## **Revive Darul Arqam** ## **REPORT 1[st] JULY 2022 – 30[th] JUNE 2023** ## **Address** 16 Thurmaston Lane, Leicester, LE5 0TE **Charity Reg:** 1187831 **Year Ended:** July 2022 Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 1 ## **Contents** |1|Our Vision, Activities, Operational Strategy| |---|---| ||| ||| |2|Achievements Local Benefit & International Benefit| ||| ||| |3|Future Direction, Fundraising & Fund Reserves| ||| ||| |4|Governing Document, Trustees, Registered Office and Operational
Address, Reporting Accountants, Bankers| ||| ||| Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 1 rev ve Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 ## **Trustees Annual Report** ## **Our Vision** Revive Darul Arqam works with international scholars to sustain isolated impoverished and war-torn communities in order to alleviate poverty. Long term sustainability is a key focus in order to support victims of war to begin rebuilding their lives. Revive donates life essential humanitarian aid with an increasing focus on providing opportunities for refugees to create their own income, in order to regain independence for long-term security. Distribution with revive ensures that aid reaches the most impoverished victims of war, by working with networks of local Scholars to the regions in which aid is being distributed. ## **Activities** Revive Darul Arqam is an international humanitarian aid relief charity specialising in delivering aid to isolated, war-torn communities by utilising the guidance of local scholars. Operating specifically in Syria, Yemen and Bosnia. Revive also responds to international humanitarian aid disasters in other regions, when the need arises. The charity has a number of key projects, as outlined in this document. By focusing efforts in key areas, revive seeks to make a longterm impact in the areas we operate. We seek to liberate people out of poverty into longterm sustainability of the basic needs of life. ## **Operational Strategy** With a focus on keeping distribution costs to a minimum, revive operates from within the offices of charity Darul Arqam Educational Trust (DA Trust), from which the humanitarian aid project was founded. Grants are made from DA Trust to Revive in order to subsidise operational costs and protect the use of donation funds purely for their intended purpose, to reach the beneficiary. Distribution is overseen by international scholars and costs are minimised by distributing aid through professional friendship with their registered NGO teams. Revive is committed long-term to growing in a way which is sustainable to protect donation funds long-term and therefore utilises volunteers and community efforts when possible in order to drive fundraising efforts with minimal costs. Staff are employed to oversee and ensure professional management of the charity. Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 1 ## **Achievements** ## **Local Public Benefit** Initiatives and events hosted by Revive and charity DA Trust, benefit communities near and far by providing inclusive services and events whose proceeds provide funds for international humanitarian aid efforts. Recent examples are the summer and winter hikes, Monthly Ladies Takeover Evenings, Concerts, Fundraising Meals and Summer Family Fun Day. All local activities are funded through registration costs and ticket sales. All profits and proceeds are used as contributions towards Revives humanitarian work. ## **International Benefit** ## Syria Revive has an ongoing presence distributing aid in rural Afrin and Aleppo to isolated, impoverished civilians. In 2021-2022, Revive was able to establish mass distribution of bread bundles in 2 rural locations, to isolated communities with weekly distributions taking place amounting to a Total of 18,350 bread bundles per month. This distribution was throughout the month. This is additional to food packages, water, heaters, firewood and blanket distributions and also house repairs to provide families with living accommodation. Sponsorship of Syrian orphans is also an ongoing project. Since establishing the bread factory project Revive has been able to increase distribution to over 1,000,000 flatbreads per month to isolated refugee communities in Syria. ## Yemen Water distribution, food distribution, bread distribution and orphan sponsorship. Distribution in Yemen works closely with local authorities to ensure aid only reaches those in absolute need. ## Bosnia Sponsorship of war victims, with a strong focus on widows and children living in isolated, deprived areas. This project sponsors impoverished Bosnian war victims for an entire year, to enable beneficiaries to have peace of mind that their basic needs are met. We also helped to raise funds for long term projects. One such project we have is to regenerate farming of cash crops in fertile land in Bosnia – we have started this farming project and it employs local Bosnians who are in poverty and it also produces a produce which can be sold. It is self sustaining. ## **Ramadan 2023** In Ramadan 2023, revive distributed 30,000 iftars to Syrian Refugee communities focusing on victims of the earthquake in February 2023. We shifted our focus from providing hot meals to a combination of hot food and food parcels, to increase sustainability of food provision beyond Ramadan for the coming year. The appeal was capped to feeding 30,000, to enable us to focus on increasing our efforts of bread distribution, which brings longer term benefit for Syrian refugees, for the year ahead. This allowed the continuation of the second bread factory. The distribution took place in rural Afrin, al-Bab and in camp areas around Aleppo. Furthermore, 3,000 food baskets were delivered to orphaned communities in rural Afrin. Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 2 Food parcels were distributed to isolated people starving Yemen, to feed 10,000 people, each parcel feeding a family for 6-8 weeks. We established in Bosnia an Ultrasound Scanner, to benefit approximately 20,000 people. We established long-term sustainable projects in Bosnia by establishing strawberry farms. These farms are entrusted to impoverished families who earn a living from cultivating the farm and selling strawberries grown from them. During Ramadan, 500 families were donated food parcels each to sustain them for at least 6 weeks. ## **Future Direction** Revive continues to focus efforts on sustaining long-term needs and independence of wartorn communities. A continuation of maintaining a balance between distribution of life-saving emergency aid to impoverished communities who have no other means of meeting their short-term needs, with focus on generating long-term sustainability. Revive is looking to establish further endowment (Waqf) projects to ensure long-terms generations of funds to added security for those we seek to benefit. ## **Fundraising** Public donations currently make up majority of Revive’s funds, with occasional ad-hoc grant’s. ## **Fund Reserves** Revive commits to distribute funds as soon as operationally possible and to a maximum of within 12 months of donation. Gift Aid funds are used towards operational aspects of the charity and where possible, funds Waqf projects for long-term security of refugees and to cover costs of other fundraising activities. We seek to distribute aid steadily and consistently, so that refugee communities are not left suddenly without aid donation support. A portion of funds in the account during July 2022 are funds raised for bread factory, which is due to renew early 2023 and will be sent forward for this purpose. Orphan sponsorships are also allocated annually, so to reduce loss of funds due to bank fees and currency conversions. Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 3 ## **Governing Document** Revive Darul Arqam is constituted as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission under charity number 1187831. It is governed by a CIO constitution adopted on 13th September 2019. ## **Trustees:** Revive has 3 Trustees, being: 1) Mr Kamruddin Nasrulla Shaikh of 1 Fairfield Street, Leicester,LE5 5BH as chair and treasurer. 2) Mr Mohammed Hanif Shaikh of 9 Aber Road, Leicester, LE2 2BA. - 3) Mr Asif Mohmed Faruk Mulla of 250 Uppingham Road, Leicester, LE5 2BE. ## **Registered Office and Operational Address** 16 Thurmaston Lane, Leicester, United Kingdom, LE5 0TE ## **Reporting Accountants** Affirm Accountants Ltd , The Old Courthouse, 18 – 22 St Peters Church Yard, Derby DE1 1NN ## **Bankers** Lloyds Bank, 263 Uppingham Road, Rowlatts Hill, Leicester, LE5 4DG Approved by the trustees on 11[th] April 2023, and signed on their behalf by: Mohammed Hanif Shaikh ………………………………………. (Trustee on behalf of all Trustees) Revive Darul Arqam Registered Charity 1187831 4 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Charity Name No (if any)
REVIVE DARUL ARQAM 1187831
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/07/2022 30/06/2023
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
18 months
A1 Receipts
Voluntary Donations 422,457 - 422,457 453,662
Charitable activities 56,006 - - 56,006 50,141
Gift relief/Grant 63,076 - - 63,076 40,076
Bank interest 23 - - 23 -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 541,562 - - 541,562 543,879
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 541,562 - - 541,562 543,879
A3 Payments
Bank Charges 4,734 - - 4,734 915
Professional fees 672 - - 672 1,500
Rates and Rent and room hire 11,412 - - 11,412 640
Fundraising/marketing/printing and post 13,734 - - 13,734 3,970
Telephones and communications - - - 867
Travel and subsistence 14,489 - - 14,489 2,983
Utilities - - - -
Website/IT 32,462 32,462 10,925
Wages and salaries 32,339 - - 32,339 33,056
PAYE/Pensions 1,092 - - 1,092 2,044
Insurance - -
Administration/office - 1,747
Sundry Expenses 1,646 1,646 843
UK Grant/Aid 118,859 118,859 18,508
International Aid 383,328 - 383,328 348,664
Sub total [ 614,768 ] - - 614,768 426,662
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Loans advanced 25,000 - - 25,000 -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 25,000 ] - - 25,000 -
Total payments 639,768 - - 639,768 426,662
Net of receipts/(payments) - 98,207 - - - 98,207 117,217
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 240,988 - - 240,988 123,771
Cash funds this year end 142,781 - - 142,781 240,988
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08/04/2024 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
all the trustees
**B1 Cash at Bank**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Lloyds bank
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
Loans advanced to DA Trust
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Computer and software|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**142,781**
**-**
**-**
**142,781**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**25,000**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
1000
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**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
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**-**|| ||Signature|Print Name
Mohammed Hanif Shaikh||Date of
approval
11/04/2024| 08/04/2024 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**
**Independent**
**examiner's statement**|**REVIVE DARUL ARQAM**|**REVIVE DARUL ARQAM**|**REVIVE DARUL ARQAM**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||30 June 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1187831| ||||| ||1 and 2
)||| ||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/06/2019
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to
undertake the examination by being a qualified member of CPAA.||| I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - • the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Name:** MOHAMMED SHA-KAMAL **Relevant professional** ACCA & ACPA **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Date:** 08/04/2024 **Oct 2018** 1 **IER** **AFFIRM ACCOUNTANTS LTD Address: THE OLD COURTHOUSE 18 – 22 ST PETERS CHURCH YARD** **DERBY** ## **`DE1 1NN`** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of** Please Note the receipt and Payment attached are for the period of 01/07/2022 **any items that the** to 30/06/2023 **examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** 2 **IER**