## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 4 Apr 2022 to 3 Apr 2023** ## **Charity name: Marhabtayn Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1178022** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve financial hardship, distress**
**and suffering among refugees, internally**
**displaced persons, victims of natural**
**and man-made disasters, and other**
**people in need.**| |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|-
**Making grants for food, clothing,**
**equipment, services and facilities**
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**Making grants for medical treatment**
**and educational fees**
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**Advocacy**
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**Educating the public on challenges**
**faced by refugees and other people**
**in need.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Grants are made to partner**
**organizations relieving hardship,**
**distress and suffering following an**
**assessment of the partner organization.**
**Partner organizations report on the use**
**of the grant.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**No investment**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Funds are raised through donations and**
**food events. All the work for these**
**events is done by volunteers.**| 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|**We organized two catered events which**
**raised £2,468 and we used this money**
**to provide**
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**A grant to cover fees and other**
**expenses for schools and school**
**students in South Sudan**
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**A grant to support the medical needs**
**of refugees and asylum seekers in**
**detention in the UK**
**We also supported an event in Trafalgar**
**Square to support survivors of the**
**Turkey/Syria earthquake of 2023. Many**
**people at the event donated £15,579 for**
**earthquake relief. Funds were disbursed**
**at the start of the following financial**
**year.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**During Covid, we reduced the number of**
**our catered events, and our objective**
**was to organize two or three events.**
**This objective was met.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Performance of fundraising activities**
**was much higher than expected,**
**because the tragedy of the Syria**
**earthquake led to a major increase in**
**donations.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**No investments were made.**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity had £17,586 in cash at the**
**end of the financial period, of which**
**about £2,000 was in reserve**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We use all the money we raise for**
**donations. We keep a reserve in case**
**urgent grants are needed**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1,958 at end of year**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No uncertainties**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**Donations and catered events/supper**
**clubs**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**No investments**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Reduction in volunteer numbers**
**Reduction in fundraising capacity**| |Other||| ## **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 Association, registered 19 Aug 2018**| |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|**Trustees are elected and can be**
**removed by members.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **No new trustees have been inducted** Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees **The charity is made up of volunteer members and volunteer trustees** The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works **None** Relationship with any Para 1.51 related parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Marhabtayn Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Marhabtayn Syrian Supper Club| |Registered charity number|1178022| |Charity’s principal address|27 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET
LONDON
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Khairunissa Dhala|Chair||Members| ||Sawsan Abou
Zainedin|||Members| ||Edward Thomas|||Members| ||Michael Buehler|||Members| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Not applicable** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**Not applicable**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Edward Boyd Thomas|| ||
Trustee|| ||21 Aug 2024|| ||21 Aug 2024|| |**Marhabtayn Trust**|||**1178022**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|04-Apr-22|**To**|03-Apr-23|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**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**|**17,537**||||0||||0||17537||3360|| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**17,537**|||**-**||||**-**|||**17,537**||**3,360**|| |||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**||||||||||||||| ||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|||| ||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|||**-**| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**17,537**
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**-**
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**17,537**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
0
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
0|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
17537
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**17,537**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
3360| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
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**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**17,537**|**-**||**17,537**||**3,360**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**17,537**||**3,360**| |||||||| |Donations|**2,468**||**-**
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**-**|**2,468**||**2,225**| |Expenses|**379**|||**379**||**-**| |Bank charges|**60**|||**60**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**2,907**|||**2,907**||**2,225**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
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**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**-**|**2,907**||**2,225**| |||||||| ||**14,630**||**-**|
**14,630**||**1,135**| ||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**2,956**|||**2,956**||**-**| ||**17,586**||**-**|**17,586**||**1,135**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 21/08/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**17,586**
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**17,586**
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Edward Thomas|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
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