NOTTINGHAM TURKISH COMMUNITY
2022-2023 ANNUAL ACTION REPORT
9th June 2024
Following our last General Annual Meeting, we have had another successful active year. I would like to thank you all for being a part of our growing community. Thankfully, we re-opened our school in September last year and returned to face-to- face teaching every Sunday at Fiveways Community Centre. Online teaching continued in the week, on Tuesdays. We organised regular trustee meetings, at Fiveways Community Centre, to ensure that every step made and every event participated in was decided democratically, together, by all of our trustees and from time to time our wider members. NTC Turkish Language and Culture School had a fruitful year with the leadership of our chairman Ali Topaloglu and head teacher Ergin Omac.
We also started to Turkish classes in the 2022-2023 academic year at Kirkby in Ashfield Turkish Community School on 3 rd October 2022 and registration to introduce new members to our community, answering any queries and many new pupils joined us. Soon after we agreed at meeting with new management at Diamond Community Centre, to hire classrooms.
The decisions we made together, in unison, throughout the year strengthened our togetherness and cohesion. We also would like to show our appreciation to for our trustees and volunteer teachers and helpers. Following a joint decision by the trustee board, we applied for the
“Weekend Schools Support Grant Programme YTB” and “Preschool Bilingual Education support programme” opened by the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) just before the close of the 2021/22 academic year. I would like to say special thanks to Mehmet Emin Aydinbas, for his extra-ordinary effort to secure funding from YTB to support our community and its needs. But unfortunately the two projects we submitted to the YTB has been rejected due to we granted consecutevely years and to give chance to another applicants
We participated again after Covid 19 breakdown restrictions has ended in “Knowledge competition” held in Londonon the date March 2023, organised by Turkish Embassy Educational Councillor. We won the First place between UK Turkish Language and Culture Schools. We are proud of and congratulate our students that brought this pride to our school. Also we appreciate our teacher that prepared our team for this competition. We organised celebration activities to celebrate Turkish National Day on 29 October and Children Festival 0n 23 April.
As you know unfortunate Earthquake disaster occured in Turkey on the date of 6th February 2023 Immediately we took action to start “Earthquake Relief campaign” We worked hard to accept cash or bank transfer donations, aid clothings blankets hygenie&cleaning meterials nappys medicines
tents donations. Thanks to volunteers they worked very hard for two months day and night to classify the materyals donated, packaging palleting loading to lorrys and sending to Turkey. Total Money donations was £21.755,- We sent £20.000,- London Turkish Religious Foundation (Diyanet Vakfi) and £1000,- Musiad United Kingdom Association for tranfering to Earthquake victims.. Packaging storage transferring costs took £755,-.
We ended our room hire contract with Sherwood Education and Culture Center (Fiveways) at the date of July 2023 and we signed a new room hire contract with “Sherwood Community Association CIO” on the adress Woodthrope House Mansfield Road Sherwood Nottingham NG5 3FN. We are having our educational activities in this adress since October 2023.
We attended many meetings organised by various official bodies and organisations to raise awareness and funds for our community projects. Our charity was founded not only to serve the Turkish community but also members of wider communities. In line with our aim of achieving this goal, this year we built a stronger relationship with the general public by organising iftar programme at the Five Ways, Edwards Lane, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 3HU and Eid -al Fitr Programme with family picnic at Wollaton park.
On behalf of the trustee board, I have briefly outlined our activities from the beginning of the year as necessary for the 2022-2023 Nottingham Turkish Community General Assembly. We have gained many new members of community over the past year, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome them once more. Thank you, once again, our founder and current trustee members for sacrificing their time to getting to the point we are at today.
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WAIE5 Nottingham Turkish Community Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the pgrlod from To 14.11.2022 13.11.2023 Section A Receipts and payments unstriCted funds to the nearest Restricted fund$ Endowmellt fund Total funds Last year to thg nearg6t£ to ngar•st£ totho neargst £ to the n9ar•st£ A1 R•¢eipts Members sulwipb.ons Donath EartNuake Reliefcampaign Grdntfrom Presidency Turks Abroa Cash in The Bank114111120221 3.279 14.356 21.755 5.569 54.965 14. 21.766 5.569 54.965 Sub total(Gross income for AR) 99.924 99.924 A2 Asset and Investment sales, {see tablèl. Sub total 99.924 99.924 A3Pa ments Tuto Costs Room Hife Costs Post offi & Stationary Cardnet Machine Cost Don8iioDLondonTurkishRdigiousFau [nal0 MUSIAD UK Lon(knn 3.422 4.147 60 154 20.000 1.000 3.422 147 eo 154 20.000 1.000 Sub total 2&783 28.783 A4 A88et and investment urchases. see table Sub totsl 28.783 28.783 Ngt of rece1p{paym0nts) AS Transfers between funds A6 Cash furtrds la¥t year end Cash funds this year end 71.141 71.141 Nottingha UK Regisle 21 ByfMA¥e ornmunity 0.1170150 E*on Kf104EY ham.UK CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 22.06.2024
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrictèd fvnds to nearest£ Restrlcted fund$ Endowment funds to nearest£ Categories Details to neare5t£ rotsl cash fiinds Unrnstri¢tsd fund$ Restrl¢t•d funds to nearest £ Endowment funds to *èaTest£ Detslls to noar•st£ Fund to which 0$$Ot belon eurr•nt value onal Detar15 Costlopiional) B3 Inv051rngnt asset8 Fund to whlch asset belon eurront value ti01 Details Cost lorltionall 84 A$sfrts retained for tho charity's own use Fund to which lales Amount due When due onal Details B5 Liabilities Syned by one ortsvo twstees on b8haof all the trustees Date of roval Print Name CCXX R2 axounts ISSI Nottlngham T UK Regtste 21 ByrnnAve mmunity '.1170150 g Eaion IIG104EY ngham. UK 22.06.2024
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the Irusteesl members of Nottingham Turkish Community On accounts for the year ended 13 November 2023 Charity no lif any) 1170150 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'th8 Trust") for the year ended 1311112023. Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'lhe Act°}. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's 8ccounts 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 Cornmission under section 145{5){b} of the Act. I have completed my examinalion. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination whioh gives me cause to believe that in. any malerial respect. accounting records were nat kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination lo which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Sign Date: 1110712024 Name: Nadia Ashraf Relevant professional qualificationlsl or body lif any): BA {Hons}, ACCA, FCCA Address: 39 Watson Avenue, Nottingham, NG3 7BN Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight mallers of Concern (see CC32, Independent examination of oharily accounts= directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018