# **NOMAD – Nations of Migration Awakening the Diaspora Annual Report & Accounts 31[st] March 2021**
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 March 2021
**The Board of Trustees presents its report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
**Company / Charity Name NOMAD – Nations of Migration Awakening the Diaspora**
**Charity registration number** 1168763
Registered Office and operational. The Lodge - 64 Pinner Road
**Address** Harrow, HA1 4HZ
**Directors & Trustees** A . Abubaker (Chair)
A. Sheikh (Treasurer) P. Vassie P. Fitzpatrick O. Abati
G. Passarlay F. Ahmed E. Spielvogel
Bell’s Accountant 10a High Street Chislehurst Kent BR7 5AN
**Independent Examiner** Bell’s Accountant 10a High Street Chislehurst Kent BR7 5AN **Bank** The Co-operative Bank Po box 250
## **REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS / TRUSTEES**
## STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
**NOMAD – Nations of Migration Awakening the Diaspora,** is a Charitable Incorporate Organisation (CIO) operating in the UK under a Constitution adopted on 22 July 2016, which states the objectives of NOMAD as follows:
**For the public benefit to act as a resource for young people (primarily but without limitation) who are currently residing in London and across the UK as a result of breaches of human rights, war or civil disturbance, public calamity (including famine, earthquake or pestilence), the immediate or continuing effects of lack of natural or other resources or any other cause of poverty, distress, suffering and oppression in their countries or origin by providing advice, support, assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of:**
- **(a) Advancing them in life and helping them by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;**
- **(b) Advancing their education and learning in particular through the use of the arts;**
- **(c) Preventing or relieving their poverty including financial need, hardship, distress and suffering, and relieving the effects of oppression;**
- **(d) Promoting their physical, emotional, and mental good health and wellbeing;**
- **(e) Relieving unemployment; and**
- **(f) Providing or supporting the provision of recreational and leisure time activity in the interest of social welfare with a view to improving their conditions of life.**
NOMAD has developed into a vibrant network of young people who originate from all parts of the world taking initiatives to make positive change in their own lives and the wider community.
## **Trustees**
The Constitution states there must be at least three charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees or appoint a new charity trustee.
## **Operational Management**
The day-to-day management of the CIO is through the Directors and operational Manager of the charity, who report to the Board of Trustees. 2 employees and 1 consultant provide specialised services to the CIO, and there are 25 young leaders involved as volunteers.
## **Policies**
NOMAD has the following policies regulating its operations, which will be regularly updated:
- Child Protection
- Health and Safety
- Equal Opportunities
- Financial Policy and Procedures
## **Risk Management**
The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
## **The chair’s statement**
I am delighted to present the annual report for NOMAD for the year 1st of April 2020 to 31st March 2021.
As we all know, we are currently living in unprecedented times due to the onset of COVID-19. This has introduced challenges of an unparalleled nature. The safety and health of our employees and the communities in which we serve has and continues to be our top priority. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 we have implemented several measures across our operations to prevent the spread of infection. These include:
- All Trustees meeting to take place on Zoom
- Employees are to work from home if they can
- Social distancing must be in place at events
- Contact to be maintained with our vulnerable young people, ensuring their wellbeing is our priority.
We are constantly reviewing the situation to ensure we are responding effectively to all health, operational and financial concerns.
We committed to helping members become confident, resilient young people ready to make a positive contribution to their communities.
I would like to thank everyone involved at NOMAD for their dedication and commitment. I would also like to especially thank our funders for their support.
We are NOMAD! Since officially being registered in 2016 we have grown and developed into an organisation where we are the voices and faces of our own stories. Our charity is a true reflection of how we see the world a place where we are represented throughout. We wanted to set up our own charity where we were leading the work at all levels and to welcome those from any background, where we are not defined by our legal status. The Charity was founded by three radical women from Somalia who share a great passion in social change. From their own experiences of being a young Refugee growing up in the UK trying to navigate through the system to build a bright future, we wanted a space where when you walked in the people looked like us.
The artistic Café, the Arc House, is a tool to continue developing and respond to the needs of the community locally and nationally. It is a space which will provide training and development which equips young people with the right tools to take initiative and make positive change within their own community and wider world. The space will also be developing young people’s learning by using participatory action research in order for young people to create a space which is for them by them.
We have created an artistic hub which provides opportunity and alternative affordable spaces raising young people’s aspirations going beyond a high street filled with coffee shops, smoke and chicken shops. NOMAD’s artistic hub is the first youth led artistic hub in Harrow. The Arc House is also a first for Harrow in acting as a centre for arts and culture in Harrow led by the community and driven by a social agenda rather than just an arts agenda. We have connected with local artists, youth groups, activists, colleges, schools and organisations.
COVID-19 has had a massive impact on the NOMAD community. Our colleagues have lost loved ones, our community was hit the most. If people were not losing loved ones they were getting sick. If they were not getting sick or losing loved ones they were losing their jobs as most of them worked as cash in hand. We continued the delivery by adapting our projects to suit the current need of young people, such as delivering food parcels, and moving all our art activities to take place via Zoom. We made sure young people had access to the internet - we were doing this by topping up a credit for them before the sessions. We worked with Harrow Law Centre’s young people’s solicitor to make sure social services and colleges were providing laptops to the most vulnerable young people.
In 2020 we had a full programme of events and fundraisers booked which were supposed to generate an income in order to cover our utilities and activities costs for the Arc House. NOMAD is also built on volunteers, and volunteering decreased as they had all been deeply affected by the pandemic. Conversations highlighted that the majority of our volunteers had been financially impacted, including losing their jobs, homes and family support. We recognised the need to be able to have the resources to pay for people’s work and time in order for us to be able manage our new space so the community could have access.
As our work has grown last year, unfortunately our team has become smaller as our staff and volunteers were majorly affected by COVID-19. We worked with 400 young people and delivered over 300 food and hygiene parcels till today. Last year we had ups and downs as we went in and out of lockdown. During this time we were very hopeful and ran some socially distanced events and workshops bringing together 500 young people, community leaders, artists and service providers. During these events and workshops people were able to express their own lived experiences of the pandemic and get their voices heard by the people who were making decisions in the borough that were directly impacting people from BAME and refugee communities.
## **Key activities and projects**
NOMAD has been conducting research (which is still ongoing) with the aim of bringing the lived experiences of migrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic to a wider platform in order to influence policy and change.
## TWENTYFOURHOURSOFPEACE
NOMAD was invited by Neil Bartman to take part in this project where he interviewed us. It will be a collection on peace from organisations and people from all over the U.K. It turned into a long monologue which will be broadcast live on the radio. The piece will also be archived in the British Library. Here is the link. hhtps://24hoursofpeace.co.uk/
## **Stop and search workshops with Harrow Law Centre**
During the lockdown many young people expressed how they were constantly being stopped and searched during their walks and when going to the park to exercise. We have been working in partnership with Harrow Law Centre to deliver weekly sessions at the Arc House around young people knowing their rights when stopped and searched. The Law Centre have created cards in response to what the young people need. The cards provide information and contact details if a young person finds themselves in a situation where they are treated unfairly.
## **Say More Talk show**
Say More is a youth-led talk show sharing their experiences to the world and changing the narrative of the way young people are portrayed. This project is based at the Arc House. Young people started a talk show where they can have honest and meaningful conversations that people can relate to. The Arc House gave them the platform to explore and feel safe and comfortable to share their experiences and views, plan, discuss and film. The talk show explores many topics, including COVID-19 and young people’s mental health, Black lives matter, democracy and voting. The podcast is on social media where it gives the chance to engage with people worldwide around issues affecting them and sharing tools in how to cope and find solutions.
## **Unwritten Tales of the Tongue 2nd edition**
The second edition of the Unwritten Tales of the Tongue is a book collectively written by young people originating from Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Indian Somali, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Uganda. This book shares their experiences, stories, poems, songs and takes you on an emotional journey. They have worked one to one with an illustrator to show these stories through art. The theme explores home, belonging, war, racism, fear, jealousy, motherhood, gender and lived experiences. We also wanted the book to be more accessible by doing an audio of the poem and songs which will be released on a podcast. The first edition of the book had a massive impact by bringing the stories to life in theatre and touring it across London and Wales. In this second edition we want our books to be more accessible through audio and online and are working towards delivering it in educational settings and with those working in young people’s policy sectors. We have worked closely with Harrow Law Centre looking at the changes in the law the government has made on immigration. Many basic human rights have been stripped away in 2021. This book it shows the world the importance of having empathy, from the experiences of people who lived it, and not the media.
## **Arc House Re-launch**
On Saturday 29th August 2020 NOMAD re-launched their new artistic hub which was originally launched on the 26[th] of February 2020 but due to COVID-19 restrictions could not be used. The event brought together inspiring and uplifting young people and community leaders. It featured performances from several local artists such as EPIC, a Hip-Hop Project based in Harrow. Small local businesses such as jewellery maker ‘Neith Designs’ were also invited to have their own stalls where they could sell their products. As well as an exhibition from local artists there was also an opportunity for people to get involved and produce their own work in an art therapy workshop. We
were also graced by the talents of The Purple Girl, a fashion artist, who performed an amazing fashion show, showcasing all pieces designed by her. This was followed by more musical and dance performances including a ‘Twerkshop’ to end what was a truly amazing day.
## **Black lives matter**
During the pandemic our community has been affected by the Black Lives Matters movement. We created safe spaces for young people to discuss race and racism. It has been a challenging year with the pandemic and, as a BAME-led community organisation, seeing yet another black man being killed. This only highlighted the preexisting issues of our society. We found there was not much culturally appropriate space to deal with the mental and emotional impact, and generally the movement is focused on dealing with structures. We felt it was important to deal with the trauma and create healing spaces. History has shown that what is important for us is to tell the stories and the roles others have played, in order to understand the impact. We also believe in order to engage in racism we need to understand our history beyond racism, slavery and police brutality, by creating safe spaces for conversation, healing and cultural appropriate therapy.
## **One to one support**
NOMAD provided one-one support during the lockdown, by contacting young people regularly and providing guidance and advice when they were very down. Many young people’s mental health was affected and this is where we were helping them with food parcels and referring them to mental health services for additional support.
## **Training and leadership**
10 young people were supported to organise an event which was around educating the local community about the crisis in Yemen. They raised awareness to highlight the truth behind the war as well to inform people as to how they could help. Through donations, they raised £557.78, which was donated to Islamic Relief who provide medical aid, food and sanitation.
Zainab mentioned, “Event planning was something completely foreign to me, but now I have gained the skills and the experience, I look forward to being able to organise and help with more events in the future. Overall for me, my experience at NOMAD is not just something that I will use on my CV. Working with the NOMAD team and all of the other young people has opened my eyes to a world of new ideas and positive ways that I can make a difference whether it be organising a fundraiser event or expressing myself through art therapy. I look forward to continuing to work with NOMAD and really encourage anyone who is interested in volunteering to get in touch!”
## **Young people supported into education and employment**
During this period in 2020 many young people lost their jobs in the creative and hospitality sectors. When lockdown restrictions were lifted we provided jobs and training to local artists to deliver art therapy workshops and dance sessions, and also gave support with job applications and cv writing.
## **Our partnerships in the UK**
We planned and delivered a workshop for Extinction Rebellion organisers focusing on decolonising their process and platform – in order to make sure people like us are at the table and part of the decision-making process. We looked at marginalisation within the institution and what needs to be done in order for more diversity. We spent the day with a small team from the academic world and grassroots organisations fighting for human rights globally together we analysed the Extinction Rebellions manifesto. Most appropriately, we brought our direct experience of the effects of climate change from our different regions. Our communities have been organising and struggling around climate change for generations in the U.K. and globally. We have direct experience of displacement as a result of the impacts of capitalism which was our feedback to them. We addressed the following questions: How does a whole movement marginalise the very people who have been affected by the cause of climate before Extinction Rebellion? How does it only include white voices?
Over the past year we have worked with the following organisations: Harrow Law Centre, Extinction Rebellion, Neil Bartman via Twenty Four Hours of Peace, Newham High School, Harrow College, Harrow Social Services, Friends of Barham Library, Epic, local artists, Young Harrow Foundation, Harrow Council, Westminster University, Living for Success, Southbank Centre, Harrow East Labour Party, Coventry University, St Raphael’s Food Bank, Braich Goch (residential centre).
## **Thank you**
We would like to thank our community, young people, and volunteers for their support and strength during these challenging times. We would also like to say a massive thank you to John Lyons Trust, Tudor Trust, Trust for London, Paul Hamlyn Trust, Big Lottery and our donors for all your support.
## **Nomad Statement of Financial Activities For the Year Ended 31st March 2021**
|**2021**||||
|---|---|---|---|
||**Not**|**Total**||
||**e**|**20/21**|**Total 19/20**|
|**Income**||||
|||£132,9|£68,74|
|Restricted Grants|1|85|7|
|Other income||£1,810|£0|
|||**£134,7**|**£68,74**|
|**Total Income**||**95**|**7**|
|**Expenditure**||||
|||£24,70|£11,65|
|Charitable Activities|2|3|5|
|||£84,46|£57,06|
|Operating Expenses||9|7|
|||**£109,1**|**£68,72**|
|**Total Expenditure**||**72**|**2**|
|||**£25,61**||
|**Net Income**||**7**|**£25**|
|**Nomad**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Balance Sheet**||||
|**As of 31st March, 2021**||||
|||**Mar**|**Mar**|
||**Not**|**31,**|**31,**|
||**e**|**2021**|**2020**|
|**Assets**||||
|**Fixed Assets**||||
|Tangible Assets|3|£458|£1,137|
|**Current Assets**||||
|||£64,60|£38,31|
|Cash at Bank and in Hand||8|3|
|Prepayments||£2,635|£2,635|
|||**£67,2**|**£40,9**|
|**Total Current Assets**||**43**|**47**|
|||**£67,7**|**£42,0**|
|**Total Assets**||**01**|**84**|
|**Total Funds of the Charity**||||
|||£40,94|£40,49|
|Restricted Prepaid Income|4|2|2|
|||**£40,9**|**£40,4**|
|||**42**|**92**|
|**Reserves**||||
|Brought forward reserves||£1,142|£1,117|
|Net income between Apr 1, 2020 and Mar 31,||£25,61||
|2021||7|£25|
|||**£26,7**|**£1,14**|
|**Carried forward reserves**||**59**|**2**|
|**Total Funds of the Charity and**||**£67,7**|**£42,0**|
|**Reserves**||**01**|**84**|
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] March 2021**
## **1 Income**
The key charitable grants utilised in FY 20/21 were as follows:
Restricted funding
Big Lottery Covid £43,985 Paul Hamlyn £30,000 Paul Hamlyn – Covid 19 £20,000 Tudor Trust £29,000 Trust for London £10,000
## **2 Expenditure**
## **Expenditure**
|**Expenditure**|||
|---|---|---|
||£24,70|£11,65|
|Charitable Activities|3|5|
|Rent Expense|£8,524|£1,792|
|Insurance- property|£527|£525|
|Meeting Room Hire|£142|£304|
|Ofce Supplies|£1,060|£0|
|Telephone and internet|£895|£672|
|Utilities|£475|£172|
|Depreciation|£676|£1,079|
|Travel Expenses|£1,355|£470|
||£69,23|£16,60|
|Payroll|3|5|
|||£35,44|
|Professional Fees|£1,582|7|
||**£109,1**|**£68,72**|
|**Total Operating Expenses**|**72**|**2**|
## **3 Tangible Assets**
Depreciation is recognised on a straight-line basis over 3 years.
|**IMAC 1**|||
|---|---|---|
|||**£1,25**|
||**Cost**|**9**|
|May-17|Annual|£420|
|FY-18|11||
|charge|months|£385|
|FY-19|12||
|charge|months|£420|
|FY-20|12||
|charge|months|£420|
|FY-21|||
|charge|1 month|£34|
||**NBV**|**£0**|
|**Camera 1**|||
||**Cost**|**£599**|
|Mar-18|Annual|£200|
|FY-18|||
|charge|1 month|£17|
|FY-19|12||
|charge|months|£200|
|FY-20|12||
|charge|months|£200|
|Fy-21|11||
|charge|months|£182|
||**NBV**|**£0**|
|**IMAC 2**|||
|||**£1,07**|
||**Cost**|**9**|
|Apr-19|Annual|£360|
|FY-20|12||
|charge|months|£360|
|FY-21|12||
|charge|months|£360|
||**NBV**|**£359**|
|---|---|---|
|**Camera 2**|||
||**Cost**|**£299**|
|Apr-19|Annual|£100|
|FY-20|12||
|charge|months|£100|
|FY-21|12||
|charge|months|£100|
||NBV|£99|
||**Total**||
||**NBV**|**£458**|
## **4 Funds of the Charity**
|**4 Funds of the Charity**||
|---|---|
|**Restricted**|16,24|
|Tudor Trust|7|
|National Maritime Museum|580|
|Awards for All|1,517|
||19,54|
|John Lyon|6|
|Jack Petchey|500|
|Other Accruals|2,552|
||**40,94**|
||**2**|
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the directors of**
Nomad
**On accounts for the** 31 March 2021 **year ended**
**Compan y no.**
**Set out on pages**
**Respective** The company’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the **responsibilities of** accounts. The company’s trustees consider that an audit is not **directors and** required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 **examiner** (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
**Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general **examiner’s** directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination **statement**
- includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
- **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my **examiner's** attention **statement** 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
have not been met; or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Date: 11/1/2022
**Signed:**
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**IER**
## **Name:** Helen Atack
**Relevant** ACA **professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 10a High Street, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5AN
## **Section B Disclosure**
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**IER**
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