2021-03-31-accounts - Diyya

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name DIYYA

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1181064

Charity's principal address 117 CLAYCROFT PLACE

STOURBRIDGE Postcode DY9 8BY

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) whole year
NASEEEM BECHAIR
1 GUM
2 NADIA SHAHID SECRETARY 3 AKSAH AZAD TREASURER 4 AMY BARKER TRUSTEE 5[GABRIELA ] TRUSTEE MIHAI
6[STACEY ] TRUSTEE KNOWLES
7 8 9

Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)

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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 (eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

CIO

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods ELECTED BY MEMBERS AT AGM

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

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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 them.

We have an organisational structure diagram which informs those new to the charity, particularly new trustees about how we operate and the relationships between trustees, volunteers, members.

Our charity has the following policies and procedures in place:

Health and safety
- Child protection and safeguarding vulnerable adults (and appropriate DBS checking procedures)
Equality and diversity
Code of conduct
- Liability insurance - Risk assessment policy for COVID-19 - Sustainability policy - Disciplinary policy - GDPR policy - Fire Regulations policy

Diyya works closely with partner organisations from both the public sector and not-for-profit/charitable sector. These include:

Department for Works and Pensions - Black Country Healthcare NHS - Lloyd’s foundation - Christ church - Sunshine club - Women’s awareness Association - Black Country Housing group - Locality - Near neighbours - Lye Library - Reaching for Change – a community group supporting Roma communities
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust
- Timebank - Public Health Dudley
- Lye Community Centre
- Creative Support

All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no other benefits.

Section C Objectives and activities

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO: 3.1 PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN LYE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SEX, RACE OR ETHNIC ORI- Summary of the objects of the GIN, FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE charity set out in its governing NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND document ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. 3.2 PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED.

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In planning our activities for the year, trustees were mindful of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, ensuring that our activities meet our charitable aims, benefit the people we are set up to support, manage risks or harm, making sure that any personal benefits are incidental. Activity 1 - Saturday youth and social club A weekly platform to engage the women in our community. We provide activities for young people on a Saturday as a way of engaging with the family unit, particularly women who would not otherwise engage with us or get out of their homes. At this activity we give women information, guidance and volunteering opportunities to get them out of their homes and into the community, developing their skills, confidence and wellbeing. We also use this activity to understand the needs and aspirations of the community we support and design programmes in response to them. The benefits of these activities are: Marginalised women feel less isolated Women have more information about community activities they could get involved in Women’s confidence and skills increase Women’s health and wellbeing improves Women feel empowered – many women come to us marginalised, with low self-esteem, some of them now lead on some of our activities, as a testament to how they have developed. This also increases people’s employment opportunities. Activity 2 – Language support We have run English classes and Urdu classes to help people to integrate into the community and to help families to communicate with each other (many families consist of parents that speak Urdu only and children that speak English only, which led to communication issues between families). The benefits activities are: Better communication between families / generations. This means that parents can help children with something as simple as their homework Summary of the main activities / education. It also helps to prevent children in our community from undertaken for the public be- being exposed to grooming / radicalisation as they can better commu- nefit in relation to these ob- nicate with their parents or older family members. jects (include within this section the statutory declaration Social inclusion within the wider / English-speaking community. that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Activity 3 – Health and fitness Charity Commission on public benefit) (a) Three times a week health and fitness activities – currently Zumba and aerobics – for up to 60 women. (b) Community Walks (c) Online classes (instergram) (d) WhatsApp Broadcast group ( healthy eating nutritional advice) The benefits of this activity are:

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

We are very grateful for the enormous contribution made by our volunteers. As our activities have expanded, we have grown to 13 volunteers who each give 7 hours per week to help our activities happen.

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

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Monthly Saturday Special – This is a special version of our Saturday youth and social club. We provide a special event each month with food and children’s entertainment for the community. This event is always well attended, generate publicity for Diyya and allow us to fundraise to cover the costs of many of the activities we provide.

This year, we started our fitness classes (Zumba and aerobics) which were requested by the women we support. These classes run twice a week and quickly grew to 30 participants per session.

Our work with Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust continued this year and we were able to run programmes and awareness raising activities on topics such as alcohol awareness and domestic abuse. We were pleased to receive an award in recognition for our work with the trust.

We ran another International Women’s Day event with Creative Support and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust. The event brought professionals from different organisations and our volunteers gave demonstrations of their skills. The event really showcased the women we support, their skills and achievements.

In November we proudly received an award at Dudley CVS Volunteer Awards for our and our volunteers’ work in the community. We were also nominated for an award for Dudley Mayor’s annual Civic Awards for our voluntary work.

At Christmas we were pleased to be involved in the Lye Community Centre Christmas Bazaar, which brought the community together and fundraised for Dudley Mayor’s Charities.

Lye has seen an influx of people from the Roma community. This year, we have made links with this community through Reaching for Change, a voluntary group set up to support vulnerable members of the Roma community. We have supported the group to make links, with planning ideas and we have run a joint four-week activity programme where we learned about each others’ cultures, traditions and languages and to reduce tension / animosity between the communities.

Finally, we have been involved in planning in Lye Carnival with other local community groups.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

It is the policy of our charity to keep 4 months running costs in reserve to cover unforeseen emergencies. In view of the state of the current pandemic we will also add £5k to reserves each year to cover for crises work in order to strengthen our groups financial resilience. Our reserves policy will be reviewed in twelve months time.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Not applicable

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.

Our principle source of funding is from independent charitable organisations (£80,297). We also raised £699 from donations and from miscellaneous fundraising activities. This significantly reduced in this financial year due to the covid19 restrictions.

The Covid-19 pandemic also started to have an impact on the charity and changed its operations to focus on keeping our beneficiaries safe and supporting their well-being.We started to discuss how we could put in on-line interventions to help women cope better and help in the overall scheme of reducing the transmission rates of covid19 disease. We secured emergency funding in order to keep our doors open to stay in contact with our beneficiaries who gravely needed our support in these difficult times. Our demand for our services grew in the pandemic and hence our turnover also increased as a result of the covid19 emergency funding secured to fulfil the demand.

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)

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Full name(s) Aksah Azad Naseem Begum

Position (eg Secretary, Treasury Chair Chair, etc)

Date 29/10/2021

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DIYYA INCOME AND EXPENDrruRE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2021 Opening balance £21,898.26 INCOME Grants Fundraising Activities Bank Interest £80.297.51 £669 76 £31.02 Total £80.998.29 Total of £102.896.55 EXPENDITURE Staff Cost Consultancy Fundratsing EquiPThnt Venue Volunteer Cost Ath"vty Cost Utilrty £26,399 88 £10.019.56 £9,CrtXI, £18.159.88 £4.636.00 £2.783.CK) £1.113.70., £591.491 Total r12.703.51 Total to carry forward to next year (OPENING BALANCE ADDED TO SURPLUSILOSS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE £30.193.04 .App_roved by Mana9effont Committee and si9ned on their behalfr. CAROL A. LENNON Accountant 2 Rannoch Close Lakeslde Brlerley Hill West Midlands DY5 3RP Tel: 01384 894238 oll

CAROL A. LENNON 2Rannoch Close ACCOUNTANT Lakeside BrierleyHill Westmidlarjds DY53RP DI STERED CHARrrY N TEL/FAX 01384 894238 Mobile 07969 960340 Emall: carolalennon@btlnternet.com I report on the attached accounts of DIYYA for the period 1 st of April 2020 - 31 st March 2021 Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner As the charity's trustee you are responsible for the preparations of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirements of section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 act. whether a particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of Independent examlnerfs report My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the charity Commission. And examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and skIng explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a True and Fair View, and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. In Independent examlnerfs statement In connection with my examlnation. no matter has come to my attention; 1. Which gives me a reasonable cause to believe that In any material respect the requirements (A) to keep accounting records In accordance with section 130 of the 2001 Act and (B) to prepare accounts which accord With accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2001 Act have not been met; orAn 2. To which. in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. CAROL A. LENNON Accountant 2 Rannoch Close Lakeside Brierley Hill West Midlands DY5 3RP Tel: 01384 894238 01(