**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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO
- How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by other trustees
- Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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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)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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**
**7**
**5**
**-**
**481**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**481**
**111**
**20**
**77**
**64**
**51**
**70**
**27**
**53**
**288**
**25**
**468**
**45**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
1|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**50**
**250**
**64**
**64**
**42**
**7**
**5**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**481**
**-**
**-**
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**481**
**111**
**20**
**77**
**64**
**51**
**70**
**27**
**53**
**288**
**25**
**468**
**45**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Last year**
**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**||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
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|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||||**-**|
|**_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)|**-**|**-**
1|**-**|**-**|**-**
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|**_Sub total_ **|**1,297**||**-**|||**-**|||**1,297**||**-**||
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|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
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|**_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**|||**-**|
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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**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,431**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Olga Batty|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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||||OK|
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**funds**
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approval|
||Olga Batty|Olga Batty|23/05/2022|
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