## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 April 2024 To 31 Mar 2025** ## **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**-
**Making grants for medical treatment and**
**educational fees**-**Advocacy**-**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 investments.**| |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 an appeal to support**
**survivors of the August 2024**
**earthquake in Syria. The appeal raised**
**£1070. All the money raised was**
**transferred to a partner in Canada**
**delivering assistance.**
**We organized a food event to raise**
**money for displaced people in Lebanon.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Our objective for the year was to**
**organize one catered fundraising event**
**and we met this objective.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Performance was in line with**
**expectations**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**No funds are invested**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**On 4 April 2024, the charity held £1,241**
**in reserve. Total receipts for the year**
**were £3,919. The charity spent £3,951, of**
**which £3,383 were grants, and £567 the**
**cost of organizing events. At the end of**
**the year, the charity held £1,209 in**
**reserves.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity holds reserves in order to be**
**able to respond to urgent requests for**
**donations and to manage unexpected**
**expenses.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1,209 at the end of the reporting period**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable**| ## **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**| |---|---|---| |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: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**No new trustees have been inducted**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity is made up of volunteer**
**members and volunteer trustees.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**None**| |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 WC1N 3AX| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Khairunissa Dhala|Chair||Member| ||Sawsan Abou
Zainedin|||Member| ||Michael Buehler|||Member| ||Edward Thomas|||Member| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**Not**
**applicable**||| |||| |||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **Not applicable** ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||**Edward Boyd Thomas**|| ||
**Trustee**|| ||20 July 2026|| ||20 July 2026|| **MarhabtaynTrust 1178022 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01-Apr-24 31-Mar-25 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**3,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,919**
**3,951**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,951**
**12**
**-**
**12**
**3,963**
**- 44**
**-**
**-**
**- 44**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,919**
**3,951**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,951**
**12**
**-**
**12**
**3,963**
**- 44**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,919**
**3,951**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,951**
**12**
**-**
**12**
**3,963**
**- 44**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**3,919**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,919**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**3,919**|||**3,919**||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**3,919**||**-**| |||||||| ||**3,951**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,951**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**3,951**|||**3,951**||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**12**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**12**||| ||**-**|||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**12**|||**12**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**-**|**3,963**||**-**| |||||||| ||**- 44**|**-**|**-**|**- 44**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 44**|**-**|**-**|**- 44**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 20/07/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**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))
Reserve
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,209**
**-**
**-**
**1,209**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
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**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 20/07/2026 2