Muslims Against Poverty Trustee’s Annual Report 2021 (1174590)
The object of the charity as per the governing document is:
TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN NORTH LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE ROUGH SLEEPING, HOMELESS OR VULNERABLY HOUSED, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING, OR ARRANGING FOR EMERGENCY, TEMPORARY AND LONGER TERM ACCOMMODATION.
The aims of the charity were to provide short-term relief of needs and long-term relief where possible. The activity of the charity is quite simple with regards to this: we provide these needy people with whatever food and water we have made and in cases where it is possible we arrange some kind of accommodation.
Unfortunately during this period we were inactive continuing on from May 17[th] 2019, due to an injury that the chief trustee sustained which rendered him unable to carry out charity tasks.
Due to this our only activity in this period was donating £2200 to Homeless Action in Barnet (HAB - registered charity number: 1155559), as their object and area is close to ours. Specifically we donated to their campaign to support around 90 people during the pandemic with temporary accommodation and food. During this period we had a revenue of £3120.71 split over two accounts, one being the Santander business account and other the Paypal account. We also withdrew £1351.05 that had accumulated from previous periods in the PayPal account to the Santander account. Total costs this period were £2250, comprised of the aforementioned donation to HAB and one final payment of £50 to GoCardless.
For the future we the activities will stay much the same, until the chiefs trustees body is fully rehabilitated. As stated this is a small operation that is essentially a one-man mission conducted as an experiment. The charity may we wind down in the future, as the stress of handling the bureaucracy of such an endeavour is cumbersome, and such a small operation may well be better being an informal operation run from a network of friends and family fundraising amongst themselves, without the hassles that come from being a CIO, governed as we are by our governing document, under the trust of our five trustees.
In closing as a Public Benefit statement we confirm that the trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Commission in exercising their powers and duties, and also with regards to safeguarding guidance.
Ali Jami
Sarah Wilcock-Grogan
Samuel Morter
Anas Nasser (absent)
Patrick Fromant (absent)