## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
## **From 19-Feb24 Period start date To 18-Feb25 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Sakoon Through Cancer**
## **Charity registration number:118808**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote the advancement of physical
and mental health or saving lives by
providing support and assistance for people
of South Asian origin patients who have
been diagnosed with breast cancer or have
in the past suffered from breast cancer
through the provision of services such as
but not limited to information, open
meetings, social events, and a website.
To advance the education of the public on
the subject of breast cancer and other
cancer-related subjects such as but not
limited to cancer prevention and cancer
diagnoses.|
|Summary of the main
activities about those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|At our trustee meetings, we considered the
Charity Commission's guidance on public
benefit in planning our activities for the
year.
The main activities are as follows:
Running workshops and events
Never alone Campaign
School Workshops
Community Workshops
Production of Material
Collaborating with
Macmillan
South Asian women cancer
survivors, telling their stories.
Storytelling is powerful in
encouraging dialogue at a
community level.We engaged in
several talks to raise awareness
with businesses and the community.
The talks range from Woman ESOL
classes, Asian Woman Resource
Centres and broader community
events.
Fundraising– weraised £8045,via|
|||donations and events in the year.|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have given due regard to the
Commission's guidance at all times.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|We are grateful for the many hours
volunteers have spent working with
the South Asian Breast Cancer Patients.
Without this valuable contribution of time,
energy and expertise, we would
not have been able to achieve so much
Volunteers have all been checked on DBS
and provide the following service
•
School Workshops
•
Awareness Events
•
Befriending Service
•
Fundraising
•
Meetings
We have 15 registered volunteers who all
have a DBS Barring certificate. Sakoon
Through Cancer prides itself on the work
the volunteers do.|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity's work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The main achievements this year have
been:
•
Organising and training Volunteers
•
Running workshops
•
Never alone Campaign
•
School Workshops
•
Production of Material
**Roti Club is our Never Alone**
**Network—a monthly**culturally
appropriate network, a safe space to
come together and hear from others
who can help as we extend our kitchen
table.
**Good to Talk Befriending Service -**
For people affected by breast cancer,
run by trained volunteers offering
culturally competent one-to-one
support, non-medical.
**Volunteering opportunities for**
**females**with lived experience of Breast
Cancer or Carers
**Volunteering**opportunity and Sakoon
Through Cancer Young Cadets age 16-
25 Years old.
**Education Programme**– We have
developed a successful Breast Cancer
Awareness Education Programme,
which has been delivered in local
secondary schools as part of PSHE
lessons and shared within the
community through ESOL classes and
workplaces. In alignment with our core
value of dignity, we utilise knitted breast
models ("knitted bobs") to demonstrate
and practice self-examination in a
respectful and inclusive manner.
**Fundraising Activities – Our efforts**
**encompass a range of engaging**
**events such as**the**Summer Ball**
**2025**,**Community Discos**,**Afternoon**
**Tea with Dr. Nighat Arif, launch of**
**her book The Knowledge**,**Chai and**
**Chats**, and our**International**
**Women’s Day celebration**. We also
participate in awareness and
fundraising activities, such as bucket
shaking at**Windsor Racecourse's**
**Monday Night Racing**, all aimed at
raising vital funds and promoting Breast
Cancer awareness within the||
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||community.|
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||**Founder is a Lived Experience**|
||**Strategy Advisor for Macmillan and**|
||**Breast Cancer Now**|
||**Founder is Co-Chair of Personalised**|
||**Care Quality of Life (QoL)**|
||**Programme**|
||**Noth East London Cancer Alliance**|
||**NELCA -**to increase uptake and|
||patient engagement with the National|
||Cancer Patient Experience survey|
||through community involvement.|
||Empower patients from South Asian|
||backgrounds to provide feedback that|
||can inform the development of|
||personalised cancer care services.|
||Supported**Macmillan with**|
||**Recruitment and Selection panels**for|
||Senior Leadership Recruitment|
||**Macmillan Professionals Podcast:**|
||**The New Strategy**|
||In Partnership with “From ME to You”|
||**Cultural Competency Training for**|
||**Professionals**|
||Challenging the Taboos –**King's**|
||**College London Comedy Show**|
||2025/26|
||Sakoon Through Cancer is part of|
||**Wellbeing for Women**,**Women’s**|
||**Health Strategy**and Women’s Health|
||Collective supporting South Asian|
||Women|
||South Asian Cancer Awareness Month|
||(July 2024) panel event Breast Cancer|
||Now|
||South Asian Heritage Month July 2025|
||Deliveroo Panel Event|
||**Our Future Health**– Promotional video|
||for South Asian Communities
to|
||improve cancer Research and diversity|
||in the programme. (2025)|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity's
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Cash at the bank at 26408.39|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held.|Para 1.22|The charity's primary financial risk is
reduced donations and attendance at
events. The funds held are intended to
cover 12 months of operating costs in the
event of a loss of income and to cover any
unforeseen expenditure.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|7, 000 is held in reserve|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**-**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|None|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity's principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The charity's principal sources of funding
are donations, events, and small grants
from various bodies.|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The principal risk facing the charity is a lack
of volunteers; this would make it very
difficult to meet our objectives.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity's
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|As stated in the constitution document –
trustees are elected.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
Code of Conduct
Trustee document|
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|The charity's organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Sakoon Through Cancer|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|118808|
|Charity's principal address|C/O Inder Poonaji
153 Grasmere Ave
Slough|
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||Inder Singh
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||Samina Hussian|Trustee|Whole Year||
||Samina Hussain|Trustee|Whole Year||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity's objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity's own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
None to report
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|**Inder Poonaji**|**_Samina Hussain_**|
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||Inder Singh Poonaji|Samina Hussain|
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||Chair|Trustee|
||19/12/205||
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