## DIASPORA IVOIRIENNE UK Micro – Entity accounts 2020-2021 1 ## **Charity information** ## **Board of Directors** **Jean-Paul Leba : Chair Sylvie Kambou Regina : Treasurer Celine Bailly : Secretary** Independent Examiner Beugre Jacques Ndouba Walworth Methodist Church Email Address info@diasporaivoirienne.co.uk Website www.diasporaivoirienne.co.uk Company N0: 08534293 Charity N0: 1170257 2 ## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT** The Directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ending 31 May 2021. **Diaspora Ivoirienne UK** was established in June 2013 as a company Limited by guarantee and recently became a registered Charity in November 2016 **.** It is based in London supporting the needs of disadvantaged people from minority communities, particularly, Ivorian residents, migrants, displaced people from their country of origin because of war, victim of violence, political or religious beliefs, intimidation and threat to their lives. Most of the organisation’s activities focus on tackling poverty, social exclusion, capacity building of the communities and welfare support services. 3 ## **AIM & OBJECTIVES** For the benefit of the public, in particular, men, women and children from Ivory Coast and other minority Communities in the United Kingdom, who are in need due to their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances. The objects are met by delivering the following activities: - a. employment training - b. education and training including supplementary education for children - c. the promotion and preservation of good health - d. the provision of cultural and leisure time activities - e. The provision of information, advice and referrals and - f. Money and debt advice 4 ## **Activities for the period 2020 -2021** - In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the organization has delivered food and essential Items provision services for about 240 members and users from the Ivorian communities and other communities in the local area. The services enabled beneficiaries to relieve their financial difficulties and be resilient. - We have delivered outdoor activities for 50 the elderly people to reduce their isolation and loneliness. The activities enabled beneficiaries to reconnect with the community and make new friends. We have also established a networking hub for them to work together to tackle common issues affecting their life. - The organization run children’s activities called ‘Knowing my roots’, a story telling cultural event that brough 22 children and 35 parents together from the Ivorian community. The aim of the activities was to enable children born in the UK to explore their parents’ origin. - We have provided training for employment and employment related advice which benefited about 18 unemployed people. This helped them improve their employability chances and 09 of them have been able to secure part- and full-time employment. - Our advice and referral services supported about 24 local refugees and asylum seekers in the areas of housing, health, education and welfare benefit entitlement. This helped them understand the functioning of local and national services, make informed choices and improve their knowledge about accessing those services. - We have also recruited three more volunteers to increase the capability of the Organization in order to deliver more services for local communities. 5 ## **Plan for 2021-2022** - The organization will continue supporting people affected by the Omicron virus as the pandemic is not ended yet totally. We aim help about 33 local residents over the year - We will continue to deliver more employment sessions to support local people to get jobs. We anticipate to help about 26 people during the organization’s financial year - The organization will increase its information advice and referrals sessions to be able to support about 36 new refugee women and men in need of education, training and welfare entitlement. - We will carry out befriending, and home support activities for 18 older people - to reduce their isolation and improve their health. - We will run homework club activities this year to improve about 25 - children and young people’s school achievement and reduce exclusion. 6 ## **Financial Statements for the Year Ending 31 of May 2021** |||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted**||||||||**2021**||||**2020**|| |||£||||£||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |Donation||4200|||||||||||4200|||13200||| |Fundraising||2780.00|||||||||||2780|||3200||| |Membership|||320||||||||||320|||210||| |London C. Foundation||||||9200.00|||||||9200|||||| |Covid Response Fund||||||9332.00|||||||9332|||||| |Southwark communityFund||||||1000.00|||||||1000|||5600||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |**Total Incoming Resources**|||**7300**|||**19532.00**||||||**26832**||||**22210**||| |||||||||||||||||||| |**Resources Expended**||||||||||||||||||| |Covid-19 Assistance||||||7760||||||7760||||3200||| |Fundraisingcost|||260|||||||||260||||340||| |Venue Cost||||||6540.00||||||6540||||7150||| |Trainingcost||||||2300.00||||||2300||||3330||| |Volunteers cost|||2800|||1200.00||||||4000||||3600||| |Children Activities||1700.00||||600.00|||||2300.00|||||||| |AccountancyCharge||250.00||||||||||250||||150||| |Admin cost||||||460.00||||||460.00||||555.00||| |Equipment||680||||||||||680||||1680||| |Total Resources Expended||**5690.00**||||**18860.00**||||||**24550**||||**20005**||| |||||||||||||||||||| |**Net Incoming Resources**||**1610.00**|||||**672.00**||||||**2282**||||**2205**|| |||||||||||||||||||| |**Fund Brought Forward**|||||||||||**8800.00**||||**6595.00**|||| |||||||||||||||||||| |**Funds at 31 May 2021**||||||||||**11082.00**|||||**8800.00**|||| |||||||||||||||||||| |**Fund Carried forward to BS**||||**0.00**||||**0.00**||**11082.00**|||||**4800.00**|||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| 7 |||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||| ||**Balance Sheet for the year ended**|||**31 of May 2021**||||| |||||||||| |||||**2021**||**2020**||| |||||||||| |Tangible Assets(3)||||||||| |||||||||| |Current Assets||||||||| |||||||||| |Cash receivable|||11032|||**4800**||| |||||||||| |Current Liability|||-3500|||0||| |||||||||| |Creditors||||||||| |Accruals||||||||| |||||||||| |Total Net Assets||||**7532**||**4800**||| |||||||||| |**Funds**||||||||| |Restricted||||2870||1350||| |||||||||| |Unrestricted||||4662||3450||| |||||||||| |**Total**||||7532||**4800**||| For the year ending 31/05/2021 the company/ Charity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The member have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476, the directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts these accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. Signed on behalf of the board of Directors Signed : Jean-Paul Leba - Chair Date: 23/11/2021 8 ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS (1)** Notes to the Accounts for the Year ending 31 May 2021 ## Accounting policies The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the inclusion of fixed assets investments at Market value, and in accordance with applicable accounting standards and follow the recommendation in the statement of SORP 2011 and company law 2006. ## 1. Grants & Donation Grants and Donation are recognized in the statements on accrual basis following the satisfaction of any pre-conditions. ## 2. Restricted Funds The organization has not received any restricted fund over the period 3. Reserve Policy The charity reserve’s policy is to hold 1-10% of its total unrestricted income at the end of every financial year depending on the financial situation of the organization. 9 ## **Directors’ Responsibilities** Company law requires the Directors who are also the charity trustees, to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of the affairs of the company and of the results of the company at that period. In preparing those financial statements, the directors are required to: Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; Make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any Material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements. Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the company will not continue on that basis. The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable it to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps and detect fraud and other irregularities. For the Board of Directors Signed : Jean-Paul Leba Date: 23/11/ 2021 10 ## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT** I report on the accounts of the company for year ending 31 May 2021 The trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustee consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 43(2) of the company Act 2006 and that an independent examination needed and that the Company qualifies as a small company under the company Act 2006. It is my responsibility to carry out procedures designed to enable me to report my opinion. My examination was carried out to ascertain that the accounting records kept by the charity are in accordance with the accounts presented with those records and that no unusual items or disclosures in the accounts come to my attention. ## EXAMINER’S STATEMENT The financial statements are in agreement with those accounting records kept by the company under section 386 of Companies Act 2006; Having regard only to, and on the basis of the information contained in those accounting records, the financial statements have been drawn up in a manner consistent with the accounting requirements specified in section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice 2011 --------------------------------------------- Date : 19/11/2021 ## **J-Accountancy & Consultancy LTD** Beugre Jacques NDouba 38 Riachardson Court Studley Road London, SW4 6RZ 11