## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**Financial period start date: 26/10/2021 Financial period end date: 25/02/2023**
## **Charity name: Qur’an Halaqah**
**Other name charity uses: QH**
## **Charity registration number: 1175384**
**Principle Charity Address: 29 Evandale Road SW9 6SU**
## **Structure, governance and management**
- Governing Document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 26 Oct 2017
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- Trustees are appointed as per the charity commission guidelines
Our charity is run by 3 trustees, led by the chair of trustees, who have met regularly to plan, review and evaluate our activities.
## **Names of trustees who manage the charity:**
Miss Seliat Agboola Miss Khudeja Begum Miss Azeezat Akande
We thank Miss Fatima Patel who has served as a trustee since the beginning of the charity but has since stepped down
We are supported by a wider network of volunteers, totalling 7, who help to carry out the charity’s activities. Trustees agree to review and evaluate the appointment of trustees every 3 years and in selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees consider the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. Our trustees are encouraged to take part in the charity’s activities as well as attend seminars and courses which they believe will enhance their contribution to the charity. Trustees meet for annual reviews and regularly review the key policies that the charity is governed upon as well as our constitution.
## **Objectives and activities**
Our objects as outlined in our governing document is to: advance the Islamic religion for the benefit of the public, particularly Muslim women in the UK, by means of raising awareness, providing information and offering advice about the Qur'anic scripture.
We have realised these objects through the following activities:
1. Producing and/or distributing literature on the Qur’an to enlighten others about the Qur’an and the Islamic religion
2. Providing coaching and mentoring to support Muslim Women and girls in their study of the Qur’an and the Islamic religion
3. Organising lectures and gatherings for Muslim Women to meet to discuss the Qur’an and the Islamic religion
Trustees have worked to ensure that all activities planned and undertaken have been done with regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. Trustees believe that our activities encourage those that we work with to develop in a holistic
manner thus becoming the best version of themselves thus positively affecting their families, communities and supporting their ability to contribute to society at large.
## **Achievements and performance**
We’ve focussed our attention on our long term programmes namely the Qur’an Coach Training Programme and the Qur’an & Me Coaching Programme. We’ve supported other organisations by facilitating masterclasses based on the work that we do. One such masterclass we facilitated is a Tajweed workshop introducing and explaining tajweed and offering sisters an opportunity to get feedback on their recitation. We had over 200 registrants for this workshop.
As a result of the legacy of the COVID 19 pandemic most of our programmes have been carried out online with one face to face Meet Up. As things are slowly returning to normal we are hopeful to start up our retreats once again- this is a key area of development as it’s something that comes up repeatedly when interacting with sisters who use our service.
## **Major Projects**
## **RAMADAN 22 - AOG Legacy**
We're passionate about rekindling sisters' relationship with the Qur'an. There's nothing like the Qur'an, the Divine Speech of Allah, and so there's nothing better we can support our sisters with.
In Ramadan 22 we took up the opportunity to support sisters further afield- specifically Orphans in Gambia. We teamed up with sisters Na’ima B. Robert and Elisa Damaliti to give back to the community in a way that changes the lives of generations to come. The AOG Foundation Legacy project will build a Qur'an, Arabic and skills academy. We mobilised the community and raised £3023 towards the project and establisged ourselves as cofounders of the project.
Our goal is to equip Gambian girls with the knowledge and skills they require to succeed in today’s world and achieve excellence in the akhirah. We all know that if you teach a woman the Qur'an, you teach a nation. We will continue to update of thw p
## **Surat As Sajdah Challenge**
Capitalising on the blessings of the 30 days of Ramadan we supported sisters to memorise Surat As Sajdah, an oft repeated Surah containing 30 ayat. The challenge was free with a donation towards the above AOG foundation school and included daily reminders, reflection, accountability and live sessions.
## **QUR’AN & ME Coaching programme**
Building on our programme to inspire women to develop a relationship with the Qur’an by sharing others’ journeys we turned our attention to establishing something more long term and consistent. The long term programme includes Masterclasses, individual and group Qur’an Coaching sessions and the weekly Tilawah and Tadabbur sessions.
Now entering its fourth year the Tadabbur sessions are in full swing and we have completed our first khatmah of the Qur’an, which we hope to do this Ramadan. Moving forward our attention will be on how to build on what we have learnt from establishing such a programme. The individual coaching sessions have been popular and coachees have benefitted from the hifdh, memorisation, element of the programme. This was often a stumbling block for sisters, but the communal element realised through buddies, coaching and group revision has helped encourage sisters to remain consistent.
## **QUR’AN COACH TRAINING PROGRAMME (QCTP)**
QCTP is a programme to develop advanced Qur’an students and enable them to coach and support other women on their Qur’an journeys. We advertised the programme and continued to interview and select 10 coaches to join the programme and begin their training. These coaches came from different age groups and lifestyles. Training was given in house and supported by other training partners specialising in the Qur’anic Sciences. Coaches completed a modules on Qur’an recitation and tajweed theory and another on memorising the Qur’an. They journaled, completed coaching calls with senior coaches to monitor, reflect and advance their development.
Our coaches have spent their time supporting women in the Qur’an & Me Coaching Programme during the individual and group Qur’an Coaching sessions. They’ve successfully given over 1500 hours of coaching and now the programme is more established we have spent time evaluating our processes.
The greatest strength of the programme coachees identified was its consistency and “bitesize” nature. Our focal area of improvement moving forward will be to consider how our masterclasses can be used to further support sisters. Currently they are standalone and give insights into other areas of the Qur’anic sciences. Suggestions include planning these in a more fluid way that resembles a more joint up curriculum meeting our coachees needs.
**Financial review**
At the end of the reporting period, Qur’an Halaqah had
Income **£ 300** Spending **£ 273**
## **RESERVES POLICY**
The trustees aim to maintain free reserves in unrestricted funds at a level which equates to 3 months of the charity’s main overhead costs. This at the moment corresponds to low reserves as our main overhead costs are only to maintain our online presence through our website and other platforms and as such are covered by donations.
ACCOUNTS
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## **Declarations**
**The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:**
**Signature**
**Full name** Seliat Agboola
**Position** Chair of Trustees
**Date** 30/03/2023
|**Qur'an Halaqah**
**1175384**
**300**
**-**
**-**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
**To**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**A1 Receipts**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A3 Payments**
26/10/2021
25/2/2023
**Section A Receipts and payments**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**300**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**173**
**-**
**-**
**173**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**273**
**-**
**-**
**273**
Donations- One off
Zoom Account License
Website domain and hosting
**_Sub total_**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**_Sub total_**
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||||
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|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||
|||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||
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|**_Total payments_**||**273**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**273**||||**-**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**27**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**27**|||**-**|||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**115**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**115**|||**-**|||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**||**142**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**142**|||**-**|||
|||||||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**||
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|||**Categories**|**Details**|||**funds**||||||||**funds**||
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|**B1**|**Cash**|**funds**|Cash in bank and in hand|||**115**||||**-**||||**-**||
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||||**_Total cash funds_**|||**115**||||**-**||||**-**||
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||||account(s))|||Agreement Error||||OK||||OK||
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|||||||**funds**||||||||**funds**||
||||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||
|**B2**|**Other**|**monetary assets**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
||||**Details**|||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||||**Cost (optional)**||||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
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|**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**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**|||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(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|
|||||Seliat Agboola||||30/03/2023|
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