Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 01/01/2021 Period start date To 31/12/2021 Period end date
Charity name: Greentech Apps Foundation
Charity registration number: 1178251
Objectives and Activities
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| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document |
Para 1.17 | 1. To advance the religion of Islam and the promotion of the teachings and tenets of Islam, particularly but not exclusively, by the provision of educational resources, software, materials and publications. 2. To advance the education of the public in the subject of Islam, particularly but not exclusively, through the provision of online learning materials for the public and students. |
| 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 |
In light of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document, the main activities of the charity is to develop and disseminate educational Islamic resources to the public by developing software that are distributed via the web, desktop and mobile application platforms. |
| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
Para 1.18 | The trustees confirm that they have conducted the affairs of the charity with regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. |
Achievements and Performance
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| 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’s current primary activity involves developing educational Islamic mobile applications and disseminating them to the public, worldwide, for free. 2021 has been a challenging year for many due to the pandemic and rising inflation. However, by the grace of The Almighty, we have made some exemplary achievements. We focused mainly on team building, foundation, and stability. From expanding our team to making our software better for our large worldwide user base, 2021 has been busy at Greentech Apps Foundation. Key milestones for 2021: With a solid team in place, 2021 has been the time for growth. We have implemented a number of long-requested features and solved some of the most critical issues for our users. At the same time, we have made huge strides in a number of areas, for example, we have a new improved website with a better support page, utilized our own backend infrastructure for the sync mechanism of user generated data such as bookmarks and notes, and made our apps available on more platforms. ● Improved User Experience We always put the user experience at the top of our priority list. We made significant improvements in several features of the Quran app for our valued user base. Likewise, we conducted specific research to identify the most important features to work on for 2021 and settled on the Library (bookmarks and notes) and the Planner features of the Quran app to be improved. We made the user flows smoother, less complicated and improved the overall design of these features. While improving these features, we considered requests from both our newer and long-term users. |
For our Deen Quiz app, we have listened to our users and brought the long-requested offline feature and English language mode to the app. ● Improved website In order to ensure a high quality user experience across all our applications, we strive to listen to the user feedback. With that in mind, we revamped our existing website. The Help & Support section and the Contact sections were updated to make sure users can seek any help they need and can provide us feedback through an easy, streamlined process. We also improved the design of the website, search experience and overall performance. At the same time, we upgraded the Donation section for users to find relevant information faster before making their donation. ● New announcement section Our apps now have a dedicated announcement section so that users can receive all the latest news, updates and notifications inside the app. ● User Profile and Library Sync We have built a user profile system into our Quran application. The users will be able to sign up, and sync their bookmarks and notes and do not have to worry about losing them. Users can also sync their data across multiple devices. We have made several changes to our backend server infrastructure to allow for upcoming community-engaging features. ● Reaching More Platforms To facilitate our goal of making our apps available in more platforms, we have launched our Quran app on macOS. Users can now run the Quran app on Apple Mac devices.
| Also, we have released our Hadith collection app for iOS and macOS users with full functionality, previously it had limited features. ● Other Notable Mentions We have added a number of new translations of the Quran (of different languages) and new reciters. This will make understanding of the Quran accessible to users from a variety of languages. We also have added the “Compare Isnad (chains of narration)” feature in the Hadith Collection app. This is an advanced feature that will help students of Hadith to easily compare the chains of narration of the various Hadith. Goals for 2022: ● Being more organised We will strive to keep on improving our organisational structure and processes. The focus will be on having a visual scorecard for our KPIs. This will enable us to keep a bird's eye view of the key metrics. We will plan training modules for staff, individual career ladders, and hackathons to increase engagement. ● Hearing more from the users and solving their problems We can only solve the problems that we are aware of, and users are best suited to identify issues in our products. the best people to find the problems of the products are the users of them. We are planning to further improve the user feedback process by incorporating a dedicated Customer Relationship Management tool. This will make it easier for users to share their problems and ideas. |
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● User stats for more engagement Our Quran app will have a new feature related to reading analytics. When a user sees how much s/he has engaged with the app and how much they have benefited, they will be motivated to utilise the application even more. This will help them develop a learning habit. ● Solving new problems Next year we are set to bring a brand new Seerah (history) application for the people. At the same time, we are planning to tackle some new issues, such as improving the search experience and making the Hadith app more intuitive by presenting interconnections between different Hadith. We are looking forward to improving our products and processes to better cater for our large, loyal user base.
Financial Review
| Financial Review | ||
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| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | Due to the pandemic and rising inflation rates, the charity has adopted a fairly cautious approach in regard to its finances and expenditures. The charity is grateful for the response from the community and are pleased that we have been able to achieve our fundraising target of£60,000in the third financial year. The charity has received donations totalling£67,468and have made expenses totalling£48,892, with total funds of£73,712available to the charity at the end of the financial year. |
| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | General policy is to hold 6 months of operating expenses as reserves and in practice the charity has decided that donations incoming through PayPal will be held as reserves whereas donations incoming through Stripe will be used for maintaining operating costs. |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | £40,427(Funds in PayPal account) |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | N/A |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | N/A |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | The charity does not foresee any uncertainties in regard to finances. |
Structure, Governance and Management
| Description of charity’s trusts: |
SORP reference |
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| 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 |
| 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 | Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. |
Reference and Administrative details
| Charity name | Greentech Apps Foundation |
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| Other name the charity uses | |
| Registered charity number | 1178251 |
| Charity’s principal address | 20 Lilac Court, Cambridge CB1 7AY |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity | Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity | Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity |
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| Trustee name | Dates acted if not for whole year | |
| 1 | Priota Islam | Founding Trustee |
| 2 | Sharif Morshed | Oct 2018 onwards |
| 3 | Emilia Hye-Ceklarz | Dec 2018 onwards |
| 4 | Abu Ismail | Feb 2020 onwards |
| 5 | Riasat Islam | Oct 2021 onwards |
Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets N/A 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 N/A Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets N/A |
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Exemptions from disclosure Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
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Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
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| The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees |
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| Signature(s) | ||
| Full name(s) | Priota Islam | Abu Hamed Md Ismail |
| Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) |
Chair | Trustee |
| Date | 21/08/2022 | 21/08/2022 |
| Charity Name Greentech Apps Foundation |
Charity Name Greentech Apps Foundation |
Charity Name Greentech Apps Foundation |
Charity Name Greentech Apps Foundation |
Charity Name Greentech Apps Foundation |
No (if any) 1178251 |
No (if any) 1178251 |
No (if any) 1178251 |
CC16a | |
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| For the period from |
Period start date 1/1/2021 |
To | Period end date 31/12/2021 |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||||
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations through Google Play Store | - 216- |
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- 216- |
- 205- |
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| Donations through PayPal | - 15,103- |
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- 15,103- |
- 14,259- |
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| Donatons through Stripe | - 51,666- |
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- 51,666- |
- 40,581- |
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| General Donations | - 482- |
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- 482- |
- 278- |
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| Other Revenue | - -- |
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- 1,114- |
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | - 67,468- |
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- 56,437- |
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| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - 67,468- |
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- 56,437- |
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| Direct Expenses | - 3,396- |
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- 3,396- |
- 2,683- |
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| Contractor Fees | - 43,594- |
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- 43,594- |
- 16,695- |
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| Advertising & Marketing | - 492- |
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- 492- |
- 1,549- |
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| **Total receipts ** | - | 67,468- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 67,468- | - | 56,437- | ||||||||||
| A3 Payments | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Direct Expenses | - | 3,396- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 3,396- | - | 2,683- | ||||||||||
| Contractor Fees | - | 43,594- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 43,594- | - | 16,695- | ||||||||||
| Advertising & Marketing | - | 492- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 492- | - | 1,549- |
CCXX R accounts (SS)
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| Bank Fees | - 62- |
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- 62- |
- 98- |
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| General Expenses | - -- |
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- 113- |
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| Postage, Freight & Courier | - -- |
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| Subscriptions | - 1,019- |
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- 1,019- |
- 395- |
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| Telephone & Internet | - 88- |
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- 88- |
- 22- |
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| Staff Training | - 240- |
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- 240- |
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| **Sub total ** | - 48,892- |
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- 48,892- |
- 21,555- |
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| 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 ** |
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| - 48,892- |
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- 48,892- |
- 21,555- |
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| - 18,576- |
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- 18,576- |
- 34,882- |
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| - 55,136- |
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- 55,136- |
- 20,254- |
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| - 73,712- |
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- 73,712- |
- 55,136- |
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | |||||||||
| Categories B1 Cash funds |
Details Cashplus PayPal Stripe TransferWise |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - 21,090- - 40,427- - 669- - 12,865- |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - -- - -- - -- - -- |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Cashplus | - 21,090- |
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| PayPal | - 40,427- |
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| Stripe | - 669- |
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| TransferWise | - 12,865- |
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| Total cash funds | - 73,712- |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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| to nearest £ | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | ||||||||||||||
| B1 | Cash funds | Cashplus | - | 21,090- | - | -- | - | -- | ||||||||
| PayPal | - | 40,427- | - | -- | - | -- | ||||||||||
| Stripe | - | 669- | - | -- | - | -- | ||||||||||
| TransferWise | - | 12,865- | - | -- | - | -- | ||||||||||
| Total cash funds | - | 73,712- | - | -- | - | -- |
CCXX R accounts (SS)
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| B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use |
(agree balances with receipts and payments account (s)) Details |
OK | OK | OK |
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CCXX R accounts (SS)
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature | Name | Date of approval | ||||||
| Riasat Islam | 21/08/2022 | ||||||||
| Abu | Ismail | ||||||||
| 21/08/2022 |
CCXX R accounts (SS)
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ members of[Greentech Apps Foundation ] On accounts for the year ended[31/12/2021 ] Set out on pages 1-6
Charity no 1178251 (if any)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2021 .
- Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report 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 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:
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accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
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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.
Date: 12/10/2022 Signed: Name: Mohammed Faraz ACA Relevant professional ACA - ICAEW qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 32 Landseer Street Oldham OL4 1RS
October 2018
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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).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
N/A
October 2018
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