Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 01 01 2022 31 12 2022
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Beyond Conflict Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1176499 Charity's principal address C/O RDC, HOWARD KENNEDY, NO 1 LONDON BRIDGE LONDON Postcode SE1 9BG
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
Edna Fernandes Trustee (Co- Whole Year
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Founder)
2 Edmund Newell Trustee (Chair) Whole Year
John Tress Trustee (Financial Whole Year
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Trustee)
4 Kishan Manocha Trustee Whole Year
5 Gillian Dare Trustee Whole Year
6 Abda Mahmood Trustee Whole Year
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
Constitution
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How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
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Through personal networks and by consensus agreement among existing Trustee selection methods members of the Board.
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Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
All Trustees are given a copy of the Charity Commission’s Guidance on the role and responsibilities of charities and are required to review these. We have not implemented any formal training procedures for new trustees. Trustees are only invited to join the board if they are seen to be sufficiently experienced and have approval of all the existing board members. Trustees are also reminded of key definitions such as the definition of public benefit and their role as trustees on a regular basis.
As a small charity we work with a number of individuals and organisations to assist us in delivering our work. These include advisors such as legal counsel, mental health experts and media and fundraising experts. People taking up advisory positions are also subject to board approval before we begin working with them.
We have three formal partnerships in place: one in Bangladesh to serve frontline workers and refugees in the Rohingya Refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar. Our partner there is Global Development Corp (GDC), led by a former UNHCR Director Golam Abbas. The second partnership is with the British-Iraqi charity, the Al Khoei Foundation, and its subsidiary Al Kawthar to help widows and orphans in southern Iraq. The third partnership is with the Ukrainian Welcome Centre based out of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Mayfair, which helps to support Ukrainian refugees who have been displaced to the UK after the war in Ukraine.
As an organisation we consider our key risk areas to be the safety of the volunteers and partners working on the ground. A second risk associated with our work because of the countries we work in is the need to be aware of avoiding unintentional terrorist financing. We have continued to take several steps to mitigate these risks.
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For example, we have continued to focus on ensuring that any face-toface meetings that take place on behalf of the Charity’s operations are carried out in a responsible manner to reduce the risk to those taking part. We will continue to assess the lessons learnt in the wake of Covid and will continue to implement safety protocols to reduce the risk to anyone who attends in person events ran by the charity.
In order to reduce the risk of working abroad we have implemented several safeguards. These include partnering with trusted organisations that already have a respected presence and experience working on the ground in the countries we are working in.
Our trustees attend Webinars by the Charities Commission including “Risks and Requirements when operating in cash internationally” to improve our knowledge around the risks and things to look out for when paying for projects in foreign countries. Our Director and Board also keep in regular contact with the CC with regard to potential issues as and when they come up.
We maintain a risk register and a safeguarding policy that is reviewed regularly and updated to ensure that they remain relevant and cover all foreseeable risks.
Section C Objectives and activities
1) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AMONG ADULTS AND CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA IN ZONES OF DISPLACEMENT AND CONFLICT, STARTING WTH PROJECTS IN BANGLADESH AND IRAQ. THE CHARITY DOES THIS BY THE PROVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING AND
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
SUPPORT FOR FRONTLINE WORKERS, DELIVERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EXPERTS ON THE GROUND.
2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF TRAINING FRONTLINE WORKERS IN POST CONFLICT ZONES/REFUGEE CAMPS. TO HELP FRONTLINE WORKERS GAIN KNOWLEDGE TO SUPPORT THEIR WORK HELPING VULNERABLE REFUGEES/CIVILIANS SUFFERING FROM POST CONFLICT/DISPLACEMENT TRAUMA.
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Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)
In 2022 we have been heavily focused on progressing our existing projects but also expanded our work by taking on a new project with regard to Ukraine. Rohingyas: In March 2022, the charity funded a scoping mission to the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh, which is home to more than 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled the 2017 genocide of their people in Myanmar. This built on our previous work with GDC that aimed to provide mental health training to frontline workers from 7 NGOs serving refugees in the camp, including setting up a referral pathway to psychiatric support and a telephone helpline. The March 2022 scoping mission was carried out by our partner GDC and achieved the following: 1) Refresher training for local NGO frontline staff that took part in previous training sessions in 2020/21. 2) MHPS training sessions for newly identified NGO staff working in the camp. 3) Explored ways to create a permanent referral pathway in the camp. 4) Held detailed talks with frontline staff and NGO heads to identify challenges and gaps in the area of mental health and psychosocial support for refugees. Discussed possible interventions and a way to form a consortium to create a framework in the camp to support refugees and continue training frontline workers. The aim here was to establish a feasible way forward for our work in the camp. 5) This scoping mission led to GDC developing a fully-costed strategy for the next stage of the project to continue training for NGO workers and create community support projects for single mothers in the camp in need of practical and mental health support. BC aims to raise these funds to continue this work and extend help to refugee women directly through community workshops. Ukraine: With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 and the ensuing war, Beyond Conflict decided to support Ukrainian refugees displaced by this war. The war led to the biggest exodus of people since World War Two. At the start of the war the Board launched a Ukraine appeal and then donated £9,000 to three frontline NGOs supporting Ukrainian refugees and mental health on the Ukraine/Polish border. This was from existing funds and donations from our generous supporters. We supported: * Polish Humanitarian Action which used some of BC's money for refugee reception centres for Ukrainians that include mental health support. * FDS in Poland which spent BC's money on providing medicine, clothing, sanitary products for refugees as well as support for accommodation for 5 refugees who were homeless. * FDS also referred some of those refugees to professional psychiatric assessment/support. Separately, BC established a partnership with the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Mayfair and the Ukrainian Welcome Centre (“UWC”), which is a charitable foundation set up in conjunction with the Cathedral in order to provide support to displaced Ukrainians coming to London. We worked with the Cathedral and UWC to put on a fundraising concert
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on Armistice Day 2022 to focus on the impact of war upon children. The concert featured The Cry, composed by our ambassador, Adrian Snell. This concert also involved performances of traditional music by Ukrainian musicians and featured a collaboration with the choir of Alleyn’s School in London. The concert was a huge success helping Beyond Conflict to raise awareness and £7,193. The net profit ran to many thousands of pounds and was donated directly to the UWC to help them continue with the important work they were doing to help support displaced Ukrainians. One quarter of that money was also forwarded to an IDP centre in Ukraine itself.
BC’s Director built on this by beginning work with the Ukrainian Cathedral and Welcome Centre in December 2022 to establish a music therapy pilot to help traumatised refugees assisted by the UWC. This plan was put into action in 2023.
All Trustees were sent and requested to review the Charity Commission’s article on public benefit, and this is well understood across the board.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
A number of volunteers assist the Trustees through pro bono work: legal counsel, Treasurer, mental health advisors, media and fundraising experts.
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Our charity is run by volunteers at board and operational level that allows us to dedicate all monies raised to the work concerned, barring negligible administrative costs. As we seek to build on our work, we will aim to increase the amount of money we raise and raise our profile online and in the mainstream arena.
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
During 2022 we have achieved the below:
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1) Beyond Conflict showed it’s ability to move fast and to build partnerships quickly after the start of the war in Ukraine. We launched a Ukraine Appeal and donated £9,000 to three frontline NGOs supporting refugees fleeing the war. This money comprised of funds from our coffers as well as monies raised online for Ukraine.
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2) We forged a Partnership with the UWC and also held a fundraising concert in aid of the UWC within the space of 9 months. This is something that we are extremely proud of as an entirely volunteer-led charity.
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3) We continued to work with our Rohingya project partner GDC to deliver mental health training via refresher courses and establish an action plan to extend our work further to new NGO frontline workers and research ways to help refugees directly in the camp.
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4) We had our most successful year for fundraising since incorporation.
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5) Leveraged the skills of our ambassadors and Trustees to put on a major concert. It took a lot of organisation and leadership to get the choirs, musicians, venue and to sell all the tickets. This was a major logistical and fundraising success.
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6) The work we undertook this year helped our small charity raise awareness in the national media and advocate on the need for mental health provision for frontline workers and the refugee civilian populations.
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Section E Financial review
At year end the Charity held £6,311 in reserves. This cash will be used Brief statement of the for upcoming projects in the year and we will continue to actively charity’s policy on reserves fundraise. However, we do not routinely hold any reserves for specific purposes other than to fund future projects.
Details of any funds materially in deficit
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Further financial review details (Optional information)
We are currently still primarily funded through donations from the UK You may choose to include Public, however during the year we have run a very successful additional information, where Fundraising campaign which helped us to bring in over £7,000 to the relevant about: Charity.
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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We have spent £11,700 on two projects in the year. These being our
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any fundraising); support of the people displaced through the Ukrainian war (~£9,000) and
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how expenditure has also our spend on Phase 2 of our Cox’s Bazaar project facilitated by our partner Charity, the GDC (~£2,700).
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supported the key objectives of the charity;
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There was also a further £5,300 raised in the year through our
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investment policy and fundraising for our partners in Ukraine which was then paid out in the objectives including any beginning of 2023. ethical investment policy adopted. We remain convinced that this work is urgent and necessary and will continue to build on it going forward.
Section F Other optional information
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
| Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date |
EDNA FERNANDES LUKE TOMKINS |
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| Edna Fernandes Luke Tomkins |
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Director/ Founding Trustee Financial Trustee |
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| 16/10/2023 | |
| 16/10/2023 |
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Beyond Conflict No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 1/1/2022 12/31/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds
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| A1 Receipts Donations and Legacies 13,252 Interest 4 - - - - - - 13,256 - - Sub total - Total receipts 13,256 A3 Payments FundraisingExpenses 2,075 Projects 11,732 Bank Fees 81 Other Fees 434 - - - - - Sub total 14,322 - - Sub total - Total payments 14,322 Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,066 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end - Cash funds this year end - 1,066 funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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Total funds to the nearest £ 13,252 4 - - - - - - 13,256 - - - 13,256 2,075 11,732 81 434 - - - - - 14,322 - - - 14,322 - 1,066 - - - 1,066 |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Details CAF Bank Details Details Details Details Signature Luke Tomkins Edna Fernandes Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 6,311 - - - - - 6,311 - Agreement Error OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name LUKE TOMKINS EDNA FERNANDES Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) |
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| Luke Tomkins | LUKE TOMKINS | 10/16/2023 | |
| Edna Fernandes | EDNA FERNANDES | 10/16/2023 |