**Charity number: 1175533** ## **Asharaf Union Trust** Trustees Report **For the year ended 31 March 2024** **Asharaf Union Trust Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2024** ## **Legal and administrative Information** **Charity number: 1175533** ## **Address** 8 Russell Avenue Manchester M16 8JQ ## **Trustees** Jafar S Sharif Sayid Ahmed Sharif-Ali Ibrahim K Sharif Osman M Sharif Dahir Sharif ## **Bankers** Natwest Bank 438 Barlow Moor Road Manchester M21 0NW **Asharaf Union Trust Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2024** ## **Introduction** The trustees present their annual report of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. The annual report has been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the charity’s trust deed, the Charities Act 2011. Asharaf Union Trust is a UK based charity organisation seeks to promote sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities through relief and developmental programmes, supporting them to build a better life and find their own solutions to global problems. ## Developments, Activities and Achievements The charity works to transform the lives of families and youth experiencing poverty and deprivation in the UK and across the world. Asharaf Union Trust also carried out projects in local right here in UK and international. Our projects can be categorised in the following categories: - Providing food relief. Organized food security workshops and distributed during the Covid Pandemic. - Providing clean potable water by trucking water to needy areas. - Improving Access to Education and Health care - Promoting Suitability and Social and Economic Development We have successfully continued support for the youth in the UK. With the help of our generous sponsors and volunteers we were able to provide youth counselling in Manchester. We hope to expand this project in other cities across the UK. ## Trustees and organisational structure Asharaf Union Trust is an international charitable organisation, established its operations in 2017 and is constituted under a charity deed dated 8[th] May 2016. Our Charity Commission registration number is 1175533. ## Objects For the public benefit to promote the education (including social and physical training) of young people in particular but not exclusively in the UK and overseas, including by: - Awarding to such persons scholarships, maintenance allowances or grants tenable at any university, college or institution of higher or further education. ## **Asharaf Union Trust** - **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2024** - Providing their education, to undertake travel in furtherance of that education or to prepare for entry to any occupation, trade or profession on leaving any educational establishment. - Promotion of community participation in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of a variety of sporting activities. - Advance the education of the public in general about the issues relating to refugees and those seeking asylum. Trustees are appointed by the Board of Trustees. Our trustees are unpaid. They manage the day to day running of the organisation. The procedure to appoint or withdraw a trustee is in accordance. with the constitution. There are informal procedures in place for the Induction and training of new trustees. The Board of Trustees are responsible for the management of the risks faced by the charity. Risks are identified, assessed and controls established throughout the year. ## Risk Management The current account funds are held with a leading bank to minimise disruption to activities and reduce risk. The trustees actively review the major risk which the charity faces on a regular basis. ## Statement of trustee’s responsibilities The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees Report and the accounts in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustees to prepare accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the Charity for that year. In preparing these accounts, the Trustees are required to: - select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; - observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP - make judgements 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 accounts; - prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation. **Asharaf Union Trust** **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2024** The Trustees are responsible for keeping sufficient accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The Accounts were approved by the board of trustees on 8[th] December 2024. ## Approval The trustees' annual report was approved by the Trustees on 8[th] December 2024 and signed on their behalf. ## Dahir Sharif Trustee