackney Giving | 5,000.00 | 0.00 | 5,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Bursary (Payments to Rosemary Jawara) |
3,488.52 | 0.00 | 3,488.52 | 10,222.00 |
| Sundry Expenses (Small Scale) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Core Costs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Actvity | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bank Service charges | 24.00 | 0.00 | 24.00 | 72.00 |
| Volunteer Expenses | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Publicity and marketng | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Training | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ofce expenses | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Equipment | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Accountancy | Accountancy | Accountancy | Accountancy | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 500.00 | 500.00 | 500.00 | 500.00 | |
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| Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 438.62 | |||||||||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||||||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||||||||
| 8,512.52 | 0.00 | 8,512.52 | 18,429.62 | ||||||||||||
| Receipts over Payments | -957.52 | 0.00 | -957.52 | 2,941.38 | |||||||||||
| Opening Balance | 1,251.05 | 0.00 | 1,251.05 | 2,074.74 | |||||||||||
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| Cash & Bank C/fwd @ 31st July 2025 |
293.53 | 0.00 | 293.53 | 5,016.12 | |||||||||||
| BEERSHEBA-LIVING WELL | |||||||||||||||
| STATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES |
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| AS AT 31ST JULY 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| Year ended 31/7/2025 | Year ended 31/7/2024 |
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| £ | £ | ||||||||||||||
| Cash and Bank:- | |||||||||||||||
| Current Account (Unity Trust) | 293.5 3 | 5,016.12 | |||||||||||||
| 0.0 0 | 0.00 | ||||||||||||||
| 293.5 3 | 5,016.12 | ||||||||||||||
| Fund Balance:- | |||||||||||||||
| Restricted Funds | 0.0 0 | -809.00 | |||||||||||||
| Unrestricted Funds | 293.5 3 | 5,825.12 |
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293.53 5,016.12
Approved by the Board of Trustees on 7 July 2026 and signed on their behalf by
. Rosemary Jawara
. Rosemary Jawara
Chairperson
Beersheba – Living Well
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] JULY 2025
Accounting Basis
These accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis.
Funds of the charity
Receipts of £7,555.00 and payments of £8,512.52 relate to unrestricted funds.
Management and Administration Costs
Management and administration costs relate to admin support to the charity. The Board of Trustees give all their time free of charge.
Cash and Bank Deposits
All cash and bank deposits are held in the unrestricted general funds.
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