
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

> Period start date **To** Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 31 07 2020 30 07 2021 **From** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Arab Friendship Association **Other names charity is known by** AFA **Registered charity number (if any)** 1178515 **Charity's principal address** 20 GRANBY ROAD LUTON BEDFORDSHIER **Postcode LU4 9SZ** 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee (if**<br>**any)**|
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||SHOKRI OTHMAN|CHAIRPEARSON|||
||BASHAR ATHAMNEH||||
||MOHAMMAD ALRANTISI||06/06/2020-<br>30/05/2021||
||KHALIL ISMAIL||||
||MOHAMMED SHARIF SALAMAH||||
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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** 

## **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 adopted on 05/05/2018 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

Unincorporated association How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Elected by members at the annual general meeting (AGM) for 2 years Trustee selection methods period 

(eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage 

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them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

**To advance education for the public benefit in the Arabic and English Summary of the objects of the languages and culture among all members of the public in Luton and charity set out in its the surrounding areas governing document** 

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- With COVID restrictions, AFA transferred Arabic classes to full on-line classes utilising AlManhal platform. The virtual school has now been running for the second year with the support of volunteers, teachers and the community. 

- - Socially, the charity has made some limited activities due to COVID restrictions. We were able to hold a few open events in parks when these were allowed. But not formal activities. 

- - Our plan for the year coming is to re-open the face-to-face classes while keeping the on-line active as well. 

**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)** 

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**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

- the Online Arabic Classes had a successful outcome as students achieved the curriculum requirements and aims at each level 

- - we increased our intake into the Arabic Classes this year and were able to accommodate variable teaching schedules 

- - we have good retention of ongoing students due to reasonable rate and high quality of education 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

## **Brief statement of the** 

**charity’s policy on reserves** 

The financial situation continues to be stable. The charity model remains affordable given the voluntary contributions of most members of the team. 

On the 31[st] of July 2021, we had £3709 in our bank accounts compared to £1239 the year before. 

**Details of any funds materially** We’re not running on deficit at the moment **in deficit** 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **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)** SHOKRI OTHMAN **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairperson **etc) Date** 10/05/2022 

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**Charity Name ARAB FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION** 

**No (if any)** 

## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** 

**CC16a** 

**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 31/07/2020 30/07/2021 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

**Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest      £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

## **A1 Receipts** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**||**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Donation**|**2,025**||**-**||**-**||**2,025**||**4,593**|
|Classes FEES|**15,177**||||**-**||**15,177**||**-**|
|Refunds|**2,660**||**-**||**-**||**2,660**||**593**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**19,863**||**-**||**-**||**19,863**||**5,186**|



||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**19,863**|||**-**|||**-**|||**19,863**||**5,186**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||
||**(see table).**||||||||||||||
|||||||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
|||||||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Total receipts_**|**19,863**||||**-**|||**-**||**19,863**||**5,186**||
||**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||
||tutors expenses|**10,101**|||**-**|||**-**|||**10,101**||**-**||
||MISC|**663**|||**-**|||**-**|||**663**||**1,513**||
||**Rent expense**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,290**||
||solisitor|**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**540**||
||subscription|**5,363**|||**-**|||**-**|||**5,363**||**-**||
|CCX~~X R1 accounts (SS)~~<br>events||**1,201**||~~1~~<br>|**-**|||**-**|||**1,201**||~~10/05/2~~022<br>**-**||





|refunds||**129**||**-**|||**-**|||**129**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_ **|**17,457**||**-**|||**-**|||**17,457**||**3,343**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
||**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total payments_**|**17,457**|||**-**|||**-**||**17,457**||**3,343**|
||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**2,406**|||**-**|||**-**||**2,406**||**1,843**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-                   131**|
||**_Cash funds this year end_**|**2,406**|||**-**|||**-**||**2,406**||**1,712**|



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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|bank<br>cash<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**3,709**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**3,709**<br>Agreement Error<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|



**Details** 

**Fund to which asset** 

**belongs** 

**Current value** 

**Cost (optional)** 

> **(optional)** 10/05/2022 

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|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**|||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**charity’s own use**||||||**-**|||**-**|
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||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|||**When due**||
||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**||||
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

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|Signature|Print Name<br>SHOKRI OTHMAN|Date of approval|
||SHOKRI OTHMAN|10/05/2022|
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