# The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year ended 31 January 2025
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Contents of the Financial Statements
|Business Information||2|
|---|---|---|
|Accountants' Report||3|
|Income Statement||4|
|Statement of Financial Position||5|
|Detailed Profit and Loss Account|6|- 7|
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## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Charity Information for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
## **Proprietor**
## **Address**
## **Accountant**
## **Bank**
The Gambia Welfare Society
Balm Walk Leeds LS11 9PG Beckett Accountants Leeds Ltd Suite 204 33 Great George Street Leeds LS1 3AJ Lloyds Bank 65-68 Briggate Leeds LS1 6LH
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## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Accountants' Report
## **Report to the Trustees on the preparation of the unaudited accounts of The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds.**
In accordance with the engagement letter, we have prepared for your approval the financial information of The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds for the year ended 31 January 2025, which comprises of the Income Statement, the Statement of Financial Position and the related notes, from the entity’s accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.
You have approved the financial information for the year ended 31 January 2025 and have acknowledged your responsibility for it, for the appropriateness of the financial reporting framework adopted and for providing all information and explanations necessary for its compilation.
We have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the financial information.
Beckett Accountants Leeds Ltd Suite 204 33 Great George Street Leeds LS1 3AJ
Date: 29 April 2025
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## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Income Statement
## for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
|Turnover
Other income
Cost related to running the charity
Other Charges
Profit for the year|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
84,042
54,248
-
20,445
(25,953)
(7,463)
(24,488)
(24,790)|
|---|---|
||33,601
42,440|
4
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Statement of Financial Position
## 31 January 2025
|Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Creditors amounts falling due within one year
Net current assets (liabilities)
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors amounts falling due after one year
**Net assets (liabilities)**
**Consolidated Revenue Fund**|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
190,500
500
35,369
91,650
(1,635)
-|
|---|---|
||33,734
91,650|
||224,234
92,150
(98,482)
-|
||125,752
92,150|
||125,752
92,150|
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
They were approved on 29 April 2025 by:
The Gambia Welfare Society **Chairman**
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## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Detailed Profit and Loss Account
## for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
|**Turnover / Revenue**
Charity Bank Grant
Dara Fees
Electrical Safety Grant
Fundraising Profits
Gambia House Project - Phase 2
Gift Aid Donations
Health for All Grant
Household Support Fund Grant
Leeds City Council Communities Grant
Other Donations
Other Income
Safe Space Grant
Subscriptions
TGWS Youth Project Grant
Winter Fuel Grant
**Other Charitable Income**
Gambia House Project - Phase 1
**Direct cost of running the Charity**
Dara Expenses
Expenses - Health for All Grant
Expenses - Household Support Fund Grant
Expenses - Leeds City Council Communities Grant
Expenses for Safe Space
Expenses for Youth Project
Purchase of Gambia House Expenses
**Other charges**
Bank Fees
Burial & Repatriation
Charitable and Political Donations
Community Welfare Support
Entertainment - 0%
Entertainment-100% business|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
25,000
-
1,850
870
5,000
-
-
8,968
5,280
-
3,216
4,269
-
4,706
5,000
3,450
-
1,000
5,729
2,047
2,669
-
-
750
26,468
23,187
1,000
5,001
2,830
-|
|---|---|
||84,042
54,248
-
20,445|
||-
20,445
4,920
4,800
2,388
1,704
5,000
-
-
959
88
-
6,598
-
6,959
-|
||25,953
7,463
-
(2)
3,600
-
873
-
300
1,953
-
(9)
150
300|
6
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Detailed Profit and Loss Account (continued) for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
|Gambia House Rent
General Expenses
Hall Hire
Insurance
IT Software and Consumables
LACON - Leeds African Cup of Nations
Legal Expenses
Mortgage Interest Paid - Charity Bank
Mosque Expenses
Repairs & Maintenance
Telephone & Internet
Water, Electricity & Gas and Boiler Insurance
**Surplus for the year**
Net Surplus|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
4,375
9,240
755
-
1,000
850
2,272
257
211
-
-
50
1,336
-
194
-
180
-
5,701
6,555
576
581
2,965
5,015|
|---|---|
||24,488
24,790
33,601
42,440|
||33,601
42,440|
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**THE GAMBIA WELFARE SOCIETY LEEDS**
OAK HOUSE
BALM WALK
HOLBECK
LEEDS
LS11 9PG
CHARITY NO: 1182433
## **ANNUAL TRUSTEE REPORT**
Through various programmes and activities that the organisation arranges for the community, we work tirelessly to ensure maximum safeguarding of children, the vulnerable, families, faith groups are maintained to ensure safe and free from harm environment is available whilst, compliance to legislative guidelines are strictly observed.
- Social inclusion programs to new migrants to help them integrate with the British society.
- Emergency temporary shelter support to migrants in need of accommodation and basic needs.
- The Centre is used to help young people through educational, recreational, and sporting activities, to develop their capabilities, enabling them to contribute positively and productively towards the development of the society.
- Knife crime workshop to educate the young about the danger of horrible knife culture.
- The organisation uses this centre to provide support to communities in areas of funeral arrangements, especially those less fortunate members of the community in Leeds.
- During the Covid-19 the centre was used as food distribution hub (food bank) and still continues to be a hub for food bank in collaboration with Hamara healthy living centre.
- • First aid workshop briefs.
- Bowell cancer awareness briefs.
- Diabetes awareness briefs
- Assisting EU migrants completing job application forms.
- The organisation uses the centre to offer people within the community free advice at point of needs especially at these difficult times, offer advice in areas of personal finance, tax returns, investments, pensions, and access to financial help.
- The organisation uses the centre to coordinate efforts to reach out to the community visiting sick, bereavement support in the form of burial logistics and costs, as well as moral wellbeing support.
- Cultural support for example christenings, marriages and dispute resolutions.
## Impact on Youth Education
The Gambia Welfare Society (TGWS) believes that organising interacting activities for children is better than allowing them to spend more of their waking hours in front of a screen. Parents want their children to grow up to be healthy, well-rounded individuals with a strong sense of independence and compassion. Therefore, keeping kids outside is the best way to teach them these qualities.
Moral development at early stage of life plays a critical role in shaping a child’s character. At TGWS, we organise weekly coordinated sessions at our current location (Gambia House) that plays an important role in evoking a sense of morality in young children.
Losing Gambia House will deter us from teaching good moral values such as humility, kindness, and compassion at children early age to build their character. Thus, hindering one of our objectives, to mould kids to become individuals the society wants them to be.
We are hereby seeking help to find a place or to maintain Gambia House please, so we can continue to teach kids responsibility to figure out their purpose in community. We believe that it is our responsibility to make sure that our children become more productive members of society.
Impact on the women’s Project
- Women gatherings: Conversation over Attaya (China green tea) is a women project runs by TGWS. The project encourages the women to come together have a conversation over cup of tea. Tea plays an important role in daily lives around the globe. The West African tea, known as Attaya, is not in isolation. The Attaya is made from Chinese green tea mainly used for socialisation, provides opportunity for families and friends to connect.
- The project targeted women from Black, Asian, marginalised, disadvantage and refugees’ communities across Leeds. The project is a social group that meets for a talk and fun activities.
- Empowerment of women to function at higher standard of levels as mothers, wives, and professionals in their communities.
- Raise awareness around health and wellbeing, ensuring that women are better equipped to contribute and make a difference to themselves and the community.
- Empowerment of women to function at higher standard of levels as mothers, wives, and professionals in their communities.
- Raise awareness around health and wellbeing, ensuring that women are better equipped to contribute and make a difference to themselves and the community.
- Minimise social isolation and ensure that women are encouraged to come together to support one another.
- The group has over 200 members from minority ethnic backgrounds with diverse histories, experiences and needs. The women group come together once a week at The Gambia house for an inspiring conversation, courses, walking groups, cooking sessions, and mothers and children’s sessions.
- Assist and support new migrants’ women to settled across Leeds
- The sessions provide opportunities to learn about Leeds and what is required of us as citizens and what is available to us. the programmes are diverse from issues affecting our health and wellbeing.
- Deliver sewing classes, jewellery making, cooking classes and networking (making new friends).
- Supportive, motivate each other and engaged in important and meaningful conversations.
- Raising awareness of social issues and to educate, sensitise, and engaged the targeted groups of women in maintaining peace and harmony, which underpins harmonious coexistence within communities and the country at large.
- Over the past years, the group organised summer activities for families whom without such programmes they may not be able to take their children to any events throughout the summer holidays due to financial difficulties.
# The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year ended 31 January 2025
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Contents of the Financial Statements
|Business Information||2|
|---|---|---|
|Accountants' Report||3|
|Income Statement||4|
|Statement of Financial Position||5|
|Detailed Profit and Loss Account|6|- 7|
1
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Charity Information for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
## **Proprietor**
## **Address**
## **Accountant**
## **Bank**
The Gambia Welfare Society
Balm Walk Leeds LS11 9PG Beckett Accountants Leeds Ltd Suite 204 33 Great George Street Leeds LS1 3AJ Lloyds Bank 65-68 Briggate Leeds LS1 6LH
2
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Accountants' Report
## **Report to the Trustees on the preparation of the unaudited accounts of The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds.**
In accordance with the engagement letter, we have prepared for your approval the financial information of The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds for the year ended 31 January 2025, which comprises of the Income Statement, the Statement of Financial Position and the related notes, from the entity’s accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.
You have approved the financial information for the year ended 31 January 2025 and have acknowledged your responsibility for it, for the appropriateness of the financial reporting framework adopted and for providing all information and explanations necessary for its compilation.
We have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the financial information.
Beckett Accountants Leeds Ltd Suite 204 33 Great George Street Leeds LS1 3AJ
Date: 29 April 2025
3
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Income Statement
## for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
|Turnover
Other income
Cost related to running the charity
Other Charges
Profit for the year|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
84,042
54,248
-
20,445
(25,953)
(7,463)
(24,488)
(24,790)|
|---|---|
||33,601
42,440|
4
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Statement of Financial Position
## 31 January 2025
|Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Creditors amounts falling due within one year
Net current assets (liabilities)
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors amounts falling due after one year
**Net assets (liabilities)**
**Consolidated Revenue Fund**|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
190,500
500
35,369
91,650
(1,635)
-|
|---|---|
||33,734
91,650|
||224,234
92,150
(98,482)
-|
||125,752
92,150|
||125,752
92,150|
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
They were approved on 29 April 2025 by:
The Gambia Welfare Society **Chairman**
5
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Detailed Profit and Loss Account
## for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
|**Turnover / Revenue**
Charity Bank Grant
Dara Fees
Electrical Safety Grant
Fundraising Profits
Gambia House Project - Phase 2
Gift Aid Donations
Health for All Grant
Household Support Fund Grant
Leeds City Council Communities Grant
Other Donations
Other Income
Safe Space Grant
Subscriptions
TGWS Youth Project Grant
Winter Fuel Grant
**Other Charitable Income**
Gambia House Project - Phase 1
**Direct cost of running the Charity**
Dara Expenses
Expenses - Health for All Grant
Expenses - Household Support Fund Grant
Expenses - Leeds City Council Communities Grant
Expenses for Safe Space
Expenses for Youth Project
Purchase of Gambia House Expenses
**Other charges**
Bank Fees
Burial & Repatriation
Charitable and Political Donations
Community Welfare Support
Entertainment - 0%
Entertainment-100% business|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
25,000
-
1,850
870
5,000
-
-
8,968
5,280
-
3,216
4,269
-
4,706
5,000
3,450
-
1,000
5,729
2,047
2,669
-
-
750
26,468
23,187
1,000
5,001
2,830
-|
|---|---|
||84,042
54,248
-
20,445|
||-
20,445
4,920
4,800
2,388
1,704
5,000
-
-
959
88
-
6,598
-
6,959
-|
||25,953
7,463
-
(2)
3,600
-
873
-
300
1,953
-
(9)
150
300|
6
## The Gambia Welfare Society Leeds
## Detailed Profit and Loss Account (continued) for the year from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025
|Gambia House Rent
General Expenses
Hall Hire
Insurance
IT Software and Consumables
LACON - Leeds African Cup of Nations
Legal Expenses
Mortgage Interest Paid - Charity Bank
Mosque Expenses
Repairs & Maintenance
Telephone & Internet
Water, Electricity & Gas and Boiler Insurance
**Surplus for the year**
Net Surplus|**2025**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
4,375
9,240
755
-
1,000
850
2,272
257
211
-
-
50
1,336
-
194
-
180
-
5,701
6,555
576
581
2,965
5,015|
|---|---|
||24,488
24,790
33,601
42,440|
||33,601
42,440|
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