## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/04/2021 Period start date To 31/03/2022 Period end date**
**Charity name: AFNO (Advocacy for Nepalese Organisation) Charity registration number: 1173816**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 The promotion of health and social
purposes of the charity wellbeing, integration and social
as set out in its inclusion among London’s Nepalese
governing document community, with emphasis on the
Gurkha community providing an
advocacy service provided through
local drop-in surgeries holding
workshops and events throughout the
year promoting statutory and non-
statutory services. AFNO operates
mostly in the West London area with
all age groups.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and To promote social inclusion for the
1.19
activities in relation to public benefit by working with the
those purposes for the Nepalese community, especially the
public benefit, in Gurkha community in London, who
particular, the activities, are socially excluded on the grounds
projects or services of their ethnicity, to relieve the needs
identified in the of such people and assist them to
accounts. integrate into society in particular by
Providing a local network group
that encourages and enables
members of the Nepalese
community to participate more
effectively with the wider
community;
Increasing or co-ordinating
opportunities for members of
the Nepalese community to
engage with service providers,
to enable those providers to
adapt services to better meet
the needs of that community;
Organising events to encourage
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social interactions to tackle
loneliness and promote well
being among the isolated
elderly individuals in the
Nepalese community.
Regularly learn about the needs
of the elderly and vulnerable
members of the Nepalese
community and bring forth
projects and events to address
those needs.
AFNO also has an open
telephone line for anyone to
contact us for any support or
assistance or queries.
Statement confirming Para 1.18
whether the trustees We review our aims, objectives and
have had regard to the activities each year. This review looks
at what we achieved and the
guidance issued by the
outcomes of our work in the previous
Charity Commission on
12 months. The review looks at the
public benefit
success of each key activity and the
benefits they have brought to those
groups of people we are set up to
help. The review also helps us ensure
our aim, objectives and activities
remained focused on our stated
purposes. We have referred to the
guidance contained in the Charity
Commission’s general guidance on
public benefit when reviewing our aim
and objectives and in planning our
future activities. In particular, the
trustees consider how planned
activities will contribute to the aims
and objectives they have set.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making
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N/A
Para 1.38
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment
Alice Shrestha continued to volunteer
to lead the online yoga sessions for
seniors on Sundays, which began on
Para 1.38
February 2021 during the Covid 19
Contribution made by
pandemic.
volunteers
Other
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## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference AFNO also organised one hour yoga sessions every Sunday, tailored specifically for seniors. This was done remotely. Regular exercise is beneficial for both mental and Summary of the main physical health. During covid-19 achievements of the lockdown restrictions, this was one charity, identifying the Para 1.20 way to reach some of the isolated difference the charity’s elderly individuals and involve them work has made to the in some sort of physical activity that could be done at home. circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.
## **Additional information (optional)**
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AFNO keeps an open phone helpline
for any of our beneficiaries to contact
us with any request of help and
Achievements against support. We continue to assist
objectives set Para 1.41 individuals in one-on-one support that
could range anywhere from
interpreting letters, to questions
regarding medical appointments,
benefits queries or housing support
etc.
On 3 [rd] July 2021, we organised a
fundraising event where members of
the AFNO team went on 25 km hike to
Performance of raise money for COVID relief effort in
Nepal. We set up a gofundme page
fundraising activities
and donations were accepted directly
against objectives set Para 1.41
as well.
N/A
Investment performance
against objectives Para 1.41
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 We were able raise £1885 during the
financial position at the fundraising event on 3 [rd] July 2021.
end of the period
We received £400 total in direct
donations.
Statement explaining Para 1.22 N/A
the policy for holding
reserves stating why
they are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 N/A
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 N/A
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 N/A
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 N/A
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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On 3 [rd] July 2021, we organised a
fundraising event where members of
the AFNO team went on 25 km hike to
raise money for COVID relief effort in
The charity’s principal
Nepal. We set up a gofundme page
sources of funds
and donations were accepted directly
(including any Para 1.47
as well. We also received £400 total in
fundraising)
direct donations.
N/A
Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy Para 1.46
adopted
N/A
A description of the
principal risks facing the Para 1.46
charity
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other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 Charitable Incorporated
constituted? Organisation
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Election to post every 2 years at
methods including AGM
details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the
induction and training of
trustees|Policies and procedures
adopted for the
induction and training of
trustees||Training
Safeguarding Adults Training
Safeguarding Children’s Training
Volunteer Induction Training
Equality and Diversity
Financial Management
Trustee training provided by local CVS
Procedures:
A role description outlining the
duties of the Trustee
Copies of all the current up to
date policies provided
Health & Safety policies
Incident Reporting
Claiming expenses procedures
Data Protection/GDPR|
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||Policies and procedures
adopted for the
induction and training of
trustees|Para 1.51|Training
Safeguarding Adults Training
Safeguarding Children’s Training
Volunteer Induction Training
Equality and Diversity
Financial Management
Trustee training provided by local CVS
Procedures:
A role description outlining the
duties of the Trustee
Copies of all the current up to
date policies provided
Health & Safety policies
Incident Reporting
Claiming expenses procedures
Data Protection/GDPR|
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The Charity is run mainly by its board
members and trustees. In addition to
the trustees, AFNO is supported by a
small number of volunteers who
The charity’s
contribute their time on an ad hoc
organisational structure
basis.
and any wider network Para 1.51
with which the charity
All decisions for the charity are taken
works
by the charity’s trustees. We have a
project co-ordinator who assists
the trustees in the day to day running
of the charity on a part-time basis.
AFNO works in partnership with other
Nepalese community groups with
similar aims and objectives.
N/A
Relationship with any
related parties Para 1.51
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name AFNO
Other name the charity Advocacy For Nepalese Organisation
uses
Registered charity 1173816
number
Charity’s principal 6A Montpelier Avenue
address
W5 2XP
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
for whole year
(if any)
1 Durga Gurung Chair
Sujata Gurung Secretary/Vice
2
Chair
Bhawana Rai Vice Secretary
3
Shrestha
4 Sumita Ale Gurung Treasurer
5 Cima Pun Trustee
6 Asmita Sharma Trustee
7 Deva Thapa Trustee
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee**|**name**
**Dates**|**acted**|**if**|**not**|**for**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**whole**|**year**||||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
## **Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Durga Gurung **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 13/03/2023
|||||||||||CC16a
Lastyear
to the nearest £
5,470
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7,852
-0
- 0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5,749
- 0
5,749
-
5,749
-
-
-
5,749
Endowment funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
When due
(optional)
Date of approval
30.01.23|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||AFNO|||||No (if any)|||CC16a|
||||||||
1173816||||
|||Receipts and payments accounts|||||||||
|||For the period from||Period start date||To|Period end date||||
|||||1/4/21||||31/3/22|||
||||||||||||
||Section A Receipts and payments||||||||||
|||Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds||Endowment funds||Total funds||Lastyear|
|||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £|
||A1 Receipts||||||||||
||HIKE FUND RAISE|1,882||-||-||1,882||5,470|
||DONATION BUDHATHOKI M 26.05.21|100||-||-||100||-|
||DONATION BUDHATHOKI M04.01.22|100||-||-||100||-|
||EALINGREMITTANCE|200||-||-||200||-|
||MARKEL INTERNATION REFUND|100||-||-||100||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|
2,382||-||-||2,382||7,852|
||||||||||||
||A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).||||||||||
|||- 0||- 0||- 0||-|||
|||-0||-0||-0||-||-0|
||Sub total|- 0||- 0||- 0||-||- 0|
||||||||||||
||Total receipts|||- 0||- 0|||||
||||||||||||
||A3 Payments||||||||||
||SUMITA ALE,DONATIONSENT|1,882||-||-||1,882||-|
||MARKEL INTERNATION PAYMENT|100||-||-||100||-|
||KALPANA LAMICHHANE, O2, 05.07.21|118||-||-||118||-|
||DIL MAYA LIMBU, 05.07.21|3||-||-||3||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
||Sub total|2,103||-||-||2,103||5,749|
||||||||||||
||A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see
table)||||||||||
|||- 0||- 0||- 0||-|||
|||-0||-0||-0||-|||
||Sub total|- 0||- 0||- 0||-||- 0|
||||||||||||
||Total payments|2,103||- 0||- 0||2,103||5,749|
||||||||||||
||Net of receipts/(payments)|-
2,103||-||-||-
2,103||-
5,749|
||A5 Transfers between funds|- 0||-||-||-||-|
||A6 Cash funds lastyear end|- 0||-||-||-||-|
||Cash funds this year end|-
2,103||-||-||-
2,103||-
5,749|
||||||||||||
||||||||||||
||Section B Statement of assets and
liabilities at the end of the period||||||||||
||Categories|Details||||Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds||Endowment funds|
|||||||to nearest £||to nearest £||to nearest £|
||B1 Cash funds|||||5,749||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||**_Total cash funds_**||||5,749||-||-|
|||(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))||||Agreement Error||OK||OK|
|||||||Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds||Endowment funds|
|||Details||||to nearest £||to nearest £||to nearest £|
||B2 Other monetary assets|||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
||||||||||||
|||Details||||Fund to which
asset belongs||Cost (optional)||Current value
(optional)|
||B3 Investment assets|||||||-||-|
|||||||||-||-|
|||||||||-||-|
|||||||||-||-|
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||||||||||||
|||Details||||Fund to which
asset belongs||Cost (optional)||Current value
(optional)|
||B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own
use|||||||-||-|
|||||||||-||-|
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||||||||||||
|||Details||||Fund to which
liabilityrelates||Amount due
(optional)||When due
(optional)|
||B5 Liabilities|||||||-|||
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||Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
|||S. A.||||SUMITA ALE||||30.01.23|
||||||||||||
||||||||||||
|||||||||||CC16a
Lastyear
to the nearest £
5,470
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7,852
-0
- 0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5,749
- 0
5,749
-
5,749
-
-
-
5,749
Endowment funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
When due
(optional)
Date of approval
30.01.23|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||AFNO|||||No (if any)|||CC16a|
||||||||
1173816||||
|||Receipts and payments accounts|||||||||
|||For the period from||Period start date||To|Period end date||||
|||||1/4/21||||31/3/22|||
||||||||||||
||Section A Receipts and payments||||||||||
|||Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds||Endowment funds||Total funds||Lastyear|
|||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £|
||A1 Receipts||||||||||
||HIKE FUND RAISE|1,882||-||-||1,882||5,470|
||DONATION BUDHATHOKI M 26.05.21|100||-||-||100||-|
||DONATION BUDHATHOKI M04.01.22|100||-||-||100||-|
||EALINGREMITTANCE|200||-||-||200||-|
||MARKEL INTERNATION REFUND|100||-||-||100||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|
2,382||-||-||2,382||7,852|
||||||||||||
||A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).||||||||||
|||- 0||- 0||- 0||-|||
|||-0||-0||-0||-||-0|
||Sub total|- 0||- 0||- 0||-||- 0|
||||||||||||
||Total receipts|||- 0||- 0|||||
||||||||||||
||A3 Payments||||||||||
||SUMITA ALE,DONATIONSENT|1,882||-||-||1,882||-|
||MARKEL INTERNATION PAYMENT|100||-||-||100||-|
||KALPANA LAMICHHANE, O2, 05.07.21|118||-||-||118||-|
||DIL MAYA LIMBU, 05.07.21|3||-||-||3||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
|||-0||-||-||-||-|
||Sub total|2,103||-||-||2,103||5,749|
||||||||||||
||A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see
table)||||||||||
|||- 0||- 0||- 0||-|||
|||-0||-0||-0||-|||
||Sub total|- 0||- 0||- 0||-||- 0|
||||||||||||
||Total payments|2,103||- 0||- 0||2,103||5,749|
||||||||||||
||Net of receipts/(payments)|-
2,103||-||-||-
2,103||-
5,749|
||A5 Transfers between funds|- 0||-||-||-||-|
||A6 Cash funds lastyear end|- 0||-||-||-||-|
||Cash funds this year end|-
2,103||-||-||-
2,103||-
5,749|
||||||||||||
||||||||||||
||Section B Statement of assets and
liabilities at the end of the period||||||||||
||Categories|Details||||Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds||Endowment funds|
|||||||to nearest £||to nearest £||to nearest £|
||B1 Cash funds|||||5,749||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||**_Total cash funds_**||||5,749||-||-|
|||(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))||||Agreement Error||OK||OK|
|||||||Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds||Endowment funds|
|||Details||||to nearest £||to nearest £||to nearest £|
||B2 Other monetary assets|||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
|||||||-||-||-|
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|||Details||||Fund to which
asset belongs||Cost (optional)||Current value
(optional)|
||B3 Investment assets|||||||-||-|
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|||Details||||Fund to which
asset belongs||Cost (optional)||Current value
(optional)|
||B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own
use|||||||-||-|
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|||Details||||Fund to which
liabilityrelates||Amount due
(optional)||When due
(optional)|
||B5 Liabilities|||||||-|||
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||Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
|||S. A.||||SUMITA ALE||||30.01.23|
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