
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 01/06/2022 Period start date   To 31/05/2023    Period end date Charity name: BERKSHIRE MUSLIM ARAB COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION** 

## **Charity registration number:  1190774** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes<br>of the charity as set out in<br>its governing document|Para 1.17|**1- **The advancement of Islamic<br>religion particularly but not<br>exclusively, by raising<br>awareness and understanding<br>of Islamic beliefs<br>**2- **To further or benefit the<br>residents of Berkshire without<br>any distinguish and to provide<br>facilities in the interest of<br>social welfare for recreation<br>and leisure time<br>**3- **To promote social inclusion for<br>the public benefit by working<br>with people in Berkshire who<br>are socially excluded to<br>relieve the needs of such<br>people and to assist them to<br>integrate into the society<br>**4- **The prevention or relief pf|





|||poverty or financial hardship<br>among communities living in<br>Berkshire by providing<br>guidance and advice|
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|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**Achievements related to Youth club:**<br>•<br>**Chill series**<br>•<br>**Weekly themed Ramadan**<br>**meetings: - Community spirit**<br>-<br>**Environment**<br>-<br>**Healthy Ramadan**<br>-<br>**Kindness**<br>•<br>**Helping in organising Eid party**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees are aware of the charity<br>commission guidance on public benefits<br>and have taken it into account when<br>making a decision to which the guidance<br>is relevant|



## **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** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**General Achievements:**<br>•<br>Weekly Iftar Gathering in the holy<br>month of Ramadan.<br>•<br>Monthly community gatherings<br>•<br>Youth club Chill series.<br>•<br>Beach trip<br>•<br>Trip to Cadbury world<br>•<br>Eid Al-Fitr Party.<br>•<br>Charity Auction Dinner.<br>•<br>Ladies Party.<br>•<br>No One Sleeps Hungry – No One Sleeps<br>Cold (NOSH NOSC) initiative to help rough<br>sleepers in Reading. (helped two refugees<br>furnish their flats and meet basic needs).<br>•<br>Refugees help, by providing some<br>of life necessities.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||





Other

## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|The charity was able to raise income to run<br>activities without needing to spend any of<br>the reserved income.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Trustees have agreed to hold a reserve of<br>£1500. This is to make sure that the charity<br>do not reach a point where it has no cash to<br>run activities|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1500**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Donations and selling tickets for events and<br>activities.|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Committee**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other 

## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Berkshire Muslim Arab Community Association|
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|Other name the charity uses|BMACA|
|Registered charity number|1190774|
|Charity’s principal address|31 Millbank crescent, Woodley RG5 4EP|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||ShadyHaggag|Chairman|From June 2023||
||Tasneem Salama|Secretary|Treasurer until Feb 2023<br>Secretaryfrom May2023||
||Amina Olabi||||
||Nermin Elbarbary|Treasurer|From Feb 2023||
||Nermin Mohamed||From May2023||
||Ghada Moaz||From May2023||
||Ahmed Nabil||Chairman until June 2023||
||Soha Hafez||Secretaryuntil May2023||
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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**|
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|**adviser**|||



**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **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)** Shady Hagag **Full name(s)** Shady Hagag **Position (eg Secretary,** Chairman **Chair, etc) Date** 04/05/2024 



||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||1/6/22||**To**||31/5/23|||
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|**Section A Receipts and**|**payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donation|**5**||**-**||**-**||**5**||**-**|
|Donation|**5**||**-**||**-**||**5**||**-**|
|Gatheringtickets June|**55**||**-**||**-**||**55**||**-**|
|Donation|**5**||**-**||**-**||**5**||**-**|
|Donation|**5**||**-**||**-**||**5**||**-**|
|Donation|**5**||||||**5**|||
|Cash deposit Bmaca’s money|**523**||**-**||**-**||**523**||**-**|
|Donations|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Amazon core|**5**||||||**5**|||
|Tripticket|**15**||||||**15**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Gatheringtickets September|**110**||||||**110**|||
|Donations|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Cadburytriptickets|**308**||||||**308**|||
|Fundraising/ Auction Event tickets|**1,039**||||||**1,039**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Donations|**30**||||||**30**|||
|Amazon core|**8**||||||**8**|||
|Ladies Partytickets|**1,269**||||||**1,269**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Mahmoud Reda Donation|**100**||||||**100**|||
|Donations|**5**||||||**5**|||
|NoshNoc initiative|**315**||||||**315**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|GatheringTickets|**65**||||||**65**|||
|Nosh noc|**30**||||||**30**|||
|GatheringFeb Tickets|**220**||||||**220**|||
|Nosh noc|**35**||||||**35**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Halal hall hirepaid back|**156**||||||**156**|||
|Chillyouth event tickets|**230**||||||**230**|||
|Rent support for refugee|**460**||||||**460**|||
|Ramadanyouth activitytickets|**178**||||||**178**|||
|Ramadan tickets|**1,850**||||||**1,850**|||
|Nosh noc|**40**||||||**40**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Donations|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Halaqa hall hirepaid|**78**||||||**78**|||
|Donations|**16**||||||**16**|||
|nosh noch|**40**||||||**40**|||
|Eidparrytickets|**2,525**||||||**2,525**|||
|Donations|**11**||||||**11**|||
|Refugees donations|**20**||||||**20**|||
|Youth club tickets|**16**||||||**16**|||
|Eidpartysweets|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Amazon core|**6**||||||**6**|||
|Topbanana bouncycastle refund|**95**||||||**95**|||
|Nosh noc|**35**||||||**35**|||
|Refugee help|**20**||||||**20**|||
|Amazon root refund|**159**||||||**159**|||
|Refugees Donations|**17**||||||**17**|||
|Refugees donations|**7**||||||**7**|||
|Donations|**5**||||||**5**|||
|Amazon core|**17**||||||**17**|||
|Orthodontist Refugee helpdonationspaid|**450**||||||**450**|||
|Kids club tickets|**170**||||||**170**|||
|Wokingham council deposit Refund|**100**||||||**100**|||
|Eidpartyhall deposit refund|**100**||||||**100**|||
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|**_Sub total_** _(Gross income for AR) _|**11,058**||**-**||**-**||**11,058**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total _**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**11,058**||**-**||**-**||**11,058**||**-**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Insurance Monthly|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Football cup event|**164**||**-**||**-**||**164**||**-**|
|Football event hall hire|**69**||**-**||**-**||**69**||**-**|
|*United reform church hall deposit|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**-**|
|Expenses June gathering|**27**||**-**||**-**||**27**||**-**|
|United ref church hall hire|**128**||**-**||**-**||**128**||**-**|
|Monthly insurance|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Monthly insurance|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Monthly insurance|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Trip ticket refund|**15**||||||**15**|||
|Gathering expenses|**187**||||||**187**|||
|Monthly insurance|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Hall hire sept Gathering|**177**||||||**177**|||
|Cadbury trip expenses|**300**||||||**300**|||
|Monthly insurance|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Hall hire Auction|**150**||||||**150**|||
|Food for Auction deposit|**150**||||||**150**|||
|Cash withdrawn (food Auction)|**250**||||||**250**|||
|Auction expenses|**168**||||||**168**|||
|Just giving donation|**53**||||||**53**|||
|Cash withdrawn|**300**||||||**300**|||
|Food for ladies party|**900**||||||**900**|||
|Ticket Refunds|**76**||||||**76**|||
|Party expenses|**163**||||||**163**|||
|Monthly insurance|**10**||||||**10**|||
|<br>Argos|**104**||||||**104**|||
|<br>Party hall hire|**188**||||||**188**|||
|<br>Halaqa hall hire|**156**||||||**156**|||
|<br>Ramadan hall hire|**630**||||||**630**|||
|Amazon marketplace|**276**||||||**276**|||
|Monthly Insurance|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Gathering Expenses|**35**||||||**35**|||
|Ebay purchase|**49**||||||**49**|||
|Gathering hall hire|**188**||||||**188**|||
|Gathering Expenses|**86**||||||**86**|||
|Rent support refugee paid|**460**||||||**460**|||
|Chill youth activity expenses|**61**||||||**61**|||
|Ramadan Gathering Expenses|**306**||||||**306**|||
|Cotton Candy Machine|**122**||||||**122**|||
|Pop corn Machine|**173**||||||**173**|||
|Ramadan activity expenses|**25**||||||**25**|||
|Eid elfitr party hall hire|**250**||||||**250**|||
|Gathering hall. Hire|**188**||||||**188**|||
|Monthly Insurance|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Ramadan ticket refund|**14**||||||**14**|||
|Youth activity|**128**||||||**128**|||
|Hall hire halaqa|**78**||||||**78**|||
|Eid elfitr party expenses|**386**||||||**386**|||
|Eid elfitr food cash withdrawn|**1,655**||||||**1,655**|||
|Top banana bouncy castle|**95 **||||||**95 **|||
|Eid party ticket refund|**210**||||||**210**|||
|Krystal website domain|**56**||||||**56**|||
|Mark Bradshaw|**10**||||||**10**|||
|Eid expenses reimburse / soha|**96 **||||||**96 **|||
|youth club reimburse / Amna|**167**||||||**167**|||
|Halaqa hall hire|**83**||||||**83**|||
|Orthodontist Refugee help donations|**450**||||||**450**|||
|Halaqa hall hire|**66**||||||**66**|||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**10,208**||**-**||**-**||**10,208**||**-**|



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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|<br>Cotton CandyMachine|**122**||**-**||**-**||**122**|||
|Pop corn Candy machine|**173**||**-**||**-**||**173**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**295 **||**-**||**-**||**295 **||**-**|
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|**_Totalpayments_**|**10,502**||**-**||**-**||**10,502**||**-**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**556**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**556**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|||||**end of the period**|||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
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|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**_Total cash funds_**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts andpayments account(s))||||Agreement Error||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which liability**<br>**relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due (optional)**|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of<br>all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
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||Nermin Elbabary||||Nermin Elbarbary||||**03/05/2024**|



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