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2022-03-31-accounts

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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From Period start date To Period end date
1 October 2020 31 March 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Somali Health Exchange Other names charity is known by SHE Registered charity number (if any) 1191571

Charity's principal address (Correspondence address) ISRAAC centre, Vestry Hall, 54 Cemetery Road, Sheffield,

Postcode S11 8FP

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1
2
3
4
5		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Amina Ibrahim
Amal Saleh
Asha Abdillahi
Sawsan Abdillahi

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

How the charity is constituted

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

In year 1 we have focused on building the charity’s foundations.

Trustees are volunteers who are committed to delivering on the charity’s aims of building capacity through knowledge exchange.

Section C Objectives and activities

In summary they are to:

Summary of the objects of the charity The charity aims to develop and improve the capability of healthcare in set out in its Somaliland via in-country travel to carry out the following activities: governing document • Face to face training sessions for healthcare workers in hospitals and medical & nursing students in universities • Workshops for HCPs providing training for ‘soft skills’ such as communication and teamwork • Train the trainer programmes for nominated Champions to ensure the training that is provided is embedded and sustained.

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Over the period 01 October 2020-31 March 2022 , our activities have focused on recruiting and re-engaging volunteers for the next in country knowledge exchange. The planning, review and monitoring stages are critical for the safe delivery of our objectives.

Impact of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious implications for health service, health research and health project delivery. Health systems globally have had to contend with management and recovery and we have taken care to ensure our trustees and volunteers remain safe and well as a priority. International travel to deliver inperson training was paused.

Engaging volunteers

The majority of the charity’s volunteers are healthcare professionals who are employed by the NHS. They have full careers and individual commitments. Summary of the main Despite this we have seen continued interest and engagement from potential activities undertaken volunteers. for the public benefit We have held several informal in-person and virtual meetings with trustees and in relation to these previous volunteers to understand motivations, explain our methodology and objects (include outline plans. within this section the A core component of delivering our work is ensuring we have aligned values, statutory declaration mutual respect and trust. This is important for the volunteer group’s work as a that trustees have had team and when engaging in-country stakeholders and partners. regard to the guidance issued by Assessing mutual contributions the Charity We take time to understand each volunteer’s skills, specialism/specialist interest, Commission on the contributions they can make and the buddy system we can employ both public benefit) ahead of time and in-country. Whilst we have a broad base of clinical and professional expertise. Each volunteer is at a different point in their professional development journey. We make every effort to support them to refine and/or develop new skills through planning or leading a session, supporting colleagues in training delivery, as they sourcing technical equipment/teaching materials.

Planned visits and safeguarding measures

Safe and reliable travel options were carefully monitored throughout the reporting period (see Section F). We also took care to ensure feasibility of any trip – noting potential and changeable in-country/return isolation requirements. For these reasons our next visit was earmarked for September 2022. Trustees also carefully monitored the in-country public health reports throughout this period. A number of outbreaks of concern were reported. Safe and reliable travel options were carefully monitored throughout (see Section F)

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Recruitment and engagement of volunteers Through our activities see (Section c) we have a pool of 6 new volunteers with relevant experience, skillsmix and scope to support our objectives. This pool supplements our existing volunteer pool who donated their time and clinical/project management/comms expertise in Trip 1 (2018) and Trip 2 (2020).

Maintaining UK and local networks and engagement despite limitations placed by COVID-19

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The charity has limited overheads (see correspondence address costs); core costs relate to in-country training delivery. We monitor base funds to ensure feasibility.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Our charity is funded by individuals through our public donation platform page. These funds enable us to carry out our in-country training. Due to COVID-19 there was minimal expenditure this financial year and Trustees opted instead to focus efforts on in-country delivery in 2022 subject to usual safeguards.

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Section F Other optional information

Monitoring COVID-19 and the social/political/economic landscape to allow safe international travel:

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Full name(s) Amal Saleh

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)

Date 11.02.2023

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Somali Health Exchange Somali Health Exchange Somali Health Exchange No (if any) No (if any) No (if any)
For the period
from		 01-Oct-20
Period start date		 To 31-Mar-22
Period end date
Section A Income and Expenditure
A1 Income Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
1,610
638

2,248
-
-
-
2,248
240
-
-
240
-
-
-
240
2,008
-
-
2,008		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total funds
to the nearest £
1,610
638
1,610
-
-
-
1,610
240
-
-
240
-
-
-
240
1,370		 Last year
to the nearest £
Total donationsprior to 1 April 2021 1,610 -
Go fund me 1 April 2021- 31 March 2022 638 -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)
2,248		 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
-
-
 -
~~Sub total~~
Total receipts		 - -
2,248 -
A3 Expenditure
Expenditure 1 - Address premises £20
per month		 240 -
- -
- -
**Sub total ** 240 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)

n/a		 -
-
**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
-
2,008 - - 1,370 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
2,008 - - 1,370 -

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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01-04-2023

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period 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
B1 Cash funds
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use		 Details
n/a
n/a
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
n/a
n/a
Details
n/a
Details
Details
Signature		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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-
Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
-
-
Print Name
Amal Saleh		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
Amal Saleh 11.02.2023

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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01-04-2023