## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2024 Period start date To 31 March 2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Bury Faith Forum**
## **Charity registration number: 1180349**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The object of the CIO is:**
**The promotion promotion of religious**
**harmony for the benefit of the public by:**
**(1)**
**Educating the public in different**
**religious beliefs including an awareness**
**of their distinctive features and their**
**common ground to promote good**
**relations between persons of different**
**faiths;**
**(2)**
**Promoting knowledge and mutual**
**understanding and respect of the beliefs**
**and practices of different religious**
**faiths;**
**(3)**
**Providing a range of interfaith**
**activities for people in Bury to enable**
**them to interact with people of different**
**religious faiths and better understand**
**their communities; and**
**(4)**
**Providing technical advice to**
**government and others on faith matters.**|
|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|**Bury Faith Forum met at regular**
**intervals during the year to discuss**
**matters relating to the different faith**
**communities and our involvement in**
**local matters and matters of concern to**
**the various faith groups.**
**We supported and advised on the Bury**
**Holocaust Memorial Day event.**
**We continued the collaboration with the**
**NHS and its chaplaincy on the new**
**multifaith space at the local hospital.**
**We held our Interfaith Week event for**
**schools, welcoming 12 primary schools**
**and 8 secondary schools, thus**
**increasing awareness of the different**
**faiths in Bury and Greater Manchester**
**and promoting good relations between**
**people of different faiths.**
**We organised and participated in online**
**Interfaith Dialogues.**|
|||**We participated in the summer**
**Collabor8 event led by GMP Bury and**
**community groups.**
**We attended and were active in the Bury**
**Community Cohesion Group meetings.**
**We also supported the GM Emergency**
**and Resilience Plan and have been**
**active in the GM F&B Advisory Panel**|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees had and have regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Again promoting and supporting the**
**vaccination programmes, advising on**
**the new multifaith space at the Hospital**
**Chaplaincy, helping plan and attending**
**the HMD ceremony, running the**
**Interfaith Week event for schools,**
**supporting community cohesion events**
**and initiating interfaith dialogues and**
**information events for adults.**|
|Other||**Members and trustees attended**
**meetings with local authority reps and**
**other groups as requested.**|
## **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|**We promoted the value of faith in Bury**
**and liaised as appropriate for the benefit**
**of the wider community, eg with**
**foodbanks, refugees, homeless and**
**street pastors.**
**We continued to promote the NHS**
**vaccination programmes and**
**encouraged the take up rate of Covid**
**and flu vaccinations among others.**
**We ensured that awareness of genocide**
**and hate crime was highlighted and**
**promoted community cohesion.**|
**Faith literacy and awareness was improved, in particular in relation to our Interfaith Week event for schools. This was our most successful event since we started, attracting well over 200 students from 19 different schools, both primary (12) and secondary (7).**
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Good, with a commitment to develop**
**further next year**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Bury Faith Forum has £6679.69 in the**
**bank as at 31 March 2025**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No other reserves are held**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**None**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Bury Faith Forum have no ongoing**
**expenses other than for our activities**
**and have money in the account to**
**continue with these.**|
|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|**N/A**|
## **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|**No funding applied for this year but**
**Bury Council and Bury VCFA have**
**provided money through grants applied**
**for in the past.**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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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|**Trustees are elected at the Annual**
**General Meeting**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Bury Faith Forum|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1180349|
|Charity’s principal address|19 ST. GEORGES ROAD
BURY
BL9 8JG|
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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)**|
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||LIAQAT ALI|Chair|1.4.2024 to 10.2.2025||
||DAVID BARRIE LEWIS|Treasurer|||
||Rabbi Warren Elf|Chair|Appointed 10.2.2025||
||Revd David
Somerville|Secretary|Appointed 28.10.2024||
||Julie Smale||||
||Revd Kathy Selby||||
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/A
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A Other optional information N/A**
|**Income and Expenditure 2024 –**|**2025**||
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|Income|0||
|Expenditure|0||
|**Funds carried forward**|**£6679.69**||
|**Bury Faith Forum Accounts 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025**|||
|**Statement of Financial Position**|
**2024-25**|**2023-24**|
|**Current Assets**|||
|Cash at Bank|£6679.69|£6679.69|
|**Creditors**|**0**|**0**|
|**Net Assets**|**£6679.69**|**£6679.69**|
|**Funds of the Charity**|||
|**Total Charity Funds**|**£6679.69**|**£6679.69**|
## **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)** Rabbi Warren Elf MBE **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair of Trustees **Chair, etc) Date** 22 January 2026