## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 01/04/2023 Period Start date** ## **To: 31/03/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Al-Risalah** ## **Charity registration number:1176428** ## **Objectives and Activities** ## **There is no change regarding the information about Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To take care of the needs of orphans,**
**poor families especially widows by**
**providing basic necessities like food,**
**medicine, education and clean drinking**
**water to help them grow to their full**
**potential and become value adding**
**members of their society.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**1-Paying for orphan’s school fees,**
**uniform, books and other stationaries.**
**2-Orphans food**
**3-Orphans clothing**
**4-Orphans medical expenses**
**5-Feeding the poor families**
**6-Helping reconstruction and repair of**
**community’s prayer areas**
**7-Digging wells**
**8-Helping widows to start small**
**businesses to sustain them and their**
**orphaned children**
**9- We ran Gazza appeal due to donor**
**request to help displaced civilians with**
**necessities.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**We are aware of the Charity**
**Commission’s guidance on public**
**benefit, and we always taking into**
**consideration the commission’s**
**guidance whenever we are making**
**decision to which the guidance is**
**relevant. We also attend the Charity**
**commission’s seminars to stay up to**
**date with guidelines.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We do not give grant.**| 1 |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not relevant. We have not carried out**
**social investment**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Al-Risalah depends on the contribution**
**of unpaid volunteers including the**
**trustee and the chairperson. Some of**
**them volunteer to fund raise and others**
**are on the ground executing projects,**
**but we do not register the number of**
**hours they put in because we are not**
**paying them.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The charity provided food packs for up**
**to 1,060 poor family individuals during**
**the year especially widows with orphan**
**children and elderly.**
**The charity paid the school fees and**
**school materials for 33 orphans.**
**Taking care of these orphans prevents**
**them from being in the streets or ending**
**up as criminals and beggars. We have**
**professional childcare volunteer that**
**follows up on the progress of these**
**children with the schools.**
**The charity also pays for the health care**
**for the orphans.**
**We dug 4 water wells in different**
**villages where people had no clean**
**drinking water.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We continue to cover all the health care**
**expenses of the orphans.**
**All the sponsored orphans are now**
**enrolled in a good school. We provided**
**after school tuition for the orphans that**
**were under performing in school. The**
**performance of the orphans continues**
**to improve.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We planned to raise 66,000 GBP but we**
**achieved 53,003 GBP.**| 2 |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**We did not carry out any investment**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We collect 53,003 GBP and spent 43,958**
**GBP**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We have a balance of 9,045 GBP at the**
**end of the reporting period**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**7115 GBP (Unrestricted Funds)**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable (N/A)**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**So far we have raised funds through**
**individual contributions and from our**
**social media posts and reminders**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**No investment was carried.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**No risk identified last year. We continue**
**to pay orphan school fees directly to the**
**school and buy food, clothing, etc.**
**ourselves and deliver to the orphans.**
**We do the same thing with poor families**
**and widows. Our volunteers deliver in**
**person to ensure it falls in the hands of**
**the beneficiaries.**| |Other||| 3 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO (Charitable Incorporated**
**Organisation)**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Because we don’t take paid Trustees,**
**we select trustee based on their interest**
**and willingness in volunteering, their**
**skills, their networking abilities,**
**knowledge and experience necessary to**
**carry out the activities of the charity.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**When we have a new volunteer we do**
**induction on the purpose of the charity,**
**its activities and general rules in line**
**with the Charity Commissions guidance.**
**We also engage in advising,**
**encouraging, conducting group**
**brainstorming sessions and motivation.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Trustees make the decision on use of**
**charity funds and how it is run.**
**Volunteers make administrative**
**decisions in their day-to-day**
**volunteering work.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Al- Risalah**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**None**| |Registered charity number|**1176428**| |Charity’s principal address|**FLAT 6 BEDFORD HOUSE 3 BENSHAM LANE**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Wadhha El-Jaidy|||Wadhha El-Jaidy| ||Twaiba Ahmed|||Twaiba Ahmed| ||Burhan Moalim|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Wadhha El-Jaidy** 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 **None** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **None** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **None** safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**s and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**s and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**s and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**s and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||||| |**Exemptions from disclosure**
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**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Wadhha|Twaiba| |---|---|---| ||Wadhha El-jaidy|Twaiba Ahmed| ||
Chair|| ||29/01/2025|| ||29/01/2025|| 7 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Al-Risalah **members of On accounts for the year** 31 March 2024 **Charity no** 1176428 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** pages 9 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Date:** 30/01/2025 **Signed: Name:** Maroof Adeoye MBA DChA FCIE MInstF **Relevant professional** FCIE **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Maroof Suite, 30 Union Road Croydon, Surrey. CR0 2XU 8 ||**Charity Name: Al-Risalah**|**Charity Name: Al-Risalah**|**Charity Name: Al-Risalah**|**Charity Name: Al-Risalah**|**No (1176428)**|**No (1176428)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date|**To**||Period end date|| ||||01/04/2023|||31/03/2024|| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|**Last year**| ||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||| |General donations|**22,743**||**-**|**-**||**22,743**|24633| |Feedingthepoor|**-**||**5,502**|**-**||**5,502**|7180| |Mosque reconstruction and repair|**-**||**1,929**|**-**||**1,929**|992| |Orphan sponsorship|**-**||**11,273**|**-**||**11,273**|6700| |Turkeyearthquake appeal|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|1532| |DiggingWater well|**-**||**4,446**|**-**||**4,446**|1324| |Zakat|**-**||**1,168**|**-**||**1,168**|4153| |Qurbani|**-**||**2,602**|**-**||**2,602**|1695| |Pakistan floodingappeal|**-**|||**-**||**-**|1978| |Education|**-**||**2,266**|**-**||**2,266**|**-**| |Gazza Apeal|**-**||**1,075**|**-**||**1,075**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**22,743**||**30,260**|**-**||**53,003**|**50,187**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**22,743**||**30,260**|**-**||**53,003**|**50,187**| ||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||| |Orphan sponsorship|**4,958**||**11,273**|**-**||**16,231**|15722| |Feedingthepoor|**8,305**||**5,502**|**-**||**13,807**|15541| |Mosque reconstruction and repair|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|2521| |Turkeyearthquake|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|1532| |DiggingWater Well|**485**||**4,445**|**-**||**4,930**|1200| |Qurbani|**1,000**||**2,602**|**-**||**3,602**|1695| |Zaka|**-**||**1,168**|**-**||**1,168**|4153| |Pakistan floodingappeal|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|1978| |Auditing|**500**||**-**|**-**||**500**|400| |Education|**-**||**2,266**|**-**||**2,266**|| |Gazza appeal|**-**||**1,075**|**-**||**1,075**|| |Bank transfer charges|**209**||**-**|**-**||**209**|| |Website hosting|**170**||**-**|**-**||**170**|109| |**_Sub total_ **|**15,627**||**28,331**|**-**||**43,958**|**44,851**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**|**15,627**||**28,331**|**-**||**43,958**|**44,851**| ||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**7,115**||**1,929**|**-**||**9,045**|**5,336**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**19,991**||**8,333**|**-**||**28,324**|**22,988**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**27,106**||**10,262**|**-**||**37,369**|**28,324**| ||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at Bank and in Hand|||**27,106**||**10,262**|**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**|||**27,106**||**10,262**|**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
account(s))|||OK
OK|||OK| ||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print Name|||Date of
approval| ||WadhhaElJaidy|||WadhhaElJaidhy|||28/01/2025| ||Twaiba Ahmed|||Twaiba Ahmed|||28/01/2025| 9