## **ALFURQAN ACADEMY**
**TRUSTEES' REPORT & FINANCIAL STATEMENT**
**FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
**CHARITY REGISTRATION NO: 1182797**
## **ALFURQAN ACADEMY**
## **FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
## **CONTENTS**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees and Professional Advisors|2|
|Independent Examiners Report|11|
|Receipts and expenditure account|12|
|Balance Sheet|13|
|Notes to the accounts|14-15|
## **ALFURQAN ACADEMY**
## **FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
## **TRUSTEES AND PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS**
**CHAIRMAN:** Mr Zekariya Salah **TRUSTEES:** Mohamed Hirsi Ubah Sharif Abdillahi Muhumad **ADDRESS:** Alfurqan Academy Unity House 42 Great Southern Street Manchester M14 5EZ **ACCOUNTANTS:** Zaheer and Company 63 Kingsway Burnage Manchester M19 2LL
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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
||Periods start date|Periods start date|||Period end date||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**From**|**01**|**April**|**2020**|**To**|**31**
**March**|**2021**|
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Alfurqan Academy
## **Other names charity is known by**
## **Registered charity number (if any)** 1182797
## **Charity's principal address**
42 Great Southern Street Manchester Postcode M14 4EZ
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Ms Ubah Sharif||14 January2019||
||Mr Zekariya Salah||14 January2019||
||Mr Mohamed Hirsi||14 January2019||
||Mr Abdillahi Muhumad||14 January2019||
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**Governor**|Dr Waleed Amara|Sheffield Hallam University|
|**Governor**|Hassan Hassan|Manchester Academy High School|
|**Education**|Safia Abdurahman|Manchester Academy High School|
||||
## **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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
> [Constitution ]
How the charity is constituted[CIO ]
- (eg. trust, association, company)
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Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)[Appointment ]
## **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.
Alfurqan Academy is committed to ensuring governance arrangements that are robust to ensure that the organisation is managed in accordance with the current legislation, as well as adopting procedures that are examples of good practice and improve the effectiveness of the organisation. Alfurqan Academy recognises that the new Code of Governance for the Voluntary and Community Sector includes, as part of its principles, that 'Trustees should have the diverse range of skills, experience and knowledge needed to run an organisation effectively' and that 'Trustees should ensure that they receive the necessary induction, training and ongoing support they need to discharge their duties'. As a supplementary school, every academic year we ensure that policies and procedures are up to date and have been put into practice. Verbal conversations and meetings are held within our organisation to ensure practice and team meetings are held to show individual understanding. In addition to this, Alfurqan Academy adopted recruitment and appointment of new Trustees and the policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of Trustees.
Our charity’s organisational structure involve a board of trustee and one of our trustee is also the head of management for operations connect the trustees to the management. Our trustees have a simple but effective riskmanagement strategy that will minimise the chances of something going wrong during their tenure.
- 1: We allocate risk-management advisory responsibilities to an individual in each department, the charity benefits from their specialist knowledge of systems and processes, and of their weaknesses, to identify the risks facing them.
- 2: identify the risks
We arrange to maintain a safe environment for visitors and staff to work in - example having an accident book to record injuries suffered by volunteers and service users. In case a trustees identifies risks, the team are assessed for their likelihood and impact (in a collaborative process between the management and trustees) and a decision taken on the processes to control the risk.
- 3: insuring against the unforeseen
We have insurance against risks:
- Public liability insurance can cover against injuries and illness suffered by members of the public.
- Employers’ liability insurance can protect against injuries and illness
- suffered by employees (and usually volunteers).
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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The primary objective of Alfurqan Academy is the advancement of education: This includes the promotion, sustainment and increase in individual’s and collective knowledge, and understanding of specific areas of study, skills, and expertise. This includes but not limited to:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
1. Islamic education
2. Formal education support
3. Community education
4. Physical education and development of young people 5. Training (including vocational training) and life-long learning 6. Research and adding to collective knowledge and understanding of specific areas of study and expertise 7. The development of individual all-round capabilities, competences, skills and understanding. The main activities attend to the community needs of the body, mind and soul as follows: 1. Islamic education – at Alfurqan Academy we are a student led supplementary school who put our pupils at the centre of all our educational programmes. Our mission is to educate and develop our student community by empowering, serving, inspiring prosperity and sustainability through partnership for the benefit of all. Through our Islamic studies we impart our Core values of
- Selflessness
- Excellence
- Innovation and aspirational
- • Integrity, sincerity and loyalty
- Teamwork
**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)**
• Islamic personality and good character • Leadership In our madrasah (supplementary school) we also strongly support pupil recognition, making students feel valued and take pride in their work. 2. Formal education support – we organise remedial tutoring for those who struggle with mainstream school curriculum. 3. Community education – we facilitate tailored workshops for the various sections of our community such as parenting support workshop, social welfare and the environment. 4. Physical education and development of young people – we work in partnership with various local and national organisations to facilitate sporting activities, wellness sessions and careers advice. 5. Training (including vocational training) and life-long learning – Our staff have a clear understanding of the curriculum that is provided and plan prior to implementing their lessons (taking into consideration different learning styles), learning activities and assessments to check students' understanding of the topic. Hence a strong link between quality lesson planning and the quality of its implementation. This year we have encouraged staff to use further resources and equipment to help students learn in a more creative way. Supporting SEN students has been an area of our Education that we are trying to improve. We feel like we need more support in this area, so to further help us we are in the process of liaising with other supplementary schools who specialise in learning difficulties. 6. Research and adding to collective knowledge and understanding of specific areas of study and expertise is still a working progress
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7. The development of individual capabilities, competences, skills and understanding – We develop our students by awarding them throughout the year by recognising the hard work and effort they put in during their attendance to the Supplementary school at our monthly assemblies.
During the Covid-19 pandemic we moved a lot of our services online during lockdown but otherwise, always follow government guidelines. However, our events pre-Covid-19 included:
- Online assemblies and webinars
- Online classes
- Sports days after the lockdown.
- Covid-19 friendly parents’ evenings:
We have done 2 one-to-one parent evenings for our supplementary school children to discuss with the parents and carers about the progress of children at Alfurqan Academy.
We also had a general meeting with the wider parents to consult them with the development and improvement of the supplementary school.
- Head teacher report headlines
- Events, Trips – cycling, football etc
- Guests speakers
- Weekly school support from teachers
- Partnership work – MCC, Safeguarding, MGA
Alfurqan Academy is an independent organisation that sits within a group of organisations of the Alfurqan Centre dedicated to serving education, cultural and religious needs of our children and their families. This is demonstrated as follows:
Supporting Mainstream School Education
- Provide our students with reference and support for school entrance applications
- • REBOOT - A course to help students sitting their GCSEs achieved better results
- • Regular training courses: religious, first aid course, personal development, careers fairs, self-marketing courses.
- Our team members have completed the following trainings
- ➢ Health & Safety ➢ First Aid Training ➢ Safeguarding training ➢ DSL ➢ Teacher Training
Community Events
- Partner with EID IN THE PARK at Platt Fields Park, Manchester to create volunteering opportunities for teenagers. But due to Covid19 in this year`s 2020 event was cancelled
## YOUTH programmes
- Youth diversion program - Sports and recreational activities during -
- official school holidays and family fun days.
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- Youth away nights program, social clubs with E-Gaming; physically active games: indoor tennis, boxing, outdoor football and basketball for males and females
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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Our Manchester
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grant making.
- policy programme related investment.
At Alfurqan Academy in partnership other organisations are always engaged in the community and we organise events during Ramadan. We have the iftaar to celebrate that we as a community are bringing together non-Muslims and Muslims to celebrate culture, diversity whilst sharing a meal. We continue to bring everyone together and congregate and enjoy the celebrations. We work closely with other organizations to organise events such as Eid In The Park where people can all come together; families and friends of the community.
We are able to recycle and are cautious about what we do as a whole. We also support a clean environment therefore we organise clean-ups and bring out the best in our community by working more by bringing out the best in our community and always striving to become better united, as one
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
Pupil achievements
At Alfurqan Academy we are a student led Supplementary school who make students feel valued will increase motivation in learning and give a sense of accomplishment. We do this through awarding students throughout the year by recognising the hard work and effort they put in during their attendance to the madrasah at our monthly assemblies.
We also hold an end of year assembly where we congratulate the students for their academic goals that they have achieved each year. Due to Covid-19 this years on site event was cancelled. We give out many different Awards to various students of various age groups for various reasons including attendance, hard work, ethic, and overall academic success.
We engage our learners in a wide range of programmes and activities. We engage in football tournaments to encourage physical activities and allow pupils to connect with other pupils from different madrassahs to further enhance their communication skills. We also engaged in Quran competitions to encourage students to work hard, build their resilience, learn to work together, and strive to do more than that is required. Abilities that prepare children for a better future.
## **Effective partnership working**
Alfurqan Academy has developed and maintained strong relationships with universities, mainstream schools and other out of school education settings. Most of our students are attendees of local schools who we work and partner with. Alfurqan Academy has been effectively working with local schools i.e Manchester Academy to support our pupils both in and out of school. For example,
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## Section D Achievements and performance
Manchester Academy holds Friday prayers by inviting Al Furqan academy teachers to come and lead the congregation and give talks. Outside of school Alfurqan Academy has used Manchester Academy’s facilities to host events such as:
- Family fun-day, sports day (one for the boys, girls and children)
- Fundraising events
- Sport tournaments.
Furthermore, in light of education AlFurqan Academy supports the high school students by providing tuition and careers events to give the pupils an insight into the opportunities available to them in the future.
Alfurqan Academy is known for having effective partnerships working with multiple establishments such as Makki Masjid, Greater Manchester Police, MMU and Manchester City Council to host Eid BiAnnually. Bringing the community together through Eid has positively affected the pupils at Al Furqan Academy as it has inspired them to get involved beyond the learning.
Al Furqan Academy has also partnered up with Al-Rayan publishers to create a curriculum tailored specific to our establishment and aims to make Islamic Education much more enjoyable to the youth. Al Furqan Academy has been able to contribute to a more interactive Islamic Education curriculum.
## **Local Authority Engagement**
Alfurqan Academy is an independent organisation that sits and collaborate within a group of organisations of the Alfurqan Centre dedicated to serving the community in their education, cultural and religious needs of the children and their families. It is an ambitious and collaborative community, which is proud of its heritage and excited by its diverse opportunities and future within its people. AlFurqan Academy has had major engagement with Manchester City Council (MCC) and other partners (e.g. GMP) to ensure our young people and their families live in a community where people of all ages are proud to work and play, live and stay in harmony. Equally, a place where our community contributes equally to our rich cultural-heritage; by facilitating our young people's ambitious future, ensuring an equitable platform for prosperity in a borough which enables everyone to achieve their aspirations. Therefore, we engage with MCC on safeguarding matters, family and policy support, youth engagement, youth voice, crime reduction, collaboration with local partners especially schools to ensure our children access the same opportunities like all the others in Greater Manchester and the country at large.
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## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The main achievements during the pandemic included:
- Covid 19 online awareness workshops and information to the community.
- Online supplementary school assemblies
- Virtual P.E sessions
- Sport days after the 1[st] Lockdown.
- Remote learning for our students during the local and national lockdowns
- One-to-one parent’s evenings
- Head teacher report headlines
- Events, Trips – cycling, football etc
- Online Weekly school support from teachers
- Partnership work – MCC Safeguarding team
## **Supporting Mainstream School Education**
- Provide reference and support for school entrance applications
- • Regular training courses: religious, first aid course, personal development, careers fairs, self-marketing courses.
## **Community Events**
- Eid party for our supplementary school students.
- Covid 19 Vaccination support
- Covid 19 test services.
## **YOUTH programmes**
- Youth diversion program - Sports and recreational activities during official school holidays and family fun-days.
- Youth away nights program, social clubs with E-Gaming; physically active games: indoor tennis, boxing, outdoor football and basketball for males and females.
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## **Section E**
## **Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Maintaining an appropriate level of financial reserves is considered essential in protecting Alfurqan Academy from financial risk generated by, for example.
- income reduction due to decreased donations from our donors and the community caused by the pandemic
- cash flow issues due to delays in receipt of funding
- • Closure of some of the classes due Covid 19
- Other emergencies.
## **Details of any funds materially 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);
The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
The main source of our funds are donations and contributions from the community and parents of the children that attend the supplementary school. Our main expenditure is to support our key objectives, guided by our investment policy and objectives that includes ethical investment policy adopted to enrich the chances of success for our youth.
- 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**
N/A
## **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)** Zekariya Salah **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 30th January 2000
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**
## **TO THE TRUSTEES OF ALFURQAN ACADEMY**
I report on the accounts of Alfurqan Academy, registered charity number 1182797 for the accounts period ended 31st March 2021 which are set out on pages 4- 6
## **RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES AND EXAMINER**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation for the accounts in accordance with the requirement of the Charities Act 2011 (''the Act''). The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts (under section 145 of the 2011 Act)
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Act); and in accordance FRS 102 SORP
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **BASIS OF INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT:**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes 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 seeking 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 I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S STATEMENT:**
In connection with our examination, no matter has come to my attention;
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
- **.** to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
- **.** to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act have not been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Mr. Farroukh Zaheer (FCCA) Zaheer and Company**
Chartered Certified Accountants and Registered Auditors 63 Kingsway Burnage Manchester M19 2LL Date:
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## **ALFURQAN ACADEMY RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
|**Notes**
RECEIPTS
1
EXPENDITURES
2
NET INCOME / LOSS FOR
THE YEAR
BALANCE BROUGHT
FORWARD
BALANCE CARRIED
FORWARD|**2020-21**|**2020-21**||**2019-20**|**2019-20**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||£|£||£|£|
||Restricted
6,500.00|Un-restricted
165,315||Restricted
-|Un-restricted
72,304|
||6,500.00|165,315||-|72,304|
||-|148,054||-|71,860|
||-|148,054||-|71,860|
||6,500.00|17,261
0||-|444
0|
||6,500.00|17,261||-|444|
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## **ALFURQAN ACADEMY BALANCE SHEET**
## **FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
|**Notes**
FIXED ASSETS
4
Fixture and Fittings
Office Equipment
Less: Depreciation
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash at bank and in hand
3
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities
5
NET CURRENT ASSETS
NET ASSETS
CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Opening reserves
Income of receipts over expenditure|**2020-21**|**2020-21**|**2020-21**||**2019-20**|**2019-20**|**2019-20**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**
**£**|||**£**|**£**
**£**||
||**Restricted**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2,773
9,037
3,428
-
8,382
21,726
21,726
3,354
3,354
18,373
26,755
2,994
23,761
26,755
**Un-restricted**|||**Restricted**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|3,262
489
-
2,773
-
2,291
2,291
-
-
2,070
2,070
221
2,994
2,550
444
2,994
**Un-restricted**||
||||8,382
18,373||||2,773
221
|
|||21,726
3,354||||2,291
-
-
2,070||
|||3,354||||2,070||
|||||||||
||||26,755||||2,994|
||||2,994
23,761||||2,550
444|
||||26,755||||2,994|
|||||||||
I Approve these Accounts and confirm that I have made available all the information and explanations for their preparation.
## **Mohamed Hirsi**
Date:-------------------------------
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## **ALFURQAN ACADEMY NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
|Note: 1
Donations
Job Retention Scheme Grant
Fee
Note: 2
Resources
Charitable Activities
Insurance
Wages and salaries
Bank Charges
Accountancy
Phone
Cleaning
Printing, Postaging, Stationary
Food and Subsistence
Training
Advertising
Computer and Software
Depreciation
Repairs
Traveling
Sundries
Note: 3
Cash in bank
Cash in hand||Restricted
Un-restricted
6,500.00
89,467
-
75,848
-
-
6,500.00
165,315
Restricted
Un-restricted
-
1,913
-
1,444
-
214
-
119,396
-
1,788
-
2,233
-
1,777
-
1,471
-
1,360
-
437
-
1,500
-
550
-
5,048
-
3,428
-
4,965
-
449
-
79
-
148,054
6,500
14,625
-
601
6,500
15,226
**2020-2021**||Restricted
Un-restricted
-
56,413
-
-
-
15,891
**2019-2020**|Restricted
Un-restricted
-
56,413
-
-
-
15,891
**2019-2020**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||6,500.00||-|72,304|
|||Restricted
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-||Restricted
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|Un-restricted
2,077
4,580
294
56,463
630
530
996
1,049
1,320
768
145
610
608
489
208
995
97|
|||-||-|71,860|
|||6,500
-||-
-|1,690
601|
|||6,500||-|2,291|
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**ALFURQAN ACADEMY NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL 2020 TO 31st MARCH 2021**
|Note: 4
Tangible Assets
Fixture and Fittings
Office Equipment
Depreciation on Fixed Assets
Charge for the year - Fixture
and Fittings
Charge for the year - Office
Equipment
Note: 5
**Current Liabilities**
Accruals|-
2,773
9,037
**-**
**11,810**
416
3,012
**-**
**3,428**
3,354
3,354
**2020-2021**|3,262.00
-
**2019-2020**|
|---|---|---|
|||**-**
**-**|
|||489
-|
|||**-**
**489**|
|||2,070|
|||2,070|
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