## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the Fifth period of account** **From 1 September 2024 To 31 August 2025** **Charity name: Taban** ## **Charity registration number: 1188892** **Charity’s address:2 Wilbraham Rd, Fallowfield, Manchester M14 6JZ** |**Trustee name**|**Office (ifany)**| |---|---| |Richard Young|Chair| |Tim Gibbs|Treasurer| |Yousef Safari|| |Actar Arya|| |HilaryJones|| |Kaveh Golab|| |Kurosh Bhepouri|| ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**|| |---|---| |Summary of the purposes of the
charity as set out in its governing
document|Taban was set up to provide practical support to
asylum seekers and refugees, furthering
voluntary work by its participating churches with
predominantly Farsi-speaking communities.| |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.|Taban provides individual support and guidance
in areas including access to legal support,
interactions with GP’s and the NHS, housing,
access to work, both voluntary and paid,
education and training – including signposting to
other organisations.| |Statement confirming whether the
trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit|The trustees oversee the work of the charity in
such a way as to ensure it provides public
benefit as set out in Charity Commission
guidance.| |Policy on grant making|Taban does not make grants or investments of
any kind.| |Contribution made by volunteers|Taban is heavily reliant on volunteers in the
fulfilment of its objectives, not least its team of
trustees.| ## **Achievements and Performance** |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.|Over the year ended August 25, Taban
continued to raise funds to cover its planned
expenses to continue the work in the coming
periods.
Homeira Kelishadi continues to work with
Taban.
Shabnam Saifi and Daniel Salehi (Part time)
joined the charity in April 2025.
Mojgan Bakhtiary left in March ’25
Over the period Taban supported 476 clients
with a range of issues (279 previous year), with
a total of 2,854 contact points. (2,187 previous
year).
The charity continues to focus on fund raising,
maintaining relationships with existing donors
and looking to develop new sources of funding.| |---|---| |Achievements against objectives
set|The trustees are delighted with progress made
in the fifth year of operation of the charity.
Taban has continued to develop its work,
providing support to an increasing number of
clients, as well as building on its partnerships
with other charities and institutions.| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**|| |---|---| |Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the period|Taban’s financial position is secure. A
combination of funds in hand and
commitments from donors are sufficient to
cover the next 12 months expenses for 3 staff
members (2.4 FTE).| |Statement explaining the policy for
holding reserves stating why they
are held|Taban holds cash reserves against its
spending commitments and in line with
budgets against which donors have provided
support.| |Amount of reserves held|The Chair of Trustees and the Treasurer
monitor current and forecast cash flows to
ensure that Taban has the funding it needs to
continue as a going concern. The Trustees
have set a minimum reserves policy as follows:
1. A
minimum
reserve
will
be
maintained sufficient to cover 4 months
monthly costs., principally costs related
to our employee but also accounting
costs, plus any costs of winding up the
charity. This is to allow one month to| ||plan and agree a wind-down and then
give 3 month’s notice to employees (our
current employee has a notice period of
one month).
2. Should we take on any further
contractual commitments (for example
renting premises), the minimum reserve
will be adjusted to make sure we remain
able to meet all liabilities on a wind-down.
3. Where taking on a new employee,
we will only do so if we have an additional
reserve sufficient to pay them for 12
months (including the 3 months provided
above).| |---|---| |The charity’s principal sources of
funds (including any fundraising)|We are also grateful to our private donors who
have continued to add their support to enable
us to reach our fundraising objectives.
The charity continues to seek new funds to
support the growth of the services offered to
the Farsi speaking community| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:|All funds held by Taban are for the general
purposes of the charity..| |---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Taban is governed by a constitution.| |How is the charity constituted?|Taban is a Charitable Independent
Organisation.| |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|Trustees are invited to join by agreement
amongst the existing trustees.| |The charity’s organisational structure
and any wider network with which the
charity works|The trustees would like to thank the members of
the participating churches, Holy Innocents,
Fallowfield, St Thomas, Pendleton and St James
& Emmanuel, Didsbury for their ongoing
support.| ## **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**|
Timothy Gibbs| |---|---| ||
Treasurer| ||| ||24thSept 2025| |**Taban**|**Taban**|**Taban**|**1188892**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||| |**Fifthperiod of accounts**|||||| |**From**|**1 Sep 2024**|**To**|**31 Aug 2025**||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**1,009**
**32,165**
**7,547**
**620**
**-**
**-**
**41,341**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,341**
**32,117**
**2,643**
**2,688**
**26,090**
**466**
**175**
**2,563**
**732**
**-**
**67,474**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**67,474**
**- 26,133**
**-**
**46,294**
**20,161**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**1,009**
**32,165**
**7,547**
**620**
**-**
**-**
**41,341**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,341**
**32,117**
**2,643**
**2,688**
**26,090**
**466**
**175**
**2,563**
**732**
**-**
**67,474**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**67,474**
**- 26,133**||**Prior Year**
**to the nearest £**| |Diocesan Grant|**-**|||||**-**| |Donations - Not Gift Aided|**1,009**|||||**1,005**| |Donations - Gift Aided|**32,165**|||||**31,500**| |Gift Aid(From HMRC)|**7,547**|||||**12,750**| |Interest received|**620**|||||**701**| |Project Funding|**-**|||||**22,530**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**41,341**|||||**68,486**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**68,486**| |||||||| |Salary|**32,117**|||||**28,919**| |Pension|**2,643**|||||**2,643**| |Expenses|**2,688**|||||**990**| |Project Expenses(Salary& oncosts)|**26,090**|||||**6,803**| |Insurance|**466**|||||**466**| |Fund RaisingSupport|**175**|||||**1,400**| |IT Equipment for staff|**2,563**|||||| |Administration|**732**|||||**1,396**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**67,474**|||||**42,615**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**42,615**| |||||||| ||**- 26,133**|**-**|**-**|**- 26,133**||**25,870**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**46,294**|**-**|**-**|**46,294**||**20,423**| ||**20,161**|**-**|**-**|**20,161**||**46,294**| R&P Accounts-Aug 25 Page 1 of 2 ## **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 funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Current account
Deposit account
Gift aid Debtor
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Pension
Expenses
Admin
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,735**
**-**
**16,427**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,161**
**-**
OK
OK
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
Unrestricted funds
Print Name
T R Gibbs|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| |||T R Gibbs|24/09/2025| ||||| R&P Accounts-Aug 25 Page 2 of 2 **8** ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Taban **members of On accounts for the year** 31 August 2025 **Charity no** 1188892 **ended (if any)** **Set out on pages** Trustees Annual Report pages 1-4; Receipts and payments accounts pages 1-2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 August 2024. **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. _._ **Date:** 21 November 2025 **Signed: Name:** Steven Nixon, BSc (Hons) FCCA **Relevant professional** Association of Chartered Certified Accountants **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 8-10 Gatley Road Cheadle, Cheshire SK8 1PY **October 2018** 1 **IER** **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). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**