## Here for Good Trustees Report
## FINANCIAL YEAR 3
01 MARCH 2020 – 28 FEBRUARY 2021
## **Trustees’ Introduction**
The past year has presented significant challenges, but also significant opportunities, for the charity. Covid-19 disrupted every aspect of all our lives, yet clearly disproportionately affected society’s most vulnerable: the very people Here for Good exists to support.
In our third year, we saw Here for Good continue achieving what it was created to. Our staff and volunteers supported thousands of the most vulnerable European citizens with the most complex cases. Our legal partners trained hundreds of practitioners, to ensure the sector was prepared for the impending EUSS deadline. Our resources have been accessed hundreds of thousands of time, providing some reassurance to families across the country.
Without the contributions of many others, we would not be in the position we are in; a position where we can make a truly positive difference to people's lives. To our partners, supporters, volunteers, staff, and, most importantly, clients: thank you for the trust you have placed in us and your ongoing, unwavering support.
## **About Here for Good**
Here for Good was founded in February 2018 to empower EU, EEA and Swiss citizens, and their families, by helping them to secure their immigration status and rights in the UK. In particular, the charity’s services are targeted at those most in-need, providing them with free and high-quality legal advice to secure their status in the UK.
Since then, Here for Good has grown to a position where it is now considered the ‘go-to’ charity in the European citizens’ rights sector for complex cases. Key strategic partnerships, ranging from major institutions such as the Mayor of London and UN Migration Agency to not-for-profits like the3million, have been instrumental to the charity’s growth.
Here for Good has several operational strands:
**Advice Guide** – a free online resource, written in accessible language and updated regularly. A printable version of the guide was produced this year.
**Support Mapping** – legal researchers have mapped the availability of advice providers and support services for European citizens across the UK on behalf of the European Commission and the Greater London Authority (GLA).
**The Advisory Service** – the core of Here for Good’s work. Caseworkers provide free immigration advice to EU, EEA and Swiss citizens and their family members living in the UK to help them secure their status. Through in-house caseworkers, a bespoke partnership with Paragon Law in the Midlands, and a growing network of pro-bono lawyers, the advisory service consists of:
- A free phone advice line,
- A comprehensive email enquiries service,
- One-to-one support for complex casework, and
- Outreach events run in collaboration with partners across England and Wales.
**Capacity Building Training** – a bespoke training programme for practitioners working with vulnerable migrants, to ensure the sector was in the strongest position possible to meet the demands of the EUSS deadline.
The charity has supported thousands of people directly and indirectly over the past year, and is in a strong position to do so again in the year ahead.
## **Objects, Governance and Legal Structure**
## Overview
The Trustees present their report together with the financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2021. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Charity Commission’s guidance on the preparation of accounts by charities with gross incomes of more than £250,000 and comply with the charity's governing document.
## Registration
The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) no. 1177260 was formed on the 21 February 2018 and is governed by the conditions contained within its constitution.
## Address
The charity’s registered address is:
Here for Good, 15 Crosby Walk, London, E8 3DW.
## Trustees
At the start of the financial year, the charity’s trustees were:
Tahmid Chowdhury, Charles Dixon Glanville, Kim Hooper, Marianna Koli, Isabella Mosselmans, Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Gary Simmons and Susan Trepekli.
## Objects
The charity’s objects are:
To relieve poor persons across England and Wales – primarily those who are EEA citizens and their non-EEA family members living in the UK – by providing such persons with free, high quality legal services which they could not otherwise obtain through lack of means; and
To advance such other charitable purposes as the directors at their absolute discretion may from time to time determine.
## Structure, Governance, and Management
Here for Good is governed by its constitution.
The charity has an active and involved Board of Trustees. Each trustee has an equal vote in Board meetings. They retain complete oversight over the charity from a governance, financial and operational perspective.
The Board is supported in its role by the charity’s two founders, Isabella Mosselmans and Tahmid Chowdhury. They sit on the Board whilst also volunteering their time, on a pro bono basis, as the charity’s executive team. Together, they are primarily responsible for fundraising, partnerships and coordinating the charity’s delivery of legal services. The founders enjoy a positive relationship with their fellow trustees, who are fully aware of their legal rights and obligations.
In the third year of operations, the charity directly or indirectly employed seven members of staff. Staff providing legal services were formally employed by partner law firms and seconded to work solely with Here for Good.
Two junior staff members were employed directly by the charity on part-time contracts, specifically supporting the charity’s outreach, communications, fundraising and evaluation work. Others were hired on a freelance basis to support the delivery of specific projects.
All of these members of staff, alongside an increasing pool of volunteers, were managed and coordinated by the charity’s founders.
## Financial Matters
Two members of Here for Good’s board have access to the charity’s bank account, on which major financial transactions are limited except with both signatories’ consent. A third member of the board, independent of this and a chartered accountant, is responsible for managing the accounts and finances. All trustees review budgets and financial forecasts in board meetings; they can also request these for inspection at any time. They all have sight of accounts in advance of their publication. A full set of Here for Good’s accounts, for the period ended 28 February 2021, follows.
## **FY3 Accounts**
## Accounts Overview
A full set of accounts are attached as an appendix to this report, titled ‘Here for Good FY3 Accounts’.
## Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees
The independent examiner’s report to the trustees is also included as an appendix to this report, titled ‘Here for Good IE Report – FY3 Accounts’.
## Statement
As a Trustee, I am duly authorised to sign the accounts on behalf of Here for Good. To the best of my knowledge, the accounts are accurate and have been independently examined to a high standard.
Name: Tahmid Chowdhury
Signed:
Dated: 27 March 2022
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Charity Name No (if any)
Here for Good 1177260
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from March 1 2020 February 28 2021
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations and Legacies 4,682 - - 4,682
Grants 199,728 47,800 - 247,528
Charitable activities - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
204,410 47,800 - 252,210
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 204,410 47,800 - 252,210
A3 Payments
- - - -
Charitable activities 200,362 47,800 - 248,162
Other - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 200,362 ] 47,800 - 248,162
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 200,362 47,800 - 248,162
Net of receipts/(payments) 4,048 - - 4,048
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 23,816 - - 23,816
Cash funds this year end 27,864 - - 27,864
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|**Section B Statement**|**of assets and liabilities**|**at the end of the period**|**at the end of the period**|**at the end of the period**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**27,864**
**-**
**-**
**27,864**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK
|OK||
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**|||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**|**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print|Name||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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CC16a
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**Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**5,509 67,239 16,672 - - - - - 89,420**
**89,420**
**74,133 216 - - - - - - 74,349**
**74,349 15,071 - 8,745 23,816**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the** Charity Name Here for Good **trustees/ members of** 28[th] February 2021 **Charity** 1177260 **On accounts for the no (if year ended any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** .
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the **basis of report** 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.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material **examiner's** matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed **statement** below *) 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
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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** Riz Wasti **Date:** 12/04/2022 **Name:** Riz Wasti **Relevant** CIMA **professional**
1
**IER**
**October 2018**
**qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** Unit 11, 81 Crampton Street London SE17 3BF
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
2
**IER**
**October 2018**
## **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
3
**IER**
**October 2018**