Charity Registration No. 1175481
## **MERSEYSIDE SUDANESE**
## **COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
**Registered Charity No. 1175481**
**TRUSTEES’ REPORT**
**and**
**ACCOUNTS**
**for the year ended 30th September 2020**
Charity Registration No. 1175481
## **MERSEYSIDE SUDANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
## **TRUSTEES' REPORT**
for the
Year ended 30th September 2020 **Charity Information**
Name: Merseyside Sudanese Community Association Charity Registration Number: 1175481 Charitable structure: Merseyside Sudanese Community Association is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and Registered Charity, number 1175481, registered on 31st October 2017. Address: The Charity’s principal address is: 147 Lodge Lane Liverpool L8 0QQ Trustees & Principal Officers: The names of the Trustees and principal officers of the charity who served during the year were: Mr Saratai Issa Chair Mr Abdul Mjaid Hashim Bashir Treasurer Mr Walid Abdlgadir Alhadi Treasurer Mr Hamed Medni Mr Marwan Gawher Mr Omar Ibrahim Fadil Abdullah Bankers: Barclays Bank Liverpool Lord Street Branch 48-50 Lord Street Liverpool L2 1TD Independent Examiner: Jan Brooker CDC Finance Services 40 Arundel Avenue Liverpool L17 2AU
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Charity Registration No. 1175481
## **Merseyside Sudanese Community Association**
**TRUSTEES' REPORT**
**for the Year ended 30th September 2020**
## **NARRATIVE INFORMATION**
Merseyside Sudanese Community Association is an independent registered charity, structured as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) that works with all the diaspora Sudanese community in Merseyside.
## **ACTIVITIES**
This report covers the second full year of operation. During the previous year we delivered an educational project for our children, which we partly operated from our former premises with the project running in Crawford House - with funding obtained in the previous financial year from the Community Fund’s Awards for All [AfA] programme.
During the year reported on here, we were successful in obtaining a second **Community Fund Awards for All** grant for a project – desired by and co-designed with our women’s sub-group, **Empowering Sudanese Women in Merseyside** - within the wider UK society; but unfortunately we were unable to start this until the end of the period, due to the lock-down rules imposed under the Covid-19 pandemic. The details and success of this project will be reported in our next Trustees’ Annual Report.
Other than the AfA grant, we were successful in obtaining financial support from Liverpool City Council, under covid-19 arrangements; subs were generally not collected during this period.
The group continued to meet, as far as possible due to the pandemic, to provide support to community members.
## **FUTURE PLANS**
Our immediate plans are to seek further resources for our children and young people, to provide sports and social facilities, that others can sometimes take for granted, whilst they build up their self-confidence to take part in the wider society..
__________________________ Sartai Issa Chair
30th October 2020
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Charity Registration No. 1175481
## **Merseyside Sudanese Community Association FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **for the Year ended 30th September 2020**
||**Receipts & Payments Account**
**2019**
**2020**
**£.p.**
**£.p.**
**INCOME**
**£**
Grants & Donations
Subscriptions & Donations
395.00
9.00
Grants
-
20,000.00
Bank interest
-
-
Other
-
-|
|---|---|
|||
||**Income Totals**
**395.00**
**20,009.00**
**EXPENDITURE**
Room / premises hire
3,718.48
3,600.00
Staffing costs
6,050.00
200.00
Activities & Events
300.00
752.00
Travel
-
-
Stationery, materials, etc
444.00
-
General
475.00
-
Finances
-
550.00
Adjustment
-
-|
||**Expenditure Totals**
**10,987.48**
**5,102.00**|
## **APPROVAL**
The trustees confirm that the accounts comply with statutory requirements and with those of the Merseyside Sudanese Community Association governing document.
__________________________ Abdul Mjaid Hashim Bashir Treasurer
30th October 2020
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Charity Registration No. 1175481
## **MERSEYSIDE SUDANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT and FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30th SEPTEMBER 2020
## **Independent Examiner** ’ **s Report on the Accounts**
## Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Merseyside Sudanese Community Association
I report on the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 30th September 2020, which are set out on page 4.
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30th September 2020..
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts 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 Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not 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 to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: ______________________________ Name: Jan Brooker Community Development Consultancy Qualifications: B.A. (Hons.) Architecture; R.I.B.A. (Intermediate) Address: 40 Arundel Avenue, Liverpool L17 2AU Date: 31st October 2020
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