## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY**
**REPORT AND ACCOUNTS PERIOD ENDED**
**31 MARCH 2021**
**ACCMAN & CO ACCOUNTANTS LONDON**
## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY**
## **REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2021**
## **CONTENTS**
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|CRC's Information|3|
|Report of the Trustees/Directors|4-5|
|Independent Examiners' Report|6|
|Statement of financial activities|7|
|Balance Sheet|8|
|Notes to the Accounts|9-10|
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## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY**
## **REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2021**
## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY’S INFORMATION**
**OLD NAME:** CROYDON REFUGEE CENTRE **REGISTERED CHARITY NO:** 1187224 **TRUSTEES:** Zeinab NUH Chairperson Hortense MATOKO-M' FOUD **CORRESPONDENT:** 3 SADDLE MEWS CROYDON CR0 2FZ **TELEPHONE:** 07592943155 **EMAIL:** znuh@hotmail.com **BANKS:** BARCLAYS BANK PLC **INDEPENDENT** MAROOF ADEOYE MBA DChA FCIE MInstF **EXAMINER:** Registered Charity Independent Examiner ACCMAN & CO ACCOUNTANTS MAROOF SUITE, 30 UNION ROAD, CR0 2XU
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## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY**
## **REPORT OF THE CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE**
The trustees present their report for the period ended 31 March 2021.
## **Governing document**
The charity is operated under the rules of its memorandum and articles incorporated 25 November 2019 as amended by certificate of incorporation on change of name dated 23 December 2019
Overall management of the charity is the responsibility of the trustees who are elected and co-opted under the terms of the memorandum and articles of association. Day to day project activity is managed and carried out by the trustees.
## **Charitable objects**
The charity was established to benefit the public by advancing education and training; relief of sickness, unemployment and financial hardship amongst those seeking asylum and those granted refugee status particularly and their dependants living (temporarily or permanently) in the London borough of Croydon and the surrounding area, by the provision of vocational and skills training, advice and support, and facilities that will facilitate integration and understanding within the wider community and improve their conditions of life.
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period**
During the period, demands for the charity’s services continued to grow in response to growth in public awareness of its aims and objectives and activities is carrying out for the benefit of the community.
## **Future Plan**
The charity will continue to build on the progresses it has made so far and for the foreseeable future.
## **The Charity’s Policy on Reserves**
Our trustees aim is to maintain a level of unrestricted reserves that will be sufficient to sustain the charitable expenditure for more than twelve months.
## **Risk Management**
Our trustees have considered the major risks to which the charity is exposed and have reviewed those risks and established systems and procedures to manage those risks.
The trustees annually review the risks that the charity faces. To date these have mainly related to:
• Achievement of our aims and objectives; and
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- Meeting the expectations of our beneficiaries and supporters.
The trustees review these risks on an ongoing basis and satisfy themselves that adequate systems and procedures are in place to manage the risks identified.
## **Responsibilities of the Trustees**
The Trustees is required to prepare financial statements for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Croydon refugee community as at the balance sheet date of its incoming resources and resources for the period ended. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees is required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting methods have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the Croydon refugee community will continue on that basis.
The Trustees is responsible for keeping proper books of account such as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the Croydon refugee community’s state of affairs and to explain its financial transactions. The Croydon refugee community must also establish and maintain a satisfactory system of control of its book of account, its cash holdings and all its receipts and remittances, and hence is responsible for safeguarding the assets and taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Trustees Beneficial Interest**
The members of the Trustees have no beneficial interest in the Croydon refugee community and are not remunerated. The members of the Trustees on the date this report was approved were as stated in the information page above.
## **Financial Statements**
The financial statements for the period ended 31 March 2021 are presented in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP): “Accounting by Charities”. The overall financial performance recorded a net surplus in funds of £7,021 (2020 £Nil).
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
## _**Zeinab NUH**_
Chairperson 31 January 2022
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY for the period ended 31 March 2021**
I report on accounts of the charity, which are set out on pages 7 to 10.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As described on page 4 the charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this period (under section 1444(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts (under section 145 of the 2011 Act;
- follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
- 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 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 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 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.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In the course of my 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 130 of the 2011 Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 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.
## **Maroof Adeoye MBA DChA FCIE MInstF**
Registered Charity Independent Examiner Accman & Co Accountants Maroof Suite, 30 Union Road Croydon, Surrey. CR0 2XU
31 January 2022
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## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY Statement of financial activities for the period ended 31 March 2021**
|_2020_
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
£
**Note**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
Grants
**2**
Donations
500
Other Income
Bank interest
**-**
**Total incoming resources**
**500**
**Resources expended**
Staff Costs
Rent
Volunteer Expenses
Mobile Data (online classes)
Liability Insurance
Laptops (ESOL students)
Translating Covid-19 NHS guidance
Food bank storage & delivery
Refreshment (ESOL classes)
Publicity & Evaluation
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Legal & professional fees
300
Sundries
**0**
**Total resources expended**
**300**
**-**
**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources**
**200**
Total funds brought forward
-
**Total funds carried forward**
**200**|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
34200
0
0
0
**34200**
12250
2000
2040
2800
400
3800
1300
860
960
662
308
-
**27380**
**6821**
-
**6821**|**_2021_**
**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
34200
500
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||**34700**|
|||12250
2000
2040
2800
400
3800
1300
860
960
662
308
300
-|
|||**27680**|
|||**7021**
-|
|||**7021**|
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## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY Balance sheet at 31 March 2021**
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2020 2021
£ Note £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
Current assets
Debtors 0
Cash at bank and in hand 3 7321
0 total current assets 7321
Liabilities
Creditors:
0 amounts falling due within one year 4 300
0 Net current assets 7021
0 Total Net Assets 7021
The funds of the charity
0 Unrestricted income funds 5 500
- Restricted income funds 6521
0 Total funds 7021
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The trustees declare that they have approved the accounts above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
_**Zeinab NUH**_ Chairperson 31 January 2022
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## **CROYDON REFUGEE COMMUNITY Notes to the accounts for the period ended 31 March 2021**
## **1. Accounting policies**
## **Basis of the preparation of the accounts**
These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities - Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP revised 2005), and applicable accounting standards.
## **Incoming resources**
All material incoming resources have been included on a receivable basis – i.e. they are included if the date receivable falls within the period covered by these accounts.
## **Resources expended**
These have been analysed using a natural classification.
## **Fixed assets and depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets costing more than £100 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition.
Depreciation of furniture and equipment is written down using reducing balance method of depreciation over their estimated useful economic lives.
## **2. Grants**
|_2020_
Unrestricted
Funds
£
Note
£
-
Croydon Council
-
Awards for All
-
BBC Children in Need
-
Neighbourly Community Fund
-
Phoenix Fund
-
Resourcing Racial Justice
0
0|**_2021_**
Restricted
**Total**
Funds
**Funds**
£
**£**
2300
2300
7500
7500
4000
4000
400
400
10000
10000
10000
10000
34200
34200|
|---|---|
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## **3. Cash at Bank and in hand**
_2020_ _**2021**_ £ **£ Bank and Cash in hand** Barclays Bank 6821 Cash in hand 500 0 7321 _2020_ _**2021**_ £ **£ Current liabilities** Accountancy 300 0 0 300
## **4. Creditors**
## **5. Analysis of net assets by fund**
|**5.**|**Analysis of net assets by fund**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**6.**|_2020_
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
Net current assets
**-**
**-**
**Staff costs and numbers**
_2020_
£
Wages & NI
Pension
0|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
6521
**6521**|**_2021_**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
6521|
||||**6521**|
||||**_2021_**
**£**
12250
12250|
|||||
## **6. Staff costs and numbers**
No employee received emoluments of more than £5,000.
The average weekly number of employees during the period was 3 (2020: Nil)
## **7. Taxation**
CRC is a registered charity and accordingly is exempt from taxation on its income and gains where they are applied for charitable purposes.
## **8. Trustees’ remuneration, benefits and expenses**
Trustees received no expenses or remuneration.
## **9. Related party transactions**
No related party transactions
## **10. Independent examination and accountancy services**
During the period, the cost of the examination and accountancy services was £300 (2020: £Nil).
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