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2021-06-30-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date 01 07 2020 30 06 2021 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Oxford Kurdish Association Other names charity is known by OKA Registered charity number (if any) 1169977 Charity's principal address Flat 3 125 Iffley Road Oxford Postcode OX4 1EJ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Mustafa Barcho Appointed 01/11/2016
2 Evin Abrishami Appointed 01/09/2019
Sherko Zen- Appointed 23/01/2020
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4 Olga Batty Appointed 23/01/2020
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objects of the organisation are to provide support to persons and families - to those either settled or recently displaced - through educational, moral, and material support - and through any other support as may be deemed appropriate. In addition, to provide a welcoming space in which to share languages, cultures and ideas, to the benefit of all in the Oxford area and beyond.

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Providing a meeting space for regular community meetings in the East Oxford Community Centre. The meetings are open to all regardless of race or religion.

Organising cultural and musical events to promote the work of the organisation.

One-to-one community advice service.

Supporting young people through sport, in particular a Summary of the main community football team. activities undertaken for the public benefit in We have had regard to the Charity Commission guidance on relation to these objects public benefit. (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The charity continued supporting members of the community focussing on members who arrived as refuges from Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

Like many other small charities, OKA was heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. OKA saw its largest community event cancelled in March 2020, and the regular meetings were postponed due to the lockdown.

The community in Oxford are not well connected online, so as an organisation we struggled to gather people at online meetings and events. All trustees had to take time out to adjust mentally and sort our personal and professional issues which appeared because of the national lockdown. Like many small charities, OKA’s normal operations stalled, and the charity had to focus on individual targeted help and one-to-one support for families.

Help included teaching people new IT skills and organising online meetings, supporting people in getting access to food banks and support from the local council.

In May 2020 OKA organised meals for the local hospital to be prepared by members of the local community. It is charity’s ethos to always employ members of local community and of refugee background. In this case some café owners volunteers and prepared 60 lunches for the NHS staff.

We also provided some individual support to refugees in need, including financial (paying for temporary accommodation) and through admin and advice on how to interact with the city council.

When lockdowns eased and sports activities were allowed to take place, we continued our long-standing commitment to supporting community football team.

Another Covid-19 activity was to employ a local tailor to make face masks for distribution in the community. This was done in the very early stages of the lockdown, and the masks were made with the pattern of the Kurdish flag, thus promoting community engagement and buy-in into the necessity to wear face masks at all times.

Overall there were no face-to-face activities during that period.

It is with great sadness that we report the death of our trustee, Essam Eldin Mohammed Ali Awny (1934-2021) on 29[th] April 2021. Essam was a highly respected elder of the Oxford Kurdish community. He was a great advocate and mobiliser throughout his life, and collected invaluable historic artefacts connected with the Kurdish history. An engineer by profession, he was an adventurer (exploring Egypt’s desert and coast with his family), a problem-solver and an advocate for so many people. Kurdish community in Oxford owes a great deal to his experience, kindness and wisdom.

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Section E Financial review

Reserves are currently held in a current account. The National Brief statement of the Lottery grant is the first funding received from public funds and charity’s policy on is treated as a restricted fund to the approved project. reserves

We continued to receive small donations from individuals and face-to-face fundraising.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Mustafa Barcho Full name(s) Mustafa Barcho Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 23/05/2022

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Charity Name No (if any) Oxford Kurdish Association 1169977 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 30/06/2021

For the period Period start date from 01/07/2020

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
50
250
64
64
42
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5
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481
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481
111
20
77
64
51
70
27
53
288
25
468
45
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funds
to the nearest £
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1		 Endowment
funds
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-		 Total funds
to the nearest £
50
250
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to the nearest £
Donation 50 -
Newroz event reimbursement from City
Council		 250 -
Laurent L - donation topayfor hostel 64 -
Laurent L - donation topayfor hostel 64 -
Paypal - donation 42 -
Amazon Europe donation 7 -
Amazon Europe donation 5 -
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 481 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts
A3 Payments
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Oxford Backpackers hostelpayment 111 - - 111 -
Oxford Backpackers hostelpayment 20 - - 20 -
Ali Mohamed - refugee support from
donations		 77 - - 77 -
Ali Mohamed - refugee support from
donations		 64 - - 64 -
Jodet S Ali - football team support 51 - - 51 -
Paypal - material for communitymasks 70 - - 70 -
Paypal - Mterial for communitymasks 27 - - 27 -
K M Sidou -payment for makingmasks 53 - - 53 -
Siteground - annual website hosting 288 - - 288 -
Oxford Community Action - community
food deliveryfor 25parcels		 25 - - 25 -
Oxford Academy - football pitch hire for 3
months		 468 - - 468 -
Grammarlysubscription 45 - - 45 -
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CCXX R1 accounts(SS) - -
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**Sub total ** 1,297 - - 1,297 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total ** - - - - -
**Total payments ** 1,297 - - 1,297 -
Net of receipts/(payments) - 816 - - - 816 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end - 816 - - - 816 -

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Signature
Olga Batty
Details
Details
Details
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Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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funds
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funds
to nearest £
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Date of
approval
Olga Batty Olga Batty 23/05/2022

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

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