## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/2021 Period start date To 31/12/2021 Period end date** ## **Charity name: The Silk Route** ## **Charity registration number: 1188427** ## **Objectives and Activities** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Health Education and support vulnerable people
support Multi Faith Gatherings Language
Education| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Human Rights/religious Or Racial
Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Recreation| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|• Organising prayers (Jummah, Taraweeh, Eid):
This help the local muslim community perform
practice their faith peacefully.
• Etiquettes in Islam – Series of talks by Dr
Aiman. This talked touched about various
aspects including mental health and how to
deal with etiquettes in Islam.
• COVID and Vaccination awareness program.
The awareness program helped increase
COVID vaccination rate among the
community.
• Vaccination drive in Southampton mosques.
This helped more and more people get
vaccinated quickly.
• Online health awareness programs - ongoing
• Setting up food banks – ongoing
• Arabic school - ongoing| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set||| |---|---|---| ||Para 1.41|*****We established a place for Friday
prayers. We are seeing an increased
participation of members.
*****We set out few events, like Eid prayer and
party which helped bring the entire
community together after lockdown was
lifted.
*****Our events helped raise funds for the
charity| |||| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|* From the events a total of £2,771 was
raised
* From monthly memberships a total of
£11,508 was raised
* From Arabic school there was Gross
Income of £14,432| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|* A total of £9,579 was paid for Hiring Halls
for activities, Renting a Location for the
Arabic School, Books for the school and
Bank changes
* A total of £2,833 was paid to tuition
providers at the Arabic School/| |Other||There were two loans totaling £30,000
provided to the Charity during the period.| ## **Financial Review** |**inancial Review**||| |---|---|---| |||| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity has cash reserves of £61,735;
£55,033 in the main account and £6,702 in
the Arabic School’s account.
£30,000 of the reserves in the main account
is from the loans.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The reserves are for the following
objectives
* Cover the operating cost for the Charity
and the Arabic School
* Contribute to the Fund for the
Construction/Acquisition of a Community
Centre| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£61,735| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|NA| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|NA| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|NA| |**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
* Monthly memberships
* Funds collection from events
* Loan
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
Property prices are too high around the
local area to be able to afford a Community
Center, and with rapidly increasing prices, it
keeps harder and harder to raise the
money.
Other|**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
* Monthly memberships
* Funds collection from events
* Loan
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
Property prices are too high around the
local area to be able to afford a Community
Center, and with rapidly increasing prices, it
keeps harder and harder to raise the
money.
Other|**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
* Monthly memberships
* Funds collection from events
* Loan
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
Property prices are too high around the
local area to be able to afford a Community
Center, and with rapidly increasing prices, it
keeps harder and harder to raise the
money.
Other|**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
* Monthly memberships
* Funds collection from events
* Loan
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
Property prices are too high around the
local area to be able to afford a Community
Center, and with rapidly increasing prices, it
keeps harder and harder to raise the
money.
Other| |---|---|---|---| ||The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|* Monthly memberships
* Funds collection from events
* Loan| ||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|Property prices are too high around the
local area to be able to afford a Community
Center, and with rapidly increasing prices, it
keeps harder and harder to raise the
money.| ||Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |||| |---|---|---| |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed**(Please confirm)**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO Foundation| |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|Trustees are selected based on active
volunteers and influential people in the
community.| |||| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|As per foundation documents| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name The Silk Route ||| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|NA| |Registered charity number|1188427| |Charity’s principal address|Unit 5
Radcliffe Court
Radcliffe Road
SOUTHAMPTON
SO14 0PH| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| ||Redwan El-
khayat|Trustee||| ||Aiman
Alzetani|Trustee||| ||Monkiz
Khasreen|Trustee||| ||Mateen
Hussain|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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|NA| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|NA| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|NA| ## **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 NA ## **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)** K.Rahman **Full name(s)**[Noorkhadeja ] Rahman **Position (eg** Administrator **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 26/10/22 **----- Start of picture text -----**
The Silk Route 1188427
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/01/2021 31/12/2021
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 £
A1 Receipts
Regular Donationas 11,508 - - 11,508 5,759
Tuition 14,432 - - 14,432 -
Loan 20,000 - - 20,000 -
Other 10,000 - - 10,000 -
Transfer for Previous 6,730 - - 6,730 -
Fund Raising 2,771 - - 2,771 -
Contra 3,052 - - 3,052 -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 68,492 ] - - 68,492 5,759
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Opening Balance at Bank 5,655 - - 5,655
- - - - -
Sub total 5,655 - - 5,655 -
Total receipts 74,147 - - 74,147 5,759
A3 Payments
Wages 2,833 - - 2,833 -
School Hire 3,226 - - 3,226 -
Books 1,947 - - 1,947 -
Hall Hire 1,985 - - 1,985 84
Bank Charge 35 - - 35 -
Legal 285 - - 285 -
Contra 2,093 - - 2,093 -
Misc 8 - - 8 -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 12,412 ] - - 12,412 84
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 12,412 ] - - 12,412 84
Net of receipts/(payments) 61,735 - - 61,735 5,675
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 61,735 - - 61,735 5,675
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 27/10/2022 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Cash At Bank Main
Cash at Bank School
**Details**
Signature
Loan|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**55,033**
**-**
**6,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**61,735**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**30,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Dr Redwan El-khayat|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
26/10/2022| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 27/10/2022 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name The Silk Route **members of On accounts for the year** 31/12/2021 **Charity no** 1188427 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/12/2021** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed:** C J Doyle **Date:** 27/10/2020 **Name:** Christopher Doyle **Relevant professional** CIMA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** L J Henry Consultants Ltd 3 Furze Close, Southampton, SO19 8PF ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **October 2018** 1 **IER** **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**